Toursarkissian, here. And commission Monetta White has an excused absence. Item no. 2 is general Public Comment. This allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the commissionary purview and suggest new agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on items that are not on todays agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item no. 3 is introduction to the new Small Business Development Director angel cardoz and we have him here today. Welcome. First off let me say thank you for allocating the time and the invitation for me to introduce myself. My name is angel cardoz and as of jar january 5th i am the new director for the San Francisco Small Business development center. If you are not familiar with the program, the program is dined to help entrepreneurs both start and expand businesses by providing one on one consulting and business training. Business training
People in the community to convince people to talk to them and make them go home. Not everyone was willing to go home without some use of force. You did see some scuffles break out between people saying it was time to go home and people wanting to statement in fact this afternoon we saw the largest demonstration yet held peacefully in baltimore with students marching from Baltimore Penn station to city hall. Thousands of students marched on Baltimore City hall this evening. The largest peaceful demonstration the city has seen since the death of freddie gray. Organized by College Students from several Baltimore Area universities, the students gathered at penn stay, then headed for city hall. We are the ones that are getting murdered in the streets. They are coming for us. We want to reclaim our city. This is our city, our streets. Reporter the demonstration also served as a chance to reset the focus of the city on the issues that launched the protest Movement Weeks ago. Without looting
Can we have another round of applause for that wonderful performance . applause . At this time, i would like to call up two of our Committee Members on stage if you could all join us please, and if you could all give them a big round of applause so my name is shady and i work with themarys city ever services here in city call hall and i want to welcome great a i think this thure we programmed over ten institutions in the city of San Francisco including the air Film Festival the arab culture and Committee Center but also with the tamp pais Public Library to have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of San Francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. applause . Thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight
Can we have another round of applause for that wonderful performance . applause . At this time, i would like to call up two of our Committee Members on stage if you could all join us please, and if you could all give them a big round of applause so my name is shady and i work with themarys city ever services here in city call hall and i want to welcome great a i think this thure we programmed over ten institutions in the city of San Francisco including the air Film Festival the arab culture and Committee Center but also with the tamp pais Public Library to have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of San Francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. applause . Thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight
Sponsor with the coffee which we all know keeps us awake and ice which keeps us well well fed. Yes, please give it up. And we all know the work that takes place, here to allow all of us to enjoy the city like this could not be wad without a very strong organizing work of our Planning Committee and so to all of you i want to say thank you again again and particularly again to shad dee alcarra. Whoswho really has been a beakon of energy inside of our office at the Mayors Office and Neighborhood Service and is sweating through our work to make sure we are well on point to have a great celebration here at city hall and so again shad dei thank you very much for your work. To all of you here tonight from the city family i want to saw thank you for joining us here as well and to really encourage you to take part of in all of the if he istivities that we have to offer here at city hall and for those of you who have an opportunity to tine sign in at the front please do so we can reach you throu