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The legislation there is a requirement that the office of Small Business report back to this commission and the board of supervisors with further recommendations as to other substantive incentive and assistance that can be provided. Another important part of, we feel of the legislation is the recognition piece. And the other case studies that weve evaluated in places like london buenos aires, barcelona, part of the program is to promote these businesses he in the aggregate as part of the history...

In talking to the Controllers Office, it appears that there are 14,000 vendors with the city and county of San Francisco. That was in fiscal year 2014. And that the Controllers Office estimates that only 11 of those 14,000 vendors have 20 or more employees, meaning that they would be subject to this ordinance. So, of those 14,000 vendors, we estimate that a little over 1500 of those vendors would be required to the reporting requirements in this law. And with that, im happy to take any questions...

Successful businesses he that are suffering through these unnatural economic pressures that have created the economic affordability crisis in San Francisco and we cannot afford to lose established independent business he. There is no one solution to this. Supervisor campos is work tog create a series of concrete steps to stabilize our neighborhoods and keep Small Business he in San Francisco viable. The first part of this initiative is to establish a legacy business registry for local businesses...

Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. And as we continue our series on the communicators talking with some of the Telecommunications Associations headquartered here in washington, week were joined by Shirley Bloomfield who is the head of the ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes here to talk about some of the legislative and policy issues that her association faces. Ms. Medical bloomfield, what ise ntca, first of...

To talk about what as long as elements are going to be part of it. Also to strengthen the perception that justice will be here in the hope that we can deter some of the conduct, encourage people to desert, discourage people in the opposition for taking an eye for an eye. Sure. In this respect, what would be your reaction, your advice, if in the fullness of time were faced with the following proposition. President Bashar Al Assad and 200 of his closest enablers are willing to leave syria forth wi...

Consistent with National Security concerns. During the process of preparing this report, we sought and obtained declassification of facts about the still highly classified program in order to allow us to put in context how the program operates. And clarify some public misconceptions. As a result, over 100 new facts were declassified by the government to provide needed context for the programs operation. I want to extend the boards appreciation to the personnel at the office of director of nation...

Republican and they arent democrat. They are not political. They are good Public Servants of america, americans who come to work every day looking to do what is best for the country to keep america safe. That is the key to what the cia and the intelligence agencies are all about until in the fall of 2009, we learned how difficult it would be and the struggle to try to find Osama Bin Laden and his leadership. And we were going to meet at a place along the afghanistan pakistan border and we were g...

Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this ...

Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak ...

Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to comment on the general managers report . Yes. Please come forward. Merry christmas, commissioners, members of the public, interested individuals, listening to the managers report, i found it hollow, empty and kind of disrespectful due to the fact that it just comes off like a dictatorship, you really have nothing as far as a relationship with the city and county of San Franciscos residents, and that is so clear with the way you operate in this ci...