Would any member of the public wish to address the commission on items not on our agenda . Close Public Comment. Clerk very good. General matters. Item one, directors announcements. Thank you. Commissioners, simply want to wish you a happy holidays in advance. Part of our holiday experience will be preparing our budget which well be discussing soon. We have received mayor budget instructions from the mayor and her office which include that no new positions are expected to be added through this years process, so i wanted to let you know about that in advance. Clerk seeing no questions, item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission and staff announcements. Commissioners, items that may be of interest to you from the Planning Commission, december 5, they adopted the retained topic and special guidelines, and heard a presentation on the special japantown guidelines which will be coming to you in the new year. And jonas. Clerk yeah. At the board, wanted to let you know that the b
Commissioner wright and commissioner rightly. This has been incredible. I have learned a lot from the commission and from the both of you. I want to thank you for your service. I know you will continue that when you depart from here. Thank you. Any other members of the public . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any other comments . Director . We are going to take a photo between this and the next item. Okay. We will take a photo. applause . Okay, next item. That concludes the directors report. Next item. Please show the office of Small Business slide. Can i read it . Go ahead. All right. It is our custom to begin and end each Small Business Commission Meeting with a reminder that the office of Small Business is if only place to start a new business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. Find us online or in pers
Wework. Biggest bets, a drop in ad sales and what that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger in a courtroom on monday. States and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. But the latest, jennifer read, who was in the courtroom. Takeaway what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read to the pretrial memoranda , lets go straight to the witnesses. The judges really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We cut right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. Documents some bad introduced with the first witness. Ands only two witnesses part of the third but overall, i think the day was pretty good for the companies. Taylor we got a headline that sprints chief marketing officer said in 2016 that he thought this merger would raise
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The tv industry suffers its steepest drop in ad sales since 2009. What that means for streaming. First, our top story, the challenge to tmobiles sprint merger took shape in a courtroom on monday. The combination of 13 states and the district of columbia suing to stop the deal. With the latest, jennifer was in the courtroom. Day one, what is your big take away . Jennifer it started with a surprise because the judge said, we are not going to have opening statements. I read enough in the pretrial memoranda, lets go straight to the witnesses. That was a big surprise, particularly for the lawyers who spent a lot of time preparing those. The judge is really intent on getting this done in two weeks. This was part of that, getting things moving quickly. We got right into the first witness, basically got through 2. 5 for the day. Overall, the witnesses were pretty good. They were better than i thought they would be for the companies. There were some bad documents introduced with the first witne