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Permit. Thats why people come to dpi. They get lost in there trying to get from one place to another. So, it really what conceptual consultants is to be able to navigate, to get a permit quicker because they know who to go to see, what to say with their with the drawings, sometimes the drawings arent correct. You have to go back and [speaker not understood], so forth. Bottom line, though, bottom line, permit consult atctiontion ~ consultants are not lobbyists. They do not deal with elected offic...

Pieces of ethics ordinances that require online reporting of lobbying activities, require the Electronic Filing of campaign statements, and updates to our city conflict of interest codes. But in my second term i have a much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transpa...

The everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that we are not saying with our legislation that these activities cannot or should not occur. We are simply saying that its important for the public to know when they do occur that there be transparency. As Supreme Court Justice Louis brande...

They are among the most detailed that weve come across in our research. But we know that we can do better. During my time on the board im proud to have passed several pieces of ethics ordinances that require online reporting of lobbying activities, require the Electronic Filing of campaign statements, and updates to our city conflict of interest codes. But in my second term i have a much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I hav...

My next item is a resolution that is in support of the city of richmonds control and [speaker not understood] reduction program. Trying to support many households under water in that area. We have a part in San Francisco where households are also under water. The city of richmond has been struggling to create their [speaker not understood] reduction program. They need a majority vote and thats not been able to do what some of the pressures of councilmember in city of richmond. The joint powers o...

Supported by both sides in congress. Democrats and republicans. To hike the federal gas tax by as i said, more than 65 . Thats right. With conflict in iraq pushing Oil Prices Higher and gas prices near record highs for this time of year, Congress Wants to squeeze you a little more. Remember the gas tax is one of the biggest consumer taxes with more on this, diana with the manhattan institute. David nelson and senator john hogan from north dakota to join us. I will start with you, diane, what do ...

Units portfolio as it relates to construction, but im just not convinced that were there yet. Imposing a ratio on construction solely on new construction of market rate and Affordable Housing means we will be ignoring the needs of already built Affordable Housing. In order to meet the ratio, all of the available funding in the voter approved Housing Trust fund will have to go towards new construction with nothing left for the preservation of existing Affordable Housing development and Public Hou...

Twoeth together with the board weve made Smart Investments and the budget is fiscal pursuant that is a keystone to our city weve increased the services to our recipe are the input theyve been critical in transportation and education and our social net and infrastructure that is recorded in the cost of living increases we make sure we did for our nonprofits and their an incredible part of our delivery weve made fair wage increases to our City Employees an, an historic investment in our housing. I...

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And us thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is is doug i have two statement one more myself and one that cant be here can i read them. Well ask i when the minute is spider. Ill spectacular with my statement ive lived in San Francisco so far 36 years i never got to meet tom, i know his legacy and family i participate in every gay game except the first one and served on the federation of gay games since 1989 one of the most unsatisfactory projects i was ever involved in was m...