A bill for an ordinance making supplemental appropriations from the General Contingency Fund to the General Government Special Revenue Fund. Approves a $4 million supplemental appropriation from the City’s General Fund Contingency to the Office of Economic Development to support the Business Incentive Fund’s support of a general merchandise mass retail store on the 16th Street Mall at 1601 California Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 2-21-17. This bill was approved for late filing by Council President Brooks.
Thank you, Councilman Espinosa and Councilman Flynn, I just want to clarify, you had said asking everybody for your vote, but you're still okay with us going on the block vote. You want to call it out for voting no. Okay. All right. Madam Secretary, if you could please put the next item on our screens. And, Councilwoman Blackwell, you put Council Bill 156 on the floor for passage. Yes, Mr. President pro tem. I move that council. Bill 17 DASH 156. Be. Ordered published a final consideration in due pass. Thank you. We placed upon final consideration and do pass. Excellent. It has been moved. Can I get a second? All right. It's been moved and seconded comments by members of Council Councilwoman Cannick. Thank you, Mr. President. We had some discussion about this bill last week, so I won't repeat that. We had two different bills last week. One was a contract to make the investment with the developer, and the second was the contingency fund allocation to transfer the money in the budget. So that's a two reading bill. This is the second reading of that bill. And I continue to have concerns both about the fact that we do not have a direct contract with the retailer as well as the fact that we. Do you not have high enough quality, full time jobs for me to feel like this is an appropriate investment of this level from this particular fund? So with that, I will vote again this week to decline to support this. And thank you for your time, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah, I wasn't here last week, but. And she only touched on it. But I do agree with everything that Councilwoman Cannick mentioned last week and then the structural portion portion that she mentioned this week as well. The. The the and I wish people actually were able to have heard the public comment. There was a pretty a pretty harsh criticism of this that I think deserves to some degree, some bit of airwave airtime. I wish I could speak as well on the subject as that person did. Yes. In my past life before I was here, I was an architect and I was involved in a bit of urban planning projects and things like that. And so, um, you know, there's a lot of, if this was in fact an eight to 6 to 8 year project effort to get to this point, I would have expected a far more thorough and robust sort of understanding and explanation on how this really is the catalyst that we need for the 16th Street Mall. And so there is a large effort. A lot of public money goes into that corridor, and I'm just not convinced that this is it. And so for that reason, I'll be voting in opposition as well, because when we make a public investment like this, we should be getting good, stable jobs and a thriving community as well. Too much money going into this corridor without adequate support for the the why. So thank you. Thank you, councilman. Seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary. Raquel. Can each new Sussman. I black I. Espinosa. No. Flynn Gilmore. I. Herndon, i. Cashman. I. Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. Eat ice. Two nays. Ayes, two nays. Council Bill 156 has passed. Madam Secretary, can you please put the next item on our screens? And, Councilwoman Black. Will you put please put Council Bill 153 on the floor for passage.