Okay welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget finance subcommittee for wednesday, july 20, 2016, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing the committee and joined by supervisor yee and by the supervisor tang. Thank you clerk linda wong and mark as Nona Melkonian from sfgovtv for covering the meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Yes. Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, madam clerk we were here quite late madam clerk call number one. The approval for the calendar year 2017 to remove the rates from ohio and colleagues this is something i sponsored on the health board and the representative i want to welcome the amazing director katherine dodd. Thank you. Good morning members of the board brown today a administrative code for the Health Service and calendars year 2017 this the stacey a Monthly Contribution the charter requires the employer contribute towards the Health Premiums for the 10 couldnt average based on the 10 months populous co
Steve [inaudible] good afternoon commission members. Thank you for letting me speak. My name is steve [inaudible] and resident at 106 south park. 106 south park is a very Historical Building for the Filipino Community here in San Francisco. 106 south park was bought in 1920 by a group of masons who had come from the philippines and we owned that property well over 96 years now. The historical significance of this property is one the First Properties bought my any filipino here in the continental United States. It was a place of refuge. At that time discrimination was high against asians and filipinos at that time and needed a place to stay so they bought 106 south park for 6,000. 106 south park is a Apartment Building located in themunity of south park near bryant and townsends. Many men have stayed there in 96 years. When the men first came they worked at seaman and merchants marines and in the fields and traveled up and down the west coast in californias Agricultural Industry so when
Millions of guests to Disney’s theme parks live vicariously through Joe Rohde.
The famed theme park designer and patriarch of Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom is alternately a student and a teacher, an academic and an artist, a tourist and a documentarian.
He’s also the most vocal champion of the belief that theme parks you know, places filled with popcorn, candy-coated churros, lowbrow stuff are cultural institutions.
But as of this week, Rohde, 65, is officially retired after 40 years at Disney, where he’s led teams behind major projects at resorts and parks in Anaheim, Florida, Hawaii and Paris. He’s leaving at a time of huge disruption for the Walt Disney Co., including significant pandemic-forced layoffs, more than 400 of which hit Walt Disney Imagineering, the secretive arm in which designers like Rohde create theme park experiences. Where Imagineering goes next without him is a question for many and a worry for some.