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this bill. so thank you very much. >> 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...

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 370,000. so if by distributing the books in quantities...

or apartment buildings. instead they leave them where they're asked or given permission to leave them on racks in supermarkets, restaurants, key business locations where people can pick them up at any time. with that, unless there are any other questions, i know there are a number of people that would like to speak and comment on behalf of this proposal. >> thank you very much, president chiu. commissioners, do we have any questions? >>ly wait until after public comment. >> we'll go to public comment. i think since this seems like a very important issue to a lot of people, i will giv...

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 accurately representing the real population of phone book usersers, this would enforce more honesty in the ...