Folks who are engaging in shortterm rentals and the unfortunate thing is that i was, as was noted by the hearing by the Apartment Association which i dont necessarily always agree with, there were more people in that room coming to testify about this law than actually had signed up for the law itself. And when you look at the issue of enforcement, i think the only thing that i can say in terms of describing the situation is what a mess. What the and i believe this law will be essentially an un forceable piece of legislation and i think whatever differences we may have about the shortterm rental legislation i think that we can all be in agreement that when we pass a law by this body that we want that law to be enforced. This data is critical for a number of reasons as i mentioned to help our Planning Department staff in their enforcement of the law second its also important in terms of understanding the impact of this new shortterm rental law when it comes to our Housing Stock and the o
Continuing this fight against big soda in 2015 with our coalition with legislation that we think will make our communities healthier and better informed informed. The legislation im introducing will prohibit the use of city funds from city departments and contractors from purchasing sugary drinks it doesnt ban vendors or private parties from bringing them but it limits the city and departments and contractors that do business with the city to consume sugary beverages we cant in good faith know the terrible harm these drinks cause and then allow them to be handed out in childrens programs or encourage employees to drink them and to provide the department of Public Health and our staff more information about the sale of these harmful products. Lastly im introducing a resolution to formally endorse senator bill maddings bill as we voted about a year ago sb 203 requiring warning labels to inform consumers of the risks imposed by big sugars products and this board supported unanimously last
Unfortunate thing is that i was, as was noted by the hearing by the Apartment Association which i dont necessarily always agree with, there were more people in that room coming to testify about this law than actually had signed up for the law itself. And when you look at the issue of enforcement, i think the only thing that i can say in terms of describing the situation is what a mess. What the and i believe this law will be essentially an un forceable piece of legislation and i think whatever differences we may have about the shortterm rental legislation i think that we can all be in agreement that when we pass a law by this body that we want that law to be enforced. This data is critical for a number of reasons as i mentioned to help our Planning Department staff in their enforcement of the law second its also important in terms of understanding the impact of this new shortterm rental law when it comes to our Housing Stock and the other thing is that the thing about enforcement is th
Interesting a number of issues were raised but one of the fascinating things is that over the course of discussing this legislation, we have heard from hundreds if not thousands of folks who are engaging in shortterm rentals and the unfortunate thing is that i was, as was noted by the hearing by the Apartment Association which i dont necessarily always agree with, there were more people in that room coming to testify about this law than actually had signed up for the law itself. And when you look at the issue of enforcement, i think the only thing that i can say in terms of describing the situation is what a mess. What the and i believe this law will be essentially an un forceable piece of legislation and i think whatever differences we may have about the shortterm rental legislation i think that we can all be in agreement that when we pass a law by this body that we want that law to be enforced. This data is critical for a number of reasons as i mentioned to help our Planning Departme
Supervisors, we have the mayor, senator mark leno, assemblyman, tom yann oh and administrator and we have 20 different disability advocacy representation and also things as widespread as our local independent Living Centers and the california cfilc. California foundation for independent Living Centers. So its very impressive. It changes as i say daily. So i encourage you to visit the site. It has some disability history and links to ada resources. The address is ada 25 bay area. Org. My Deputy Director joanna reminds me that we encourage everybody to tell us about events that you know about so we can list them on our website. Anything that has a connection to the ada and speaking of connections to the ada, early whier this week our entire office attended an ada conference in oakland. It was organized by the specific ada center which is a local ada Technical Assistance center of the Western Region of the u. S. The conference had distinguished speakers from the access board, the departme