Supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar absent. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener supervisor yee. This item passes item passes. Next item and item 13 introduction of new items colleagues, any new items supervisor wiener. Thank you, mr. Speaker, colleagues you may recall several weeks ago at the board of supervisors we passed a resolution asking the office of Economic Workforce Development on late night transportation to come up with a plan and staefrnl longterm and shortterm and to improve the Dynamic Transportation we have major are deficiency in terms of peoples ability to get around in the evening and deficiency around Cashing Service and so forth. We held a hearing at the land use we heard from workers and partners and laid night advocates we get this twentyfour hour service it should be a key part of it there are any agent challenges as well so that working group is in the process of being formed im excited about it. I have spoken with tilly chang about the possibility of the Transportation Authority staff providing Technical Support to the working groups in terms of understanding how Transportation Systems work so im requesting the ta staff collaborate with the working group wed, glad to do that. Thank you thank you. Okay. Great. Well go on to Public Comment any member of the public wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed item 14 Public Comment. Now is the time for the members of the public to comment relative to the San Francisco Transportation Authority board and seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Move on item 15 adjournment. Colleagues, were adjourned. Thank you. So San Francisco sma business week weve been doing it for 10 years about inspiring and educating and connecting Small Business week to have them thrive aim leslie the cochair of Small Business week along with the Small Business week Commission Steve adams and together weve been involved for since its inception and its really about being for impressive and more resources full to and were going looking forward to today and this is special, in fact, the top ranked part of Small Business week a day youll get great information and interaction and to join me to kickoff the conventional is the executive director for the city and county of San Francisco regina. clapping. thank you leslie this years theme to Small Businesses theyre the vitality no our corridors and neighborhood and shape our community. The Small Business convention has became the most popular of offering during the week and this year were featuring free educational and inspirational workshops success panels and a Procurement Panel in expo. The last session ends up at 430 are a reception overland its hosted by a hardworking committee including our honorary mayor ed lee. Mark convincing the district many of the for Small Business administration and emily from behalf it compromised of the team tom and marlow and hannah and kathleen bustling and the San Francisco chamber of commerce and leslie and karen. The Renaissance Center and the San Francisco Development Alliance and Sharon Miller and the District Organization henry and the Golden Gate Association sf entrepreneurs and the San Francisco africanamerican chamber of commerce and sf city jeremy and adams and alison now, its my direct pleasure to introduce to you, your presenting sponsor bank of america for this years Small Business week bank of america Small Business regional executive on the west coast is emily emily id like to invite you up good morning its a real pleasure to be here and Small Business week is is an exciting week for all of us were thrilled to go be the presenting sponsor we understand power and significance of Small Business tloos across to city and really exciting to celebrate the entrepreneur spirit behaving has a long his in San Francisco over a one hundred years no california and our founder opened the doors of the bank of italy in 2004 and came bank of america in the 1930s since then a lot of influence weve had and participation with the city to build it to what it is today. We were part of the funding the governmental and Golden Gate Park and the funding the renovation at the Ferry Building we are on the ground individually helping people person to person making their Financial Lives better everyday. The heritage commitment lives on through the floifb work and the effort we have everyday working with small Property Owners hocking to help them and mayor ed lee has helped to support the Small Business community and encourage entrepreneurship like sunday streets thats the most popular open Street Project in the United States this increases the foot traffic to the Small Businesses see more business everyday and last year with the help of the white house they brought Silicon Valley to the public it be tangibles programs concluding health care and open government and transparency and finishing. During the Small Business week 2013 they announced the loan fund that made 12 million available to support Small Businesses boost the local economy and create jobs. The merging Business Loan program extends fund to institutions it focuses on lending to the entrepreneurs and growing Industries Like manufacturing and apparel and industry sector to create jobs for local folks. In this city small Property Owners have a terrific opportunity and and team bank of america loortdz to our continued work with the mayor in partnership and support of the local enclosures please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee clapping. thank you for that introduce emily good morning, everyone what a great time to be in San Francisco weather wise my economy wise ive been thinking about the loiter seeing if i could win the loiter but one of the reasons if i could dream about that winning that ill spend all the money in San Francisco because we have such a rich con gorgs of businesses of people making things in 0 San Francisco i couldnt think of spending it anywhere outside of the great city thats what i think about spending it all in the city. Well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and county of San Francisco go thats on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 Small Businesses in San Francisco. They compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs thats the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences theres a statistical appreciation but ufo our Strong Economy is reflected in the Small Businesses. While everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons why one of the reasons great 23i7b8 Institutions Bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this Great Convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting todays event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a thats a story it continues to resonate throughout the rest of the country businesses helping other businesses and helping our community. Ive added a number of things to my busy i didnt agenda on a weekly basis every tuesday, i visit is a business in the city and talk to the ceo and cfos and people working with the businesses but get to talk to the employees and find out whats attractive and try to meet the challenges and usually its about transportation or schools now those days its about the price of housing and building more housing thaitsdz thats where we generate our ideas i added to that meeting not because i want to get out of city hall but on fridays now ive added an hour to get to go to the commercial corridors of the city and walk and feel what people are doing and stick my head into the local restaurant and the eyes cream particularly that takes along or the local toy stores and futile iowa we can do. And listening to them and talk with them and react with all the policy decisions with regina and others tisk with our Economic Development office and awe our Small Business programs and those ideas turn into immediate reality so we create 1, 2, 3 license ability where Small Business can get our licenses or permits quickly were going to open a single portal for Small Businesses that wyoming want to have one place to go rather than stand in line for different permits and attitudes well have prayer by the chaplain. That online and open 24246 so 7 so entrepreneurs in our pa gambles can do thing. But theres also things that are big picture things im glad to see the gentleman helping me to really out a new business tax system in the next 4 years weve done it will help with the talking to the Small Business county and see whether an outside tax will help the city Small Businesses weighed in we know our new business tax will support the Small Businesses in the city and well do more along with our Assessors Office weve got loans and grant were matching them up with our 12krik9d captains and mrovs to make sure the corridors are safe and weve got neighborhood grants that are visiting in the programs that are working hard to get out there. Its no longer in any estimation about money known e money it around the city there really is harnessing that in ways to help people succeed and get the jobs. Im going to thank the Small Businesses and large ones youre helping us with jobs helping me so much we can go out and tell the folks how about a paying summer job 7 thousands of them we did that saturday to help Small Businesses and were going to have a big meeting with all the businesses and theyll be raising their hands over a question who helped you get our first job and all you have so to do is send the lovely thirty seconds someone helped you, you to get our jobs for the recreational managers and institutions. As we relive that i hope to create another generation of kids that appreciate how when i become conceive you taller than and help accountability pr this is the culture of San Francisco this is why i came in and decided to live and sacrificed my golf free speech to be the mayor of San Francisco. But it is more than a dream its visiting in each other this is what Small Businesses do they ask for help and invest in others help and this is the huge kwenlz that come to the town the big conventions dont want to ride the cable cars theyre asking where are the real neighborhoods in San Francisco y where can i go out and see thing and experience things that are very strong in our neighborhoods because theyre coming from places its a lot of vanilla the same thing over and over but they want to see the cultures and thats why we have 25 neighborhoods were investing in. Im proud this welcome to announce our Small Business honorees and youll see the diversity when i go through the names the sushi and the automobile repair shaping shop that is changing the shops in the past the has a valley and the Hampton Creek foods talk about a new maine nasal egging free and the electric bike super store the triple 52 do brewery and, of course, i added in matt restore their special in our city their petes are a that was started by two deaf Business Leaders that are taking orders because of the technology and the ability of the blending the technology with their Small Business theyre taking live orders in their restaurant and their entire staff is deaf. So those are stories that others are going to tell over and over again, the diversity of the city this is how were successful and those continue to draw the biggest conventions around the world to come to San Francisco and see how the businesses are helping us and, of course, theyre helping government as well. So again, this is a way of me saying thank you to all of you working together you, you know, weve got sf made and i cant leave the stage without thanking mark and katie theyre leading some 4 thousand people in sf merchandising and working with the Small Business community saying we can give back to great manufacturing and the offer lay thats happening there. They Petroleum Pump in 3 hundred and 95 thousand dollars a year gas station to the Small Business week and to the partnership with s b. A. You and part of the entire Obama Administration set the tone for the country and next year i get the privilege and honor of hosting the conventional of mayors in San Francisco 2015, 3 thousand mayors and were going to add 3 thousand mayors around the world to the convention to come to San Francisco to create jobs and maintain good requirements and help our kids and create jobs and keep our city safe all of this is part of a whole network of relationships and the ones that know how to create the relationships are the ones in business thats how you survive and succeed in the city with that, take the opportunity the proclamation that signals that Small Business in the city and regina please accept this and to all you have who you are part of this great week thank you very muchyou. In landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened Contracting Center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive oneonone Technical Assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed Public Commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of Small Businesses do have the resources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. This is and other documents that needs to be submitted. To compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popular to you can win a professional services job or how to put together a quote its all those technical pieces. Looking at the contracting Assistance Center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so youre ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. I cant say enough about the center its a blessing. We do business all over the country and world and a place like the Contractor Center to identify the business in San Francisco the reality is you need training and thats what the center is here to train and make you Better Qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. That will give people the Competitive Edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. We have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. I mean local businesses participation in City Projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses theyre paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in San Francisco it really helps the economy of San Francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. The Contractors Center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8 30 to 5 welcom