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That, there have been a lot of recommendations and there have been a lot of changes, and we will continue to have problems and we will continue as we audit the different departments to have specific requests that we have, but, there should not be a case, where they are allowed to not resolve a particular issue for more than two years. And so, i think that at this point, my goal is to try and close these out, or bring those particular departments before this committee, and hold them accountable, and potentially withhold their ability to actually, you know, pay out in some of these instances, so...

Outlines a framework and tangible commitments that the city can make to enable and support the inclusion of the African American, and the African Americans in this respective industry. This hearing is timely and as i introduced and passed with all of high colleagues sponsor ship, legislation to commemorate the freedom trail and to highlight the social, and the psycho, social and impacts of the African Americans, Community Inside of the city. On education, on entertainment, and as well as civic life and so colleagues and also, San Francisco and members of the public, we are here because the peo...

In the city. And so, we will move to the presentation. And the general structure that supervisor cohen mentioned is that i want to give the different information on the contributers in the background and we will give a little bit of a supervisor breed in particular, less of the data and so we will give the data on the snapshot and what we see is the hospitality, and we will turn it over to the colleagues, and findings that we do have the supervisors request and the suggestions and the thoughts on those steps to the board of supervisors. So, in terms of contributers, as supervisor cohen mention...

Background, just introduce why we are here today. The hospitality and travel industries are some of the Largest Industries in our city. Just last year, in 2013, San Francisco benefited from a record of 16. 9 million visitors who spent over 9. 4 billion dollars in our city on tourismrelated activity and we only expect that number to continue to grow in the coming years. Hotel tax revenue is up, 8. 1 percent, to 607 Million Dollars and tourism jobs have increased to 3. 8 which is a total of 76,834 jobs. And Hotel Room Rates have also risen, 12. 8 percent to an average of 207 per night. And even ...

Thank you. Chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. We are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. And we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of African Americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has been a cross racial coalition, and we think that it is a model secondly for that, that it is across a...