Good afternoon, commissioners. Good to see you again. So this is a project that we are happy to be able to support. We were able to work out a deal with the project sponsor that will guarantee that these jobs will be like any of the other jobs in the Hotel Industry and especially union square. The workers will have the right to join a union, which is life changing for them. We were able to work out a deal that covers the buildings trades as well. Were pleased to support this project. I will be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, ms. Gomez. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is kevin carroll. Im the executive director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco. Its my pleasure to be here today to represent an industry that delivers over 11. 3 billion in economic input to the city of San Francisco. Hotels employ 24,000 people, but the jobs influenced by hotels are over 105,000 people in San Francisco. 60 of our employees live and work in San Francisco as well. Im here
Im the executive director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco. Its my pleasure to be here today to represent an industry that delivers over 11. 3 billion in economic input to the city of San Francisco. Hotels employ 24,000 people, but the jobs influenced by hotels are over 105,000 people in San Francisco. 60 of our employees live and work in San Francisco as well. Im here to support the project at 72 ellis. Our council and our board of directors believe this will bring a new brand into our market, a brand on union square that welcomes millions of people into our city. Its an exciting project. It steps away from the powell cable car turn around. Ive mentioned this before and been here on this address before many of you may have seen me on this specific site. Hotels generate for business on the outside than the inside. Every dollar thats spent inside a hotel, more dollars are spent outside, which is great. If you look at the potential benefits, the tot tax alone, a hotel of this size w
Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Todays hearing is the first of two on Emergency Alert systems. The near future will ho
Alerts like we saw with the hawaii Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Today
The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.