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Sounding acronym was created in 2008 in basically congress realized we were spending a lot of money there. We didnt do a very good job of overseeing how the money was spent in iraq and created a special agency with Inspector Generals office. We do audits and criminal investigations. 200 of us. We focus on afghanistan and we only focus on reconstruction. One of the Reasons Congress did this is because we have spent more money on reconstruction ine afghanistan than we have ever done anywhere in the world. We have spent more money in afghanistan than we did on the entire Marshall Plan to rebuild europe after world war ii. Assumed anything correctly they needed a special agency just to look at it and we have been the existence of them. Ruth. Host you put in regular reports. How long has this cigar office put out these re ....
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Create those, versus this group were trying to target. The subsidy is not there. So its more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than marketrate unit. And thats what a lot of investors and investments are based on. Well continue this conversation. I appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and well work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a create additional revenue. Councillor tang i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. Its a real issue. We have the data to show its an increasing problem and were not here to take away housing from other people. Were trying to broaden the pot, as supervisor safai said. So i look forward to being engaged on this issue with all of you. Thank you, supervisor. Echo those comments as well. With that, a motion to f ....
Bikes and their own instruction with no prop k or sfmta support because the program has gone through. So, it depends on where each school is and where the teachers are. So, yes, each one of these people has to theres a lot of coordination that goes into making sure the bikes get on campus and are stored. That the teachers are prepared and ready, et cetera. And then we meet a couple of people on site for the twoweek period as well. So, why is there no line item for transportation . Of the bikes. Im sorry. Of all the things i didnt bring. There is a line item that is related to the transportation that we do pay for essentially the gas. Why bike owns the van and the trailers so we dont have to pay for those. However we pay for the time spent transporting them from school to school. Okay. Thank you. Can someone answer the questions i have specifically about bike to work day . That is also me. Okay. Do you have a breakdown of the budget . Because for the sponsorship, the bike to work someda ....
The tax credits and Tax Exemptions given to lowincome are allocated allow a private developer it gives them more of an incentive or ability to create those, versus this group were trying to target. The subsidy is not there. So its more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than marketrate unit. And thats what a lot of investors and investments are based on. Well continue this conversation. I appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and well work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a create additional revenue. Councillor tang i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. Its a real issue. We have the data to show its an increasing problem and were not here to take away housing from other people. W ....