And then a mentioned before, the National Research Council Published a document entitled Sea Level Rise from the coast of california, oregon and washington past, present and future which provides the Science Behind some of those guidelines. In addition, as you can see by this list on the screen, there are at least a dozen other efforts underway by different city agencies to address Sea Level Rise and flooding in the city. And these are just a small portion of a myriad of other efforts that are underway [speaker not understood] to address Sea Level Rise. What is the port doing about it . We actually are ahead in some areas. We have taken the steps to assess Sea Level Rise and build understanding of the issue. The report submitted to you last year, stephens has talked to you about the seawall seismic evaluation and the scoping thats underway for the seawall retrofits. In addition, we are seeking assistance from the army core of engineers for flood [speaker not understood] projects. ~ we
And the office and the flying dubs, and i was extremely impressed that they brought the entire organization to it be able to be a part of the trip. And inaudible participated in the forum at the university along with the mayor lee, and quan and i was happy to hear that when he spoke about the proposed project he not only spoke about the open space and public amenities and the jobs of the projects going to San Francisco but he also spoke about the importance of working collectively with the community and the regulators to make sure that the project becomes a reality. And i had a information with the nba commissioner who told me how excited everyone in the league across the country, is excited about the warriors getting a new arena, i think that everybody is just tired of oakland, the existing arena. And we visited the university and attended a Ribbon Cutting ceremony of the building, she donated an Academic University to the school of chinese as a second language and it was a great fear
Been able to put together so they can start to learn about how they compile their gross receipts. Youll see on this chart that weve actually partnered with oewd to do a number of outreach efforts to let folks know that this tax is coming, that they have to start paying the quarterly payments on it, and that they need to prepare their information for the filing that will come due at the end of the tax year in january and february of next year. Our only feedback is certainly across the board. There are plenty of folks who are, are challenged by the complexity of the tax, but were working with a lot of Tax Professionals who are working very closely with us in terms of giving us feedback on the law itself. The tax preparers, i honestly believe, understand the law, recognize its complexity and are working hard to be able to help the businesses in this city. But were going to have tens of thousands of businesses that will be filing this gross receipts tax return so its a big challenge and we
In Northern California a little more than four miles beneath the pacific seabed. The most populated near the epicenter was humboldt county. No major damage reported so far. But there have been a good number of aftershocks. You can see those here. Some pretty strong ones at a 4. 6 magnitude. One eureka resident felt the quake and had to calm his scared son. Nobody is really, you know, immune to it. But i knew that he would be looking for me. So i stood in the doorway. Once it was over i got him to lay back down. Hes still wide awake, but doing fine. Reporter now, the National Tsunami Warning Center says fortunately no tsunami risk with this quake, michelle. In region of Northern California no stranger to quakes . Very common up up there near eureka. There was one recently in 2012. That was a magnitude 5. 6. There was a much stronger one back in 2010. That one also offshore closer to the shoreline than this most recent one. The good news is with all the recent quakes in the last several
Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. My name is scott wiener, im the chairman of the committee and jane kim and malia cohen. Our clerk is os berry. I would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays hearing, jessie larson. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence any cell phones and any electronic devices. Please fill out a card if you wish to speak. Items heard today will be in the agenda. Supervisor scott weiner please call item no. 1. The clerk item 131185 airports Noise Insulation Program]1311851. Resolution approving the acquisition of 33 avigation easements from various Property Owners in San Mateo County to replace expiring avigation easements required for the San Francisco International Airports Noise Insulation Program projectt; adopting findings that the project is categorically exempt from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act, class 1 existing facilities; adopting findings t