But not required to state their names. Sf govtv. Please show the office of Small Business slide. To today. We will begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Before item one is called, id like to start by thanking Media Services and sf govtv for helping to run the meeting. Id also like to acknowledge our new commissioner for ron benitez. Well im ron. Hi. Were really excited to have you here and i hope you enjoy your first meeting. I will. So go secretary , please call item number one. Item one, roll call. Commissioner benitez. President commissioner dickerson. Present commissioner herbert. President huey here. Commissioner ortiz. Cartagena here. And Vice President ziziunas. Present. Present didnt you have a quorum . Thank you so much for the San Francisco Small Business commission, an office of Small Business staff acknowl
We have five people confirmed dead as a result of the storm. The forecasters have been telling us the worst may still be ahead because there is more rain on the way. President trump says he thinks congress will quickly approve the funding thats necessary for recovery. The president is heading in person to texas tomorrow. When he gets there well see an area still dealing with a catastrophic event. One that is by no means over. In terms of where thing line up this evening. 2,000 people in houston have been rescued so far. 3050 counties in texas have been impacted. 30,000 plus are expected to need shelter. We have the Economic Impact in the Market Movement we are following. And we do so in the for of gasoline. Oil prices went up. We have plenty of oil in the world right now. But the refined product, thats hard to come by for we dont know for how long. Some of these refineries are closed. And we dont know when they will be able to open again or when those workers will be able to think abou
Richard. Were all set. Were also very pro another local our events with bob richard. We are also proud today, you may have seen the fancier audio visual equipment, we are proud to present cspans filming this today so when you get home, you cannot only watch this on the center of the wet you to channel, youll be able to watch it on cspan. Anyway, this top has a very interesting genesis to me. Two of the earliest families in the area are the frost and richard family. The ross frost family had ranch outside of town and one summer, the photographer came for the summer and he had all this equipment. He had great plates, he had photography he had all these cameras, and he left them at the end of the summer. So a 28yearold net frost took all this equipment and at this point wasnt just a hunting guide in a trip to hunt he also became a photographer. And jack richard, became an esteemed photographer. So photography kind of runs in these families, and they have this rugged existence. But they ha