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As well as the establishment of a [speaker not understood] Improvement District allowing for the district to levy assessmentses of up to 1. 5 to do improvements. 5 of that was available towards improvement of moscone and the city also contributed by way of certificates of participation to the 56 million improvement that is now at moscone. So, weve already established that partnership whereas in the first three pieces were voter approved and this is nonvoter approved. And we also partnered with s...

Meeting rooms to bring it up to 85,000. 80,000 square foot or more of contiguous exhibit space which is the most important space for the Convention Center. Up to 87,000 in multipurpose space and 178,000 of support spaces such as loading, service, restaurants and things like that. The one of the key objections of the expansion project would be to maintain Continuous Operation during the construction for the expansion of the Moscone Convention center. In addition to the improvements to the facilit...

It were by background, an annual appropriation by the general fund, making the Convention Visitors bureau rather than applying it to its operating budget. The proposal is to reallocate toward the repayment of cop. These are not new dollars. These are dollars that have already been committed historically to the convention [speaker not understood]. The next slide is the sequence of how the flow of funds would work. As you know, by requiring 6 proposing 6 interest, it is way higher than your typica...

The determinations on section on the shadow determination. One was the amendment to the implementation that the rec and park and planning to 1979. Under planning code section 295 it doesnt provide for an appeal nor is it credit card a board or license. Theres a City Attorney that reenforces this but with a advise the staff rejected their appeals so they filed a jurisdiction request and sought the board to accept the appeals and the board voted unanimously to not accept the separate appeals. This...

Between 2010 and 200179 we lost 2 billion in direct spending because the center was not big enough to generate the business. Moscone center will recovery money from that. Currently were at capacity for our conventions. They cant grow anymore and sometimes they lose business because they ant accommodate the expectation pr and were looking alternative sites. Losing our convention would have a significant impact. When a major Convention Comes into town it impacts business some folks cant come back ...

And the board voted unanimously to not accept the separate appeals. This would be separate on the preservation determination which was unanimously upheld by the board of supervisors last week as well as the eir. So that was resolved. Then we heard the section 109 which is appealable and the board of appeals heard that appeal last time and upheld the planning commissions in this matter. We dont see a lot of the appeals another item thats similar is the office of allocation we dont see many of tho...

Program, as you can see, the 500 Million Dollars project and the 150 is not sufficient, we could potentially reduce that 41 million to zero, which would reduce the overall borrowing cost of the transaction. So, colleagues, this is something i talked to ms. Sese about last week when i was briefed on this project. And i think its something id like to be looking at later on this year. I mean, this is if we have this expansion potential for commercial paper program, this is millions of dollars of co...

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