U. S. Businesses. They are the engine of the economy. Reporter americas 28 million Small Businesses are truly the backbone of the economy. Accounting for more than half of all u. S. Sales, according to the Small Business administration. Theyve also created 66 of all net new jobs since the 1970s and thats created some 8 million new jobs since 1990. But running a Small Business is no easy task. Just ask tamara kennedy. She started as a secretary for a franchisee and eventually bought one of her own in 1999. Before the recession, she had grown to 14 sessions but had to close four during the downturn. The hardest part was letting 50 people go. Never an easy thing to do knowing that those folks had people that counted on their income. Part of communities that that income made a difference in. Reporter but she has persevered with nine locations across minnesota and iowa. This is important for small companies. The National Federation of businesses for 2016 found the cost of Health Insurance t
[gavel] all right. Welcome everyone to our plans and programs meeting of the sfmta for february 14, 2017. I am katy tang chair of this committee and to my left is insure supervisor sheehy and commissioner supervisor farrell and we would like to thank sfgtv and the clerk. Mr. Clerk if you could about to roll call please. All right. Commissioner breed. Breed is absent. Commissioner farrell is absent. Commissioner supervisor farrell. Here. Commissioner supervisor safai. Here. Commissioner. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. Item 2 is Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Thank you. Do we have mr. Chris walding leer today. Hes not here. Thats interesting then we will go to Public Comment on item 2 now i pose. All right. No Public Comment. That was an information item. [gavel] item 3 please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of the january 17, 2017 meeting. This is an action item. Colleagues if you have looked at the minutes we can get a motion to approve the minutes
Provoked you to support this . There were some that refused to testify and during this investigation this board issued were the last board issued i believe this first subpoena i believe in 24 425 years and i think that mme. City clerk knows the exact amount of years with that but i think that we need to get to the bottom of this. This is not to be used lightly but i think particularly in a case of manifested Public Safety they need to understand the gravityand they need to understand that telling the truth and the whole truth is very, very important and they need to understand this Public Safety issue and get to the bottom of it. This is not something that i expect the committee or the full board to use this with any regularity but there is another individual coming before the committee another peer that i feel will be very helpful to our investigations to have that individual testify personally to an oath and i think it is an important tool to use in our tool chest for the board for m
Public comment on item 2 now i pose. All right. No Public Comment. That was an information item. [gavel] item 3 please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of the january 17, 2017 meeting. This is an action item. Colleagues if you have looked at the minutes we can get a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. [inaudible] [off mic] all right. And we will do roll call. Commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner sheehy. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. The minutes are approved. [gavel] all right. Item 4 please. Item 4 recommendation allocation of 4,456,324 in prop k funds and 2,540,359 in prop aa funds with conditions for five requests subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule. This is an action item. We have anna leforthere. I am director of program and policy and i am present the program for the half cent funds and vehicle funds and those at home and for new members of the commission as well as others the prop k half cent sales tax has been in its a voter approved sales tax
Good afternoon it is now, 1 08 p. M. This is the regular meeting of of the 123ri789 the Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for tuesday, february 21, 2017, welcome to members of the public madam clerk male call the first item first order of business commissioner pimentel commissioner bustos commissioner singh commissioner moore madam rosales all members of the commission are present the next order of business announcements the next meeting will be held other 1 00 p. M. And b please be advised a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to address the commission unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that any member of the public any member of the public wishes to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit it to the commission secretary. C announcements of time allotment for members of the public to address the commission unless the Commission Jurisdiction and not on todays calendar. Each speaker shall h