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Thank you for gathering here today for this wonderful event. Looks like the rain is going to hold off hopefully prayerfully. I am robert cowan and a pastor and were here and we are blessed to have many of our city officials including the mayor who is going to come and speak in a few moments as soon as everyone is gathered. Its great to see everybody. What a great compilation of folks. The children arent paying attention as it should be. How is the food . Great. [applause] sip did a wonderful job with the barbecue. Lets give them a hand. [applause]. A street violence intervention program. They ...

Michael adler and i am the president of caner north constructers ink i have been part of it since 1978 not many weeks ago this developer approved by you 400 grove represents the best of and for San Francisco. The right size for the neighborhood and it is not a commodity structure. But one which has been thoughtfully and heartfully designed by ann and her team and developed and built by local folks who care about the community. This is perfect urban infill and i believe this project has shown a real commitment to providing not just housing but good design and architecture as well. Just addressi...

A bus behind. The second bus does not come up to the front. Oftentimes, it has caused me to be passed up by bosses, by trains, and again, it makes me late for appointments. It makes me late for my job. Im often anxious that im going to miss the bus that i need, simply because im not fast enough to scamper down and find out which bus is lined up behind the bus that is currently in front of me. What im going to work and i take the van ness street buses to work, sometimes, one of them will pull up right next to the other one. Not in a bus stop, but parallel to it. And i do not know it is there. I...

[ applause ] if you have other ideas about things that we should be looking at, we want to hear them, and thats part of the purpose of this town hall discussion. Im interested in hearing your stories, getting your questions, and this will be a pretty informal affair. Well, as informal as it gets when the president comes and there are a bunch of cameras everywhere. So with that, id just like to start the discussion. And what im going to do is im just going to call on folks, just raise your hand. I would ask you to stand up, introduce yourself. There are people with mikes, and theyll bring the m...

Move forward. That is appropriate when trying to come up with a proposal but i think an ongoing continuous task force, we have an awful lot of task forces in the city so i would agree thats not something i would support at this time. Supervisor elsbernd recommendation no. 2, adopt a realistic and consistent formula for estimating assumed expected return rate. I would actually agree with this and frankly i think we already do that. So i dont have an objection to this. Supervisor chiu neither do i. Supervisor elsbernd no. 3, San Francisco employees undertake investigation and failure analysis st...