acknowledged the 100th business on the registry, submitted 12 business applications to the hpc, completed contract negotiations with the creative group for marketing and branding. created a web page indicated which businesses are compliant with the city and county of san francisco. notified legacy businesses of the availability of the online marketing training course courtesy of the small business development center and began issuing regular press releases. for the accident assistance grant there was an application rate of 64.9% with 72 of 111 eligible businesses applying. we are finalizing the numbers. to date there are an average of 16.79ftes per applicants, average grant payment of 8 $600. total grant payments are to be over $623,000. the top five proposed use of funds for the business assistance grant are 38.4% for improvements. 25.9% for rent. 12.9 for faÇade. 10.2% for marketing and promotion. 7.3% for equipment and technology. since the rent stabilization grant was issued one year ago, we have processed and paid 12 grants to landlords averaging one per month. the average square foo

i just have one for the hpc minutes draft on december 20th, on item number 8, page 5, i voted againstething and it shows me as absent, so it looks like i left the room. >> clerk: for item 8? >> commissioner pearlman: item 8. >> 1610 geary boulevard. >> clerk: we will certainly correct that. >> commissioner pearlman: and it actually says in there, it says 1601 geary boulevard in the text, opposed to 1610, about the third line down. >> oh, okay, so we should make sure that which one is accurate there. >> clerk: okay. very good. thank you. >> any other comments? at this time, we'll take public comment on the droaft meeting minutes. does anyone wish to comment on the draft meeting minutes, cha, december 20, hpc, december 20, 2017, or hrc, january 18, 2017. seeing none, we'll close public comment. do i have a motion to adopt minutes. >> motion. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, to adopt the minutes as have been amended, on that motion. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6-0 and places us on item 5, commission comments and questions. >> there appe

now participate in larger areas of the enterprise market, like the intelligent edge with aruba, like hpcith silicon graphics. they are seeing the benefit of companies repatriating cash, operating in a lower tax environment. if her structure spent ramp up cap you will see that at companies like hp you sought -- hpe. you sought at cisco. the company has to upgrade there for structure. not everything has moved to the cloud. emily: tax reform already a big topic on these conference calls. how do you think tax reform will impact both of these committees? -- companies? crawford: they are both telegraphing lower tax rates. in both cases, somewhere in the mid teens range, down from the low 20's historically. they are not mentioning absolute dollar amount, but you look at hpe. they are talking about returning $7 billion to shareholders. that will come to some degree, probably to a very large degree, from offshore cash that they bring back. talking about,re in the case of hpi, beyond the executives participating in their executive plan. in a speed, they are talking about increasing the 401(k) matc

and i know we're not the hpc, but we do have the survey blush in there and we have survey staff in the budget. how much of the city, round number, percent-wise, is surveyed? >> i wish mr. frye were here to answer that question. we survey the plan areas, and then there are specific neighbors that have been surveyed. my guess is, 1/3 of the city. and we're in the process of doing a survey for everywhere else. >> vice president richards: the budget had like $150,000 for survey. is that one person? >> we have a full-time person on survey already and that money was for consultants. >> vice president richards: at that level -- and i'm not questioning the amount of work they do, but at that level, the rate of survey, how much more could get done? >> i don't have those numbers with me. i'm sorry. we can get you that. >> vice president richards: we heard todd david get up and talk about soma and adding litigation and timeline and we've had this conversation. what would it take to have somebody look and say, it would take x number more years in terms of e.i.r. work to add 25,000 more units. is t