october 1s october 2nd scott halgey convened a meeting with small business leaders with the mayor. and while i will speak to some of the items, president adams in his president's report who was in attendance is going to speak -- elaborate on it more. i just want to let you know that our role for our office is, one, whenever the mayor convenes a meeting, he always has staff there who he needs to have on hand. -- as it pertains to who he's meeting with. but also second, we also presented on the online business portal and had the discussion and the mayor is very supportive of this. * a we have started to move and progressing towards this with the mayor's office of chief innovation taking on some leadership and create and working to create the online business portal. so, i just want to let you know the mayor was very receptive, is interested in this. it's part of his 13 -- it's part of his 17-point job plan, number 13. and, so, i just want to move into the next item, which is the online business portal. so, since that meeting we have convened a -- a meeting was convened with the depart