Good afternoon. [laughter] welcome. Im deborah jacobs, cochair of the 24th edition of the book festival of the mjcca. My cochair and i are pleased to welcome you to the book festivals awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life, and our second awardwinning journalist, mike kelly, in conversation with bill [inaudible] Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspans booktv to our book festival programming this amp. This afternoon. On behalf of the book festival, we are truly grateful for the support of barbara exped mining and this years sponsors, wells fargo. In addition, there are over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar of events the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are av
Want to work with you and thank you all for your hard work and want to get a copy of the legislation thank you. Thank you and the amendments will be available to anyone who would like to see them next speaker good afternoon. Im paul wormer im here on behalf of the Telegraph Hill thank you very much for all i have our efforts and working together on this whole project were excuse me. Were quite happy with the 11 still being the they recalled and we would like to participate and im sure all the Neighborhood Association want to participate in the updating and looking forward to drafting the legislation for the complexity that staff wasnt able to deal with ive offered and still happy to participate so as i say Telegraph Hill dwellers want to perimeter i too havent seen the legislation i tried to gatt get a copy today but. Couple of comments been the prospective legislation the approach of what ill call second story units as a means of defining something that is not formula retail i think c
That up to communicating how to help the businesses that fall in between the 11 to 19 talking about the San Francisco soup company and the on that are San Francisco based on and want to make sure we can do all we can to help the local San Francisco businesses not get lost with starbucks and mcdonalds and the Small Businesses that San Francisco entails looked like to see the legislation and thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen and supervisor mar connie celebrating our 4 Year Anniversary comprised of labor unions coming together to work to continue the process of making San Francisco the city that we all know and love we appreciate supervisor mar our hard, hard work in this we know that you worked with a Large Coalition and it takes a lot of stick to itness and we support this compromise legislation one of the things beef been talking about in the halls of justice has to do with the balance of honoring the vitality fabric of our busines
Will be available to anyone who would like to see them next speaker good afternoon. Im paul wormer im here on behalf of the Telegraph Hill thank you very much for all i have our efforts and working together on this whole project were excuse me. Were quite happy with the 11 still being the they recalled and we would like to participate and im sure all the Neighborhood Association want to participate in the updating and looking forward to drafting the legislation for the complexity that staff wasnt able to deal with ive offered and still happy to participate so as i say Telegraph Hill dwellers want to perimeter i too havent seen the legislation i tried to gatt get a copy today but. Couple of comments been the prospective legislation the approach of what ill call second story units as a means of defining something that is not formula retail i think contractually is a good idea and again depended on who gets into that career that may raise issues with that group and maybe others thank you
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