Thank you for that. I am looking forward to this retreat. We do have one more meeting before the retreat, right . We can talk about of a little more there. I watched this a news segment on restaurants close and great i dont know if you had a chance to i have noticed a lot of this coverage on Small Businesses closing in the city is pretty onesided. I think they tend to focus on greedy landlords and the scorch of millennials who have changed their habits that are destroying our businesses. I dont think that coverage is fair. I think it might sell ads, but i dont think it is actually fair. I dont think we need to face the role that this building has on our government having the situation for Small Businesses right now. I have been chicken little. Ive been going to a ton of hearings and screaming. Im like little at the end, when the sky is actually falling but nobody believes him. For so many years, Small Business people have been, you know, frustrated and continuous complaining. As i was
I want to thank the secretarygeneral. It has been incredible what has taken place. He has been a fantastic host to a lot of countries. The meetings i had on a bilateral or close were pretty staggering. I think we set a new record. You will have to check that out. Met for extended periods of time. And two, one on one, or just at that level. Poland, newn, zealand, singapore, egypt, south korea, united kingdom, india, iraq, argentina, brazil, france, japan, ukraine, honduras, el salvador, saudi arabia, jordan, bahrain, qatar, u. A. E. , chile, ecuador and peru. Other than that, we werent busy. Unfortunately, the press does not even cover it. We have made some fantastic deals like with japan. For farmers, we have a tremendous trade deal with japan. That does not get covered because you waste your time on nonsense. The pmi manufacturers index has gone substantially up, which larry kudlow, larry, please stand up. They just gave me these numbers. Existing new home sales are through the roof.
Presume you all have your home to choose the right firms in each of your areas of specialty. Thank you. Commissioner gillman. No questions. Im supportive and im glad to see there are new firms that got chosen, instead of the same ones, new people that got an opportunity and we want to provide more opportunity to support other people just in the same old group of people. So thank you. I think were all very supportive of this. So all in favour . Aye. Resolution 1930 has been approved. Item 14a, a presentation is addressed and waterfront review process and solicitation of Public Comments. Good afternoon, president brandon. Im the Deputy Director for planning and environment. Happy to be here today to provide a report on where we are with the draft waterfront plan which was published in june. The work that weve withi been g over the summer. I wanted to give you a report on the feedback and the outreach efforts and to provide this public hearing opportunity, as well, for further Public Comm
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Fewer. Welcome to the thursday, september 19th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Im joined by supervisor valerie brown. Supervisor peskin was unable to join us. Thank you to supervisor sandra fewer for joining us. And thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and i would also like to thank maya and hernenda at s. F. Gov. Agenda items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call item one. Number one is the followup hearing on the 2017 to 2018 grand jury report entitled mitigating the dwelling and modular housing. Chairman as a recommendation from this report, we have not yet reached final status, i thought it valuable for us to finalize these outstanding responses before addressing the new report. There are two recommendations from the civil grand jury report on accessory dwelling units in modular that we can now give final status to. Recommendation two, they am