Your grandfather was here. Now your father is here. And if you dont get the quality right, this business wont be here for you. Miami is my hometown, and its also home to over a million cubanamericans. Since the castro revolution, cuban families have come here to build their homes and their businesses. They bring their culture while embracing something that is distinctly american the American Dream. Grafton furniture is a shining example. Started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the Custom Manufacturing Company Makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. Steve this ones 154 by 96. Lemonis his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50 50 partners with his wife, mary. Their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. But when the economy turned in 2009, so did the companys fortunes. Steve the market was soft. Finances were really bad. Lemonis when business slowed, the company and the family began piling up debt
90 to 102 away from the coast. Here is frances. Hi, mike. We have problems on several bridges that have been reported. One is westbound across the bay bridge as you head towards treasure island. You can see brake lights there on the incline section. That means things will back up at the bay bridge toll plaza as they start to slow down the metering lights. Already backed up to the foot of the maze. Also, a couple of problems on the other bridges. Westbound 92, san mateo bridge, a crash reported near the toll plaza as well as westbound 84 on the dumbarton bridge, another accident reported blocking a lane. As we check out the drive times, its still not horrible. Westbound across the bay bridge, 11 minutes. 14 minutes across the san mateo bridge. Of course, if you want to avoid all that, you may want to consider that. Bart, no problems, a. C. E. Train is running nine minutes late. Its back to school for Gilroy Unified School district two weeks after the shooting at the garlic festival. The
Deal with single occupancy vehicles, how we get private cars to either to certainly reduce their number, electrify those that are there, and thirdly, very important on that private sector of transportation is how do we electrify the dirtiest vehicles, diesel trucks. That is a big task for us to figure out how our asthma corridors, which are related to our transportation corridors which are related to our movement of goods, how we elect reelect electrify that. But certainly, supporting public transportation, getting people out of vehicle, owning our grid, those are the areas that i think were ripe to have leadership and help. Supervisor mandelman thank you, director raphael. I didnt give you the heads up that i was going to ask that. Great answer. But i was hoping for it. Supervisor mandelman i certainly thank you again for sticking with us and for your leadership on these issues with zero waste and waste and construction waste and im done. Thank you. Supervisor safai ill just i didnt w
Tamika moss spear headed the effort. I remember a couple years back when we discovered we had empty Public Housing units. We worked with thenmayor ed lee to come up with 200 million to rehabilitate those units. And because of those services, we were able to place 179 formerly homeless families in Public Housing, and so tamika moss, come on up [applause] thank you so much, mayor breed. Good morning we are here on this momentous occasion to acknowledge the leadership of our mayor and our president of this board of supervisors, mayor breed and president yee. I have had the Incredible Opportunity of leading one of the working groups with my cochairs, malcolm young, annie chung, and myrna melgar to make sure how the community has a voice in this bond . How do we make sure that every single san franciscan has access to permanent, supportive, Affordable Housing in their communities . And we have been able to come together and bring folks together around this bond, and i am so honored to be a
I am not sure who your Assembly Person is. They do often have relationships with the abc. It would be foolish not to reach out and ask for their assistance. You are a Small Business in their district trying to do the right thing. The abc toneds to turn things down tend to turn things down. You can find they are more reasonable and talk to Decision Makers on the phone. They have Office Numbers that humans answer. If i were you, i would reach out to them immediately. Sandra fewer. She is local. This is in sacramento. Scott weiner is in your district. I would call one, dont call them both. They dont like it when you confuse them. That is what they are there for and they can be helpful in these situations. We just went through an abc permit that was going to be denied after midnight in the outer sunset and be i helped the owner of the business get in touch with abc and granted them to him. It wasnt the same situation but it works and it is helpful. That was through state senator wieners of