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Good evening and welcome to the april 14, 2014, meeting of the San Francisco Small Business commission and the meeting is called to order at 5 32 p. M. And we will conduct a roll call. Commissioner adams . Here. Dooley . Commissioner dwight. Here. Ortizcartagena. Here. Riley. Commissioner toursarkissian. Here. Commissioner white . Here. The commission has a quorum with six members present. Item two, general Public Comment, this is a discussion item. Do we have any members of the public that woul...

With six members present. Item two, general Public Comment, this is a discussion item. Do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment on any items that is not on todays agenda. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item three the approval of the march 24th regular meeting minutes. Move to approve. Second. All in favor, aye. That motions passes. The next item of business, is welcoming the new Small Business paul toursarkissian, so welcome to the commission. Thank you. Tha...

Communications . Item number four, Public Comment . What i want to say is that as we live in the sewer system Improvement Project and as we look at especially back on the inaudible we need to have a plan for the community and a good out reach for the community. Some of it have already started it on our own and we need to, the assistance, of the sfpuc, to really have the community, because, again, and again, as we notice with the water system, Improvement Projects, and everything was left for the...

Towards the reduction from 11. 9, 011. 5. Would you like two minutes . Yes, two minutes, yes. Commissioners . Today, we had a lengthy presentation and discussion on this matter. And the purpose of this amendment is to tell pg e that sfpuc can bring this number to the same number that pg e proposes. Which is nine. So, that is the only purpose. That sfpuc is on the equal footing or has the resources or can deliver a product the same as pg e. And in my humble opinion, we cannot. This is a moving ta...

Heard it and he presented a very articulate and brief presentation which we very much appreciate and we ask for a vote. You are correct, there is two ways to go. You could vote on the item that was called by the commission secretary, so she could call for a vote. On her. To make your initial motion to approve . What i would like to do, and tell me how to do this. Is i would like to make a motion to amend the nottoexceed rate from 11. 9 to 11. 5. The point is that you have to make first a motion ...

Has not gone online to take a survey to do that, it is 40 questions and it will take you ten minutes and this is where we are looking for what the preferences are and this survey will be opened for the 17th of october and what we are going to do is we are going to the results of that survey and we are going to temp er that to what we have heard from the industry of what they can do in the proven fleets and then come back with the recommendation, of which way and how, those vehicles could be conf...

Industry of what they can do in the proven fleets and then come back with the recommendation, of which way and how, those vehicles could be configured. And then that is really our next steps, and forward, with getting the comments from the stake holders, and continued to have the technical workshops with the high speed rail and we will have another one on the 30th of this month and then the intention of after the first of next year, in the spring of going at it with an rfp and to ultimately awar...

Savings and we have one time savings. These would allow an increase of nine 10 of a percent in the budget and as the director stated we are working with the department and will report back next week. Okay. Thank you mr. Rose. Colleagues any questions . Okay. Thanks we will see you next wednesday. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone. We will go into recess until 145. We will see you then. [gavel] were at our regularly scheduled meeting for wednesday, june 18, 2014. We are in the middle of hea...

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When he made an offhanded comment about what it would take to solve this through diplomatic reasons. Well talk more about that. Just a moment. But a new cnbc wall street journal poll finds 60 of americans are against striking syria. John harwood will join us with that in a moment. But first, andrew has a rappup of the days headlines. The big one being apple. Apple holding a major media event today. Its expected to update you with its lineup of iphones. The company will likely announce it has pen...