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
Were a membership based nonprofit organization, and were so proud to be collaborating with supervisor campos on this legislation. It really we feel a validation of our earlier efforts in this realm ~. We feel that the proposed legislation is modest, but highly significant step towards recognizing these businesses he which are so important to defining the identity of San Francisco ~ a. Too often these places are taken for granted until we learn of their impending closure, which unfortunately in San Francisco is almost a weekly occurrence. Many of thea businesses are successful, longstanding business he that, but for the current economic climate, would survive and thrive today. As documented in our report sustaining San Franciscos living history that was just released in september, one of the primary challenges facing these businesses is the fact that they do not own the spaces in which they operate and that they are subject to the Economic Force he that make their lease renewal prohibit
Performance venues, and manufacturers that have all served San Francisco for more than 30 years. These business he must also demonstrate a strong connection to the neighborhood and the community in which they operate. Throughout the world programs have been developed to protect bars, restaurants, and retail establishments. San francisco heritage who is here with us today is going to provide a little bit of Additional Information on these programs throughout the world and their legacy bar and Restaurant Program here in San Francisco. San francisco, with this legislation, would be the first city in the United States to codify a legacy business registry. Designation of these Cultural Assets la victorias bakery, green apple books, the rock see, gallery [speaker not understood], the list could go on and on, will provide some is civic recognition of the importance to the community of these establishments. One additional piece is that we would like to begin this process with one tangible bene
Thank you. My name is pam [speaker not understood]. Im the president , board chair of the Chinese Progressive Association and i want to be able to speak in support of campos supervisor campos legislation. I want to be able to speak in terms of the Community Perspective and as community, people always have access to expressing their views when we have our elected board of trustees. And now we dont have that kind of access any more. And we have a lot to say. And some of the things that we really care about in preserving, not only in terms of the credit classes ill go back to that in just a moment. But the value of city college to be able to provide education and services that fall under the category of noncredit classes. And im very concerned that our ability to be able to communicate, the richness and importance of these kinds of courses will be denied us and we will lose them. The second party want to as a Community Representative to speak of is of the access, Affordable Access and acc
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young people that are taking advantage of these different programs will leave with much, much more debt and that is something that everybody left, right and center on this board in the state of california should oppose. We should [speaker not understood] agenda.