Numbers of kids in this city and oakland and richmond and pittsburgh this is really critical that the United States go back it fundamentals and a understand how productive and innovative we are both in idea generation by in merchandising so we can move forward post recession with a much more sustainable model well San Francisco is a very great place to live but not so clear on a desirable place to do bus. Well, that certainly was on my mind when we were krofrd a few years ago from a Company Called tweeter they were looking at a Large Business in San Francisco they were going to grow if a 2 hundred employees to over 2 thousand but they couldnt pay that kind of tax for that growth and we are the only couldnt in the state of california that had the payroll tax to chu and i and kim got together with tweeter and thought we could forge something but not just give it to them therefore we looked at the whole of Market Street. We used to having some great places on Market Street and i understan
Live in the hub of innovation across the globe here in San Francisco and in many ways for many year, San Francisco as a City Government has been behind of adopting that innovation, were doing a ton of work on it, we have a long ways to go, open data is but a part of that in a way to have an impact, i think the impact can be real within our City Government, but i think what youre speaking to is a broader topic of how we use technology to apply to our City Government and our daytoday jobs as supervisors or people within different departments. And i would say i would want us to head in a direction when putting together this overall policy and one that would make us more efficient and one that will mating it easier to cross lines in various city departments and im really excited about this to tonight, really looking forward to the impacts of what happens with this, so i appreciate you taking the leadership and bringing it forward to us, thank you. Thanks maybe somebody out there whos liste
Excused. Commissioner preston . Present. Commissioner ronen . Present. Commissioner safai . Absent. Commissioner stefani absent. Commissioner walton . Present. Chair, we have a quorum. Thank you, mr. Clerk. As chair im excusing commissioners chan and peskin from todays meeting. Before calling the next item as chair i would like to invoke rule the rules of order to limit total Public Comment for items for 30 minutes for todays meeting. Each speaker will have two minutes to speak on an item. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item. Commissioner mandelman is present. Before i call the next item, for members of the public participating in this Board Meeting, we welcome your attendance in person and room 25 city hall or watch cable channel 26, 99 depend ongoing your provider and stream the meeting live at sf gov tv dot org and those making Public Comment remotely, dial 456550001 and enter access code 24987950277. Appreciation pound and pound again. You can listen to the meeting in real time. W
Meeting of the Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency or timma board. Sanders is our clerk. Clerk please call the roll. Yes, chair. Commissioner chan is excused. Chair dorsey . Present. Commissioner mandelman . Mandelman absent. Commissioner mar . Commissioner mar . Okay. Commissioner melgar . Present. Commissioner peskin . Is excused. Commissioner preston . Present. Commissioner ronen . Present. Commissioner safai . Absent. Commissioner stefani absent. Commissioner walton . Present. Chair, we have a quorum. Thank you, mr. Clerk. As chair im excusing commissioners chan and peskin from todays meeting. Before calling the next item as chair i would like to invoke rule the rules of order to limit total Public Comment for items for 30 minutes for todays meeting. Each speaker will have two minutes to speak on an item. Mr. Clerk, please call the next item. Commissioner mandelman is present. Before i call the next item, for members of the public participating in this Board Meeting, we welc
To see you here. Welcome everyone. Our topic today is urban regions and 20 percent of the people produce 50 of the out put and people are driving in the economy but economic stagnation and federal gridlock are skooegz the federal government service. Add in the pressures of rooirz temperatures and the countries face to daunting channels. Urban America Needs a new playbook and well take a look at that. We have 3 guests mayor ed lee. And the president of the urban management one of the countries largest home bindles and a co author of how the citys are fixing our fragile developed. Please welcome them to planet one. clapping . Thank you gentlemen all for coming. Bruce cats let begin with you. Well get down to some specification. You write that the Great Recession was a rude way. Call thrills about that. First of all, that you for letting me be here. I think what led to the Great Recession was a miss guided growth model which basically said we can grow an economy consumed by department and