Toursarkissian, here. And commission Monetta White has an excused absence. Item no. 2 is general Public Comment. This allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the commissionary purview and suggest new agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on items that are not on todays agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item no. 3 is introduction to the new Small Business Development Director angel cardoz and we have him here today. Welcome. First off let me say thank you for allocating the time and the invitation for me to introduce myself. My name is angel cardoz and as of jar january 5th i am the new director for the San Francisco Small Business development center. If you are not familiar with the program, the program is dined to help entrepreneurs both start and expand businesses by providing one on one consulting and business training. Business training
Is that if they have been doing this in the past i mean technically just because we now have a specific process for the Registry Program does that mean that they still had to register in the past with the tax and Treasurers Office. So there will be consideration for businesses do need to give consideration about whether individuals need to give consideration as to whether they are going to be honest about their past years because there will be back Business Registration and back taxes, you know, the transit occupancy tax that will be due. So we will have some discussion with folks around that in terms of, you know, making sure that they give consideration about that, you know, because basically if a claim is filed against them and if there is looking into them, finds out that they werent honest and that they did back Business Registration and transit occupancy tax, there will definitely be penalties assessed to them. But that process the Planning Department does have it up. Its also no
The relevant folks, wed like to invite them for a conversation about rather than the other is we want you to come in and give us a report. Right, right. But just have a conversation about whats currently in place and what some of the feedback were getting from our respective neighborhoods and where we might be able to Work Together to figure out how to make some improvements. Not just the bad, the good too. When you said the castro street widening project, mohammed, i gave him a ton, a ton of credit with him wanting to do it all in one fatal swoop rather than dragging it on for six months. Not fatal swoop. Mohammed is awesome in how they handled that project. You know, everybody is happy with the way they handled that. All right, okay. So the great, all right, so i will work on that and i will confirm that, you know, we will be able to have the departments available for the 9th. All right, so we are now officially closing item no. 5. So moving on to item no. 6 is the election of office
The relevant folks, wed like to invite them for a conversation about rather than the other is we want you to come in and give us a report. Right, right. But just have a conversation about whats currently in place and what some of the feedback were getting from our respective neighborhoods and where we might be able to Work Together to figure out how to make some improvements. Not just the bad, the good too. When you said the castro street widening project, mohammed, i gave him a ton, a ton of credit with him wanting to do it all in one fatal swoop rather than dragging it on for six months. Not fatal swoop. Mohammed is awesome in how they handled that project. You know, everybody is happy with the way they handled that. All right, okay. So the great, all right, so i will work on that and i will confirm that, you know, we will be able to have the departments available for the 9th. All right, so we are now officially closing item no. 5. So moving on to item no. 6 is the election of office
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