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>> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, commissioners, thank you very much. i'm janet pomeroy. i'm the president of the board of green chamber of commerce. we're based here in san francisco. and as the president of this association with over 400 businesses, i'll offer three reasons why the business community supports this initiative. first of all, this ordinance brings to light a real disparity between what you pay for and what you get with the yellow pages. an ad in the phone book would be distributed to about a million recipients and if every single business and person actually colle...

association with over 400 businesses, i'll offer three reasons why the business community supports this initiative. first of all, this ordinance brings to light a real disparity between what you pay for and what you get with the yellow pages. an ad in the phone book would be distributed to about a million recipients and if every single business and person actually collected the book, it's estimated only 38% or about 370,000 people and businesses actually use the yellow pages. so with the current model i'm paying for exposure to almost 1 million recipients but only getting exposure to...

and as the president of this association with over 400 businesses, i'll offer three reasons why the business community supports this initiative. first of all, this ordinance brings to light a real disparity between what you pay for and what you get with the yellow pages. an ad in the phone book would be distributed to about a million recipients and if every single business and person actually collected the book, it's estimated only 38% or about 370,000 people and businesses actually use the yellow pages. so with the current model i'm paying for exposure to almost 1 million recipients...

i recognize your faces and i appreciate that. in fact, tonight if you all want stop by valentine's day, we're open for that. i am a small business and i am very happy that this item has come up. i fully support it. i believe that in the last few years, each year not one comes to me but several books come to mever year. sometimes one a week after the first one was dropped off. since have i two phones at my home and i have three lines that come into my business, i have approximately eight or nine books that get thrown into the recycler. it's just a complete waste. this is a subject i h...

community supports this initiative. first of all, this ordinance brings to light a real disparity between what you pay for and what you get with the yellow pages. an ad in the phone book would be distributed to about a million recipients and if every single business and person actually collected the book, it's estimated only 38% or about 370,000 people and businesses actually use the yellow pages. so with the current model i'm paying for exposure to almost 1 million recipients but only getting exposure to 370,000. so if by distributing the books in quantities that were more accuratel...