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Not doing that. It is important to start the discussion about creating tools of measuring our Affordable Housing and creating tools to enforce that. I grew up in new york city, one to my parents who had immigrated here to the u. S. Actually, i started really becoming active in working with the community when i was in high school. Came out to california for college, went to stanford. I was always politically involved. When i was a college student, i worked on the initiative to get rid of affirmative action in our public government system. Currently we have 3 legislative items that are pending. ...

Other departments here but i want to know which departments how many of the city departments are having this as a measurement . Because i think its important to gauge from a Customer Experience standpoint how much time it takes for people to go through the process . In the report it says on average someone i think went through a process and took four months but we see cases someone went through and waited two years to do a full build out. Yeah, we didnt find that i recall and my team can speak to this maybe any departments that could readily produce that information. There were some places whe...

The road when opening a business when they sunk time and money into that and probably despite the best efforts of departments people will come into the process from a lot of angles and are the ways to route people toward the Planning Department early on no matter where they come in the process . Okay. And then i dont know if planning wants to chime in. Sure. Im the assistant director of planning. As ryan mentioned were not always in control of when people reach out to us but when they do reach out to us we have dedicated staff that staff the public counter as well as other planners that cycle ...

Us to go and sell the program to the whole city. We need jobs and a break on their energy bills and that kind of thing. You need to be able to adopt in the lower income communities such as much solar as highincome communities. So that buildout piece is important and i think we need a hearing about that either at lafco or the board. I want to chime in on public bank. That, if you look at what is happening in greece right now, it becomes really clear that the Global Private financing and Banking System is becoming so incredibly powerful that they can literally hijack a country and go against the...

Competitive rfq process to look for qualified respondents. In 2009 we did a public rfp and got two bids and one from recology and one from Waste Management. We looked at other environmental factors which came out fairly evenly but the thing that was very striking was the difference in cost which would translate to over 100 million for ratepayers over the lifetime of this contract. So recology was selected by the panel. Lawsuits were filed. Lawsuits were dismissed and over the course of the next four years the board repeatedly took a look at this contract. You held four hearings, two votes and ...