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
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
Touched a lot of desks and had a lot of approvals and in particular want to thank Veronika Bell who is here from google for stepping p. Up. Google is providing a financial gift of 600,000 to turn this into a reality. This is with the recreation and Park Department. I want to thank Phil Ginsberg, katy, so many people from the rec and park team that really brought this project forward. We selected locations throughout San Francisco on a number of levels. First of all, we wanted to make sure that we continue to bridge our Digital Divide that exists not only throughout our country, but here in San Francisco, to place Free Wifi Networks in under served communities and across different parts of San Francisco. But also to make sure that we provide wifi access in some of the most heavily trafficked parks and plazas in our city so we can have the greatest impact throughout our great city. I want to thank sf city for their Strong Partnership in this project. We started working together a little
Street with the challenges of the both the bart and the muni station. But it is all about our neighborhoods. And i go back to what supervisor farrell said, and i want to again thank and appreciate supervisor farrell, his staff margo kelly, another great effort. This is what innovation does in the city. It gets everybody to actually work at even higher levels in government in a Publicprivate Partnership with Companies Like google and all the rest of the wonderful members of sf city to do what we can do and to do more than we think we can. In order to bring benefits, bring equity, bridge not only the Digital Divide, but perhaps bring the whole innovative spirit to every community in San Francisco. This is what i think this wifi effort of our 31 parks is saying. And the nice thing about it is that when you study what were going to do here and accomplish with the 31 parks, and that we along with our Technology Partners, our communications partners, our department leaders, new ones as well
Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How