Welcome to the monday, november 18, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco Small Business commission. The meeting is called to order at 2 07 p. M. Our thankses goes didto city Hall Building management Media Services and sfgov tv for making this possible. Members of the public silence cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards are at the front for those wishing to speak on any agenda item. Speaker cards enable a more accurate record of Public Comments. You can return completed speaker cards to me. Additionally there is a sign in sheet at the front table for those that would like to be added to our mailing list. We will now take a roll call. Commissioner adams . Here. Commissioner dooley . Here. Commissioner dwight . Here. Commissioner obrien . Here. Commissioner ortizcartagena . Commissioner white . Here. We have a quorum. Next item. Item 2, general Public Comment allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the commissions purview, and suggest new agenda items
This and there is an overlapping between the mta and the cta and ininvolvement in the warriors eir that the water front transit assessment, and that is not clear here. And what eir are you talking about . We know that the eir for the warriors is post up and well we dont know when, because they keep designing the project new and the date keeps receding. And but, what we have along the water front, is no outlet, there is embarcadero and there is the bay on one side and there are hills and bay bridge on the other side it is not like you have a lot of choices unless you are a shurpa and you want to go over the bridge. But we dont have transit worth crap in this area. And no one seems to care about it except for the district six supervisor. But if we dont resolve this problem, in conjunction with this study, we are not addressing the problem. We have arena that is not basketball, it is a 252 day arena and on the other side there is a hotel and up scale housing, right converging at the same
Commissioner white . Here. We have a quorum. Next item. Item 2, general Public Comment allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the commissions purview, and suggest new agenda items for the commissions future consideration. Any member want to make a comment to the office of commission of Small Business that is not on todays agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item. Item number 3, presentation of a Small Business Commission Certificate of honor recognizing the San Francisco chamber of commerce Small Business Advisory Committee as part of the sbcs Small Business recognition program. Thats you. Down here . Umhm, wherever you prefer. All right, here we go. Put on my glasses to read it. Okay. This is a certificate of honor to the Small Business commission from the Small Business commission to the Small Business Advisory Council of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. On this monday, november 18, 2013, the Small Business commission is honored to
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