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I started contacting the city departments in november. And i kept getting put off and, finally to the middle of january about whether or not we could have that festival or not. I was about to go into a Board Meeting so i had to call somebody in a position of power to notify them that i was walking into a meeting embarrassed to say that nothing had been done. That got the ball rolling and we finally able to get this. There is just a lot of bureaucracy, when i was in the department i didnt notice ...

993 million. We modeled the multiplier effects on that and they are not that much bigger it is a small multiplier, but the incorrect is 1. 1 billion and that is the effects of that spending as it ripples through the economy, the employment effects of all of this is large and supports about 9300 private sector jobs in the city. And that represents a significant portion of hospitality related employment in the city, about 7 percent of food Service Employment and about 6 percent of hotel in the cit...

Speaker cards or you can line up on the wall. Everyone will have two minutes. I do want to call on metri who was on the commissioner and the events. And then mr. Chairman we can move to Public Comment. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. First i want to thank supervisor weiner for commissioning the study and for the office of doing great work and working with us. In a dual capacity serving on the Entertainment Commission now and serving as the executive director of fullson street i can tell yo...

Simply has not been used for appropriate ated purpose and that is first, and as a retired teacher i would like to point out when i was teaching that it was in my earlier teaching years it was a real difficulty, to some of the kids in the classes and what was a supposed to do for those kids or for those kids. And balancing their needs against the kids who were being exposed to illness and under the San Francisco coverage, that i dont have to deal with that as a teacher when i go into a restaurant...

Working. Because we remember what it was like and what the struggle was like and i would like to say first of all that we are talking about in closing this loophole that this is not new money. Some of the speakers, have spoken, against it, and as if this were requiring new money to come from employers. And this does not talk about new money. This is talking about passing along the money which has already been mandated but simply has not been used for appropriate ated purpose and that is first, a...

MADISON, Wis. -- The City of Madison wants to connect the Capital City Trail to the Glacial Drumlin State Trail.