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public educators to give them this access and give them this opportunity to see that their efforts are being appreciated beyond their immediate reach. >> you have to blend this idea of community network with computer equipment with training and with support. we can pull all that together, then we've got it. >> it's as much about social and economic justice -- in fact it's more about social and economic justice than just supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. our member and president of the board, a supervisor david chiu, will be joining us any moment. madam clerk, you have some ann...

supervisor maxwell: welcome to land use. our member and president of the board, a supervisor david chiu, will be joining us any moment. madam clerk, you have some announcements to make, and i want to thank the folks from channel 26 for bringing us to the public life. >> please submit copies of any documents to be submitted for the file. supervisor maxwell: we do have a committee report, item two will possibly go out as a committee report today. item one, please. >> item 1, ordinance amendment the building code. supervisor maxwell: staff, this is building code legislation. >> go...

supervisor avalos: good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee. i am joined by supervisor ross mirkarimi. charlie, we will be joined by sean elsbernd. -- shortly, we will be joined by sean elsbernd. >> [clerk announcements] supervisor avalos: thank you. let's hear items one and two. >> item 1. ordinance authorizing the department of adult probation to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $300,000 from the california emergency management agency for probation specialized supervision program federally funded through the violence against women act and...

shut down anyone who is doing business without a certificate of authority. those are some of the high points. i would ask david augustine to come up and share with us where we go from here. >> thank you, supervisor. i am guilty as one of the people who gets excited about parking tax law changes. we are excited about this legislation for a couple of reasons. i appreciate you hitting the points about what this legislation accomplishes. in addition to what you mentioned, there are a host of technical changes that are part of the legislation. the big picture is that this is the next of t...

those against it. these are two orders that aggregate 97 pages of law. we arrived at this place of pushing these two pieces of legislation as a reaction to our efforts earlier this year when we were contemplating putting on the june ballot an increase in san francisco's parking tax. if you recall in the deliberations, i was explaining that we have not increased our parking tax since 1980 when then-mayor feinstein had advanced the parking tax. we thought it was time that it could be a helpful response for us to look for potential revenue generation. in lieu of pursuing that particular...