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Water. They couldnt get back on the boat. Reporter their canoe took on water. They heard cries for help. Reporter the older rubalcava was found about a half hour later and died at the hospital. Thats terrible. Very sad. Reporter alsachi owns the waterfront restaurant where the older rubalcava worked in the kitchen for the last year. Theres a lot of grief. When you work with somebody and you enjoy having them around you for eight hours a day, its a big difference. What a difference a day has made...

Store policies to make them fair for neighborhood character and Small Businesses with a mixture of businesses we dont end up like a city with industrial strip malls with a lack of character i want to ask a quick question on the consideration of the Housing Element which we passed at the board 5060 percent of the housing u housing united 60 percent affordable i know as we passed prop k the goal set in the housing Balance Initiative were measure was set at 33 percent as a goal i think some view it...

Important one given the housing situation youre right prop k is a goal of having a citywide balance of roughly 2 3rds Market Street and 1 3rd affordable so one of the things were doing is keeping close tabs on the numbers by the end of this month youll see a report on the first reporting period of that requirement i think that the other issue is related to how were achieve a higher percentage of affordable and middleIncome Housing obviously requires more the Planning Department and process it re...

Regulated and create housing that woo and clearly were looking at ways to create financing instruments to assist in some of the expansive work were trying to do in addition to the Affordable Housing were not looking to ignore or loaf behind whats the bread and butter of the Mayors Office of housing our traditional Affordable Housing but we want to do add to this work and to address a broader range of individuals and families who also given the Housing Market are hardpressed to stay in the city i...

Appointing or reappointing so the commission has authority to do so many and each board member has the authority to do one. These are yes, so how many all together there are 11 from the board of supervisors; right . Correct. And more besides this 11. I believe that we can have up to 22 or 24 is the total we can have. Its [inaudible] but we can have under that and we have under that at this point. Yes. So i think commissioner ow you heard in the report and commissioner smith and last month there ...

Those do not come to the commission. These are the ones that the commission is appointing or reappointing so the commission has authority to do so many and each board member has the authority to do one. These are yes, so how many all together there are 11 from the board of supervisors; right . Correct. And more besides this 11. I believe that we can have up to 22 or 24 is the total we can have. Its [inaudible] but we can have under that and we have under that at this point. Yes. So i think commi...

Support letters for several pieces of that legislation, so i have a relatively short report today. Thank you. Any questions . Thank you. Thank you. Next we have the tacc report. Is cathy here . No report. Okay. Case report. Good morning commissioners, director hinton. I am linda and from the Richmond District and i will give the report today. In march dave came and spoke about contracts to case. It was a very interesting meeting. Shirr rein will be visiting them in april and the big work that ca...

Next is the nominating Committee Report and commissioner itani [inaudible] no. Just the one item. We have the reappointment of the advisory committee, those two items. So its done by commissioner katie loo. Good morning. The committee met on march 23 at 9 00 oclock on mission, fifth floor [inaudible] office. Without her permission. And we talk about in the meeting the three of us, president james, itani and myself. We met and we talk about the new offices for the coming year, and president james...

Expands it for anyone over 65. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Some of the old business i promised to report on the california welfares directors meeting at the last Commission Meeting and they were to meet the day after our council meeting, i dont have a report at this time. We will have one in the may report. Under new business we talked about there are a number of budget initiatives moving forward or in the starting in the budgeting process on behalf of older californians and disabled adu...