also creates efficiency in the office of small business. so if martha and i are sitting at the counter and asks what are all the forms i need in my food truck business? as we explain we can pull the forms up. and the last piece, which i think is also very important is the fact that we saw 2,500 clients in our office last year, but i m sure there were hundreds if not thousands thousands of other individuals out there who didn t seek our assistance, who are either afraid to come to city hall, too busy or don t know about our existence. so those folks might just do a google search and might come across this website on their own. and when we capture their information at the beginning, we are also capturing a new segment of our city s population who we may not have had the opportunity to touch as we operate now. this project began in april of this year, where we started discussing the idea of pulling the different departments together. we did a briefing where there were, i think
contractors in the city. and the levels have been kind of low other than the three departments that we know of. i m with the economic empowerment fund and we re a personal foundation that helps empowering the emerging market with education and add vo casey. i ve created a partnership with city bank and sfmta to look at how to mine some of the san francisco businesses and prepare them for contracting opportunities. we have a program scheduled for august 10 and we re looking for construction in marketing related companies that can specifically sell to department or to some of the primes of the first tier. so any company that s under $5 million and san francisco based we think would be a good candidate for the program. that the way it will look is taking applications on august 10. we have a full day seminar. helps people put together their company binder then get them through the application process through the department of transportation and then we have several different co
and let s say i m going to start an accounting service and this actually is something that i see a lot at the office of small businesses assistance counter, a lot of folks that might be out of work who use the work for larger firms, whether it s accounting or legal services or any type of consulting, they are coming to us in large quantities and they want to know how do i start my own firm? so this would be a good example to start. i ve selected accounting services and i will click on fee licenses. so on this page, the user will enter their name. so for our purposes, i will just enter test information. and the advantage of this is it is also capturing the user s information as they come to our site. and they can indicate whether they re a new or existing business. and select estimated revenue if they choose to. those fields are optional. i m going to click on get licenses. so for accounting services, what they ll do is they ll show you the estimated fees so what that $295
the fact that we saw 2,500 clients in our office last year, but i m sure there were hundreds if not thousands thousands of other individuals out there who didn t seek our assistance, who are either afraid to come to city hall, too busy or don t know about our existence. so those folks might just do a google search and might come across this website on their own. and when we capture their information at the beginning, we are also capturing a new segment of our city s population who we may not have had the opportunity to touch as we operate now. this project began in april of this year, where we started discussing the idea of pulling the different departments together. we did a briefing where there were, i think over 12 departments who came together. department heads who were very interested in participating in this pros is. not only does it help the small business constituents, it helps these departments in their day-to-day business that they do as well. we re currently work
clerk: item number eight, the municipal transit authority with richard ventura, my understanding is that he is not able to make it today and that this item will be continued possibly to the next meeting. i think for the record, we should call public comment on it before moving on, but, again, it will be continued until the next meeting. president adams: a, do we have public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed on item number rate. and let s continue that to the next meeting, chris. clerk: ok, item number 9, an updated report. an update on the legislative matters, and making announcements regarding activities. commissioners, i wanted to first provide you with a budget update. so the budget committee ratified the budget, and it is now before the board of supervisors, and i think it will be on the board of supervisors meeting tomorrow, but just to confirm, the two budget requests, increase requests that we specifically asked for are in there, which is increasing our