Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco budget finance subcommittee meeting for march 11, 2015, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor tang and joined momentarily by supervisor mar i wanted to thank the members of sfgovtv Jennifer Lowe and others. Madam clerk. Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 17 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thats correct madam clerk so we have a number of items number one is a hearing i requested i know one participate is not here well go through the other items first and tackle item number one madam clerk call item 2. 2 an ordinance amending the business and tax regulation code which contains a license requirement for the merchant that have been suspected. Thanks madam clerk well take them in order. Good morning amanda freed i thought i which is here for the wrong reason
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New electric supplier. Within months she was paying promised. Do you think this company was ripping me off . Yeah. Thanks for joining us, im joie chen. For most of us electricity is just a basic necessity look food and water something we often take for granted. We hardly Pay Attention unless the lights dont come on or the bills are suddenly skyhigh. But that is actually happening in more states over a dozen already where deregulation now mean a lot of Companies Want to be your power provider. Adam may provides the story. They told me it was going to be a specific rate, a set rate a two year contract. Gretchen and her husband other than theos downtown diner. She quickly knew there was a problem with her electric supplier. It ented up end it up being not a fixed rate. Not a rate they had propositioned not a 36 month rate. It wasnt what you were promised. The very first rate was 8. 133. Within months she said she was paying more than five times rate she had been promised costing her thous
The scandal wont end his career. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city, im libby casey. We begin with breaking news and new details emerging at this hour in the deadly shooting at a university in kenya. Officials say upwards of 70 people are now dead. Theres also word that at least 500 hostages have been rescued. Malcolm webb is in garissa with the latest on the shooting. Reporter we are just a short distance down the road from the university and there has been firing going on for hours and a short while ago, it peaked in a heavy firefighting and it appeared heavy weapons were fired. Thats all stopped and its calm. We spoke to two different people who were inside the university campus. They say its over and they say most of the remaining hostages inside have been killed. We dont have any exact numbers and these arent officially confirmed yet but the eyewitnesses we have spoken to in there one student was 23 years old. And she said she was stepping over more body than she c
If saudi intervened they would attack. This is going to be a long war. Its not over today. Its not a oneday success saudi arabia for my experience will see a lot of devastation because of the Houthi Houthi militants who were able to defeat president hadi within hours will have a very hard time with saudi arabia. But they are insistent that they have the manpower to do so with 10s of thousands ready to fight for them. The saudis say they want the houthis to take part in the pretty cal process wont this push them in to too long . Anything is possible. But as of now the houthi, we have to forget the idea of dialogue and talks doesnt make sense that you bombard a nation and then call for dialogue. Right now the houthis have a clear reason why there is no dialogue and i was hopeful before that the houthis would be involved. But for now this is the beginning of the war. You have been watching al jazerras rolling coverage of the saudi arabialed air strikes on yemens capital in sanaa against H