Comment has been set and noticed for this meeting. The phone number to use today is 415 a6550001 access. Code 26638999497. When the item is called, ill star three to enter the queue. Commenters will have up to two minutes to provide comment unless otherwise noted by the chair. Please speak clearly, ensure youre in a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. We thank you for your cooperation. Places you on item two. Roll call director henderson. Here. Henderson. President director hinsey. President kinsey. President director. So present. So present. Director kahina walking right in. Thank you, chair. Ekin right in time here. Egan present. We are expecting director hemminger. Although however, director yekutiel is not expected today. You do have a quorum and for the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. She is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on item nu
Today we will begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. Before item one is called, id like to start by thanking Media Services and sfgovtv and of course, our staff for helping run this meeting, please call item one, item one. Roll call. Commissioner benitez. Commissioner cornett, present. Commissioner. Dickerson. Present. Commissioner herbert is absent. President healy is absent. Commissioner ortiz cartagena, here and Vice President ozunas present. Vice president. You have a quorum. Thank you. Okay, now i will read our land acknowledgment. The San Francisco Small Business commission and the office of Small Business staff acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accord
415 a6550001 access. Code 26638999497. When the item is called, ill star three to enter the queue. Commenters will have up to two minutes to provide comment unless otherwise noted by the chair. Please speak clearly, ensure youre in a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. We thank you for your cooperation. Places you on item two. Roll call director henderson. Here. Henderson. President director hinsey. President kinsey. President director. So present. So present. Director kahina walking right in. Thank you, chair. Ekin right in time here. Egan present. We are expecting director hemminger. Although however, director yekutiel is not expected today. You do have a quorum and for the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. She is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on item number three the rigging and use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic
The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another universe. It is open to a fairly small percentage of taxpayers, but the reviews it got from its initial users were overwhelmingly positive. It seems like a whole lot of people were very stunned that a federal agency, particularly one as frequently vilified as the irs, was able to build a helpful website that works. Tens of thousands of taxpayers who use direct file this year collectively save millions on fees that they wouldve paid to one of the tax software giants. Website is userfriendly. It is quick and easy to use and di
Present. Commissioner pikes. Present. Item 3 the acknowledgment of the Ramaytush Ohlone community. Ramaytush ohlone acknowledgment. Thank you, president and item 4 for the president s report want to take a moment of silence in recognition of the loss of extraordinary life, career and Public Service of senator diane feinstei wanted to acknowledge the role this she and her office through her played in ensuring the success of the Housing Authority. Throughout the pursuit rad. Rehad been dollars supported our residents. And of course her legacy around the violence this affects the lives of so many in our communities. She was an advocate for gun control in the country. We had many strong and fierce integrity around that issue. Her support of the lbgtq communities during the heist hiv pandemic when so many ignored the issue says she would not and could not and helped support our communities during this time. And in the latino and immigrant communities her support standing against the racist