Compliance better. So, im glad to launch this program here on irving street with supervisor chu who has been a really big champion for this. But we have many members of our Business Community that have also been asking us to do something positive about this. And not let these Small Businesses become victimized in these driveby lawsuits. To do what we can to make it a positive thing. So, im so glad that joaquin has come aboard to help us. He, having headed up the Neighborhood Services program for years, now has his talent with todd in making sure that all of the Small Businesses along these commercial corridors have access to our programs, have a higher degree of understanding, along with our Carla Johnson and our Mayors Office of disability, and all the different agencies working together, were going to make this successful. This is a family of agencies that care about our Small Businesses. Last time i looked, there were over 71,000 businesses who registered that had less than 100 empl
Requirements, the federal requirements, the state requirements, our local efforts to make sure that those that have disabilities can also shop and be a participant in our local economy. So, with that, joaquin, thank you for your leadership. We get to launch this Wonderful Program right here. There are three streets in district 4 that are going to benefit from this. Were going to roll this out to all other 85 neighborhood corridors in the rest of the city. Its that many . 25 . [laughter] all right, christmas must be coming early. Ill talk to supervisor chu about any more monies we can release. Thanks very much. Thank you, mr. Mayor. applause thank you. And now id like to bring up the supervisor, the district that were in today, someone who is no stranger to the importance of supporting our Small Businesses whose family used to run a restaurant. And like to invite to speak now supervisor carmen chu. applause thank you, everyone, for being here today. I want to thank the mayor so much for
Stories. Im going each panellest briefly. Well start with questions. Nicole goodwin all the way down at the end, enlisted in the u. S. Army in 2001. She served as a supply specialist and was deployed in iraq in july of 2003 for five 1 2 months. When nicole returned to the bronx was one of the first Homeless Veterans of iraq war and featured in the document, when i came home as well as many news programs. She lives in new york city and raising her daughter and wrying poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She graduated college in 2000 one with a ba in english in creative writing an anthropology teresa fazio, next to nicole, grew up in white plains, new york. She served as a Marine Corps Communications officer from 2002 to 2006. Deploying once to iraq. She is writing a memoir about deployment relationship and its aftermath. Teresa published her work in New York Times at war blog and read her writing at the Kennedy Center in washington, d. C. She lives and works in new york city ing rebecca hari
Of that. So within our own base we had to make sure all of the telephone cable and fiberoptic cable worked. It was a gigantic airbase midway between ramadi and fallujah on the alanbar province. It was like heading up construction crew and my marines were really hardworking. They were great. They would dig trenches and lay cable underground. We would get the entire Company Helping us out, 200 marines, pulling out cable under a airfield. They took out the old iraqi telephone wires and replaced them with 30 kilometers of cable throughout the base. Then we got mortaredded. The then the cable would be cut. And my repair marines would repair it. It was like being in charge of the whole cycle of operations there, which was stressful but i worked with a lot of fantastic people, so that was really great. Thats great. And nicole . My story i guess is a story of a misdirection, believe it or not. After i took the asap i wanted to be journalist. The recruiter told me i didnt make the cut, to get a
The Advisory Board, Advisory Councilmembers who are with us today, Harbor Light Advisory Council chairman jim ayers. Right over there. applause harbor light and chinatown core Advisory Council lilly chin. Hey, lilly. Chairman of the Salvation Army metro Advisory Board and Harbor Light Center Advisory Councilmember, you all know him, pete ratto. applause hey, pete. And introduce our volunteers and vips, San Francisco city ask county, the honorable mayor ed lee. [cheering and applauding] from the San Francisco Police Department, the chief of course, greg. And the San Francisco Police Department command staff. [cheering and applauding] the San Francisco Fire Department. With chief joanne hayes white, San Francisco fire Department Command staff. [cheering and applauding] were not there yet. A little anxious. [laughter] where was i here . United states army, Deputy Commanding officers of the pacific division, colonel petty stratford, senior officer staff. [cheering and applauding] San Franc