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Colleagues could i have a motion to accept the amendments, so moved. And in the underlying item, and motion to approve. You can do so without objection. And madam clerk, could you call item 9 . Item 9, is an ordinance authorizing the office of the city and administrator to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 440,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to hire a officer for San Francisco, and amending ordinance, 16013 to reflect the addition of one grant Fund Position in class, 0933 at the off...

Even next door is not discussed. We dont have the legitimacy of the eir no more we dont have it anymore 90 for the eastern areas where the traffic is. All the projects are coming through so theres no information to the public, no information to this Commission Additional we have full blown legislation coming out of the bureaucracy where is your commission dealing with this. Today why have not you been dealing with this for the past 2 invasive if your that not going to be a Planning Commission le...

Help improve access and deal with the Digital Divide and there are also commitments made about diversity of programming and im interested in both diversity in the work force and diversity in programming and the accessibility of your Service Platform to a wide variety of content providers. Let me focus you as an example on tv one a if you would. And closing to both of those and then mr. Kimmelman if you might on whether terms and conditions or the appropriate way to address concerns that some mig...

Shinki in today. Im literally convinced of that. I will have spent 16 years in congress and i continue to be disappointed every day at the lack of foresight, the lack of judgment, the lack of longterm thinking and the lack of critical decisionmaking that occurs. Senior officials from comcast and Time Warner Cable were asked about the effect their proposed merger could have on cable and broadband consumers. The proposed 45 billiondollar deal needs to be approved by the federal Communications Comm...

Largest Cable Companies in the country, presents unique issues. From my perspective, while the Companies Service areas dont overlap, this cant not be our only focus of our discussion today. The combined company would control about 30 of the Pay Television market and 40 of the wire line broadband market with some estimates putting it at 50 . Its size and scope would give it the power to affect prices, service, and content offerings throughout the industry. And the future of online video competiti...

I do not see American Travel as some kind of a reward for Good Behavior have the cuban government. We are unlikely to see that. It is finally a gettough policy with the cuban government. If i may say, the fy 2014 languages clear about the purpose and authorizations of these programs as well as which agency should be in the lead for their implementation. We intend to follow the law and that case and transition some of those issues to the National Endowment for democracy. The larger policy debate ...

One if the new Program Areas we have is pedestrian lighting. The cities Better Cities plan was adapted and better street lights plan was, you know, express the cities interest in encouraging pedestrian lights in corridors. As the chair mentioned, you know, those commercial corridors was improved pedestrian left to right become more active spaces so it helps the city economically so in following the deposition of the better street light plan excuse me. My staff and i presented a light policy to t...

How does. Im going looking forward to seeing those homes but i want to restate a commitment one its evolved in conversations with supervisor breed and other supervisors our advocates in the city weve got to be graph about building protecting and middleclass housing so when we stated thirty thousand unit that sounds like a lot but it that r will reflect the highest number of housing weve built in the history of the city. Were willing to do that because thats what is the needed so its a mixture of...

Overall development and the Transportation Planning is an economic engine so bringing the team in place what we were looking for to top that mayor ed lee brought mr. Bob beck. And for us one of the challenges this year is for us to make all the critical milestones. In order for us to begin the development so bob beck is already on board and weve had a successful milestone weve already accomplished at the end of this year youall youre going to see us breaking ground to complete the project and th...

Vibrant and diabetic and diverse neighborhood people often tell me that their shocked when i tell them theres thousands of resident that live on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island but its an incredible community. Youve experienced the yerba buena neighborhood can be somewhat of a challenge to access like i said theres 23 hundred residents that rally on those services and one of the supervisors first pieces of legislation was to pass the to prove or disprove r Treasure Island plan in order to...