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Provide Financial Information to the younger ranks, to the guys at first come in so they dont buy a Lincoln Navigator and try to live on their paycheck and Lincoln Navigators bills whatever. Host time for one more call. Phoenix, arizona. Ben is on the line for democrats. Caller [indiscernible] host ben, you are breaking up. We will have to let you go. Must be a problem with cell service there. That will wrap it up. Thank you for all the calls. If you missed any of the Senate Armed Services Commi...

That especially in light of the conversation we had in reference to the work program. Another important point to note is that we are recommending an senti iv base approach to sustaining these types of resources. We are not recommending layerering on restrictions. I think thats important to understand. We are going to next highlight just a few of the recommendations that we feel where we feel the hpc can play a role in moving some of them forward. Okay. So our recommendation no. 1 for identifying...

Landmark. That is intentional and certainly when we use the word assets, we intend a very broad interpretation of that term. Beyond land and buildings but also getting deeply into intangible realm. Okay. And just further and then i will leave it to others and maybe staff would like to comment too on how you see this fitting into what youve already got going and what we can move into. The whole idea here of Natural Resources actually as i was looking into other cities examples of the preservation...

Landmark. That is intentional and certainly when we use the word assets, we intend a very broad interpretation of that term. Beyond land and buildings but also getting deeply into intangible realm. Okay. And just further and then i will leave it to others and maybe staff would like to comment too on how you see this fitting into what youve already got going and what we can move into. The whole idea here of Natural Resources actually as i was looking into other cities examples of the preservation...

Purchase small residential buildings from proneers Property Owners for renting at a reasonable rate and some can be around the cultural preservation. Finally our recommends no. 6, the last one we wanted to highlight which is much more longterm goal but to establish a citywide Historical Preservation program with targeted benefits. We believe that a Designation Program would better enable the city to identify resources for the government sponsored Assistance Program and Financial Initiative incen...

Activist local to purchase this property which they did in this case. Ivy house was the first pub to be purchased through the community right to bid program and funding came from a variety of sources including a grant for about twothirds of the purchase value from the Architectural Heritage fund, other grants and then 371 individual shares purchased by members of the community. And this program has been particularly popular for addressing pubs to which many are tlentsdz threatened with closure. ...

Advance payment practice to fund loans to subcontractors to address what we have often heard from some of our smaller subcontractors, it cleans up modernizes 14b and formalizes the transfer of chapter 14b implementation from the Human Rights Commission to the city administrator. It would keep the limit up which the city would guarantee as part of its Surety Bond Program as 750,000, it keeps the mayor as the official who resolves matters when the awarding authority and the director are unable to ...

Public comments. Good morning, bill barnes on behalf of city administrator kelly. First our thanks to president chiu and his staff working on whats been an extraordinarily complicated piece of legislation. Prop 9 does not allow us to use race and gender even though discrimination continues and were working hard to figure out how to help every local business to participate. We hope we can get this done before president chiu leaves the board and we are available if any members of the public are in...

Sure that we cover. 14b3, size threshold, the base line used for the determination of 17 percent was 2005. Keep in mind that was when it was last sunseted. In fact, the last time that size thresholds were increased were 1988 so i think if were looking at size standards and the amount of increase using the base line of 1988 would be more appropriate. No. 2 would be 14b7, increasing the 5 sba goal to 5 percent from 2 percent would be instrumental for businesses that have grown out of the size stan...

We often say Small Businesses are the backbone of our economy. Small businesses that employ less than 50 workers comprise 95 percent of all San Franciscos businesses. Our local Small Businesses contribute billions of dollars to our economy every year. But we have not often been focused on how our citys contracting dollars which also constitute billions of dollars every year can be used to support our local and Small Businesses. Three decades ago this board of supervisors recognized that local go...