Thank you for giving us your time today. Thank you for the Economic Club for paying attention to me. If those dont know your background the 75th postmaster general the first one is behind you, Benjamin Franklin the inventor of the Postal Service. And who are native of new york went to college in florida and then went back to your familys business and bolted up North Carolina one of the larger logistics and you have been very involved in philanthropic activities at Duke University among other places and thank you for giving us your time today. So at the outset, when you agree to become postmaster general is not normally the most famous position i doubt many can name your media processors you are well known did you thank you get this much attention . If i may, when i accepted the role of the situation the Postal Service was in at that time and then to have significant financial consequences at the time. And the issues of running out of cash in september 2020 and having no help insight. B
Organizations. State of new orleans spent 7 million recovering from attacks. They declared state of emergency in the city. Which is impressive. There are some simple steps you can take. Why are the steps not been taken and what they can do. Were trying to figure out this is a hightech field. In order to get businesses to take these steps they need to be coached, consulted and to do them correctly. Reduce the friction and to helping them to protect both businesses as well as the customers. User data that businesses use that are associated with it. With that, we like to continue the conversation and answer any questions and come back at the next Council Meeting for more discussion. Any other Public Comment . Next item. Item 3, Office Small Business presentation. Discussion item. The presenter is director dickendrizzi office of Small Business. Good evening commissioners. Regina dickendrizzi director of the office of Small Business. I thought we take an opportunity just to take a look at s
Does anybody have any comments not related to anything on todays agenda . Sound like today we do. Come up. Good evening. Thank you commissioners. Me and my partner are with a ate aspen tech policy hub. Were really looking to try to figure out what the awareness is amongst Small Businesses and to help Small Businesses improve their posture and prevent attacks. This is a problem you dont hear about Small Businesses being attacked. You do hear a lot about public organizations. State of new orleans spent 7 million recovering from attacks. They declared state of emergency in the city. Which is impressive. There are some simple steps you can take. Why are the steps not been taken and what they can do. Were trying to figure out this is a hightech field. In order to get businesses to take these steps they need to be coached, consulted and to do them correctly. Reduce the friction and to helping them to protect both businesses as well as the customers. User data that businesses use that are ass
Sound like today we do. Come up. Good evening. Thank you commissioners. Me and my partner are with a ate aspen tech policy hub. Were really looking to try to figure out what the awareness is amongst Small Businesses and to help Small Businesses improve their posture and prevent attacks. This is a problem you dont hear about Small Businesses being attacked. You do hear a lot about public organizations. State of new orleans spent 7 million recovering from attacks. They declared state of emergency in the city. Which is impressive. There are some simple steps you can take. Why are the steps not been taken and what they can do. Were trying to figure out this is a hightech field. In order to get businesses to take these steps they need to be coached, consulted and to do them correctly. Reduce the friction and to helping them to protect both businesses as well as the customers. User data that businesses use that are associated with it. With that, we like to continue the conversation and answe
Services and have a temporary contract with these type of organizations to help us actually start finding and posting and taking people through the process of being operators. In no way am i asking that this type of contract would replace permanent staffing for h. R. But if were doing what weve debate doing all these years, were never going to catch up. The second thing is m. T. A. Does have internships for our young people in San Francisco, but they get stuck after the internship, where there is no connection between the internship and getting a job as an operator. We have to look at how we close to gap. Whether there is something we can do as a legislative branch to help that alone. Please let us know because its really a pity that you have young people go for this internship and probably want to be operators, but there is really no advantage for them to go through the internship. So those are my comments. Thank you for that support. I think that it is it absolutely is critical we ha