Public comment is closed. Commissioner richards. Just a few questions, please. The taxable retail sales do they include online sales of city businesses that ship somewhere else . Online sales for city businesses that ship somewhere else . Buy someone online from the Company Based in San Francisco. Physical sales at a physical location. I believe its based on its sales tax that is collected in San Francisco. So it could be online sales too. I dont know if its delivered to somewhere that is not within San Francisco, im not sure, but i can get back to you. The reason im asking you is we have businesses that come before us. They are requesting conditional use authorizations if they are formula retail and we talk about the tipping points between food and beverage and retail. I think this is really really good starting point, but really trying to understand, the revenue is way up; right . But what i am hearing out in the neighborhoods are costs are way up too, and vacancy rates. Its hard to
Good. In concept. [laughter] all right. Our next item is agenda item number 6. Vision zero adopted in in february 2014 vision zero eliminating traffic fatalities by 2024 and well have a presentation by tom maguire and Timothy Papandreou can they step forward . Good morning good afternoon mr. Chairman im tom maguire from the San Francisco Transportation Agency and mr. Papandreou will be here any second. Pardon me. Just a second. No problem. So im going to talk today about Citywide Initiative called vision zero a joint commitment by the mayors office, by the by the board of supervisors and the mta board and by the San Francisco Transportation Authority as well as Fire Department Police Department and Health Department to reach an am ambitious goal each year approximately 30 San Francisco i 30 san franciscans are killed and vision zero is saying that number is not acceptable. Were taking every measure we can to keep our citizens safe on the street and its its a joint effort involving engi
There. One of the issues talks about the proposal thats already in place regarding youth fares and the sunday parking changes and according to the editorial all these programs combined will reduce munis operating revenue by about 20 million a year at a time when ridership is at an all time high. It also refers to voter approved propositions a and b which authorized additional spending for muni but that spending is limited to capital improvements. The concern raised is ridership continues, but the operating budget will be reduced because of lost revenue and therefore there will be longer waiting times for buses, crowded buses and great inconveniences. How has that issue been addressed in developing this proposal . I cannot speak to that directly. Were more on the process in the back end. Its something the board can address unless diana has anything to add to that. The board will have to address that. Okay, thank you very much. Commissioner ow. Right now i am a senior. I put in an applic
Standard of care for our San Franciscos community of seniors and adults with disabilities contractors need increases in funding to be able to adequately fund these vital positions. 2015, 16 budget requests requests dos to allow agencies to pay a more equity salary level for caseworker positions. The cost would be approximately 200,000. My next point is for [inaudible]. While the final decision is delayed until later this month, we want to make sure this issue stays among your priorities. [inaudible]. Group van and ada transportation are most vital to disability population and consumers shouldnt have to pay additional fees for this critically needed service. Thank youm. And our final platform item is the cost of doing business. As not for profit providers we urge you to consider across the board cost of doing business for all non profits. This has been a long standing problem and weapon just want to continue to bring it to your attention. Wed love to see an established annual cost of do
200,000. My next point is for [inaudible]. While the final decision is delayed until later this month, we want to make sure this issue stays among your priorities. [inaudible]. Group van and ada transportation are most vital to disability population and consumers shouldnt have to pay additional fees for this critically needed service. Thank youm. And our final platform item is the cost of doing business. As not for profit providers we urge you to consider across the board cost of doing business for all non profits. This has been a long standing problem and weapon just want to continue to bring it to your attention. Wed love to see an established annual cost of doing business for all contractors. Maybe consider doing a cost of doing business increase of 4 for the year 2015 2016. We will follow up with your and you staff with a meeting. Were also willing to organize nietz an opportunity for Community Round table with the case membership and partners. We want to thank you in advance for y