From three women about their experiences Running Companies and working to promeet increase ownership and nvrsment roles for women in American Business and industry. This is just under an hour. I know everybody is having a good time. And net working and moving the enterprise forward. We have two votes at noon. Well be on a short string here. That shouldnt in any way dent grate the importance of this hearing. Of the Small Business committee. And what were going to do today is explore ways to help women owned businesses reach their full potential and grow the american economy. I want to thank my colleague senator shaheen for working together on this. A matter of great importance to all of us. And to all america. Even though all america sometimes doesnt know it. Fair statement. As you know october is National Women Small Business month. Which sefbs as a great reminder that female entrepreneurs own more than 11 million businesses in the country. And employ more than 9 million workers. They
I know everybody is having a good time. And net working and moving the enterprise forward. We have two votes at noon. Well be on a short string here. That shouldnt in any way dent grate the importance of this hearing. Of the Small Business committee. And what were going to do today is explore ways to help women owned businesses reach their full potential and grow the american economy. I want to thank my colleague senator shaheen for working together on this. A matter of great importance to all of us. And to all america. Even though all america sometimes doesnt know it. Fair statement. As you know october is National Women Small Business month. Which sefbs as a great reminder that female entrepreneurs own more than 11 million businesses in the country. And employ more than 9 million workers. They contribute 1. 6 trillion in sales to the National Economy and capable of more as its Fastest Growing sector. Administrator linda mcman joined me in idaho. And we visited a number of Small Busin
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Of the public to come and generally on matter within the commissions per have you and suggests future consideration items. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak to comment on anything not on todays agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. President , id like to make a recommendation we call items three and four together as their presentations are enter seconded and over laptop a presentation and discussion on mayor ed lees shop and dine in the 49 that presentation by Mary Ann Thomas of the Economic Workforce Development and then well also have a presentation and discussion on the Small Business saturday presentations by lynn of women impacting the Public Policy and the saturdays coalition. Okay sound good okay. We do work i guess im short. Good afternoon, commissioners regina thank you for having us here on behalf of myself were here to present shop and dine in the 49. So here we go perfect so just by ggsd as many of you may know you know last year in november w
Operational manual and this will have to be conducted periodically and we need to check with the department to make sure all the information in the portal is correct. We need to do a content management and we are already getting feedback from some of our early users and updating forms and information and some of the feeds as they increase. Technical maintenance and security maintenance. Part of the next phase which has already begun in a parallel process is mapping out the five consolidated billing departments. We want to do is having the portal as a great first step into getting information into one place, but eventually if there is a way where people can log in and manage their account, they can pay bills and look at delinquency and pay for everything they need to do online. That is the pie in the sky. I dont know if that will happen anytime soon but its something we are working on and to get to that step, is looking at the process. There is so many things about the physical process