Us at the department of public works and at a time the head of our department was our mayor and our mayor and he make sure that we got the money and everything we needed to get the doggy head fixed and back to this new location so how about a big hand for the mayor for his leadership clapping. the other thing he did was the day the head came back in 2005 was valentines day isnt that special. Yeah. I didnt. Im sure youre getting ready for valentines day coming up. Yeah. Without further ado im going to introduce the mayor hell tell you about the doggie diner and welcome our mayor give him a big handed. Mohammed explicit tell you that night what the doggy head was fallen guess who called him yes because i was awning were around to make sure that everything was done that was the job of public works to make sure that everything gets done and everything is safe i want to say thank you to mohammed to help us to secure that medium area so all of our wonderful sdts students from u low can be he
Mailing out prepayment quarterly bills and a huge change communicated to 95,000 business taxpayers and they complied and in april of last year we rolled out a change to the annual Business Registration fees for all registered business in the city. This was a large change for all taxpayers and important for the city to bring in money during the year were for implementation purposes. The collections of the Business Registrations fees were designed to increase from 8 million to 38 million and our businesses complied and we hit that target nearly exactly. So before taxpayers even file for the gross receipts tax now at the end of the year the new tax approved by voters brought in over 30 million to the city coffers. During the process we had many of the concerns that the mayor talked about that we needed to know what was in the new law and we worked with the Mayors Office of Economic Development and others to implement the most aggressive outreach strategy around a tax measure. This measure
How are you guys doing. I cant hear you guys. Good. Everybody is here to subtract is beautiful dogging u doggy. How about his bow tie and hesitate nice nose let me welcome you all to this very, very important event this been would think of the most important events for me laughter because when i first started working at the department of public works one evening i thought sitting that new mrirm watching tv and do you know how windy it gets over here. Yeah. You do i mean you must come from as you sit here now gates. No one from distancing gates so this is oconnors school right so that wind had one of those doggy hats this one in particular this one right here used to be a restaurant across the street okay that restaurant over there and that wind blew the heads off yeah. I got this call the doggy had fallen and so they said you need to come and you need to get it to off the street and do something with it thanks to the neighborhood you guys radical and said we should save the head the ca
Valentines day well celebrate this with the doggie diner head im really, really glad and also glad to share that with our supervisor supervisor katie tang shes here work relay really, really hard representing you all that live around here and working with me and mohammed and paychecks to make those streets safety just up a couple of blocks we put in new lighting light when you and your parents and friends categorize cross the street it is heavy traffic we dont have straddles to slow down the traffic guess what happens yeah. One of those days youll be the supervisor and the head of public works or you can even be the i was gagging going to say the doggie diner head you said the mayor its pretty sure im kind of in the little time crush so overwhelming o to have to leave im going to have someone to welcome important in San Francisco guess what. Kaing. Investigated youve got them trained im going up to the airport to let this person know who i met with you students ill be greeting presiden
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