Adam verizon. Pretty good road there. I read one analyst who said the new connection is good, but not as good as it could be. The mac that was kind of surprising. I agree with you. It sounded like a positive number when i first read it. Adam there was another positive there with verizon as well. 50 of their wireless base is now smart phones. Smartphones are taking over. Adam i am sitting next to a woman who just got her 5s. Lori i have not even told my husband yet. I think you just busted me but i was entitled to an upgrade, though. Shares of ibm are plunging to a two year low. Ibm chief Financial Officer says the company will be dealing with the impact of the china slowdown for another couple quarters. Adam president obama says no shutdown caused completely unnecessary damage to the u. S. Economy. Peter barnes is live for us outside the white house where we go next. Peter we got a little bit of a preview of the future budget and debt ceiling battle to come. The president thinking demo
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the chaplain, chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Almighty and powerful god. Our creator and defender, we call upon you this day to speak into the whirlwind of the life threatening storm surge and catastrophic winds that now bombard the florida peninsula and have left behind unfathomable destruction in cuba. As Hurricane Ian rages, those who are caught in its ravages are filled with dread. Their personal calamity is its own whirlwind around them. In their distress and anguish, they and we on their behalf pray to you for their safety and refuge. For you, alone, have the power with but a word to cause the tempest to still and the wind and waves to be hushed. So speak your word. Shine your light into the darkness of these days. And listen to these fervent prayers. Deliver the thousands of evacuees from their plight. Leave them to find shelter in you from all that threatens them this day.
To provide you with sort of our first runthrough of taking a look at the results of the survey. I have for you as a copy, in your binder, the tax and Treasurers Office has modified their Business Registration form. Its now a onepage form and it includes the sb1186, sb 1186 requires that each local municipality collect a dollar per Business Registration or license to go towards inspection or inspectors, mostly with the Municipality Department of department of building inspection and also for ongoing outreach education, helping businesses in compliance with their constructionrelated accessibility improvements. Of the dollar, 0. 70 is to stay in the local municipality. 0. 30 goes to the state. 5 of that 0. 70 goes to administering and processing of collecting the dollar and the rest of the 65 comes back to working on inspectors and helping get inspectors become inspectors with the department of building inspection and our outreach education ongoing and helping businesses comply with the c
Neighborhoods. And we now expanding it into chinatown. I am very pleased to say that this last saturday, northeast federal credit union, along with the Chinese Benevolent Association hosted a workshop for businesss in chinatown. And we had about 68 participants attend. So we are launching the invest in neighbors ada Outreach Program to chinatown as well. Small business week, commissioner adams will be providing you with regular report as part of his president s reports, but just wanted to let you know on the staffs side were working to explore to see if we mike might be able to have a very small kind of tech expo. Where we hear there are Small Business Technology Companies that have technology that that want to get in front of Small Businesses and have been asking how they can do that. So were looking to put together a Small Business tech expo in conjunction with Small Business week. There is still details and logistics about where to have it and best time, but were really working to t
Municipality collect a dollar per Business Registration or license to go towards inspection or inspectors, mostly with the Municipality Department of department of building inspection and also for ongoing outreach education, helping businesses in compliance with their constructionrelated accessibility improvements. Of the dollar, 0. 70 is to stay in the local municipality. 0. 30 goes to the state. 5 of that 0. 70 goes to administering and processing of collecting the dollar and the rest of the 65 comes back to working on inspectors and helping get inspectors become inspectors with the department of building inspection and our outreach education ongoing and helping businesses comply with the constructionrelated accessibility requirements. So dbi and i have started a conversation just about how were going to be constructing working with the funds. Obviously right now there is not going to be much money. Well probably see what after may, when the Business Registration is due from business