Good deal . We have all that and more on this monday, august 19th. Good evening, everyone. Welcome. His vacation over, president obama got back to work today, and he wasted no time tackling a topic of high interest to investors, not to mention Financial Services executives. At a closeddoor white house meeting he sat down with the nations top financial regulators to get a Progress Report on how the government is implementing the dodd frank law. It covers wall street and the nations largest banks. John harwood joins us from the white house with details on who attended todays meeting, and why it was necessary. John . Tyler, it was financial regulators from all across the government, including the Federal Reserve, cftc, fec, comptroller of the currency. The president wanted to sell his economic agenda, only about 40 of the regulations, putting in place the dodd frank Financial Regulation reform have been enacted or completed by the regulators. This was a pep rally to try to get them to fin
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With us. And during a partnership of the office of economic and workforce development, smart will be conducting the out reach specifically targeted to businesses with neighborhood commercial corridor and this out reach will focus on commuter programs and also electric vehicle programs. And finally, the regional ordinance will be taking effect later this year, and that will effect the businesses with 50 or more employees in the 9 county bay area. And the San Francisco commuter benefits ordinance will work hand in hand with the regional ordinance to expand the availability of commuter benefits. To more employees in the bay area. And i would like to introduce gabby conas coordinator for our energy program, thank you. Good evening. Like my colleague said i am here to talk about the Energy Efficiency program. And implemented by the department of the environment. This program has not only helped the Small Business owners, save money by providing Energy Savings that directly support their bot
Formula retail that we will study. So will there be Big Box Stores in addition to Smaller Stores . And we want to make sure that we have all of our possibilities covered in there including, perhaps, entities that are not currently considered formula retail but may be in the future. And for example, gas stations, or gyms or other personal service. And chains that we doents currently subject to formula retail controls but may in the future, we want to be sure that we have that to the extent that we can predict how that will happen we want to have data because we dont know when we will have the opportunity to study the information. Commissioner dooley . I wanted to also request, i remember in the 2007 study, they had some kind of broader statistics about formula retail that is based outside of San Francisco, in terms of that verses a local business, and how much money comes back to the city and if the other way how much money is taken away from the city that would not be, if it was local.
Are you going to equate so that the scale is not tipped just by volume . I think that the short answer to that is that we dont want to finalize after the consultant is selected, we will finalize the scope in working with the consultants so the number one point is to choose neighborhoods that reflect the different conditions on the ground, the different economic levels different rates of activity and the different areas served so is this a regional hub . Is it a local hub, or a city wide district, and we want to make sure that we have a good balance and then, we want to make sure that the districts that are chosen in terms of comparison have it a balance of formula retail that we will study. So will there be Big Box Stores in addition to Smaller Stores . And we want to make sure that we have all of our possibilities covered in there including, perhaps, entities that are not currently considered formula retail but may be in the future. And for example, gas stations, or gyms or other pers