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You see candidates in both parties talking more and more about the challenge of income inequality and the lack of opportunity, and the concern that people have in the middle class that theyre slipping out of the middle class. And certainly the concern that so many have who have not yet reached the middle class that it may be out of reach. These issues have now found their moment. And this conversation, done right, is going to lead us somewhere better. This conversation, if its prosecuted properl...

You know, to expand our airports, we are increasingly relying on passenger facility charges for the capital we need. How can we support the administrations proposal to raise that cap and how can we support your efforts and vice versa on that . Well, this is a vitally important issue. Right now, theres a its a 4. 50 cap on the pfc charges. We proposed lifting that cap to 8. Which would provide these are moneys that airports can use flexibly to improve their facilities. It takes a little bit of th...

They are all critical in their own way, and yes, some of them are more important than others. And in terms of the number of people, and it might effect. And or the amount of money that it might cost, but our view is that each and every one of these recommendations is going to help a significant number of seniors and a significant way. And so with that, i would just like to thank you all for having this hearing for accepting our recommendations, and i look forward to hearing what my colleagues in...

Good morning, everyone and if i may have your attention. Good morning, and welcome to the thursday, april 17th, 2014 meeting of the board of supervisors, Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by the Committee Members and supervisor norman yee and supervisor eric mar and is excused so if we can have a motion to exexcuse supervisor mar, and a motion by supervisor yee, without objection. And the clerk of the c...

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Good morning, everyone and if i may have your attention. Good morning, and welcome to the thursday, april 17th, 2014 meeting of the board of supervisors, Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by the Committee Members and supervisor norman yee and supervisor eric mar and is excused so if we can have a motion to exexcuse supervisor mar, and a motion by supervisor yee, without objection. And the clerk of the c...

Good morning, everyone and if i may have your attention. Good morning, and welcome to the thursday, april 17th, 2014 meeting of the board of supervisors, Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee and we are joined today by the Committee Members and supervisor norman yee and supervisor eric mar and is excused so if we can have a motion to exexcuse supervisor mar, and a motion by supervisor yee, without objection. And the clerk of the c...

Thirty thousand this is distracting and its that reason i prop that we continue this after the discussion when we have a clear way of moving forward. Were not getting stuck with the current guidance but looking at this project are a boarder understanding among ourselves commissioner antonini. Yeah. I would like to consider this today, i think my interpretation of the derivative and what were looking at is to restraining order try to address not the sheer number of units because were building ten...

Table is a step function, that nobody could have planned for and so from the business perspective we all like to be able to plan ahead. And so this is nothing that anyone could have contemplated in any form of Business Planning and in the out years, and i am finding that in the index that we can tie this to so that should we see a down turn in the economy that there is an adjustment in the other direction, and or a slowing of any increases that might be mandated because once this thing is set in...