Shelter us until the violent storms are passed. Let your glory shine on your lawmakers. May their thoughts, words, and deeds prompt people to glorify you. Inspire our senators to place their confidence completely in you. Eternal god, you are our salvation. We will trust and not be afraid, for you are our strength and song. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , january 7, 2020. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable cindy hydesmith a senator from the state of mississippi, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell madam presiden
Understood], [speaker not understood]. We have been instrumental in shaping this corridor and this city and we are a jewel and we need your support. And its Many Organizations like [speaker not understood] that are still facing that in our corridor. Dance mission is in the same predicament. Maybe they havent been around for 30 years, but theyre facing the small issues of Small Business and rent increases he. And we need to come together to really address this instability. Every day that i drive by there, i think of marcus brooks store. If i see a sign on the door, im thinking, is that my 30day notice . So, i really hope this is like a step in the right direction, that we can be at the table to provide more information, and to look at our history where we have to, you know, make it permanent. If its not on 24th were willing to look for somewhere else, but this has to be addressed immediately. It what devastating to he see the news last week that [speaker not understood] is closing, anot
Occur and continue into the spring. And because we have a Family Business course that is what we call the practicum where students are actually out doing things, we believe that, in essence, at least three of these projects will be able to continue into the spring past whatever was accomplished by december 9th. So, that concludes the information that i wanted to very quickly share with you. Im happy to respond to any questions you might have. Commissioner dooley. I just wanted to add my great thanks also for getting this going. Im seeing in my own neighborhood every day businesses leaving because theyre forced out. These are valuable neighborhood assets, successful businesses that just simply cant pay, you know, when their landlord quadruples their rent. And anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. Well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. I just wanted to share with you that our students conducted a stud
Having a student teamwork with the office of Small Business on the refinement of the information, the matrix. We have received the work that has already been done by the intern that is there. Were looking at Additional Information regarding gross receipts, generation of ownership, as well as other facilitate i have numbers, [speaker not understood] codes, et cetera, so there is a comprehensive index put together. The third project relates to Legacy History information. And toward that end im going to be joined by a colleague who is a business historian who will be working with teams, hopefully two teams, who will be looking at having and collecting some stories from some of the legacy Family Businesses. Not just the Family Business owners, but also neighborhood residents and adjacent businesses, in essence, trying to assist in defining what you have said, what makes this legacy business so critical to a community. The first project were looking at is what we call a legacy best practice
Whatever was accomplished by december 9th. So, that concludes the information that i wanted to very quickly share with you. Im happy to respond to any questions you might have. Commissioner dooley. I just wanted to add my great thanks also for getting this going. Im seeing in my own neighborhood every day businesses leaving because theyre forced out. These are valuable neighborhood assets, successful businesses that just simply cant pay, you know, when their landlord quadruples their rent. And anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. Well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. I just wanted to share with you that our students conducted a studentled study on the ordinance as it is being proposed to make sure that they understood it as a prelude to even starting these projects. One of the conclusionses of one of the students was, this is why i am here at this university because im actually starting to get my