R herman cruz terminal at pier 27. The first stop for all most 300 thousand people who come here every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry B
Will 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 gov tv for helping to run this meeting. Please call item one. Item one roll call commissioner benitez is present. Uh, commissioner dickerson is absent. Commissioner herbert is absent. President huey here. Commissioner ortiz cartagena here. And Vice President sessions present. President you have a quorum. The San Francisco Small Business commission and office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who were the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibiliti
Will 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 gov tv for helping to run this meeting. Please call item one. Item one roll call commissioner benitez is present. Uh, commissioner dickerson is absent. Commissioner herbert is absent. President huey here. Commissioner ortiz cartagena here. And Vice President sessions present. President you have a quorum. The San Francisco Small Business commission and office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who were the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibiliti
Harrison is present. Hartwigschulman is absent. Commissioner simi is present. With three members present, we have quorum for the sanitation and streets commission. Public comment is taken for all informational and action items on todays agenda. To comment in person, we ask you please line up against the wall furthest from the door, the audience right, when Public Comment is called. For members of the public wishing to comment on items from outside the hearing room, you may do so by joining the webinar via the link shown on page 2 of todays agenda. And to be recognized, please select the raise your hand icon in the webinar. You may also comment outside from the chamber by dialing, 14156550001 and using the meeting id of 26620992831, , and to raise your hand to be recognized please press 3. The telephone log in information is also available on pages 1 and 2 of todays agenda. Commenters may speak for up to three minutes per item and youll receive a 30 second notice when your speaking time
San francisco lets give yourselves a round of applause. [cheers and applause] we want you to feel inspired. We want you to feel uplifted and we want to you feel curious about the history of this wonderful city by the bay and how black history is San Francisco history. We are celebrating the trailblazers, you know that came from San Francisco have been still coming from the gold rush era to wwii. When tens of thousands of African Americans including my parents came to San Francisco as part of the great migration, they came from the south and the west and midwest. They came for better way of life. They came to celebrate their gifts can and by the end of wwii, the filmore district had earned the title of harlem of the west. Now although the numbers of African Americans have dwindled and decreases in years, there is no way no how, that we can erase the proud ancestors who made this city what it is today. [applause] no way tonight, we will embrace the many colors and hue of those ancestors,