Extremely, personally difficult for me. I made it because, i believe it was in the best interest of oakland. Reporter the acting chief is a 24 year veteran. Inspected the graduating class, including two officers for barge, and two for fremont. Allison did not want to comment before the ceremony. Oakland councilmember said the city council was blindsided. The timing was completely wrong in terminating. You do not terminate anyone or dismiss anyone without a cause. The reaction im getting on the phones, and emails, neighbors are upset with what we are doing. We no longer have become city hall, but silly hall. We moved on. We are looking for a new form of leadership. We wish chief Anne Kirkpatrick well. And Regina Jackson that heads a Police Commission said the panel lost confidence in Anne Kirkpatrick, an outsider that was the First Female Police chief in oakland. The commission has been upset with the slow pace of reforms in a deadly officer involved shooting. And might be a good idea t
The additional 1 million will allow us to recapitalize the loan program. This will allow us to provide lowinterest rates to invest in corridors. Were looking at about 3. 5 rate. But the loan is also available to citywide businesses or businesses across the city. The last time we actually provided resources to this Revolving Loan fund was in 2013, under mayor lee. And main street lounge is our partner in administering the loan. Were currently actually amending their contract, so we can add the additional dollars. Next piece is the 2 million allocation for the next two years to expand the s. F. Shines program, into the bayview, excelsior and lower haight. The dollars support Small Business owners to make improvements to their storefronts and interiors. With the goal here is to make the spaces more appealing and accessible to patrons and contribute to the overall vitality of the neighborhood. We estimate that the additional dollars will support about 100 businesses over the next two years
The additional 1 million will allow us to recapitalize the loan program. This will allow us to provide lowinterest rates to invest in corridors. Were looking at about 3. 5 rate. But the loan is also available to citywide businesses or businesses across the city. The last time we actually provided resources to this Revolving Loan fund was in 2013, under mayor lee. And main street lounge is our partner in administering the loan. Were currently actually amending their contract, so we can add the additional dollars. Next piece is the 2 million allocation for the next two years to expand the s. F. Shines program, into the bayview, excelsior and lower haight. The dollars support Small Business owners to make improvements to their storefronts and interiors. With the goal here is to make the spaces more appealing and accessible to patrons and contribute to the overall vitality of the neighborhood. We estimate that the additional dollars will support about 100 businesses over the next two years
Loan program. This will allow us to provide lowinterest rates to invest in corridors. Were looking at about 3. 5 rate. But the loan is also available to citywide businesses or businesses across the city. The last time we actually provided resources to this Revolving Loan fund was in 2013, under mayor lee. And main street lounge is our partner in administering the loan. Were currently actually amending their contract, so we can add the additional dollars. Next piece is the 2 million allocation for the next two years to expand the s. F. Shines program, into the bayview, excelsior and lower haight. The dollars support Small Business owners to make improvements to their storefronts and interiors. With the goal here is to make the spaces more appealing and accessible to patrons and contribute to the overall vitality of the neighborhood. We estimate that the additional dollars will support about 100 businesses over the next two years. Just quickly, just some history on the program. Since 200
Agencies are going to accomplish our goals, to help our Small Businesses and streamline the efforts. And also with the s. F. Shines program, the Program Manager with that program has been working closely with ria in our office, with Accessible Business Entrance Program and our grant funding. Were really trying to align and maximize all of our funding efforts and supporting each others programs, so that were really making it much easer for businesses as far as helping them. So thats its really great to see how were really working closely together. So accomplish our goals. Great. Well, thank you so much, commissioners. If i may, i just wanted to say thank you very much for the positive responses. Were looking forward to doing more. We know that theres more work to be done. Were certainly not stopping or resting on any of the achievements that weve shared with you so far. I think that i think that were we are living in a very complicated environment for Small Businesses, which is why the