my name is christine caplan and i operate gas house cove marina. i provide fuel for the san francisco police department, fire department, united states coast guard, department of fish and game, recreational fishing boats. and pleasure boats. thanks to the forward thinking of the city of san francisco now to the 24th america's cup event authority, i was stuck in traffic yesterday and listening to npr when supervisor avalos came on the radio. i said, i need to call this man because he needs to get a true picture of what is happening to small business. specifically, the marine industry and those of us that have any sort of enterprise from chrisy field all the way down to 2 80. i am the textbook case of small business. ~ i am a woman-owned enterprise. i am a certified vendor to the city of san francisco. i have doubled my workforce. we have doubled the number of employees that we had 12 months ago. this is not because fishing and crabing have gotten better. this is not because anything on the waterfront has improved. this is 100% because of this event

kevin elliott, marcus clark, christine caplan, janet weisberg, manuel flores, lynn fitzpatrick, fernando castillo and owen murphy. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] with local laborer [speaker not understood]. i'm here to support local wage, local hire. we are all that. more has to be done to make sure that the violations don't happen again. please support that. thank you. >>>♪ if you were a carpenter and you city had some budget crazy, would you then them in the workforce right along would you have a budget baby save the workforce through the lienest save it through sorrow would you help it ride along help it for tomorrow and the america's cup went sailing on the san francisco bay i'm thankful for public comment here and that's -- and this is what i got to say calling america's cup budget to ride along to another budget shore we can sail our lives away and be free once more ride, budget, ride upon your mystery budget ship and i hope you get a lot of very good gifts ride city budget ride upon america's cup mystery budget ship and i hope you get a great