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Supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, madam clerk any communications. I have no communications madam president. Colleagues, any changes to the regular Board Meeting minutes of october 68 sienna motion by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor christensen colleagues well take that without objection. Those minutes passes unanimously theyll be passed unanimously after. Madam clerk can we please go to our terrors item the the first order of business is today is appearance of the honorable mayor ed lee no questions from supervisors the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Unfortunately, the mayor couldnt join us today all to taken a motion to a data of december 1st Board Meeting is there a motion supervisor cowen and supervisor mar colleagues well take that with
Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 2nd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. So colleagues one of the items are go bond for Public Health and state of were waiting on language from the City Attorney so madam clerk item 3. Ordinance retroactively 30 years the department of technology and the depth the Contract Administration to enter spots third amendment between the city and the at t coordination for the services by extending the term of the agreement only immediately 5 years not to exceed one hundred and 20 million come on up thank you. inaudible . For finance and administration for the department of technology i appreciate the chance to present e present the item before you the third amendment to the contract with at t local Long Distance tell and Data Services and professional services and becoming we agree with the budget Analyst Recommendations a
All right, we are ready to start. It is monday, january 25, Small Business commission meeting. It is 2. 10 and we are going to call the meeting to order. Before we do that just again announcement that i do not have speaker cards so for this meeting for when the item that you are interested in speaking on is called, just line up and say your name if youd like to before you start to speak. So id like to thank sfgovtv for recording and airing the Small Business commission meeting. So, mr. President , i will go to item no. 1. Call to order, roll call. Do your announcement first. So were going to start make ago monthly announcement or an announcement for every meeting to let you know and to reinforce the notion that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your business in San Francisco. A lot of people dont know that and when starting a business in San Francisco, the first place you want to go is either in person or online to sfosb. Org and or come to our desk here at city h
Watching you at, like, 2 00 am on channel 26 and i heard your announcement, you guys are the first stop for business in San Francisco and this person was a Small Business owner and they appreciated that. Thats great. That was a good idea. Well, hopefully it reminds everyone else of the existence of the office of Small Business so when they, even though they are already in business and they have issues that they think to come to us first as well. I have one suggestion, mr. President. About these presentations that are great, i think we ought, however, to make it easy for Small Businesses to have access to these presentations. Uhhuh. Would it be possible to have a link on our site to these presentations to make it easy because they are updated and they are tied to, i dont know if it is possible, technically possible. Well, i appreciate that, commissioner. Now that we have a calendar section on our web site we will be inputting these regular calendar items such as when taxes are due, when