thank you very much. [applause] ok, back to work. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org it s seems like we have plenty of people to the back of the room. you may notice that i am not mayor lee. i have been filling in for him a lot this year. i have been filling in for his former position. my name is amy brown. the mayor since his regrets. he has a very busy schedule, as i am sure that you understand. welcome, everyone. mostly i want to just express to you that we do know in city government how important this industry is. we know it is important for our tourism visitors and our economy, the jobs that it directly and indirectly creates. most of all it is important because it is part of what makes san francisco san francisco. a vibrant nightlife is part of why tourists come here. the kinds of people that are creative and entrepreneurial, that come here and live here, creating jobs in high-tech industries, it is part of why they want to be here. beca
welcome, everyone. mostly i want to just express to you that we do know in city government how important this industry is. we know it is important for our tourism visitors and our economy, the jobs that it directly and indirectly creates. most of all it is important because it is part of what makes san francisco san francisco. a vibrant nightlife is part of why tourists come here. the kinds of people that are creative and entrepreneurial, that come here and live here, creating jobs in high-tech industries, it is part of why they want to be here. because of our restaurants, entertainment, and clubs. i want to stress that we know how much good that you do for the city and we appreciate it. often we make it difficult to be small businesses here. i know that there is a lot of bureaucracy. we are trying, through the entertainment commission, to find ways to streamline the process. we look forward to hearing from you how we might help the entertainment industry specifically. i know
captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org it s seems like we have plenty of people to the back of the room. you may notice that i am not mayor lee. i have been filling in for him a lot this year. i have been filling in for his former position. my name is amy brown. the mayor since his regrets. he has a very busy schedule, as i am sure that you understand. welcome, everyone. mostly i want to just express to you that we do know in city government how important this industry is. we know it is important for our tourism visitors and our economy, the jobs that it directly and indirectly creates. most of all it is important because it is part of what makes san francisco san francisco. a vibrant nightlife is part of why tourists come here. the kinds of people that are creative and entrepreneurial, that come here and live here, creating jobs in high-tech industries, it is part of why they want to be here. because of our restaurants, entertainment, and clubs.
because it is part of what makes san francisco san francisco. a vibrant nightlife is part of why tourists come here. the kinds of people that are creative and entrepreneurial, that come here and live here, creating jobs in high-tech industries, it is part of why they want to be here. because of our restaurants, entertainment, and clubs. i want to stress that we know how much good that you do for the city and we appreciate it. often we make it difficult to be small businesses here. i know that there is a lot of bureaucracy. we are trying, through the entertainment commission, to find ways to streamline the process. we look forward to hearing from you how we might help the entertainment industry specifically. i know that often we focus on the negative about this industry. that is because that is mostly what we hear. complaints about noise and graffiti. obviously, we are camp concerned and are doing anything they can to make sure that our night life is safe for everyone to enj
seeing none, public comment is closed. the minutes of april 24. anybody? i found something wrong with have not found anything wrong with our minutes until now. i thought a last name should be added. other public comments on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. can i have a motion to continue the minutes? we have a motion and a second. item #3. report of the executive director. kraska evening. i have a short report. good evening. given there is two weeks between meetings [unintelligible] i will briefly let you know that small business week 2012 begins next week on the 14th of may. and the commission will be participating. where are present at the we are present at the kickoff event on monday night. commissioner perez is helping with some collateral material and marketing so people will know we re there. we will be telling small businesses about what we do. and the balance of the week, you should take a look at the small business commission website beca