Good afternoon, welcome to the monday, october 22nd, 2012 Small Business commission meeting. The time is now 2 08 p. M. And the meeting is being called to order. At this time if you could please turnoff all your cell phones and electronic devices. Theres a signup sheet at the front table if youd like to be on our mailing list and speaker cards are also available. Item 1 is roll call. Commissioner adams . Here. Commissioner obrien . Present. Commissioner dooley . Here. Commissioner dwight . Here. Commissioner ortizcartagena . Mr. President , we have a quorum. Great. Next item. Item 2 is presentation of the Small Business Commission Certificate of honor recognizing a City Employee Jennifer Matz as part of the sbc City Employee Recognition Program. I believe director dickens has some opening remarks. Yes, thank you. So, Jennifer Matz, please step up to the podium. As part the Small Business commission has the Recognition Program for employees of the city and county of San Francisco who ha
Ortizcartagena . Mr. President , we have a quorum. Great. Next item. Item 2 is presentation of the Small Business Commission Certificate of honor recognizing a City Employee Jennifer Matz as part of the sbc City Employee Recognition Program. I believe director dickens has some opening remarks. Yes, thank you. So, Jennifer Matz, please step up to the podium. As part the Small Business commission has the Recognition Program for employees of the city and county of San Francisco who have really who have either support our Small Businesses and in your case you have been a real champion for the Small Business commission and our office. So, commissioner mark dwight has nominated you to receive recognition from the Small Business commission, and he is going to be presenting you with our certificate of recognition. Okay. Now, the official business here. Certificate of honor where is the camera . [laughter] okay. So, this is the official certificate of honor, Small Business commission of the cit
About nine years ago for supervisor aliotopier, and one of the first things we worked on together was proposition i that we took to the voters that included the creation of the Small Business assistance center, and really aimed to dedicate more resources to Small Businesses. And i consider myself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of you directly. Some of you worked indirectly worked with regina many years, to. Worked with commissioner e. Rely on the formation of the Small Business Revolving Loan fund. Obviously to have worked with commissioner dwight on the sf made collaborative. Commissioner dooley and i have worked together on numerous measures that have come before this commission over the years and its really been a pleasure to oftentimes work in the early stages of a program or a concepts and shepherd them, help give them some form and launch them and hand them over to folks who really spend their lives day in and day out working with Small Business. The Neighborhood E
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