as was mentioned in the previous presentation, oewd surveys 24 corridors biannually. looking at vacancies. and those surveys also show an increase in vacancies in some corridors. and oewd staff is actually going to provide more detail on this in a following presentation. in addition to these pressures, these national trends and other pressures on local retail, there are other challenges for san francisco businesses. the challenges that we found in talking to retailers, to businesses here in san francisco and through the research include employee recruitment and retention and high labour costs. the high rents in many of the n.c.d.s, the loss of long-time customers as households move out of the neighbourhood or even out of the city all together. and also land use regulations and permitting requirements. you know, some of these -- oh. and public realm challenges as well. so those include challenges like real and perceived feelings around safety and cleanliness, long-term vacancies, the perception of vacancies, how they look on a corridor and other factors that may droibl

as is mentioned beginning in 2013, our staff conducted biannual physical storefront vacancy surveys. we're out there pounding the pavement as part of our program, and we want to also say that while we recognize that these underutilized spaces which may not be open on a regular daily basis, those are not counted at vacant. those are occupied from our point of view, but while they're not tech knee vacant, they certainly do have an impact on community perception in a neighborhood. what is a healthy vacancy from our perspective. economic developers usually use from a five to 10% range. that said, the perception of whether or not there is a vacancy problem in a particular neighborhood commercial district can vary. the numbers have value, as does each district's population based on their priorities and circumstances. sometimes even when the vacancy rate is within a healthy range, neighborhood stakeholders are concerned about vacancy. what you see here is that the citywide vacancy rate has stayed low, even through the recession beginning in 20 -- or coming out of it in 2009. as the bay area

this is what we're trying to get with the biannual survey. we want to know what people think and spend time trying to understand if there's a difference why and how to address those things. we're excited about you doing the project. you may want to test a couple different stakeholders in any one project. in a rec center there could be local parks, neighborhood interest groups who have a clear memory of what the facility should be. you might want to have a focus group conversation with folks like that. general public, they probably don't remember but know their experience of the site. so you want to do intercept and site testing. there's different data for what people are experiencing with bond funds. >> i agree with what's been said. my thought is, the scope seems very extensive so i want to make sure it's narrowed to what we think is going to best serve this committee and pick one neighborhood part project and pick one -- i would think resurfacing, i know on the streetscapes when they did -- my coffee shop, that is all they were talking abou

to the budget itself, this two year budget is 13% over the previous biannual budget. that is possible really because of the port capital policy both investing meeting the target of 25% as operating revenue invested in capital and putting one-time sources to capital and including a general fund request for two projectses which i will highlight at the end of my presentation. on the sources side as you will note most of the sources are internal port sources with internal fund balances. on the use side 5% of the over -- 55% is toward good repair. we emphasize the desire to make sure the internal port sources are dedicated to state of good repair. if we look at that chart and focus solely on the internal sources, we would see 70% of the port revenue is dedicated toward state of good repair in this budget. i wanted to note on the sources side in the port fund balance that including several reappropriations of funds. in the left hand column this is cleanup. closed projects we are sweeping unused fulleds out to use for other projects. on the right side these are where staff h

signed by the governor in the fall of 2016 made some changing, rather than than biannual, now annual. we do have the opportunity to amend it one time a year, that opportunity comes in the fall. commit the amendment on october 2nd. and what that does, because of the schedule we are starting now a month or two in advance of the budget cycle, so as other departments refine their budgets and keep us informed of those changes and how those will impact service, anything that changes -- the largest outside envelope what the budget could be, as we move closer and closer to the budget, we use information from other city departments to hone it down a little tighter and then any, those changes are then later reflected in a rops amendment that is submitted to the department of finance on october 2nd. so, the schedule where we have been so far is on january 8th, we held a workshop with the oversight board where we did not get any substantive comments, so we are presenting to you today the same rops we presented to the oversight board. we'll take your feedback today, incorporate it into the rops an

to fill such a vacancy and require that the retirement board disclose investment information on a biannualbasis. >> supervisor peskin. >> thank you. last week, the board took up the cause of divestment from fossil fuels at a special meeting timed specifically to precede our special consideration of the charter amendment today. as many of you know, because you join me unanimously, every supervisor except for supervisor stefani who was not here then, joined in recalling for the retirement goeseder divest our public pension sfrm fossil fuels last year. the retirement board has approximately $500,000 invested in the big oil -- and i don't mean to be hyperbolic -- is threatening to destroy life on our planet. in the last five years since this board approved a similar legislation, they instead have a stakeholder strategy based on the naive impression that is relatively mroin investors in big oil, we can overcome the profit motive driving the destruction of our environment. last wednesday, i was joined on the city hall steps by a coalition of labour representives, indigenous peoples and environme

you know, we do budgeting in a biannual cycle and we're covered for that, but the longer term is an issue we all need to work on. >> is there plans to form in terms of advocacy to the mayor's office, supervisors, public awareness campaigns, but within the department itself, clearly i know there is a diligent dedicated brilliant staff working on these things, but in terms of looking at the long term, ways to advocate? >> the way that money gets added is we work on a vision. a vision for the programs for the longer term. there are discussions between the agency and the mayor's office about making additions over time. that has certainly happened. and as you know, in san francisco, we have an add-back process which is i guess really plays at part of the legislative process, or the board phase ott process, where dollars have certainly over the last years steadily been added to the program. so that's the other way the program has grown historically. >> sure. >> i think in addition, so just thinking about vision. i mentioned at the state and federal level, there are a lot of conversations and i

it's a biannual survey administered by the eac after every federal election, which is, of course, every two years, and that data that's collected includes voter turnout, voter registration, pre-election voting, absentee voting and military and overseas voting, polling place, poll workers and provisional voting. we also have what is the vra, which is the voter registration agency, and it's a government agency designated by the federal or state law that is required to offer its customers or clients in most circumstances the opportunity to register to vote. vras include the dmv, public assistance agencies like welfare or employment assistance agencies, agencies that provide service to people with disabilities like aging and disability service division, and military recruitment offices. the next one that you'll hear a little bit about is the cover transactions an every time a customer or a client with with a bra is requesting a service, filling out a form or application, the vra is required by law to give the person the opportunity to register to vote. these interactions are called covered

saturday now morocco become the first host country to win the african nations championship it's a biannual tournament for players based in africa they beat a ten man nigeria for nail in sunday's final to get some for american football that qualified for the world cup for the first time since one nine hundred ninety eight and appearing to host the twenty twenty six tournament. international olympic committee has formally rejected the requests of thirteen russian athletes to be allowed to compete at this week's winter olympics and pound chang each athletes had a lifetime ban from olympic sport the doping reversed last week by the court of arbitration for sport it's a decision that's been criticised by the i.o.c. president thomas back. the how you see executive board. not satisfied is all with the approach or her bike us. we have discussed this situation had links yesterday and today. we feel. this decision shows the urgent need. for reform in the internal structure of costs or we're just a few days to go now until the olympics begin in pyongyang a more optimistic story surrounding these game

well this is the african nations championship finalists have been decided this is the biannual tournament the footballer play is a based in africa nigeria will make their fast a final apparent soft for a one nil when i visit down on wednesday morocco also but that spot with a three one extra time when ivan libya and hundreds of libyan supporters turned out in the streets in the capital tripoli to watch that team play some not so happy with the penalty decision in favor of their opponents but given in extra time. it had to try going to george bush nowhere near their living team played hard to score the equaliser we were happy and hopeful before the extra time much but unfortunate the moroccan team showed more if it's and scored the second and third goals document if it was in favor of them are ok until seventy or seventy five percent of the match was in favor of the american team because of that a ferry that was crystal clear. out of the fall and i'm a later fire health and thanks very much tatiana you've been watching the al jazeera news hour with lisa help probably back with more news on

in terms of the job squad that goes out there on a quarterly and biannual basis that go out and walk the corridor and make sure that business owners are aware of the services that we provide, we're very active on that. it's part of the process of the job squad. >> so you actually go door to door. >> and talk with business owners, in addition to getting an assessment of the business stock itself, and that one-on-one interaction with merchants and community members. >> supervisor fewer: so you actually keep date other on that? >> mm-hmm. so data presented -- >> supervisor fewer: so we could see it through our commercial corridors. >> mm-hmm. >> supervisor fewer: okay. and i just wanted to know what efforts have been made to reach out to business owners that conduct business in other than english. i know that sometimes you do not reach out to russian speaking or vietnamese speaking or taiwanese speaking, i'm wondering how you reach out to those property owners. >> that is next hololistically that we would like to expand, given the linguistics of an entire corridor. at the same time, one

affairs bureau, and we do quite a bit of work on supply chain issues ranging from programming to biannually produced research on goods made with forced labor and we very recently produced a smartphone app called comply chain to help the business community take a look at their supply chains. so my question to the panel is, what do you need from us in government, whether that's the u.s. government or whether it's foreign governments overseas where you may be operating, to help be a better partner to you, to help support your efforts more, to be a better resource so you can continue doing this work you do and get more businesses involved in this effort? thank you. >> thanks for the question. we work a lot with the department of labor and appreciate that support, and i think the support of agencies line the department of justice, like the department of homeland security's blue campaign has been really important. one, to show the organization that this matters to the government. u.p.s. is a federal contractor. most of the folks on this stage probably do some federal contracting. so understanding

affairs bureau and we do quite a bit of work on supply chain issues-ranging from programming to biannually produced research on goes made with forced labor and recently produced a smartphone app called comply chain to help the business community look at their supply chain. so, my question to the panel is, what do you need from us in government, whether that's the u.s. government or whether it's foreign governments oversubway you may be operating, to help be a better partner to you to help support your efforts more to be a better resource so you can continue doing this work you do, and get more businesses involved in this effort. thank you. >> thanks for the question. we work a lot with the department of labor and appreciate that support, and i think the support of agencies like the department of justice, the homeland security cack pain has been important to show the organization that this matters to the government. ups is a federal contractor, most of the folks on the stage probably do some federal crag, and so understanding the government is behind this and is supportive of this initiativ

we looked at the perennial pered the biannual budgeting and a beer he had other ideas that have been opposed. it's become a package of proposals for the whole group feels is solid and importantly achievable if the process look better. we are encouraged but they've established in the joint committee a formal mechanism for exploration of the budget process and the group stands ready to help the congress. so i want to turn to the panel and combinfamilyand combine thee individuals sitting here represent over 50 years of experience working with congress on a wide range of policy issues around higher education and healthcare and neil bradley with deep experience working with congressional leadership and the community on just about any issue you can think. it highlights the substances of interest among the groups members as well as the hill experience. experience. and if you're deeply committed to committing a better budget process. to get a little bit of background, matt is going to walk you through the principles that we have developed and reached a consensus on and then as we develop thi

we looked at the perennial favorite of biannual budgeting and myriad other ideas that have been proposed over the years. out of those conversations has come a package of proposals that the whole group feels is a solid and importantly achievable set of solutions that would make the process work better. we're quite encouraged that congress has established in the joint committee a formal mechanism for exploration of the budget process and this group stands ready to help congress in this task. so now i want to turn to the panel. combined, these three individuals sitting here represent over 50 years of experience working with congress on a wide range of policy issues. matt owens on issues around higher education, emily around health care and neil bradley with deep experience working with congressional leadership and now the business community on just about any issue you can name. they highlight the breadth of substantive interest among our group members as well as the depth of their hill experience. and they, like the rest of the group here, are deeply committed to building a better budget pr