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Gerri well, if you watch the show anytime at all ive been warning about this f some time. Now it is taking a step closer to reality. List to this. The government wants to raid your retirement account. Thats right. In his new budget to congress, next month, the president wl propose a broad range of new tax hikes specifically targeting people who have spent years saving for retirement. Probably like you and me. Ric edelman, from edelman financial will be here in just a second to talk about that. B...

Gerri well, if you watch the show anytime at all ive been warning about this for some time. Now it is taking a step closer to reality. Listen to this. The government wants to raid your retirement account. Thats right. In his new budget to congress, next month the president will propose a broad range of new tax hikes specifically targeting people who have spent years saving fo retirement. Probably like you and me. Ric edelman, from edelman financial will be here in just a second to talk about tha...

Good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. I am scott wiener, the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor malia cohen, a member of the committee, and our committee vicechair, supervisor jane kim will be joining us shortly. We are also joined today by supervisor david chiu. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and copies of any documents to b...

Supervisor david chiu. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 4th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. And id also like to thank s. F. G. Tv for broadcasting todays hearing, specifically jennifer low and bill jillian. So, madam clerk, will you ...

More access to public water. It requires fountains, filling stations, or event water hookups to be installed where there is a Capital Project in a heavily used public park or plaza. In the event of any Capital Projects, our legislation asks the city to investigate solutions that would allow events to hookup to the municipal water infrastructure. When san franciscans enjoy their favorite parks and plazas they should be able to use drinking found tans or refill reusable water bottle. In our resear...

Thats demanded by a policy like this is im sorry, what kind of bags . I saw you shaking your head. [laughter] i didnt catch what you said. I told you i was dating myself. I didnt know either he. A bod abag. Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions...

Can you just let me know whats happening there . So, in our interior facilities, thats a pretty easy a lot of parks dont have right. In our landscapes, its a little more challenging. I actually have not looked closely at the substudent ordinance, but i believe there is lack wa in there requiring us in Capital Projects over a certain amount to continue to do that ~. It is our goal, as you know from participating in many of our community meetings, there is covering associated with costs, but it is...

Institute and the San Francisco on the environment and the office is heard from many individuals from around the city who support the legislation as well as many events and city permitees who are already selling alternatives to plastic bottled water and so i will summarize the legislation, it will phase out the sale and distribution of bottled water on City Property this will apply to large events which means over 100 people permitted rendors and leases on City Property, as well as to the city d...

[speaker not understood] Distribution Services and expanding access to public water is really important. Also wanted to mention that free Water Bottles are the biggest problem weve noticed. Sometimes when free Water Bottles are given out, they dont get consumed fully and we cant even pull the bag out of the bin because its full of water. So, thats just something to keep in mind. Thank you very much. I support it and i appreciate the work. Sir, i have a question. In terms of you said San Francisc...

Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions and i appreciate the opportunity to speak. Thank you, mr. Berman. I appreciate the work of your department. I also would like to invite up eric higgin from the Public Utilities commission, the puc, not only...