Page 84 - Capital Needs News Today

For winning the best prize through the James Beard Award for his business right here in the ferry building. So congratulations to chef fan and hopefully he has 10 more great years coming down the pike. Also making the James Beard Foundation list is coqueta, which earned one of the five very coveted slots for best new restaurant, which is a gray coup for them. They were in company with estella of new york and peche seafood grill of new orleans, so they were the obl west code restaurant to make th...

Membership broke out by active and vested and reciprocal members. Active members over a fiveyear period are still in a decrease from the level of active employees we had as members in 200809. And you can see the effects of the streamlining of the positions. Going through and coming out of that difficult period. We also show the active to retiree ratio and you see that its steadily declining but not as quickly over the last three years in the prior two years of this fiveyear snapshot. And you wil...

Does the department have comments . Will you come up the budget analyst has made a few recommendations to your budget. Why dont we go through your report and ask afterwards. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. On page 5 of our report, we state that the recommended deductions, of the 1. 06 million and 706 are ongoing savings and 937 are onetime. And allowing an increase of 17. 1 of the departments 1415 budget. Our recommended reductions total 689,five 17, and in 1516, all of which are ongo...

To file number one. Theres a second can we take that without objection . Madam clerk items it through 4 appropriating the estimate expenditures for a selected departments of the city for may 2014 item 3 the salary for the positions in the proposed appropriation for the departments in fiscal years 2015 2016 and number 4 the mayors proposed budget for the International Airport and the transportations agency Port Public Library and Public Utilities commission for the fiscal year 20142015 and 2015 2...

Other new products and services that we cant wait to introduce. On top of that, the c. F. O. Said it will be a very busy fall. The buzz about new products, specifically bigger screen iphones comes as apple reported a 6 gain in revenue and 12 gain in profit in the third quarter. Fueled by rising iphone sales. For the latest on apples quarter, our editor at large cory johnson spoke with alex. And gene muenster, who has been covering apple since 1995. Cory started by asking gene which part of the E...

Seek early Social Security retirement benefits. So the significance of that is at the present time im receiving 25 percent less from my Social Security benefits that i would be receiving had i not been compelled to receive early Social Security benefits. In many instances city policies increases the homelessness rather than defers. There was a comment by other speaker rewarding a watchdog. Ill articulate it it better your Government Oversight Committee needs to look at how the city is spending t...

Of impact, we really need to we really need to take that seriously. And then the last thing i want to ask for is i think part of why its difficult to talk about a full funding level is has to do with the financial situation facing power enterprise. And i know that we have heard today a number of people who have asked for audit of power enterprise. I want to ask, ms. Hale, is there an audit that is being conducted on this . And just so we can understand because the information of the challenges t...

The things weve talked about and were not prepared to back down from making sure the possibility of a real Clean Program in San Francisco is a real possibility. Thank you okay. So let me significant this why dont we go through our presentation i think youve heard strong comments and well have our budget analyst talk and well entertainment the discussions. Thank you. I appreciate the supervisors frankness harassing as was requested we provided to our office as well as the Controllers Office all t...

Here to celebrate it. Hopefully we can have a conversation again in that spirit of how we might continue this work. What this work tells us in terms of how we can grow it in terms of what the needs are and the constraints weve had an the opportunities that may exist. I think this is particularly relevant, i think its been in line with many of the priorities that this board of supervisors has had over the past year or so, the increasing interest in the health of children in San Francisco and what...

I know this is a joint hearing of the board of education and board of supervisors. This is a policy hearing and so id like to turn things over to commissioner haney for opening remarks. You all are a little more 21st century over here. Before i start on this particular item, and im excited about this conversation and to be here. I want to say how wonderful it has been to have such strong supporters of the School District and of children in San Francisco here in the board of supervisors and city ...