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We felt that we did raise awareness around a local neighborhood area. In the coming year, we do hope to move forward with another campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying t...

With us. And during a partnership of the office of economic and workforce development, smart will be conducting the out reach specifically targeted to businesses with neighborhood commercial corridor and this out reach will focus on commuter programs and also electric vehicle programs. And finally, the regional ordinance will be taking effect later this year, and that will effect the businesses with 50 or more employees in the 9 county bay area. And the San Francisco commuter benefits ordinance will work hand in hand with the regional ordinance to expand the availability of commuter benefits. ...

Formula retail that we will study. So will there be Big Box Stores in addition to Smaller Stores . And we want to make sure that we have all of our possibilities covered in there including, perhaps, entities that are not currently considered formula retail but may be in the future. And for example, gas stations, or gyms or other personal service. And chains that we doents currently subject to formula retail controls but may in the future, we want to be sure that we have that to the extent that we can predict how that will happen we want to have data because we dont know when we will have the o...

Themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard to receive this recognition and to achieve, the high Environmental Standards of the program and so we created a video to hel...

Campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and th...