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How we as a commission can become involved in that process. So,ing welcome, kelly pretzer. All right. Thank you. Good evening, president arce, members of the commission. Really pleased to be here tonight. My name is kelly pretzer. I am Deputy Director of the legislative affairs in the Mayors Office and im primarily responsible for handling state and federal legislative affairs on behalf of the city. And if youll indulge me for a moment, quoting section of the San Francisco charter, section 3. 1, which among many other things is clear that the mayor has responsibility for coordination of all in...

Or slc, a fun lick factoid article was put in place in 1939. So, the state Legislation Committee is not a new thing. With the Legislation Committee is chaired by the mayor, comprised by two members of the board of supervisors, appointed by the president of the board of supervisors. The controller, the assessor, the treasurer, and the city attorney. Or any of their designees or representatives. Currently the two members of the board that sit on the state Legislation Committee are president david chiu as well as supervisor mark farrell. The state Legislation Committee meets at a regularly schedu...

Theres most confidence about this product and program. I see. Second part in terms of community hours, im new to this, but i heard a lot about it, did some research. Ive been going to committee events, our constituents in chinatown, especially those that live in single room occupancy, its really hard to reach out to them through internet or by mailing maybe. A lot of contra specific education on this population to help them understand what is going on and what are their choices and what department do you have to reach out to these kind of communities . Yes, good question. Weve gone out and mad...

So, we also reached out to the community. We brought Task Force Meetings down into the neighborhood as often as we could. We sat in a night club on 11th street when we launched the whole idea of the social heritage district. We had a fourhour seminar type saturday that was held in the Community Room at the folsom door apartments where people we published a schedule and people that wanted to address various issues like affordable housing, transportation, a whole range of things, could come in and share their thoughts. No topdown sort of presentation. Simply come in at a given hour and lets talk...