Myrna Melgar
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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$9,999,000 instead of $10 million, which would have required the contract to go before the Board of Supervisors.
So you guys have got to get hold of this.
I want to be added as a co-sponsor to item 38, please.
No.
Thank you, President.
I will be supporting this legislation today.
And I wanted to follow up a little bit on the comments of my colleague, Supervisor Dorsey.
During the pandemic, the sort of dystopian picture of what was happening downtown was fodder for Fox News and a bunch of right wing media around the country.
sort of showing how we had failed.
But the truth is that our downtown is suffering from a bunch of land use decisions that previous leadership of the city made over decades.
And we zoned almost exclusively for retail.
in retail dramatically changed.
Not during the pandemic, but when somebody brings you a little box with whatever your heart desires to your door, the motivation to go to the eighth floor of Nordstrom is not so pressing.
uses to reflect what retail is today.
And our downtown, which made up almost 60% of our tax base, started failing.
I want to remind everyone that the Macy's men's store disappeared eight years ago, way before the pandemic.
And people stopped going to the second floor, the third floor.
First it was IMAGNA, and then Macy's, and Nordstrom.
It just really changed.
And now we have a Westfield Mall that's completely empty.
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