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I started contacting the city departments in november. And i kept getting put off and, finally to the middle of january about whether or not we could have that festival or not. I was about to go into a Board Meeting so i had to call somebody in a position of power to notify them that i was walking into a meeting embarrassed to say that nothing had been done. That got the ball rolling and we finally able to get this. There is just a lot of bureaucracy, when i was in the department i didnt notice and i didnt know what it took to run something. But what i just explained was a small thing we were able to get that festival going and the permits three days before the festival. So we didnt even know. But in a Perfect World someone else already said it if we had a one stop shop to be able to go to one place and get the permits as well as a class to teach the people that want to learn a ....
993 million. We modeled the multiplier effects on that and they are not that much bigger it is a small multiplier, but the incorrect is 1. 1 billion and that is the effects of that spending as it ripples through the economy, the employment effects of all of this is large and supports about 9300 private sector jobs in the city. And that represents a significant portion of hospitality related employment in the city, about 7 percent of food Service Employment and about 6 percent of hotel in the city is directly or in directly related or atriblted to these events that is the victim and we are happy to take any questions . Thank you very much. Mr. Eaga colleagues, any questions supervisor mar, thank you, and i really appreciate the report. And i know that San Francisco state did the 2011 study for another planet and entertainment for the outside lands and i think that their sur ....
Speaker cards or you can line up on the wall. Everyone will have two minutes. I do want to call on metri who was on the commissioner and the events. And then mr. Chairman we can move to Public Comment. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. First i want to thank supervisor weiner for commissioning the study and for the office of doing great work and working with us. In a dual capacity serving on the Entertainment Commission now and serving as the executive director of fullson street i can tell you that there are many needs in our field and there are many ways in which hopefully you as the supervisor cans support our work. Mainly one of the things that we are hoping to accomplish is possibly reinstating a position that needs to exist in the Entertainment Commission to support the special events and this ....
Simply has not been used for appropriate ated purpose and that is first, and as a retired teacher i would like to point out when i was teaching that it was in my earlier teaching years it was a real difficulty, to some of the kids in the classes and what was a supposed to do for those kids or for those kids. And balancing their needs against the kids who were being exposed to illness and under the San Francisco coverage, that i dont have to deal with that as a teacher when i go into a restaurant i dont have to worry now about whether the restaurant workers in the kitchen who are serving me are sick and came to work because they were sick because coverage San Francisco means that if you are eating in a restaurant in San Francisco you dont have to worry about sick people in the kitchen. I came here on muni someone coughed beh ....
Working. Because we remember what it was like and what the struggle was like and i would like to say first of all that we are talking about in closing this loophole that this is not new money. Some of the speakers, have spoken, against it, and as if this were requiring new money to come from employers. And this does not talk about new money. This is talking about passing along the money which has already been mandated but simply has not been used for appropriate ated purpose and that is first, and as a retired teacher i would like to point out when i was teaching that it was in my earlier teaching years it was a real difficulty, to some of the kids in the classes and what was a supposed to do for those kids or for those kids. And balancing their needs against the kids who were being exposed to illness and under the San Francisco coverage, that i dont have to deal with that as a teacher when i go into a restaurant i dont have to wor ....