The Small Business commission is also the official forum per policy and projects for people to state their concerns that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. You can visit us here in person or on line and if you need assistance start here. Item number 1 call to order and roll call. Commissioner stephen adams. Here. Commissioner Kathleen Dooley is absent exused. Commissioner mark dwight. Here. Commissioner william ortizcartagena is abstent. Commissioner irene yee riley. Here. Commissioner mar mar. Here. You have a 84 up. Item number 2 our presenter is not here yet and would you like to move to item 3. Yes please. All right. We will call item 3 forward. General Public Comment. Allows the members of the public to comment on generally on matters that are within the Small Business commissions jurisdiction but not for todays calendar and items for commissions future consideration. Do we have any Public Comments today. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Item 4
Committee clerk is steve stamos and the Committee Like to acknowledge sfg tv who record each meeting and are jim smith and mark [inaudible] before we begin , motion to excuse jane kim from the Committee Meeting . Okay. Any objection . Motion passed. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . There are no announce ments. So, why dont we start with item number 2 . Alright. Item 2, approve the minutes of the june 30, 2016 meeting. This is actioniteal. Item could i have a motion, please . No objection the motion passes. Take a roll call vote on this. Public comment Public Comment on the minutes for june 30th . No Public Comment. Public comment is closed. And roll call vote. Commissioner campos, aye. Commissioner yee, aye. The minutes are approved. Okay. Item 3, please item 3, recommend approval of the resolution urging the legal of california cities to adopt and implement vision zero to eliminate strafic deaths and priorities safety throughout california. This is action item. Okay. So, the
Newspaper. The white house released a few themes, the theme of turning the page on recession and war. Why do we start out by what you have learned from the preview this week about how the white house wants to frame tonights speech . The keywords that we will hear from the president are middleclass economics. This in my mind is a campaignstyle speech. The president will be hitting on a number of populist proposals, including Free Community college. He will be talking about a number of tax cuts, billions worth of tax cuts for the middle class. She performed mortgage is cheaper home mortgages. But my colleagues described obama tonight is playing the role of a robin hood, who is taking from the rich and giving to the poor and the middle class. I think we will see this is really the opening shot we are seeing out of the 2016 election. The president certainly wont be on the ballot in 2016 and maybe Hillary Clinton and maybe somebody else, but the president tonight i think is saying this is w
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