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i look forward to hearing this from my colleagues. >> supervisor? >> i want to appreciate -- his remarks -- especially when we look at the changes in our economy and how these impact the communities. this is something that i was partnered with on the ground, organizing the community response to what was happening in the late 90s and early last decade. this was very powerful, and the changes that we see in this city demographics, and so many friends or families i know who have left the ...

organizing the community response to what was happening in the late 90s and early last decade. this was very powerful, and the changes that we see in this city demographics, and so many friends or families i know who have left the city, and gone to the east bay. this is something that we explored at the revenue coalition to report this measure. we affirmed that these are the conditions that many of us experienced and are experiencing again, and we thought that also, we wanted to look a...

also how we do the business tax structure, we would tax something different, with a much more progressive -- with the changes that we see in san francisco. we go into this eyes wide open. the supervisor does remind me about this -- there is a real estate transfer tax and i have this right down to the department of elections, i will be pulling that back. they had one measure going forward. i want to keep my commitment with pulling my name back from the real-estate transfer tax, so that ...

to a place where i am is supportive of this matter. when i added to the proposal for mr. avalos, i believe this proposal that was put forward by the supervisor is a modest proposal, and in addition to meeting the level of funding that was put forward. the approach is to have to measures, for the gross receipts and another that creates a property transfer tax to pay for affordable housing. i remain concerned that and we have the measure that tries to deal with two problems, the solution...

fund. i want to thank supervisor or president david chiu for his work on this. our first discussion has -- as supervisors, changing the business tax structure came after the 2009 budget and we worked together with the controllers and mayors office at how we would get this done. there was a lot of doubt we would be able to come up with that agreement and i think that is based on the great work and the collaboration in city hall that we were able to come to this agreement here today and ...

out this video of the storms in arlington. the activity is the latest in a hard stretch of weather. right now, we are keeping an eye on the potential for flooding. lets get right to bob ryan for his first look at the radar. >> the very heaviest rains are moving to the metropolitan area. let me show you the wider view. you can see where that line is. we are into the mid 90s today. a lot of humidity. the live doppler -- there is the lightning. parts of prince georges county all that is m...

im the president of the san francisco skateboarding association. we would like to support the plan to remove hanc from the recycling area. we know from from having quite a few events from waller street that there are a quite a few homeless people that circle around between lake albert and going into the recycling center, going up to the liquor store and coming back and buying drugs and coming in and out and going through that anybodyhood. we dont feel that its appropriate to have that ...

youre being asked to participate in a really dirty process and i hope you will look into all of this more thoroughly. thank you. >> hello, commissioners. my name is linda stark and im speaking today just for myself, not representing any group, but i wanted you to know that i was a volunteer coordinator at hanc way back in the beginning and i completely support their program. i dont want to repeat what anyone else has been saying but hanc has over the last 36 years been "the expendables...

if its there, i think we need to think seriously about taking care of what we already have. thank you. >> my name is carol glossinger. im a longtime resident of the haight-ashbury, 36 years. i live near the recycling center. 20 years ago i was president of the coal val yim provement association and at that time we were concerned that the recycling centers, the large trucks coming in and it was becoming industrial site and we were talking with members of the park and rec department and ...

were talking with members of the park and rec department and here i have in my old files a letter from park planner debra learner to mary burns, the current general manager regarding the recycling plan. and i will just read, if i can. the goal is to move progressively away from recycles generated by the residential sector, away from recyclables generated by the residential sector to trails generated by the commercial and institutional sector. institutional and commercial users will be ...