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it was a great experience to be at north beach and in my district participating with a green apple bookstore and a number of other businesses. i want to thank kathleen from the small business commission and regina from the office of small business for their efforts, not just on the saturday after thanksgiving, but to make every day a shop small day. a lot of the reusable bags were given out, and if anybody wants these, the office of small business has them as well to encourage the use of independent stores throughout the neighborhood, who helped fuel the economy in reinvigorate commu...

by her loss. she was the executive director, a human rights organization based on the dominican republic. she had ties to the bay area since 1988 -- the 1998 winner of leadership partnered with the international human rights law clinic at uc-berkeley school of law to initiate international litigation against the dominican government for discriminatory practices of the nine children of ancestry the right to dominican nationality. the international human rights clinic one landmark ruling from the inter-american court of human rights recognizing the right of dominican born citizens, chi...

additional staff. i think there would be two additional 1408's to alleviate the problem of backlog and lines at the counter. >> yes, i had a complaint recently that somebody waited two hours. >> oh, really? sometimes it can help. >> it should not happen at all. stakeholders have to wait two hours to write their check. >> i think we have to improve on that, yes. commissioner lee: these are not really questions but more of a comment. i know q-matic has been a long time coming, a couple years maybe. but lacy a lot of movement in the last three to four months, which i appreciate. i think...

paul street is where it is located. the third issue, the most problem for us, is that when the permit tracking system becomes operational in 24 months, it is going to be posted outside the vendor, which means that we will not need these servers. however, until that standpoint, we will need servers here for the permit tracking system. the worst thing that could happen is we could have a situation where we cannot issue permits and how to keep everything by hand. we're working with the department of technology this afternoon to try to figure out how to replace those permit tracking serv...

>> this is being clearly communicated, such as there is representation to have them understand? >> at the last staff meeting, director sweepney and me announced there was some public expediter in that, and i did not hear too much complete so far, but i would like to maybe during this time one month, i will invite them, maybe have a meeting with them so we will hear the concern. >> i have talked to a number of expediters. their main concern will be the flexibility of a computerized system. for instance, if you have three stations and one is fire, one is building, and one is mechanical...