chair mar, members of the committee, bill barnes from the city administrator's office. i have some slides, so if we can get those up. so the central market tax exclusion was really something that we took on after the fact. it was passed by the board of supervisors. there was a community benefits component initially assigned to it. and then the city administrator was asked to do this back in 2011. so i'll give you a little bit of background very quickly. the central market c.a.c. replaced one that used to exist in the neighborhood, that was established for redevelopment. so for a long time, mid-market was a redevelopment survey area. redevelopment was dissolved and a c.a.c. was created with supervisor tim's support to focus on these issues. initially 11 members appointed with specific qualifications. later on that was reduced to five members from the neighborhood, because it was hard to get quorum. the purpose was to hold public hearings and make recommendations to the city administrator. only companies greater than $1 million needed a c.b.a. there were many companies th

and there's a gentleman in the back, bill barnes, and they will pass out cards if you are interested in asking questions of this panel. other areas that we have been talking about, we have been talking a lot about, especially in downtown san francisco, is the geo technical. we have a lot of structural engineers and i think we have that down. we realized in the last couple years the geo tech, the foundation, we live in a city that has different types of soils, just within a few block radius. i know angus you talked about the administrative and the sheets, but maybe talk more about what it means and how we think it through going forward and the different processes as a city. >> that was one of the recommendations that professor deerline showed. the process for improving how we do foundation and geo technical engineering is underway. taken that under their wing, and the first draft is available and scrutinized by the full geo technical community, to help raise the bar, if you will, of how geo technical engineering is done, to make sure we are well founded in the geo technical area here,

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