Ortizcartagena . Mr. President , we have a quorum. Great. Next item. Item 2 is presentation of the Small Business Commission Certificate of honor recognizing a City Employee Jennifer Matz as part of the sbc City Employee Recognition Program. I believe director dickens has some opening remarks. Yes, thank you. So, Jennifer Matz, please step up to the podium. As part the Small Business commission has the Recognition Program for employees of the city and county of San Francisco who have really who have either support our Small Businesses and in your case you have been a real champion for the Small Business commission and our office. So, commissioner mark dwight has nominated you to receive recognition from the Small Business commission, and he is going to be presenting you with our certificate of recognition. Okay. Now, the official business here. Certificate of honor where is the camera . [laughter] okay. So, this is the official certificate of honor, Small Business commission of the cit
Bringing back memories of another americas cup accident that killed a cure member. Jade hernandez live in San Francisco. Reporter heather, todays race was supposed to be about the speed and skill of 72 catamarans on the bay, but instead it was about two teams trying to survive. Both teams racing in the Louis Vuitton final cups struggled on the water. Emirates Team New Zealand was caught in a sharp turn, throwing two crew members overboard. All of a sudden it crashes. I was more worried about the people who fell over. Both men pulled to safety only suffered bumps and bruises. It was quite a welcome to americas cup. Reporter these spectators werent expecting the dramatic excitement. The safety boats had them scooped up within less than a minute. So just gave me a real impress how dangerous that collision itself was. Reporter the 25minute race proved too much for the Italian Team Luna Rossa challenge, which struggled with equipment issues forcing them to with draw after crossing the start
About nine years ago for supervisor aliotopier, and one of the first things we worked on together was proposition i that we took to the voters that included the creation of the Small Business assistance center, and really aimed to dedicate more resources to Small Businesses. And i consider myself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of you directly. Some of you worked indirectly worked with regina many years, to. Worked with commissioner e. Rely on the formation of the Small Business Revolving Loan fund. Obviously to have worked with commissioner dwight on the sf made collaborative. Commissioner dooley and i have worked together on numerous measures that have come before this commission over the years and its really been a pleasure to oftentimes work in the early stages of a program or a concepts and shepherd them, help give them some form and launch them and hand them over to folks who really spend their lives day in and day out working with Small Business. The Neighborhood E
They have funding identified. I think the other part of that answer is some of the projects could be funded and they have other sources as well. A lot of the large projects the impact fees represent partial financing and leveraging of other dollars along the way. You mentioned the central freeway and dog park, i havent seen that start. Is that going to start happening this year . Thats what i have been told by the project managers on that and this we should anticipate the construction soon. I look at it everyday and i think they have a shortterm intervention right now and kind of warming it up until the construction starts. Thats been a beneficiary of these improvements. Commissioner hillis . That park started construction. So, just a question on in kind contributions. We have a couple of in kind projects and we have a couple here. I always wonder if we can do them. They have in kind improvements and they tend to directly relate to the project and they tend to be blocks away. So what p
All in favor . Aye. Okay. Item 6, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of use of cell phones paymenters and similar sound producing advices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order removal for the person responsible out rippinging of or use of a cell phone pager or other sound producing electronic device. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertv netctionv Public Comment on each agenda item unless they adopt a shorter period. Item 8 Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Okay, yes. I think there is an item on the agenda, 9c . Well call for that one i believe the chair is calling for item 8. Jerry doll. Good afternoon, commissioners, nice to see you again. My name is kerry doll. Im an emplo