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thank you for being here i'm tom the director of the office of economic workforce development for city of san francisco we're here to launch shop and dine in the 49 the 3 and 4 manual campaign focused on supporting and driving the local businesses to san francisco restaurants retailers and office spaces now for the holiday season is shopping local is important a shift in one percent pending in san francisco generated one thing million dollar of economic 2i689 one hundred million dollars we're here today and assembly hall owned by ron and trisha and they're joined by their youngest employee carlo (laughter) that is rumored that mayor ed lee does his shopping here but have to wait further in the
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program to see this is true and joined by office space leaders from the fillmore merchant community we've been hearing from scott from the small business network and a leader in the shop and dine campaign and from the owner in detail the president i believe of the fillmore association executive director of the fillmore merchant association. >> (clapping.) >> i want to acknowledge a couple of people jason from the mall a key partner about the ship and dine campaign thank you and henry the council of district merchant from the murmur campaign and dwight and steve adam will be joining us in
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a moment and here with regularly begin the small business the director of the office of the small business commission with all due respect m is passionate about shopping local mayor ed lee . >> (clapping.) >> yeah. >> thank you, todd and everyone thank you so much for coming out and helping us really get the holiday season started i was thinking about this morning how to introduce this idea and i'll start off by saying anyone from the public wish to speak on this item my mind goes crazy you have moments you're lying on the couch and what if i won the litter my first thought 90 thousand reasons to spend all that money in san francisco if you won the
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litter 90 thousand businesses in san francisco more than half a small businesses literally everybody or everything you want on the earth it is in the boundary of san francisco and a lot on fillmore street and this is i couldn't just a historic street one that i really love to be on for many reasons and more and more reasons to be on this street besides it next to japantown as well that is small businesses trifle all along fillmore one of our attractive corridors in the entire city i think that love of the visitors literally come to the firm to find out what is going on i happy to be wearing a sfmade manufactured designed assembly hall tie. >> (clapping.) >> my wife said you need more colors so i'm looking at more than blue a little bit of red
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and other things i'm excited to really kickoff with our our wonderful small business leaders to shop and dine in the 49 a neat slogan for the office of economic workforce development come up with all of our business partners a shop and dine in the 49 is a true san francisco kind of made movement where we are taxi drivers all of the nets and along this street and certainly with our leader and merchants corridor you know you can get all our home fortunes in detail you wanted to do that stand in line if you want to go to the restaurant you know that is going to be a big line but you've got 13 hundred fillmore; right? and now the black bart going on and sheb basis lounge and all kinds of tastes the new
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ones i think a year ago todd we helped y sons get in a jewish delhi they were victims of the fire in the mission a couple of years ago and able to relocate here you look at all the varieties why not spend all your monies on holidays in buying your friends and families gifts along the corridors in the city and also cobras of restaurants that i named and more throughout the city i know our home restaurant association is here and making sure we pay attention to that i want to make a big plug that you really can do all of our shopping for all your friends and family in the city of san francisco and have great quality products i often get a lot of visitors and more and more from
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china who in their mandrin are asking me and my wife where to get san francisco made products you think those groups are shopping for did europe brand no schnauzer wanting to find san francisco made products that brand name if it is a made in san francisco that is a high quality from international visitors so a reason why this is happening and more and more if you go to our local manufacturers inch done whether debar times or accessibility mike 2kw50ig9 is really excited about or local sincerely ethics i'm exist for the holiday season and you don't center to go online but you locally online for this as well and pick up within san francisco so i'm excited for the holiday season
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excited for if anyone wins the loiter you know you remember where to spend it; right? >> because we need it tax base in the course anything happens i'm proud to interest the champion because people will be satisfied with the things they purchase and the supports, of course, along with shopping and supporting our small businesses is the incredible thence e temples of thousand of workers we'll be supporting as well because we have deliberately raised the minimum wage but all the small businesses were saying okay let's make sure the city supports us it works it is an entire eco system that we created where we can help the workforce with a higher wage and help the families and also do our share to make sure we support all the small businesses
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you'll find me eating and shopping and diane in the local businesses i need to visit every corridor through the holidays and greet the families that are here to get our port as well so everybody let's shop and dine in the 49 and make that more than real let's get the products we all know is high quality made designed and manufacture in san francisco thank you. >> (clapping.) >> so shop and dine in the 49 coming together with shops small is a partnership between government but particularly the community and the small business community we have got scott the tireless advocate and want to welcome him to say a few words scott. >> thank you and chris and ron thank you for having me. san francisco it is special place what makes it special it's
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neighborhoods and the neighborhoods characteristic of the neighborhoods to a large degree is determined by the small businesses in those neighborhoods when you shop small in the neighborhoods your preserving those neighborhoods and what you love about the city san francisco has over 50 percent of the employees are in small businesses as the mayor said one hundred million dollars one percent will be raised if the - they receive one hundred billion dollars more in sales $10.57 jobs ceded it is incredible the strength and the attitude towards small businesses to work with their neighbors one of the key things about small businesses there is you're working with neighbors and that's really important so i
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just want to thank everybody for being here and shop during the holiday and preserve the neighborhoods of our city and preserving the tax for fire and other things as well as jobs thank you for being here. >> (clapping.) >> as i mentioned we're here another assembly hall with ron and trisha and welcome them up to say a few words as well . >> (clapping.) >> hi, everybody thank you for being here. my name is trish this is my daughter harlow and along with my husband and owners of the small business assembly hall we wanted to thank mayor ed lee for giving us this opportunity to host and launch shop and dine in the 49 ron. >> yes. we are definitely
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honored and humbled and thank you to be here this is a humbling experience we never thought that would be a huge impact we've had the shop for 5 years with the challenges it was accepted with focus on the latter obviously but what made us strong number one finding the local brands and supporting the local brands in san francisco or the bayview the jacket i'm wearing the bow tie and i shirt are available at the shop the other things we have a lot of the products that is quality creativity manship and affordable prides in addition one thing we want to focus on yes. the business transaction makes us keep the lights on and the inventories but the human transaction that kept us going
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we wanted to make sure we know emily murase whether our name or if you're vooifrt we found that important to getting to know our customers and b know about that point of view and a couple of things being at the shop for 5 years has propelled us in the neighborhood but have involved in the community i along with others helps with the fillmore association and like to help to build the community and bring history and richness a son and daughter of filipino emigrates we are involved in the corridor in the soma we want to use this as a platform to continue to bring good products but to make an impact within the community you know we are an anchor on the block and want to be pill oversees in other neighbors in san francisco and lastly you know seeing everybody here coming together is just the
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beginning and keeping the vision of the shop and dine in the 49 is the progress and working together will be the success so let's definitely make the shop and dine in the 49 shop out and small and support local and thank you to the vendors helping us out the fillmore merchants association, the designers and the peter from blue featured artists we are showcasing and brianna and other delicious that are loma have stuff here and other shops will be opening next to us we have lob i didn't launch and not only in the neighborhood we like to spread our wings in the sunset is donating their coffee you can make everything work within range and within reason with that, thank you for being here. for shopping small and supporting local and enjoy our
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day. >> (clapping.) >> i also you know everyone is mentioning we're in the button fillmore i want to bring up the executive director of the fillmore association. >> good morning and thank you for being here. mayor ed lee we're honored to have you here an honor and to see a lot of the merchants and the friends on the street we're happy to be a launch point for this huge vented i'm the owner of zinc details we've been in existence for 25 years and still happy to be mart of the community here. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much and throughout those years we've always supported low and behold artists and had an exhibition this saturday for small
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businesses to be working at a modern marketplace so i welcome all you visit a biproduct of business my parents have a grocery in the mission i'm a back of the store kid (laughter). >> and as a matter of fact all of my family members are in the small business community i want to talk about the streets we're proud of the history that is on the street the fillmore merchant is celebrating it's one and 10 anniversary now after the 1906 san francisco earthquake. >> (clapping.) >> - after the 1906 san francisco earthquake when the rest of the city was in ruins fillmore was the only viable commercial street in the city one of the only viable merchant on the streets and that's why
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merchant and gntdz from all over the world came to make that what it is today, we're proud of the history pursue today, there are boundary from jackson all the way to eddy and over 200 hrnts on the street and half of them are still small business so that's something we're proud of now, one final thing i want to bring up is along with some members from the san francisco council district the merchants association we've been working on shopping sweepstakes called november to remember an awesome campaign take a self-i didn't posted with a local merchant you like and post it to our website and win the first prices a 3 thousand there's electrical bicycle from the shop on fillmore and second pricing
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prices a $2,500 gift certify and $1,200 of restaurant gift certifies all over san francisco current i didn't have golden gate restaurant association thank you and again, i want to say how proud you being here and thank you, again. >> (clapping.) >> finally, i want to welcome mark to our program. >> good morning. i'm mark integrity president of the small business commission and the founder of sfmade i want to stress the most direct and immediate investment we can make in our local communities and the city and county of san francisco is to buy local buy from our local merchant and independent merchants and sfmade goods and all of that value goes back into our economy directly both nevertheless of wages and taxed
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>> okay, good morning, everybody welcome to the final 2016, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting. my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by supervisor norman yee and joined momentarily with tang and i want to thank, lindy wong and sfgtv for covering the meeting. do youha
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