. >> thank you good afternoon arnold townsend the economic opportunity you council of san francisco. which happens to be one of the last groups on the war on poster which happens to be the only declared what are the united states has ever lost because there's twice of the number of people living in poverty now than in 64. this is the 50 years of that property act. just wanted to say to suggest to you that you have our consistent please look at the employment panes and the ratio employment patterns of formula retail and not independent locally owned. the independent locally folks don't higher african-american. i live in the fillmore i'm up p there all the time they have wonderful clothes there i don't shop there because they don't have black folks working there. and interesting enough if there was an old navy or gap they'll hire african-americans. in fact, if you go in and out of the shops in fillmore you'll be lucky to find two or three african-american there and if you do they'll be walgreens or starbuck's. let me say i've been here almost 50 years 46 years this year and you could g

maybe more inclined to hire some people from disenfranchised and under served groups and i think arnold townsend was eloquent in his presentation of that and i also think setting the bar at a higher level is a case to be made for that and giving special consideration for san francisco's native born companies is certainly important. one thing that was not brought up but i brought it up at many hearings in the past, is when we don't have a really popular formula retail in san francisco, people will travel outside of san francisco to shop there. we lose the tax revenue and jobs that will not go to people in san francisco. a classic example at this point i hope we'll get one in the future is ikea. they are always running to emeryville because they like it. i thought that was wonderful. another hearing i thought was really good was the hearing on the 280 extension removal. the railroad yard, the dtx, cal train elect fiction, we do need a loop track. reversing the trains in the station makes no sense. in fact it seems we did a lot of projects some years ago, i think it was jack myers project because i