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Olson lee, Mayors Office of Housing Community development. ~ director of [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] and to work with lowincome communities to support them. Our housing budget reflects sort of the change that the mayor discussed in terms of increasing the amount of Affordable Housing funding through the use of the bonding the Housing Trust fund. It grows substantially from this current fiscal year to the next, an increase of nearly 34 million to allow this office to initia...

Estate transfer tax, shortterm flip property. When a profit is being made off of the sale. If the resale is within the first year of purchase then the tax will be 24 of the retail price. Within two years, 22 . Three years, 20 . Up to five years at 14 . If you buy property and hold onto it for five years or longer it doesnt impact you at all. The tax also focuses specifically on greedy speculators. It does not apply at all to six categories. Singlefamily homes or condos, Owner Occupied tics or te...

Most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 th...

Two announcements, a, please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make personal Public Commentses on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card submitted to the Commission Secretary [speaker not understood]. The next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no rep...

Serious concern in this regard. However, i also think that in the particular facts of this situation the building ought to be preserved. There are a large number of reasons most of which are in the report why it should be preserved. But this shows that well, it shows to me there are implementations far beyond just this project in article 10. And i am referring to the secretary of interiors standards. Over which we have heard before this commission a lot of testimony whether they were rules that ...

How does. Im going looking forward to seeing those homes but i want to restate a commitment one its evolved in conversations with supervisor breed and other supervisors our advocates in the city weve got to be graph about building protecting and middleclass housing so when we stated thirty thousand unit that sounds like a lot but it that r will reflect the highest number of housing weve built in the history of the city. Were willing to do that because thats what is the needed so its a mixture of...

Applause well, thank you and welcome to california. Its a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. And thats important. But being in the lead doesnt mean weve arrived at the goal. Got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and Renewabl...

Effort and target eed residentsn phase 1 are aware of the program and its costs. Funds associated with the contract would be utilized for citywide telephone surveys and grassroots programs like environment now, and for television, and advertising services, for Graphic Design services and other types of outreach for the education of the cleanpowersf program. Its our commitment based on the feedback from you and the board of supervisors to ensure that the customers know what this program is. And h...

I would like to comment on something that a couple of people have said and i totally agree with the one size does not fit all. I have used my role as a commissioner here to look at and look out for the entire city in terms of transportation, that is the charge. And the same time being mindful of neighborhoods and groups and individuals, and circumstances that are around the city, i can assure you that it is an extremely difficult job and for us it is going to be getting much more difficult in th...

Illness and hearing voices. Hes 34 years old. And Susan Mcginnis has the very latest. Reporter now that authorities have narrowed their focus to a loan gunman, they are looking to aaron alexis past. One question that remains unanswered is why. We dont know what the motive is at this stage. 34yearold alexis opened fire inside a building. Just like pow, pow, pow. From his position, he had a snipers view overlooking the atrium below. There was no cover to take. We were out in the open. 12 people we...