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Wonderful leadership with supervisor cohen and please join me in a big thank you to supervisor cohen. [ applause ] and the second reason why im here this is something that is deeply personal to me. My parents were Small Business owners and my husbands family shared the same story as howard and amanda, where they were immigrants, refugees from vietnam and they stayed in indonesia and they made it and struggled in San Francisco and eventually create a Bright Future for their families. So to howard...

[gavel] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee for today, october 6, 2016. I am the chair of the Committee Aaron peskin joined by Committee Member and board president london breed to my left. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major do you have any announcements. Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the clerk and items will be on the october 18 board of supervisors agenda unless othe...

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[gavel] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee for today, october 6, 2016. I am the chair of the Committee Aaron peskin joined by Committee Member and board president london breed to my left. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major do you have any announcements. Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the clerk and items will be on the october 18 board of supervisors agenda unless othe...

Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the clerk and items will be on the october 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you please read the first item. Item 1 is a hearing to receive presentations from the citys external auditor Macias Gini Oconnell and kpmg llp. Thank you. Do we have a representative from the Controllers Office. Ms. Frank. Yes, good morning supervisors i am here to ...

Also wanted to make it clear that they both have helped to bring to us this point where we have this compromise. So you have heard about a lot of the issues already mentioned today. And, basically, what this is about, is that we think, this is experimental type of housing which, is all fine and good but we should treat it as such as an experiment that we want to watch closely and not allow to just go unchecked without us first knowing about the potential impact and that is because browse we have...

Providing a very valuable service to working residents of the city and there are numerous examples of successful projects that do not compete with Single Family homes and which provide a very valuable service to the working people of the city. S pack and others did a survey of San Francisco residents to fine where they stand and find out that bay twoone margin, voters of San Francisco support microdevelopment by 30 to one margin they interiored it if they were more familiar with this legislation...

Whether we have such rare land available we have to think about what is what we want to prior tices and so its a Public Policy decision in that way. And we are concerned that, rather than addressing the current needs of our communities, as they stand now, we may actually be building housing that is enticing out of towners to come whereas, they would have lived in Silicon Valley perhaps or they are just getting their foot in the door with the tech industry, they are renting space in the San Franc...

Could be learned from such a very small sample size which, is one of the citys housing stock. What conclusions would planning staff be able to reach by studying 375 units in a sample this small would they be able to determine whether or not its a successful Housing Project . How it compares to other housing types or what changes might be recommended its we dispute its a statistically valid sample size and do not believe that the conclusions based on a sample size this small could be relied on an...

Knowing about the potential impact and that is because browse we have all thought careful fully about what those impacts might be and we have come one a long array, including because these units are actually above market, now, we have heard all of the argument about why they are affordable and yes, cheaper impaired to larger studio apartments but by square footage, they are indeed higher rent and therefore, what would be the role in potentially escalating rents in the adjacent buildings and nabs...