A little girl battling cancer, melting hearts everywhere. And with a big win last night, their magical journey together is still going strong today, saturday, march 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. We will have a lot more on that los angeles earthquake that happened overnight for you in just a moment. The good news is that it wasnt too serious, although obviously, plenty of people rattled. Everybody felt it. Meantime, its hard to believe that the search for the missing plane is now in its fourth week. Investigators still have not been able to recover any of the debris spotted from the air, but with a narrowed search area, they could possibly find something very soon. Also ahead this morning, were live in Washington State, where there are fears that the death
Embrace it we want to make it happen. They were out but youve got to be all in and putting the brainpower together so testified what is impressive in the Transportation Center in china we jumped on the Transportation Center their subway system it was in chinese and mandrin but its amazing how people move in the city their ahead effort transportation i was impressed with their fast trains and stuff like that theyve got the bullet train from shanghai to b. A. Shrink and im hoping we get that commissioner adams. I really have nothing to report no honors to report. Im sure that will be recommended. I want to commend commissioner president katz for the lgbt port Diversity Group thats a huge effort and i need to be connected its much needed. I want to commend commissioner adams for travel to china he has a lot of great contacts he helped peter and the staff to a looking for great opportunity nor the port of San Francisco. Im truly supportive of this maritime efforts to try to get more busine
Chart shows you this list are all of the legislative changes that have been effectuated just in the last year. Basically you guys are killing us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impacts of all of this additional leg
Us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impacts of all of this additional legislation in conjunction with our increased work load. So, the net result of this in terms of the impact on our budget is a 6. 3 increase this
Im not sure we made things easier by showing off. Thank you for the handout and thank you for being here. My pleasure. ~ ms. Lowell. My pleasure. My apologies. [speaker not understood] the executive director. This is my Deputy Robert collins. And in a second were going to have a slide to show you the mission of the rent board. I always come before you saying that my goal is to be the least of your problems, but not this year. I think [speaker not understood] were experiencing a bit of an affordability crisis in San Francisco. The mission of the rent board we can just follow along, if you dont mind. The mission of the rent board is basically to protect tenants from excessive rent increases while ensuring landlords fair and adequate rents for trying. In order to do that, our two basic services are Public Information and counseling and administrative hearings. And at the moment we have a 2 to 3 month backlog for priority cases for hearing and a 5 to sixmonth backlog for all other cases. I