So you can see the highlight of the mayors city hed i have attacked the press release for you. You can take a look at other elements of the city and the successes that have trans paradise throughout the year. And that concludes my report Public Comment 1, 2, 3, 4. Seeing none. I wanted to see the date i thought that was a bit awkward but i trusted my calendar. And their website isnt up so i couldnt go back and verify. Well we will verify that for you it is the 7 accounting. Our retreat is on the 28 of february. Is it the rae treat the wednesday i believe it was a thursday and thursday. Commissioners should have i dont know if you have. Its at 1 clock. We just changed over from different softwares. Im going to blame it on that and mr. President , would i like the next item called it allows the president to make announcements that are of interest to the Small Business community. And were going to talk about b i want to give you some information the Fundraising Efforts we raised 70,000 ra
Know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago board of supervisors president david chiu and i and members of the community discussed how we can continue the Economic Vitality of the city and clearly we registered a big support for Small Businesses. I wanted to make sure that everybody neighborhood in the city has a chance of cultural celebrations. When it comes to Chinese New Year, there is a huge celebrate in chinatown. Were a huge destination for visitors, a lot of people come to chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year. As people come here, we wanted to help our small businesss with offering some Additional Space for them, but also make it even safer for our pedestrians. Because if you have ever observed chinatown during the Chinese New Years, and david and i have been quite specific observers about this. You will see families and kids walk into the street in the middle of big buses and cars coming in. We didnt want that to happen. We didnt wan
Let me welcome everyone for coming out to this great kickoff event. Mayor lee, supervisor chiu, distinguished guests from the community, city family, all of us coming together. Last year we held a Pilot Project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago boar
Merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago board of supervisors president david chiu and i and members of the community discussed how we can continue the Economic Vitality of the city and clearly we registered a big support for Small Businesses. I wanted to make sure that everybody neighb
Community, city family, all of us coming together. Last year we held a Pilot Project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Businesses are excited. A year ago board of supervisors president david chiu and i and members of the community discussed how we can continue the Economic Vitality o