-- but this is for how business can engage in business. that's pretty well winded down and so -- we'll be discussing the next phase will be really working with our neighborhood commercial corridors and how we work to market and promote them. so i'll conclude and submit the rest in writing to you. >> thank you. no further comment in this. next item, please prsm >> commissioners, the next item, i apologize from including it from the previous month. i believe i do have to call it and then we can move on. that was discussion of possible action to approve the office of small business 2011-2012 budget. that was approved by you last month. >> ok. next item. >> commissioners. item 13. legislative policy committee report. >> i was not aable to attend though i would like to defer to commissioner o'brien for any comments he might want to make. >> i'm not going going to make any comments. i'll refer to next month. >> next item. >> commissioners, item 12. committee report. >> we have nothing to report. >> item 15. outreach committee report. >> we did n

businesses understand how to get started in business, how to develop business plans, how to be able to put yourself in a position of planning for your business as much as running your business. a big part of what we do is the technical assistance and counseling work we do for folks interested in starting a business or those in the early stages who really need advice about where to go when you run into the wall, about financing, marketing, managing your business. that is an important role we play as well. another role we play is helping small businesses understand how to do contract thing, particularly with the federal government, but in a more general way, with all the public sector players. one of the things that small businesses always need is customers. one of the big customers out there is the public sector, but one of the challenges is the public sector on every level, federal, state, and local, are always difficult for small businesses to understand how to navigate the process of getting certified to do business, finding the right sources to be able to talk to and understand h

around we're really doing business with small businesses. and we had about $2 billion in procurements during the time i've been mayor. we've done more than 20% of those procurements with small businesses. so we're trying to live it every single day in atlanta. >> there are a lot of resources available around the small business saturday movement. materials you can print out, ways to put nings on youtube, on facebook, do you find that a lot of small businesses are taking advantage of it? >> well, i find that they are. but you know, we have a role to play in educating people. i mean, we co-led a white house initiative that focused almost exclusive on entrepreneurship. we are starting a women's entrepreneurship center in the city of atlanta that's going to incubate more than 20 women-owned businesses. so we're focused on small and women-owned businesses, minority businesses. but we think we have a role to play in getting the word out. that's why programs and conversations like the one that we're having right now is so important. and that's why i

we are doing business with small businesses. we had $2 billion in procurements during the time i have been mayor. we have done 20% of those with small businesses. we are trying to live it in atlanta. >> there are a lot of resources available around the small business saturday movement. materials you can crank out. ways to put things on youtube and facebook. do you find small businesses are taking advantage of it? >> we are. we have a roll to play in educating people. we co-led a white house initiative that focused almost exclusively on entrepreneurship. we are starting a woman's entrepreneurship center in atlanta that is going to incubate 20 women owned businesses. we think we have a role to play in getting the word out. our programs and conversations like the one we are having now is so important. that's why i want to be a part of it. >> what do you think small businesses in your area and around the country can do to capitalize on small business saturday? >> they can advertise, advertise and use every means available. this real

business partners invest in your business and new orleans invests in my business. people on the street, in the community, my friends, the businesses here. i mean, they want me to succeed. and, you know, and in ways that are beyond just capital investment. >> stick around. when we come back, we tell you what you need to know to export your products overseas. and what name did they choose for the playground business? we go back to asheville, north carolina, as we complete our small business makeover. shazi: seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. vo: get the card built for business spending. call 1-800-now-open to find out how the gold card can serve your business. >>> earlier we introduced you to

the lower income business people, the lower income businesses. that being said, i will support this. and the support to the work of supervisor cohen and president chiu. president o'brien: do you know what the legislation has, i am trying to remember, which would not be the first time. did we have anything to monitor the impact? i seem to recall there was something to do reporting to see how this affects things. >> correct. i brushed over what was new but in terms of the amendments, supervisor david chiu did have in his legislation for businesses to report on their expenditures. so, so that is still there. businesses will still be required in the amount of what they are making. the defined the details of what they will need to report on is still yet to, but the idea is to stay with your hra account, what are reimbursable expenses under your plan so that we can monitor and track that. we want to reiterate to the fact that the employee notification, the time of the employment and on a regular basis as also codified in the legislation. i want to than

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for business. travel if you want to stay close to the city center a lot you hotel in moscow if you are backstreets is a great choice the area is a thriving financial and shopping center it's also walking distance of the capital's major sites among marks a five star property group is part of careers largest luxury hotel group and features three hundred more swanky restaurants banquet halls and the spa. because. business services are provided in our canal grounds there are two meeting rooms an ability to organize a video conference and also a translator and think with the resources. crew to script is a project from a successful businessman and us i get a lot of thank you thousand and one he founded the crocus if you complex a mosque is ring road the end. now hundreds of thousands of people a week visit the city limits city as it's called when for both business and pleasure the complex includes a business hotel and a large international exhibition center called crocus expo features dozens of conferenc

business. credit unions offer micro loans. we do a lot of micro loans up to $50,000. this is -- we check credit. we need a business plan. then we look at the three-year tax return and that statement. we do a lot of home care and mom-and-pop shops. we also do start ups. we asked for approval through documents. we work a lot with people who do not know how to file taxes properly. we are mainly focused in san francisco. we are small. we focus mainly on the tenderloin, chinatown, bayview, visitation. we do a lot of expansion. people start small through the credit union and then want to go to the bank. we know we are limited. we cannot afford to give out a big loan. starting from the credit union, we educate them about filing taxes properly and then moving on to the bank, a small one, expansion, and we work with the bank. the bank and credit union are similar. we do allow tax returns, projections. credit unions do not charge an additional loan or processing fee. processing time, on a small loan, --

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enterprise businesses. the department manages 50,000 lane miles of highway, 22,000 employees statewide. my operation here in district 4, it covers the nine bay area counties. as you can see in the map. which is about 7,000 lane miles of highway. we have the toll bridges that we operate. we have just under 4,000 employees. our budgets, our capital program ongoing at the present time with 155 contracts, it's about 4.6 billion. so there's a lot of work that is going on, and a lot of that is due to the toll bridge program. half of that is the repair of the various toll bridges that we have, and of course the biggest project, one of the largest public works projects in the nation is the span of the bay bridge that we're working on. in the district, we work with all of the 101 cities, with all of the nine counties that covers the bay area, with seven self-help counties, including the san francisco county transportation authority. we work with the 26-plus transit agencies that are in the region and with the condit

our small businesses simply cannot afford to do business that way. and with that i would like to allow my colleague from california to come forward, mr. dunham. -- mr. denham. mr. denham: thank you for your leadership on this issue. we can't afford any more of the overregulation. regulatory burdens from new rules just this year alone have cost american taxpayers $93.2 billion. and one sfuddy found that each million dollars increase in the federal regulatory budget costs 420 jobs. overregulation costs us jobs around the nation. and let me just speak from my own perspective. 12 years ago i started denham plastics. something that my wife and i borrowed an incredible amount of money to start a vision that we had, supporting the agriculture industry with a plastics company. you know, it has been a tough road to hoe as a small business owner. certainly comes at great risk to our family. but it was a vision that we had, that we believed that without government intervention we can succeed in not only creating new customers but new jobs. but one regulation wo

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the business tax. this is a tax that penalizes the cost of hiring folks and is only paid by want out of 10 companies and san francisco. 90% of our businesses do not pay their fair share. i've also been a sponsor of the vehicle license fee. i was very disappointed when governor brown yesterday decided to veto the legislation that would have given the localities the opportunity to decide whether to get revenue from that source. i've been a big proponent of getting revenue from dark fiber. under the streets of san francisco, we have an infrastructure that we could license to the private sector, that we could control from the public sector. we could stand to bring in millions of revenues from that. i want to expand that. >> one of the major beekeepers and our city through the local economy are the city planning and building inspection departments. i think we can do a much better job of being caught. norris. -- we could do much better job of being business owners. it is construction jobs, it prevents people

the office of small business, we have clients that come in with exciting and innovative business models that frequently do not easily fit into these singles zoning categories or we have entrepreneur is taking over an existing restaurant, only to find that their concept is not permitted and they have often discover this after signing a lease. as noted in my letter, simply stated, the current code is over complex, discourages compliance, and cannot prevent businesses from reaching their prodigious. since two dozen men, the small business commission has supported the implementation of many of these regulations. our offices work with supervisor mirkarimi and your staff on creating a limited life performance permits. the small business commission agrees that the findings are the cornerstone recommendation of number three, pertaining to overhauling the regulations for eating and drinking uses. small business commission finds that planning staff's proposal before you today is consistent with these recommendations, and we strongly recommend that the planning commission and the board of supervis

think about the magazine business, newspaper business and shipping and packaging business, all of those things. we impact so many jobs. if customers are not buying, if customers north feeling confident, consumption is two-thirds is what drives gdp in america. so there is no way other pieces can make up for that lack of confidence. that is what i am looking for to be corrected in 2012. i'm optimistic. i'm actually optimistic. i think that it's the right thing for our company but i'm optimistic we're going to get our hands around this in washington and deal with it. >> greta: you are optimistic but hoping things are going to go in a particular direction. vis-a-vis corporate tax but it puts you in a position of rolling the dice? >> not with my own economy. the economy has not been robust but we are performing very well. >> greta: you talk about market share and taking it from somebody else. >> my investment is not going to die. i'm invesng in what we believe it. >> greta: macy's may be thriving and doing well, that means the store down the street may not be. >> that is correct. >> greta: y

his business took a huge hit. >> my business 60%. we're back now again with another protest that is also hurting my business. if pro longed i don't know if i'm going survive it big apple cafe across the street from occupy oakland, business striving. and restaurant feeding protestors and owner as like the owner says he decided to stay open. >> i have on bli investigation towards customers especially catering orders. >> some banks closed for the day others stayed open by allowing only customers to come in. >> and here is what abc 7 viewers are saying about the stay of action. joe says now, charles schwab is holding a conference in san francisco. representatives are there. right now. what is the occupy movement doing to shut them down? or get their attention? karen writes this. sometimes longer you protest the less your voice is haempltd it becomes background noise, thank you for writing in. we're glad to hear from you. back out live at the port of oakland sky 7 shows you crowd over middle harbor road within just feet of the port. and t

welcome to "your business" where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. every halloween, we scare up a good business story from haunted houses in atlanta to an entrepreneur who makes coffins out of couches. in atlanta, they were forced to innovate after getting smoke in their eyes. when the fog started to lift, they found a new customer base. ♪ >> halloween is definitely an all hands on deck, we are going full force, we have extra staff in. during this time of year, halloween is a major part of our business. >> this time of year, it's tons of calls. it's calls, calls, calls and calls. i like fog. it's fun to blow smoke for a living. >> they do blow smoke for a living. they manufacture frog gis fog used for smoke machines that fill the haunted houses that creep you out at halloween. >> when we started the business, it was more of a necessity for a family entertainment center. >> a necessity because they worked at a laser center that used fog. it triggered chris' asthma, smelled terrible and irritated kous mers eyes. >> i had respiratory issues. we set out

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it's "nightly business report" for tuesday, november 15. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening and thank you for joining us. susie gharib is on assignment. a legal showdown between occupy wall street protestors and new york city police has ended with victory for the city. a judge has ruled that demonstrators right to free speech does not entitle them to camp out indefinitely in a public park. erika miller takes a closer look at what this change means to the movement. >> reporter: occupy wall street protestors will no longer occupy the spiritual heart of their movement at night. a judge has upheld mayor michael bloomberg's ban on bringing sleeping bags or tents to zuccotti park and camping there overnight. legal analysts expect occupy wall street to appeal the decision. the verdict comes 15 hours after police evicted

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of their business partners.ecause of the ongoing flood in thailand, more and more companies will ask their business partners to have a bcp. right now, majority of the companies think that their subsidiaries and affiliates vial a contingency business plan. but the number of companies is really rather limited, that is around 10% to 20%, depending on the countries. so i think now is the time for us to establish more supply chain-conscious business continuity plan for both domestic and overseas operations. >> and mr. endo, before we wrap up, can you give us a general estimate of how much the thai floods will cost the japanese auto industry? >> well, obviously again, it really depends how long this situation will last. but let's say the japanese car industry in thailand. the production volume is rapidly i would say 200,000 units every month. so far at least most of the car makers have already lost one month of volume production. so we're talking about opportunity losses here. so if we take three months, two months, w

we go for business suits. we're a business operation, we're family. we give a lot of service that the others just can't do. that weekend is really good for us. it starts off the season, and hopefully, it'll be good. >> reporter: look no further than the book business to see the effect of competition. this season is the first in more than a generation without borders group. it went bankrupt after the last holiday season. at independent chain books and books, store manager march swanberg anticipates a good weekend. >> for saturday, it's going to be big. today is going to be big. we've had customers all throughout the week saying well be here. we'll be here for you on saturday supporting you. so, the expectations are big. very promising. >> reporter: one reason for that optimism may be an effort called small business saturday created by american express to spark shopper activity. >> if small businesses start to fall like they have in the past, everyone's just going to be dealing with internet type businesses that are so impersonal. i think it's very impo

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the office of small business has consulted with many small businesses, and the small business communityecognizes that it is a stakeholder in providing meaningful health access along with noticing, reporting, and finds that the two-year accrual basis rollover will accomplish the goal in improving health access, and the commission strongly in forces the amendment. the small business community also recognizes that the january 1 will poll is a critical issue and must be addressed as soon as possible. the commission thanks supervisor cohen and david chiu for incorporating the recommendation to insure this issue is resolved beginning with calendar year 2012. in conjunction with the broader community, the sbc finds ending this condition promptly is essential to providing meaningful health care access to employees. the remaining amendments the small business commission support. i and the commission are also committed in working with office of labor standards enforcement as we implement this legislation and monitor businesses so they are utilizing the hra's and work with businesses to increase a

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