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Meeting rooms to bring it up to 85,000. 80,000 square foot or more of contiguous exhibit space which is the most important space for the Convention Center. Up to 87,000 in multipurpose space and 178,000 of support spaces such as loading, service, restaurants and things like that. The one of the key objections of the expansion project would be to maintain Continuous Operation during the construction for the expansion of the Moscone Convention center. In addition to the improvements to the facilities, we will also be looking to improve streetscape, connectivity, bicycle and pedestrian safety, an...

Im counting the hotel tax as a whole. So, not all the hotel tax goes to the general fund. Fair enough. I get where youre coming from. Okay, thanks. I want to make sure the public was very clear on all those combined benefits. Colleagues, do we have any questions for mr. Eagan . Okay, seeing none, thank you very much. Appreciate it. And at this point wed like to call our last speaker, our budget legislative analyst for their report. Mr. Chair, members of the committee, supervisor kim, we report on pages 17 and 18 that the proposed expansion of moscone would yield annual additional tax revenues ...

General fund and supports thousands of jobs. The proposed expansion will generate even more benefits. Tourism dollars generated from Moscone Center activities ripple into every neighborhood in the city. Through rate compression which pushes businesses into neighborhoods where business in the neighborhood when hotels around the Convention Center are actually full, it pushes business out to other hotels outside the downtown corridor. It also helps with paychecks, local purchases and taxes paid by our visitors that are staying there. For these reasons, the Hotel Community is proud to partner with...

It were by background, an annual appropriation by the general fund, making the Convention Visitors bureau rather than applying it to its operating budget. The proposal is to reallocate toward the repayment of cop. These are not new dollars. These are dollars that have already been committed historically to the convention [speaker not understood]. The next slide is the sequence of how the flow of funds would work. As you know, by requiring 6 proposing 6 interest, it is way higher than your typical the current market. In addition, we assumed in looking at the med assessment, if you look at asses...

2013 meeting, the time is now 5 40 p. M. , and the meeting is being called to order. First item is roll call. Before we call order, would i like ask members of the public to turn off all cell phones and pagers. And please sign in at the front table if you would like to be added to the mailing list. Public comment will be taken on each item and speaker cards are available at the front table. If you fill out a card and you can leave it at the front and i will retrieve them. We would like to thank sfgov tv and city hall Media Services for the constant support of our meetings. Adams . Here. Dooley...