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So i can go on and on how difficult it is to run a Small Business in the city and how many times im at the vertigo of shit my doorways or doors there are incentives maybe a tax selfevident 80 so Small Businesses serve fruit jews. The biggest problem is Small Businesses like mine Small Businesses as a business that has one hundred employees but theres a big business and that category of Small Business. I suggest if theres anything that come out of that maybe we can have a new federal category for...

The next 10 minutes. Commissioner, in the next 10 minutes, commissioner murase wants to do one more presentation on girls and young women. We still have Public Comment. I want to make sure we are able to allocate enough time for that as well. Commissioner, you didnt have to go up there. But happy to have you up there. About 5 minutes. First of all i want to animal acknowledge the leadership of supervisor kim and mendoza in this area. They launched the youth spark connection in microsoft and thei...

Letter in support ever this soda tax discouraging the consumption of sugary drinks weve been peoples 3 at the forefront and recognition that many protecting san franciscans face significant challenges in obtaining nutritious foods. We see it everyday in our pan try at 2 hundred and 40 pantries people ask important healthy food they can keeping cheap in terms of price but we agree this is a multiple prolonged approach we do what we can to increase the access to nutrition we want to step out and s...

There is a wage gap compared to nonfields for women. Those in stem field are over represented in Life Sciences such as biology and medicine and under represented in Computer Science. Google shared this with the staff by the National Science foundation that compares the number of stem job openings with the number of College Graduates through 2018. So we have a gaping hole in the number of graduates computing. There is expected to be 140,000 jobs in this field annually and only 50,000 graduates. S...

Again San Francisco through our lisp is leads on an issue that has indeed global implementations. My concern is how can we bring that to the voters and the Asian Community and even my colleagues while supportive may not want to stand and expend their energies without leadership. Im having a tough time convincing them. I came if a meeting from the children height i want to say that their funds will support their health cavities in children under 5 in communities of color is epidemic and hope some...

That will be the order. [gavel] madam clerk, please call item number 2. Item number 2 is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for an 18month period requiring conditional use authorization for limited Financial Service and business or professional service uses in the upper market neighborhood commercial Transit District; making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and with the priority policies of planning code, section 101. 1. ~ Transit District thank...

Worked closely with San Francisco and Agricultural Alliance and spur for citywide Agriculture Program. Spur had previously released a report called the public harvest report that showed even though we had seen tremendous demand for urban agriculture, Community Gardening and urban farms grow across the city in recent years, there has been a notable lack of coordination among different agencies that govern urban agriculture. The legislate ition helped create the Program Designed to serve as a one ...

Dealing with the issue of Pedestrian Safety and Traffic Safety period. There are a number of other things that we have done in the department. As mta takes the lead its a matter of making certain that we provide as much data that we can. We are effectively the source of which the data comes, in terms of where the traffic collisions are taking place. In july of 2013 we embarked on data sharing and data base with mta as well as the department of Public Health that allows for immediate access of ou...

Buildings have water meters for each invented unit right away right now you can build a multi unit building thats not mediations for water theres no incentive to conservation water or know how much water so use for older buildings its infeasible to shift over to individual meters but at a minimum we should look at this for new construction i was surprised to learn thats not a requirement we will receive a status on increasing the number of watering circling and water use the puc has a number of ...

Producer in the world. Another reason why companies are coming back. The cost is a third to a fifth what it is around the world. We are prepared. Were prepared. To help other countries as well. Our oil import are the lowest theyve been in the last twenty years. I believe if my colleagues from abroad will forgive me. I believe remain the most innovative country in the world. But i also think, folks, that the rest of the world understands why this is happening. Its not just the good fortune of hav...