3016. Today is election day and the polls will be open until 8 pm. In your neighborhoods as well as 8 pm at city hall. Mdm. Clerk, please call the roll clerk thank you. Supervisor avalos , here. President breed , here. Supervisor campos , here. [adjournment], here. Supervisor farrell , here. Supervisor kim pier, here. Supervisor mar , here. Supervisor peskin , here. Clerk supervisor tang , present. Supervisor wiener , present. Supervisor yee , present. Clerk you have a quorum all members are present president breed please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] prident breed all right. Mdm. Clerk any Communications Clerk none to report mdm. Pres. President breed any changes to the april 26 or may third 2016 Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is a motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Colleagues, can we take that without objection . Without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comments. [gavel] president breed please lead lead the
Director brinkman director rubke director ramos and director nolan so director heinecke is expected and director borden is also expected item 3 amazement of please silence all electronic devices. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Thank you. Next item. Approval of the minutes may regular meeting minutes. Motion to approve second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you very much okay item 5 communications and i do have one item item 11 regarding the contract for the van ness Improvement Project has been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. So ladies and gentlemen, what that means if youre here for that item you my 1956 during general Public Comment and if it comes back youre welcome to come back as well Board Members new and Unfinished Business. We talked about the better Market Street plan that was need did configuration of the street was in consideratio
Next item. Approval of the minutes may regular meeting minutes. Motion to approve second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you very much okay item 5 communications and i do have one item item 11 regarding the contract for the van ness Improvement Project has been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. So ladies and gentlemen, what that means if youre here for that item you my 1956 during general Public Comment and if it comes back youre welcome to come back as well Board Members new and Unfinished Business. We talked about the better Market Street plan that was need did configuration of the street was in consideration with bikes share a baseline and several directors indicated it was more safe to have the bikes straight and want an update and let me know about the decision they prefer as a frequent bus rider on Market Street i see the operators have a lot to do and take that in consideration and distraction will that would be gre
Volleyball nets. See how its helping leaders prepare for the sports spotlight next year. I235 63 and i80 35 at merle hay first on 13. A des moines extend the citys Tax Abatement Program. But now. Council members are accusing her of putting developers ahead of taxpayers. Well, she handles financing, tax syndicator for three out of the five projects that we voted on, not to mention probably some of the other projects in the past shes voted on, since 2013, since shes worked there. Christine hensley works for midwest housing equity group. A Syndication Firm that handles tax credits for developers. Thats why shes taking heat for sponsoring an amendment to extend the Tax Abatement Program for multi family housing. The program was set to expire at the end of the year for companies that hadnt started construction. But the deadline was pushed back to the end of june. By a narrow vote of four to three monday night. Hensley didnt recuse herself from the vote. And shes standing by that decision. I
This is like the crowning jewel because it will turn what is a successful event center even more successfulto finance the 101 Million Dollar price tag. The board of directors for the Iowa Events Center Hotel Corporation planned to use a rare government program. Its called eb five. Foreign nationals who agree to invest at least 500thousanddollars in a us project, are guaranteed a green card. it gives you some certainty in your financing. but a group of us senators, that includes iowa senator Chuck Grassley has criticized the program which is currently under investigation by the department of Homeland Security and scheduled to expire friday. 14 08 4314 08 54senator grassleys office and his committees are very involved and there have been some issues as to how it has been administered and some questions. The board was program to fund up to 20percent of the hotel, which comes to about 20Million Dollars. we are going to have to seek alternative financing thats going to take some guarantees