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i strongly support this as well. i'm calling for a hearing on a related note to look at the challenges of the vacant store fronts that are throughout our city and the basic practices of keeping the corridors and striving throughout our city. they represent failed businesses but will is create the perception that an entire district is abandoned. we can focus on large companies and bring these sorts of businesses to san francisco. however it's a small business sector that creates the greatest number of jobs in our city and lends character and vitality to our neighborhoods. in the richmond district, areas like the inner clements street corridor. yet vacant fronts still exist in this area. they have pop ups to use for these store fronts. that's temporary usage to encourage foot traffic and encourage people to come to targeted neighborhoods. we need to look at strategies like that. today this hearing that i'm calling would look at strategies our city has implemented for filling vacant stores around our cities and keeping
i strongly support this as well. i'm calling for a hearing on a related note to look at the challenges of the vacant store fronts that are throughout our city and the basic practices of keeping the corridors and striving throughout our city. they represent failed businesses but will is create the perception that an entire district is abandoned. we can focus on large companies and bring these sorts of businesses to san francisco. however it's a small business sector that creates the greatest...
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yields have been lower in spain, as well. s that going to help out the view of the bank, bearing in mind they've loaded up on so much spanish and italian debt. >> well, it's important that the levels don't have a lot of breaks. and the yields for getting off this bond portfolio will fall as their portfolio lowers into yields and bonds. i think the banks would see it as a vote of confidence. that's a positive indicator. i think the technical impact on their p&l is likely to be negative in terms of the paao. >> good to see you. thank you for that. >>> and if you're just joining us on the program, these are your headlines. the uk economy growing march expected. >>> san tan tand he's profit declass ae their check partner voted for it. >>> so the telecom industry chock-full of details in the last month. courtney has more for us at the headquarters in the united states. >> hey, it's great do you see. i haven't seen you in so long. it's nice to be with you on "worldwide exchange" this morning. verizon has rt roedly hired advisers to
yields have been lower in spain, as well. s that going to help out the view of the bank, bearing in mind they've loaded up on so much spanish and italian debt. >> well, it's important that the levels don't have a lot of breaks. and the yields for getting off this bond portfolio will fall as their portfolio lowers into yields and bonds. i think the banks would see it as a vote of confidence. that's a positive indicator. i think the technical impact on their p&l is likely to be negative...
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at the planning department as well as mta. [speaker not understood]. planning is specifically charged with the allocation of our share of the regional pda planning fund. of the 20 million allocation that goes to the counties within the bay area, san francisco has been awarded 2.38 million based on population, population growth share. that's kind of standard across the region. it's -- i think what's important to know about this sort is that it is planning. it is not for capital projects, not for construction. so, it's what we do. it's planning work. i think we're an appropriate agency to work with our partners to think about how to allocate it. we're developing a general framework in consultation with all of the agencies who are working within any of these pdas. we're trying to look at the areas where these funds could be used most effectively. so, first and foremost obviously is high impact areas where we're going to see a lot of jobs and housing growth, particularly in the near term where we see concentrations of low-income or high need areas and then
at the planning department as well as mta. [speaker not understood]. planning is specifically charged with the allocation of our share of the regional pda planning fund. of the 20 million allocation that goes to the counties within the bay area, san francisco has been awarded 2.38 million based on population, population growth share. that's kind of standard across the region. it's -- i think what's important to know about this sort is that it is planning. it is not for capital projects, not for...
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that helps generate interoperatability amongst the title 10 and title 32 assets within the state as well. >> well, i don't know about you all but i feel pretty comfortable going into this fire season. it sounds like we have a pretty integrated group not only within the military capability you but state and local capabilities and federal capabilities for this fire season. with that i'm going to go down the line. as we get to our military partners i'd ask if there's other technologies that you think that you have that you want to share about that may be helpful as we start to get into fire season. please share those with us. ray, if you'd like to start. >> sure, thank you. first off, thanks for being here, it's my first time being here and i think it's an outstanding venue to meet the cooperating agencies and talk about policies and ways we can improve our response to the public that we serve. we look at title 10, title 32 resources in all aspects, all risk venue, like i said, not only aircraft but we utilize ltax for our agreements with la county fire, to mobilize fire engines to catalina
that helps generate interoperatability amongst the title 10 and title 32 assets within the state as well. >> well, i don't know about you all but i feel pretty comfortable going into this fire season. it sounds like we have a pretty integrated group not only within the military capability you but state and local capabilities and federal capabilities for this fire season. with that i'm going to go down the line. as we get to our military partners i'd ask if there's other technologies that...
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with senior group's ideas of how to create more aging in place programs neighborhood by neighborhood as wellbut i think those are the key issues. i am also, kind of as the father of a 10-year-old -- i have anxiety like other parents right now as we apply for a middle schools for my daughter. as a member of the school board for eight years, i know that a strong school system and strong schools in the richmond is key. but also, i serve on the first five commission. each county has a commission that oversees money that supports children, and toddlers, and infants to pre- kindergarten kids, so i'm trying to insure that at the state level, we have a case for strong support for young children and their families and good parenting support as well, so that is another key focus, in addition to continuing my work to improve schools and make a more equitable and socially just as well. >> again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including word and make cuts and where to increase taxes and fees. how are you going to approach these different choices? >> those are really tough choices. i think
with senior group's ideas of how to create more aging in place programs neighborhood by neighborhood as wellbut i think those are the key issues. i am also, kind of as the father of a 10-year-old -- i have anxiety like other parents right now as we apply for a middle schools for my daughter. as a member of the school board for eight years, i know that a strong school system and strong schools in the richmond is key. but also, i serve on the first five commission. each county has a commission...
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translation, peer resources, restore tif practices, career tech ed as well as the general infrastructure. there's also two new programs that are receiving substantial funding. that is science technology math and engineering, also known as stem, and our nra through g support and i should take a quick moment to recognize supervisor jane kim's support in this area, thank you very much on behalf of sfusd, i wanted to put that out there. that is also a priority for us and that is reflected in this budget. so i won't read through this all here, those are the 6 programs that are all receiving various levels of funding. again what we have seen as our needs for the district and again the two new programs, there's more detail here. our stem initiative is going to -- i'll just summarize -- our stem initiative is really creating the backbone for stem. as our superintendent has pointed out, that is also in many ways a foundational element of a through g and the programs that need to be supported in that context and one thing i want to point out because it was announced today, this is a very exciting
translation, peer resources, restore tif practices, career tech ed as well as the general infrastructure. there's also two new programs that are receiving substantial funding. that is science technology math and engineering, also known as stem, and our nra through g support and i should take a quick moment to recognize supervisor jane kim's support in this area, thank you very much on behalf of sfusd, i wanted to put that out there. that is also a priority for us and that is reflected in this...
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as an area outside the property as well in terms of clean up on civic structures. so we're taking that sort of scientific approach in terms of the analysis that's going to happen and we're running it as a project and we want to find out because you could have a community that's saying, fine and great, you are getting rid of the graffiti and in 6 months it's completely different. >> you are going to monitor the area for two years? >> yes, for two years, then we'll do post-audit. i'm hoping to be able to do two audits on this area as opposed to one year. how are we doing for time? any other questions? >> i might have missed this in the beginning, but i was curious, how do you guys get funded for this program. >> capital city clean up is a city of edmonton program. it started in 2005 as a litter reduction program and when our bylaw changed in 2008 our city council was very thoughtful in determining they needed to put their mouths were. basically they were going to require the property owners clean their graffiti, then they needed to put some effort into cleaning their
as an area outside the property as well in terms of clean up on civic structures. so we're taking that sort of scientific approach in terms of the analysis that's going to happen and we're running it as a project and we want to find out because you could have a community that's saying, fine and great, you are getting rid of the graffiti and in 6 months it's completely different. >> you are going to monitor the area for two years? >> yes, for two years, then we'll do post-audit. i'm...
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what's interesting, as well, is how these companies are changing their focus. we'll hear tr wonder group a little later. what's interesting about these companies, one was a property company. the other one started off as a ge and it was in steel and basic minerals. they're both reshaping themselves. wonder, they want to be a top ten global media company by 2020. they're building out health care and he also wants to develop the insurance business ala warren buffett, as well. they are thinking about how they need to change and the world around them, as well. >> ross, thanks very much. we'll see you in just a couple minutes. this takes h7n9 death toll there to 20. chinese authorities say they've identified about six new cases for the world health organization. in about half of the cases, there was no direct contact with poultry. that, of course, is raising some concern. rescue workers and relief teams are also rushing supplies in china's sichuan proadvice after friday's earthquake. tens of thousands have moved into tents and cars as aftershocks continue to rock the
what's interesting, as well, is how these companies are changing their focus. we'll hear tr wonder group a little later. what's interesting about these companies, one was a property company. the other one started off as a ge and it was in steel and basic minerals. they're both reshaping themselves. wonder, they want to be a top ten global media company by 2020. they're building out health care and he also wants to develop the insurance business ala warren buffett, as well. they are thinking...
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i manage the surety bond and finance program as well as the technical outreach program. my colleagues here emily is going to start the presentation. i can introduce herself or i can do it. >> hi. i manage the certification unit for the local businesses for the city and county of san francisco. i always have handouts for the public as well as the commissioners and the secretaries and everyone. >> while beverly is doing that i want to give a little brief background. in listening to the previous speakers and the questions that was raised i think we got some answers. we are the best city to do procurement with women. we can do better and that's what we're here to talk about. as you maybe aware we have a city ordinance called the local business enterprise ordinance. we developed this program as a result to our challenged program, the 209 challenge to the minority womens' business program known as chapter 12a. we were not able to continue with the race base and gender base program. however, we are still able to provide for local business and the local business card techs would
i manage the surety bond and finance program as well as the technical outreach program. my colleagues here emily is going to start the presentation. i can introduce herself or i can do it. >> hi. i manage the certification unit for the local businesses for the city and county of san francisco. i always have handouts for the public as well as the commissioners and the secretaries and everyone. >> while beverly is doing that i want to give a little brief background. in listening to...
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it's so broad and the same applies for women owned business as well. we run a risk of describing women owned business as describing a certain type of business in size, in type, in make up of the business. our small business of the year last year was a woman manufacturing business and three of the last six years the small business for northern california was a woman owned manufacturing business and had 100 smg ease or more so the idea we're talking about women business that are talking in terms of small, micro enterprise, home base is a case for number of businesses but not across the board. the same applies for women starting technology businesses. we see that as well. it is not the case that we see one category of business that women owned business are in. i think it's fortunate us to recognize that. >> >> recognize that the challenges for women that have talent and passionate to be entrepreneurs get support for doing that and less likely to be supported in other ways and i don't think that's the only category that we see. we see a very broad spectrum
it's so broad and the same applies for women owned business as well. we run a risk of describing women owned business as describing a certain type of business in size, in type, in make up of the business. our small business of the year last year was a woman manufacturing business and three of the last six years the small business for northern california was a woman owned manufacturing business and had 100 smg ease or more so the idea we're talking about women business that are talking in terms...
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to improve the safety of that intersection. 19th avenue and terrabell is a major transit junction as well as a commercial street so you see many pedestrians crossing at this intersection crossing six lanes of traffic on highway one and crossing this relatively wide street and part of the reason people are here is because of the transit. very major routes. a lot of transfers happening here. a lot of people taking those transit services. things that we have done before in the area we adjusted the signal timing on numerous occasions and the all red clearance which say technical term where the lights are red in all directions and gives the automobiles an opportunity to clear without the green light. those are invisible changes that we make and add improvements. we added over head signals and something that we completed. this is part of the double fine zone which supervisor yee is looking to extend and we support that and this location is looked at very carefully as part of our transit effectiveness project and we want to make improvements with sidewalks and islands and parking and anything th
to improve the safety of that intersection. 19th avenue and terrabell is a major transit junction as well as a commercial street so you see many pedestrians crossing at this intersection crossing six lanes of traffic on highway one and crossing this relatively wide street and part of the reason people are here is because of the transit. very major routes. a lot of transfers happening here. a lot of people taking those transit services. things that we have done before in the area we adjusted the...
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as well as some off campus leases. we have gone discussions with our staff and as well as the department of public health. we're industrial trying to figure out how at all the building is going to be. we need to come up with a solution with the parking that will be displaced as well as a mechanism foresight control. so this is the bigger picture of facts. so we are - we currently have 8 million square feet. we will grow by 10 and a half percent excluding parking. this does not include our mission bay campus. we have the capability to build there. and speaking of clinic capability so this shows how many inpatient bed and how this will change over time so by 20035 we expect an lovingly percent increase in our bed frame and an increase in the exclaim rooms for outpatients. in our housing so like other institutions we are in great need of housing but we propose to meet our needs with existing lands. this to those conversion of existing space as well as some limited new construction. and mission bay we have designated a blo
as well as some off campus leases. we have gone discussions with our staff and as well as the department of public health. we're industrial trying to figure out how at all the building is going to be. we need to come up with a solution with the parking that will be displaced as well as a mechanism foresight control. so this is the bigger picture of facts. so we are - we currently have 8 million square feet. we will grow by 10 and a half percent excluding parking. this does not include our...
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. >> i do think you need to have the international search as well but pertain to local as well. >> what i would like to do is we've given you the text of the draft borrow borrow brochure. we asked them to put something in front of you this morning so you at least have a visual of the profile which is our key marketing document is going to look like. and so they have done that the help of staff we've been able to produce this so you can take a look at it. we can kind of walk through it. typically the recruitment is going to have 2 aspects to it. there is the highly public aspect of the recruitment which deals with putting noticed and postings in various professional journals and websites and various list serves and other sources that people generally go to for information, not only in terms of information about the profession but also information about job opportunities and what's going on. so that's the highly public side. usually about 80 percent of all the volume of applications come as a result of that high profile effort and activity. the other 20 percent which really kind of repres
. >> i do think you need to have the international search as well but pertain to local as well. >> what i would like to do is we've given you the text of the draft borrow borrow brochure. we asked them to put something in front of you this morning so you at least have a visual of the profile which is our key marketing document is going to look like. and so they have done that the help of staff we've been able to produce this so you can take a look at it. we can kind of walk through...
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and as well as boosting our transit and freeway systems in terms of efficiency and not new capacity but squeezing more capacity out of the existing system. much like your transit effectiveness project with muni and finally we acknowledge that not all good ideas emanate from the region that each individual county in this case the city and county have a lot of local priorities that the money needs to be tailored to and that is better done at the county wide level and here it is done right here in front of this board and so, we leave about 30 percent of this discretionary money for those purposes. when you add it altogether, given that heavy maintenance emphasis you will see that 80 percent of all of the money that we will be spending over the next 30 years is to take care of the system that we have built. in one way that can sound frustrating because we have a lot of growth coming in the region and a lot of new prioritis that we would like to take on. but i do believe that this heavy emphasis on maintenance and operation of our existing infrastructure is probably the best thing that we ca
and as well as boosting our transit and freeway systems in terms of efficiency and not new capacity but squeezing more capacity out of the existing system. much like your transit effectiveness project with muni and finally we acknowledge that not all good ideas emanate from the region that each individual county in this case the city and county have a lot of local priorities that the money needs to be tailored to and that is better done at the county wide level and here it is done right here in...
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we also have of course smaller segments in goods, materials and equipment as well as trucking and hauling, so breaking this down in terms of numbers certified for one of the largest categories for women businesses in san francisco we have the professional services category. there's a lot here. i have actually listed everything out there but the three top ones actually at the bottom. we find a lot of women businesses certified as architects in the architectural world. the second highest would be community relations and third environmental advisory services. there are many other aspects as you can see in professional services, but this is just taking it from the certification data base that we have here. following from that category let's look at general services. the top two would be event planning and meeting for women businesses. they're involved in those type of business enterprises as well as signs, directional and informational production. this really makes sense because most city contracts and dollars are construction and construction related so if you think back with our architects
we also have of course smaller segments in goods, materials and equipment as well as trucking and hauling, so breaking this down in terms of numbers certified for one of the largest categories for women businesses in san francisco we have the professional services category. there's a lot here. i have actually listed everything out there but the three top ones actually at the bottom. we find a lot of women businesses certified as architects in the architectural world. the second highest would be...
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there are some in the audience that love it there as i do as well. we're going to be voting on declaring april 20th saturday, 2013 as tia margarita day in san francisco. its was founded by virginia and alex hobbs and it's been in business since 1963 at the corner of 19th and clement street in the richmond district. 50 years of continuous service is an example of a great responsible family business and an overwhelming amount of support from the richmond district community. the restaurant's friendly atmosphere has brought in many from the neighborhood and brought people together. lots of dates go on in the restaurant and there's a really great bar there as well, but lots of lasting friendships are really thriving because of the restaurant. also their authentic mexican food and drinks are awesome, and tia margarita has become integral to our city's history and small business culture. so, joining me this saturday and i ask for your support. it is also in honoring the original founders virginia and alex hobbs and remembering also and supporting the current
there are some in the audience that love it there as i do as well. we're going to be voting on declaring april 20th saturday, 2013 as tia margarita day in san francisco. its was founded by virginia and alex hobbs and it's been in business since 1963 at the corner of 19th and clement street in the richmond district. 50 years of continuous service is an example of a great responsible family business and an overwhelming amount of support from the richmond district community. the restaurant's...
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the spanish ten year, as well, nosing down to 4.4%. with that yield falling below 11 is.7% to 1.67% as some of these global growth jitters resurface. now, in terms of earnings news last night out of the u.s., we heard from netflix 37 today, wall hear from apple amid the close. analysts expect the company to close its first year on year decline in a decade. revenue is expected to hit a record, but sales are only seen up 8el%. one of the weakest increases in several quarters. apple is being hurt by soft demand for the iphone and lower profit 345r7b8gins on the ipad. shares closed $398 or just about on monday. that's a 42% drop since hitting a record high over $700 back in september. first quarter profits end up soaring on sold subscriber growth. netflix has benefited from new .original content. this includes the kevin spacey drama house of cards. it expects the diagram month to grow in the second quarter. they're among the best performers this year on the s&p. up 80%. sweden's investor ab has report a near 50% surge in profits. find out w
the spanish ten year, as well, nosing down to 4.4%. with that yield falling below 11 is.7% to 1.67% as some of these global growth jitters resurface. now, in terms of earnings news last night out of the u.s., we heard from netflix 37 today, wall hear from apple amid the close. analysts expect the company to close its first year on year decline in a decade. revenue is expected to hit a record, but sales are only seen up 8el%. one of the weakest increases in several quarters. apple is being hurt...
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we have a draft recruitment profile as well. before you, you also have a copy of a few items that the hawkins team will be presenting in the next few minutes. with that i would like to bring up bill hawkins. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. thank you for this opportunity to bring this bill before you. i have the president of the hawkins company and i just wanted to first give a lot of credit to staff. they have been extremely helpful in terms of providing us with the information that we need in a timely fashion and kind of walking us through the maze of the city so we understand the city of san francisco. i just want to acknowledge them before you this morning. today we would like to get into the the nuts and boeldz -- bolts of this process. we have been actively engaged and meeting with various stake holders. we have met with all the members of the personnel committee of the commission and david chiu on the commission and jane kim and with the senior staff of the authority. we've also, today and tomorrow and latter pa
we have a draft recruitment profile as well. before you, you also have a copy of a few items that the hawkins team will be presenting in the next few minutes. with that i would like to bring up bill hawkins. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. thank you for this opportunity to bring this bill before you. i have the president of the hawkins company and i just wanted to first give a lot of credit to staff. they have been extremely helpful in terms of providing us with the information...
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i want to thank the tic advocates as well as the tens advocates who sat down over the course of the last few months and certainly last week, as well as supervisor chiu and norman yee who are introducing amendments today. about two months ago, both sides sat down over a multiple week span and had some encouraging and not so encouraging discussions. nevertheless, important, but given the two sides have not spoke men years, that we had that dialogue. last week alone, i met with the tenants advocates in my office and spoke with them over the weekend as well as met with numerous times ~ with the tic advocates over this weekend, the past few weeks, and even this morning in my office. from the outset and my goal in create thing legislation was three fold. first of all, provide relief for current tic owners who in my mind represent the face of middle income families here in san francisco. we've heard over time that police officers and the teachers that are tic owners, they're being forced to pay interest rates that are currently double the market interest rates here in our is city and across our
i want to thank the tic advocates as well as the tens advocates who sat down over the course of the last few months and certainly last week, as well as supervisor chiu and norman yee who are introducing amendments today. about two months ago, both sides sat down over a multiple week span and had some encouraging and not so encouraging discussions. nevertheless, important, but given the two sides have not spoke men years, that we had that dialogue. last week alone, i met with the tenants...
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in real time as well as over time to show trends in traffic. and i think basically what i would like to speak to today is the importance of somebody who is going to be in charge of the data because what we found is that you can have all of this data, but if you don't have somebody looking at it and somebody utilizing it, then it's pointless and it's just hanging out there. so, i think this is very important, to have somebody kind of organizing different departments as well as just kind of, you know, facilitating the communication between the government as well as -- between the government and the people that the government is serving and are presenting. and having this information out there, such as what motion loft -- sorry -- on having the information out there about, you know, like where you can go find places to hang out at parks or knowing like when your car is going to be towed, crowding information such as what motion loft is providing, it does a great service to the people of the city and then we found that data like motion loft can be
in real time as well as over time to show trends in traffic. and i think basically what i would like to speak to today is the importance of somebody who is going to be in charge of the data because what we found is that you can have all of this data, but if you don't have somebody looking at it and somebody utilizing it, then it's pointless and it's just hanging out there. so, i think this is very important, to have somebody kind of organizing different departments as well as just kind of, you...
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but we supported the first one as well as the only area in san francisco is the executive park, bayview hunters point, that can be built over 60 feet. and when people of san francisco that vote for issues and things and it looked like it goes under water, usually city planning is supposed to make sure that when planning is done, it's done for the people of san francisco, not just for developers. although you might say, oh, this looks good, i think this will will work, it's not what you think and not what you might want to think it would work. but what is best for san francisco. thank you very much. >> is there any additional public comment? okay, next item, please. >> commissioners, that will place you under your regular calendar. items 10 a and b for case numbers 2011.13 81 it and z for 1111 8th street, the institutional master plan and amendments to the planning code adding new section 249.67 to establish the art and design educational special use district. >> hi, thank you, commissioners. andrea [speaker not understood] from supervisor maly a cohen's office. this is for a special use
but we supported the first one as well as the only area in san francisco is the executive park, bayview hunters point, that can be built over 60 feet. and when people of san francisco that vote for issues and things and it looked like it goes under water, usually city planning is supposed to make sure that when planning is done, it's done for the people of san francisco, not just for developers. although you might say, oh, this looks good, i think this will will work, it's not what you think...
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we see that as well. it is not the case that we see one category of business that women owned business are in. i think it's fortunate us to recognize that. >> >> recognize that the challenges for women that have talent and passionate to be entrepreneurs get support for doing that and less likely to be supported in other ways and i don't think that's the only category that we see. we see a very broad spectrum and more than half of the help that we give in all of these groups more than half of the assistance in growing business are from women owned businesses from all different types and it's really not the case that women, business are -- i think what you're alluding to stigmatized to a smairl less capitalized business. i don't think that's the case. i think it's a better picture than that. >> commissioner rodriquez. >> [inaudible] >> we do, and the challenge -- actually you alluded to it earlier in your comments. the challenge of federal contracting but it's really all public contracting of the size of co
we see that as well. it is not the case that we see one category of business that women owned business are in. i think it's fortunate us to recognize that. >> >> recognize that the challenges for women that have talent and passionate to be entrepreneurs get support for doing that and less likely to be supported in other ways and i don't think that's the only category that we see. we see a very broad spectrum and more than half of the help that we give in all of these groups more...
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and the chief as well as commissioner loft us and myself, we inherited tasers. we had never dealt with it before, and we think that we were the right people to at least start off this process along with commissioner chan. and as the conversation continues, i know i plan on staying personally involved with it. and, so, to the fact that the department has now withdrawn its request, there is no action item for us to continue on, but i do want to say that we are incredibly lucky to have a chief, a department, and a concerned public to review the issue in the way that we have. so, thank you, chief. thank you all for your time on this issue. commissioner loft us, i don't know -- >> yeah, i'm reminded of the phrase, isn't it li
and the chief as well as commissioner loft us and myself, we inherited tasers. we had never dealt with it before, and we think that we were the right people to at least start off this process along with commissioner chan. and as the conversation continues, i know i plan on staying personally involved with it. and, so, to the fact that the department has now withdrawn its request, there is no action item for us to continue on, but i do want to say that we are incredibly lucky to have a chief, a...
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to the geary cic, conceptual engineering drawing for the original center and the five alternatives as well as the new consolidated service center running variance, to the committee. this is a big mouth full we need another acronym. this is important because it gives us a handle on what some of the technical and the policies constraints are with each of the alternatives and clearing the way for the study for each of these. >> and also working with commissioner mar's office in particular on trying to identify the set of near term improvements that can move and as well as integrating the projects into the longer term and the near term. and then, the transit has reached another major milestone too and has had the sfmta had a kick off for the prelim phase and it will bring the project to 30 percent design and marks the transition from the authority conducting the environmental studies and handing over the remainder of the project to design, build and implement. you will see a funding request coming before you to enable the authority to finish the phase and to fully fund that engineering phase t
to the geary cic, conceptual engineering drawing for the original center and the five alternatives as well as the new consolidated service center running variance, to the committee. this is a big mouth full we need another acronym. this is important because it gives us a handle on what some of the technical and the policies constraints are with each of the alternatives and clearing the way for the study for each of these. >> and also working with commissioner mar's office in particular on...
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as well as in asia.utomaker forecast its global car sales would rise 7.7% to 3.7 million vehicles and projects 58%wide in net profit for the current fiscal year. japan's most reliant exportmaker mazda posted a 308 million profit for the fiscal year through march. it was the first time in five fiscal years for mazda to return to the black. mazda gets a large boost from a weaker yen says it exports 80% what it makes in japan. these reports show a strong comeback with the japanese carmakers with the help of a weaker yen. the yen has lost 14% since the start of the year. toyota and nissan will release earnings in the coming weeks. back to you, kelly. >> thanks very much for that. picking up with the automakers, renault says it will make nissan's new contact car in france. the company under huge pressure like all the other automakers to make sure it is employing people in france. not sure investors love it, shares are down almost 2%. >>> getting any thoughts or comments, e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. still t
as well as in asia.utomaker forecast its global car sales would rise 7.7% to 3.7 million vehicles and projects 58%wide in net profit for the current fiscal year. japan's most reliant exportmaker mazda posted a 308 million profit for the fiscal year through march. it was the first time in five fiscal years for mazda to return to the black. mazda gets a large boost from a weaker yen says it exports 80% what it makes in japan. these reports show a strong comeback with the japanese carmakers with...
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we are part of that community as well. just like the guard, we have an interest in protecting our friends and neighbors. sustainment is, it's important to us and we'll maintain it especially on the region side. we're able to have these long-standing relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the on-going efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. >> just to follow on that, the navy squadrons that provide fire fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. one benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in the squadrons. you may have people who have been there for 6, 7 years and have seen multiple fires. that mutual trust is absolutely essential to this capability. >> a couple things that come it mind real briefly, we're talking about wild and land fires primarily but rest assured amongst the group here we're always thinking in an all rest capacity. cal fire's mission is we are the state's fire department. we are thinking about a
we are part of that community as well. just like the guard, we have an interest in protecting our friends and neighbors. sustainment is, it's important to us and we'll maintain it especially on the region side. we're able to have these long-standing relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the on-going efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. >> just to follow on that, the navy squadrons that provide fire fighting capability are...
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general uses also known as the third third portion, that's going to increase 6 existing programs as well as create the funding for two new programs and add to our base line funding for the (inaudible) student formula as well as in kind services. so very very briefly speaking about this, what we had to do was our normal process is to go from august to january for the whole spending cycle. we've got roughly 6 months. that got truncated to 6 weeks for something that's roughly 50 percent of p's budget that we had to process. so all hands on deck, that went forward, we pulled together our normal process and compliments to the folks at sfusd as well as our city partners. this went through the superintendent's cabinet, our smart team, which is our budget allocation team, the superintendent's executive team, our advisory team was ultimately engaged and ultimately the sfusd board of education. i won't read all this to you. roughly 16 million dollars in new funding, that's split between the slam portion, which is sports, libraries, arts and music, in that second column you are seeing how the 8 mil
general uses also known as the third third portion, that's going to increase 6 existing programs as well as create the funding for two new programs and add to our base line funding for the (inaudible) student formula as well as in kind services. so very very briefly speaking about this, what we had to do was our normal process is to go from august to january for the whole spending cycle. we've got roughly 6 months. that got truncated to 6 weeks for something that's roughly 50 percent of p's...
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recommendations, finding out exactly what they might recommend or where they might recommend we look as well as places that we've already identified. i have been talking with some individuals with the institute with private planning organizations, transit agencies and such already. and i have started to compile a list of folks that i will circle back to and talk to more specifically about the opportunity as we move along. >> i think we have a question from commissioner campos. >> thank you, i appreciate that and thanks for taking the time to meet with me. i do want to say something about you said that i don't think i agree with. i hope there is a modified approach. i don't necessarily think the ideal candidate is someone who is doing this somewhere else and doing it well. that excludes internal candidates. i have been very clear from the beginning of this process, that i don't want this process to be simply about finding the best qualified outside candidate. i want to find the best qualified candidate period. but your statement doesn't really include or allow for internal candidates so i do
recommendations, finding out exactly what they might recommend or where they might recommend we look as well as places that we've already identified. i have been talking with some individuals with the institute with private planning organizations, transit agencies and such already. and i have started to compile a list of folks that i will circle back to and talk to more specifically about the opportunity as we move along. >> i think we have a question from commissioner campos. >>...
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they involve kaiser outpatient facility near potrero hill as well as the housing development , they're married, the two projects are being planned together. and was very interesting and it's good to see those things ahead of time, particularly in regards to design issues and other things that the projects improved before the time they even get to the commission because of public comment and comments of commissioners, i think. i met with john al berling from todd co-regarding the central corridor issue as well as pedestrian access around moscone ~ and i think its was a very good meeting. and also yesterday we had a meeting of the secretary search subcommittee and part of it was in closed session, but, you know, of which we do not reveal the actions. there were no actions, in fact. so, i can say that we are considering the candidates who have gone through the testing process and it appears we have an adequate number of applicants and we're going to continue to work on this in subsequent weeks. and finally, i must report i'm not a real frequent muni rider, but i did get a citation today r
they involve kaiser outpatient facility near potrero hill as well as the housing development , they're married, the two projects are being planned together. and was very interesting and it's good to see those things ahead of time, particularly in regards to design issues and other things that the projects improved before the time they even get to the commission because of public comment and comments of commissioners, i think. i met with john al berling from todd co-regarding the central...
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as well as outside of the country in fact there are very powerful forces outside of it as well as that would really love a prius the wind namely of course u.s. energy companies ok what are you when you bring the u.s. into the equation and it is actually because ultimately at the end of the day the entire world i mean all the world economies of all there are always keeping a close watch on venezuela one of the biggest oil exporters out there but there must be a couple of countries out there who really would if you if you look at the dynamic right now you'll see that it's basically a fight between u.s. energy companies and russia and russia of wars i mean china plays a big role in that as well but let me give you it is the details of how basically works at the moment u.s. companies were essentially ousted event as well in the seventy's after investing millions and millions of dollars and so it's thoughtless and oil and gas sector and of course they would like to get back but russia also has a huge presence all of russia's major oil and gas companies are working in the country at the mome
as well as outside of the country in fact there are very powerful forces outside of it as well as that would really love a prius the wind namely of course u.s. energy companies ok what are you when you bring the u.s. into the equation and it is actually because ultimately at the end of the day the entire world i mean all the world economies of all there are always keeping a close watch on venezuela one of the biggest oil exporters out there but there must be a couple of countries out there who...
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live nation uses in-house personnel as well as security and in-house positions. these positions will be inside the venue, backstage and entrance to the pier and the surrounding neighborhoods. we've also worked very closely with central station as well as captain clearey and the san francisco police department on a set of officers used for our live events. and providing a cleaning plan in adjacent streets to the venue. finally live nation has a medical plan. it will be rock medicine where live has used for the america's cup sponsor ship. at the venue we have a few shows that are already confirmed and booked, miller banned with the doobie brothers, 311, the jonas brothers, and fallout boy. one of the areas that we spend a considerable amount of speaking with the neighbors is about the noise control plan. live nation will consistently measure the noise level as well as the a 1 sound audio engineer with the neighborhood. live nation is also committed to spending 150,000 on low wave acoustic material on the back side of the page to prevent noise from going backwards a
live nation uses in-house personnel as well as security and in-house positions. these positions will be inside the venue, backstage and entrance to the pier and the surrounding neighborhoods. we've also worked very closely with central station as well as captain clearey and the san francisco police department on a set of officers used for our live events. and providing a cleaning plan in adjacent streets to the venue. finally live nation has a medical plan. it will be rock medicine where live...
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to your calendars as well. we have a 3 week window and if we can line it up where 2-3 weeks would satisfy it as well. 3 weeks gives us the flexibility. >> i'm worried about the timing here and making sure we are not taking too long. i appreciate that. >> typically, that phase of the recruitment is a 6-8 week base for national recruitment. you are well underneath the standards, we recognized the urgency associated with this but in order to do the thoroughness that puts us at basically 6 weeks. >> thank you, mr. hawkins. you are saying typically a national search or any search at this level is 6-8 weeks and we are engaging in a 6 week process. >> as we are looking at now it's a 3 week process. >> interestingly enough my comments, i think you would need more time. i just want to make sure that we are able to spend time developing relationships and also evaluating so that we are able to really get someone that satisfies all the different type characteristics we are looking for. i don't want to sell ourselves short
to your calendars as well. we have a 3 week window and if we can line it up where 2-3 weeks would satisfy it as well. 3 weeks gives us the flexibility. >> i'm worried about the timing here and making sure we are not taking too long. i appreciate that. >> typically, that phase of the recruitment is a 6-8 week base for national recruitment. you are well underneath the standards, we recognized the urgency associated with this but in order to do the thoroughness that puts us at...
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come to us for a loan and we think there is potential for one, we will provide business advising as well as a loan. to give you a sense of who we reach, we are really seeking to lind to traditionally underserved communities. for example, 35% of our borrowers are hispanic or latino. 22% african-american. 60% free mail, and 30% immigrant. -- 60% female. types of businesses -- we will make loans as small as $500 and as large as $100,000. they can range from home-based very small businesses like child care, people selling in the flea market, on up to janitorial, landscaping, restaurants, dry cleaners, and in some cases, small manufacturers. we sometimes bridges of it in even larger transactions if we think there's community benefits, we might wind collectively with the city's working solutions fund or with another lender. so far, -- and we work throughout the bay area. we work in four bay area counties, said francisco obviously being one of the importance, but also said the clara, san mateo, alameda. we have laid out over $15 million to bay area businesses with a medium loan size of about $7
come to us for a loan and we think there is potential for one, we will provide business advising as well as a loan. to give you a sense of who we reach, we are really seeking to lind to traditionally underserved communities. for example, 35% of our borrowers are hispanic or latino. 22% african-american. 60% free mail, and 30% immigrant. -- 60% female. types of businesses -- we will make loans as small as $500 and as large as $100,000. they can range from home-based very small businesses like...
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but i will also be introducing one amendment as well and i will pass out copies in advance. but it's really out of concern for the precedent of [speaker not understood] hawkins act in terms of how it will impact this legislation as proposed. and, so, i will distribute these amendments and i will make a motion after public comment. >> thank you. supervisor kim, can you describe that amendment so folks in the public know what it is? >> sure, i appreciate that. so, part of the legislation was the lifetime leases that are established for tenants that are currently in the condos that are able to get this bypass. but this has some challenges based on state law. i believe there are some concerns about enforcing those lifetime leases. so, since costa hawkins prevents restriction on property after sale. i wanted to make sure that the lifetime leases are signed and recorded prior to close of escrow. so, the following amendment would, one, prevent any contracted seller transfer converizonthed properties. 2, prevent sell until after the mapping process is complete and the lifetime leases
but i will also be introducing one amendment as well and i will pass out copies in advance. but it's really out of concern for the precedent of [speaker not understood] hawkins act in terms of how it will impact this legislation as proposed. and, so, i will distribute these amendments and i will make a motion after public comment. >> thank you. supervisor kim, can you describe that amendment so folks in the public know what it is? >> sure, i appreciate that. so, part of the...