In the Small Business commission and thanks to the selfdoubt services id like to welcome everyone to the Small Business Commission Meeting of august 22, 2016, and the start time is the Small Business commission. Commission thanks to the services and sfgovtv staff Business Commission meeting. The meeting can be viewed on sfgov channel 78 or live streamed by sfgovtv. Org simply go to our website meeting is limited to 3 minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. Plaza spelling of the speakers name for the written record, and please deliver it to the secretary prior to sfgovtv please show our slide we have a reminder that the San Francisco Small Business commission is the only place existing business. Office of Small Business is your first stop when you have a question about what to do next and it is the st. Josephs of the Small Businesses in the county of San Francisco. It is fair to say if you need assistance start here all right. Okay item
Coming up in ten minutes, well let you know how this will impact the roads. Melissa says it will not be good. Wont be good. We have a brandnew problem here in gaithersburg. Look at this one, west deer park at muddy branch. Brandnew crash here, Montgomery County, just spoke with them there, this is a crash with entrapment, could be there for a while as crews are out there on the scene. 270 south at buckeystown pike, left lane blocked. Slowdown, looks like it is getting a tad better there this morning. Red line, singletracking between farragut north. Outer loop at colesville, that problem off to the right side of the roadway and 95 south at russell, crash on the right shoulder. 6 01 now. New information just in after a fire early this morning on Settlers Landing way in potomac, maryland. Montgomery county firefighters say an electrical problem started that fire in the basement. The family was home at the time, firefighters say working smoke alarms alerted them. One man is being treated f
Alternatives that are there. Senator crapo. The private sector markets are contracting. Im concerned that this reduces student bar options. Could you describe the current state of the private student loan market and how that compares to the market and made a claim why we are seeing this dynamic . Thank you very much for the question. We have gone from a 24 billion industry to about an 8 billion industry. And yet performance rating for many of her banks have exited Student Lending business. There are few others thinking about it. We have a 3 default rate. We flip the equation. We dont want to look at a refinancing option. We dont need to because we do all the work at the front end. We make sure we have an ability to repay. Theres nothing worse than telling a student at the very beginning of the crew were not sure you can afford the loan we are about to give you. We do have selfsegregation 90 some of our loans are certified by the institution. When there is a time to repay the loan, we w
Here at San Jose City hall. You have mayoral candidate dave cortese, whos a santa clara supervisor, has the backing of the police union. You can see him here casting his vote this morning. Hes going up against sam liccardo, a San Jose City councilman, who has the support of mayor chuck reed. What separates the two most is where they stand on measure b. Liccardo supported the law to cut pensions for Police Officers and other City Employees in order to trim the budget deficit. As a result, there is now bad blood between the rank and file Police Officers and the mayor and parts of the city council. Cortese is painting himself as the mayor who can mend those relations and help rebuild the department. In recent years, hundreds of officers have been let go in a costcutting measure leading to lower morale and an uptick in crime. Cortese promises to hire 140 officers to restore some of the departments original strength. The neighborhood that were standing in right now is the neighborhood that