The whole joint. Were letting its negativity, its neoism, were letting it influence our thinking i want it stopped right now. Right here i want to cordon off craamerica and do it today. The dow dipped the nasdaq gained. 47 put it simply the people who run our government cant seem to, well, govern todays breakdown of the gops most bedrock promise repage replacing obamacare has cast a pall over everything even if it was unpopular, but if the republicans never had votes to axe the Affordable Care act why have they spent month on legislation going nowhere. Makes me wonder if Mitch Mcconnell knows how to count im not saying we need to return to camelot i just think that congress inability to accomplish anything, anything at all has started to poison the atmosphere on wall street the latest look at the results of our Great American companies with way too jaundiced this negativity is coming out in two ways first buyers right now seem only to have love for a handful of companies that are viewe
We have a federal grant and moved that in house youll see the businesses have a much more streamline exercises with the Small Businesses and constantly accessing ca a number of programs with minimal in takes we all know the city is one of our birth vendors and access to the spending it is important so the Contract Monitoring Division it has done a lot of work to bring more businesses into local business entrepreneurs and to connect with subcontractors through that program they host monthly yumdz and targeted focus on women owned businesses to increase the women owned businesses that that on the list to bid access to the city spending so thats been a invites thing we looked forward to more of that finally a little bit outside but looking at the Small Business purview and the neighborhood commercial areas thats been our work to promote the neighborhoods to visitors with the travel association partnered with a number of merchant associations to do a better job of information around the ne
Barriers on the cost of rising rattling while 9 city if directly control the cost of real estate were through zoning powers and others how to insure that enough space is developed and made available for all sectors of the citys economy and pdr businesses the mayor laid auto a key provision in building new pdr new 12ri8 space in the city not only the tools of Economic Development but but power of zoning and land use were focused again on number 5 supporting the local industries not only the retailers and smshz but the neighborhood commercial coordinate and focusing think outside the box 25 corridors you see those strategies being revolted out across the city and attacking the challenges that those neighborhoods have with consistent and interim think Community Engagement to address the real needs on the ground were focused and didnt spend a lot of time but focused on transportation from and capacity this is the challenge whether youre a measuring e Manufacturing Business in district 10 o
Ted my colleague will be joining me to do that portion and ted e gone will present the core of the strategy as well as continuing the surveillance and ill be coming back up to the podium to discuss our conclusions and look forward to a robust discussion with the commissioners. Welcome. Hello so as todd mentioned 5 Key Foundations that the 2007 Economic Strategy covered it gave us a myriad of policies and actions today in the interest of covering things purview ill be highlighting things regarding our Business Climate and the neighborhood work. Would that be easier for you to use that. Yes. Okay so the first thing was recommendation was to create a local issue that promotes the qualities weve heard from businesses that are payroll expense taxes and they thought that was great so in 2007 sorry 2012 through a lot of hard work with the community and input from groups like yours including the Small Business up to one Million Dollars the gross receipt tax were passed in 2012 were in that sea
To technology complications beyond the departments and citys control the agenda did not get poefd on our website so we need 2 hours in advance the agenda was posted at the library and the room on time in execution with our da because we dont have any action items on the agenda i said it was our discretion to move forward with the meeting i want to be clear with the public and perhaps we can just call and see if theres call for any Public Comment on that. Lets call the meeting to order if theres phenomenon or anyone from the public that objects please let us know substantially well take that matter up at the later meeting theres no action so were on to addressing any items but well precede with tonight meeting seeing no objection can we have the role call. So commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is on his way commissioner white commissioner riley and commissioner toursarkissian mr. President , you have a quorum. All right. So t