Called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called for Public Comment, please mute the device youre listening to the meeting on. When yothe meeting is limited te minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presenting officer of the meeting and when your time is up, youll hear an alarm sound. Speaker are requested but not required to state your names. Please show the small office of business slide. Today we will start with a reminder that the Small Business commission is a public forum to voice your concerns about policies that affect the economic vitalities and Small Businesses in San Francisco. Our services are completely free of charge and before item one is called, i would like to thank Media Services and sf gov tv and a special thanks to jim smith for moderating or Public Comment line. Item 1, call to order and role call. role call . Mr. President , you have a quorum. Wait withi, you didnt call. [ laughter ] please call item number 2, board of supervisors number 2
Working on planning trees as volunteers, you are part of different boards or different organizations ar advocating for trees and we are the end of the line at board of appeals. We dont make policy. We consider whether or not they issue permits that the city has put in place have been properly followed. Thats really where we are and so working with your supervisors organizing quite frankly, to make this remain a priority, obviously theyre taxed to with the covid19 response so being respectful and tactical and strategic about what you are advocate forgeron that being said, the Climate Crisis continues and other things continue as covid19 might be in the forefront so keep organizing and keep working with the board of supervisors and put your treasure there for legislative change and fixes that can help. Folks like mr. Buck and others to have the tools and resources they need to implement the policy thats will hopefully protect our can may and grow our can pee in the long run. I hope we wo
End of the shelterinplace remotely. This is the 15th remote hearing. I am requesting everyones patience in advance. The platforms are not perfect and at times may even be clumsy. If youre not speaking, mute your microphone and turn off your video camera. Do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. To enable public participation, sfgovtv is streaming this live. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the toll free phonein number across the bottom of the screen. Opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 888 2733658, entering code, 3107452. Pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, enter 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, youll hear a chime. When the time is reached, i will announce that your time is up. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and mute the volume on your television or computer. Id like to take rol
You call in before comment is called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called for Public Comment, please mute the device youre listening to the meeting on. When yothe meeting is limited te minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presenting officer of the meeting and when your time is up, youll hear an alarm sound. Speaker are requested but not required to state your names. Please show the small office of business slide. Today we will start with a reminder that the Small Business commission is a public forum to voice your concerns about policies that affect the economic vitalities and Small Businesses in San Francisco. Our services are completely free of charge and before item one is called, i would like to thank Media Services and sf gov tv and a special thanks to jim smith for moderating or Public Comment line. Item 1, call to order and role call. role call . Mr. President , you have a quorum. Wait withi, you didnt call. [ laughter ] please call item number 2,
Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not onl