peskin.e first time we have been together here to commence the chinese new years. over the 17 years we have done this together. een de it beyond that when we done other things including the chinese hospitals famous golf tournament for some 25 or more years. all of that is per of what make this is a very special occasion and a special city with the collection of special people of so, happy new year to each and every one of you! now mr. peskin. [laughter] so on behalf of the lega read oldlected officials let me translate for mayor brown. what wants to say is -- happy new year, everybody from your legacy elected officials >> thank you, mayor brown and president peskin we have to welcome you back every year from here on out. >> thank you, mr. mayor and thank you mr. peskin we did not want to let this chinese y learned over the years go to waste >> we have a special guest with a special message from our home country home land, china. we now have the acting consul general mr. jang. honorable presid

now peskin.lf of the legacy read old elected officials let me translate for mayor brown. what he wants to say is --year, legacy elected officials >> thank you, mayor brown and president peskin we have to welcome you back every year from here on out. >> thank you, mr. mayor and thank you mr. peskin we did not want to let this chinese y learned over the years go to waste >> we have a special guest with a special message from our home country home land, chin have th general mr. jang. honorable president lu honorable former mayor brown. honorable california state [inaudible]. dear friends. happy chinese new year. on behalf the chinese cubs lay general of san francisco i wish you all a prosper n year. [applause] it is a great honor to celebrate the spring festival with my good friend in china town. the oldest in the western hemisphere thanks to the preparation by the council general chamber of commerce and from the san francisco city government especially the parliament. china town begin much long new

this was being carried by president peskin and then i inherited it after he left the board. we did circulate some late breaking amendments which are pretty minor but proud bressie can explain those. i want to thank kathleen reilly's and and brad and then of course of course our clerk for all their work on this. and with that i would turn it over to to our city attorney to better explain this than i have. deputy city attorney brad russ the president made and you explain what this is all about. very well. it's basically something we're required to do departments need to update this based on different duties that have changed in the intermediate in the two years that have passed. and so we engage in a process reaching out to all of them to take a look at their code sections as president mandolin mentioned, there are some minor amendments on page two we're adding the commission streamlining task force which was approved in prop e at the november election on page nine there's an addition and a deletion from the assessor recorder's filers and on page 39 there's an addition for the