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Is there any dimension with Online Retail delivery considering that is a pretty wasteful industry in terms of Paper Supplies and receipts. Like delivery. Online retailers have stopped putting packaging slips in. You know, i think that it goes back to the definition of Small Business under code because just for me looking over, it is a page and a half of the code that de nines Small Business nothing about brick and mortar versus online. That merits conversation. The thing is like are you a mom an...

We got this weak Gross Domestic Product number, just 1. 6 growth anemic and a surging inflation number connected to the gdp up 3. 7 . Bad combo. Which is why the dow tumbled 375 points s p lost. 46 . Nasdaq dropped. 64 . Ive got to tell you it was much uglier at one point today. The dow was down almost double where it went out. As we heard all day about the Slower Growth and higher inflation and that meant the dreaded term stagflation and that environment is toxic for stocks the house of pain on...

Quorum call a senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Mr. Sullivan is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Sullivan i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , as many of my colleagues know, ive been coming down to the floor every week to do what i consider the favorite part of my duties serving here in the senate, and thats to talk about somebody spe...

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the board of supervisors meeting of july 21, 2015. Madam clerk can you please call the roll. Supervisor avalos, present. President breed here. Compose, not present. Supervisor christensen, present. Supervisor cohen, present. Supervisor farrell, present. Supervisor kim, present. Supervisor mar not present. Supervisor tang, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Supervisor yee, present. Madam president you vaquorum. Ladies and gentlemen can you please join us ...

Other departments here but i want to know which departments how many of the city departments are having this as a measurement . Because i think its important to gauge from a Customer Experience standpoint how much time it takes for people to go through the process . In the report it says on average someone i think went through a process and took four months but we see cases someone went through and waited two years to do a full build out. Yeah, we didnt find that i recall and my team can speak t...

The road when opening a business when they sunk time and money into that and probably despite the best efforts of departments people will come into the process from a lot of angles and are the ways to route people toward the Planning Department early on no matter where they come in the process . Okay. And then i dont know if planning wants to chime in. Sure. Im the assistant director of planning. As ryan mentioned were not always in control of when people reach out to us but when they do reach o...

Us to go and sell the program to the whole city. We need jobs and a break on their energy bills and that kind of thing. You need to be able to adopt in the lower income communities such as much solar as highincome communities. So that buildout piece is important and i think we need a hearing about that either at lafco or the board. I want to chime in on public bank. That, if you look at what is happening in greece right now, it becomes really clear that the Global Private financing and Banking S...

Competitive rfq process to look for qualified respondents. In 2009 we did a public rfp and got two bids and one from recology and one from Waste Management. We looked at other environmental factors which came out fairly evenly but the thing that was very striking was the difference in cost which would translate to over 100 million for ratepayers over the lifetime of this contract. So recology was selected by the panel. Lawsuits were filed. Lawsuits were dismissed and over the course of the next ...

Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committ...

Out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity ...