commissioner huie, please. >> i wanted to wait just to not seem to eager. [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. so a couple of things. i wanted to encourage small businesses to continue to request for p.t.p.e. i know this last week, i've been continuing to distribute p.p.e. in the richmond district, and what i've been doing is just going door to door. i know we had, like, a sign-up sheet, but i think there are a population of businesses that are not connected to the merchants associations, so this is a great opportunity for the merchants associations or any peop business in general just to get them connected. i think this is a great idea, and i had no idea this was something that the city was providing. i think it's a great excuse for us to go out and connect with people that may have been skeptical or less than eager to participate. so i appreciate all the different resources came together to make that possible for all of us. the other piece is the survey that we're working on. i need some, i guess -- i was -- i don't know when this is appropriate or how th

commissioner huie? >> i just have a few responses for some of the things that have been said so far by other commissioners. i -- you know, through the distribution of p.p.e., i've noticed that there's so many businesses that aren't connected on [inaudible] that that's not the [inaudible] for them or receiving information from them, so i've really struggled how to get people on board. what i'm noticing is this is our opportunity right now to build community partnerships, build strategic community partnerships and realize what community am i a part of and what am i not a part of and realize the channels that they're tuned into. and i think this has been very interesting exercise. i think if we're able to kind of find these [inaudible], like, sometimes maybe it's the community. like, i know in the chinese community, there are smaller banks that people bank at, and those might be great partnerships for us to have as a small business or merchants association, but, like, helping connect people right now is a

commissioner huie? >> i just have a few responses for some of the things that have been said so far by other commissioners. i -- you know, through the distribution of p.p.e., i've noticed that there's so many businesses that aren't connected on [inaudible] that that's not the [inaudible] for them or receiving information from them, so i've really struggled how to get people on board. what i'm noticing is this is our opportunity right now to build community partnerships, build strategic community partnerships and realize what community am i a part of and what am i not a part of and realize the channels that they're tuned into. and i think this has been very interesting exercise. i think if we're able to kind of find these [inaudible], like, sometimes maybe it's the community. like, i know in the chinese community, there are smaller banks that people bank at, and those might be great partnerships for us to have as a small business or merchants association, but, like, helping connect people right now is a

commissioner huie, i'm glad that you're willing to continue working on this. i think myself and vice president zouzounis can continue to coordinate with you offline and, you know, if there's an opportunity to move faster, i'm happy to take it just because i think that data sooner rather than later is helpful in this time. so i also want to say, you know, that we're not obligated to wait longer periods of time if we can develop strategy. >> may i say something? >> yeah, please. >> so, you know, in terms of survey research -- and this is -- i'm putting my researcher hat on here. in internet surveys, we've seen that a good response rate is about 40%. you're never going to get 100%, never ev never, ever, and if you know people really well, you might get 70%. if we can start with a large sample, like, if we have 25,000 businesses that we have e-mail addresses for, and we get 40% to respond, that would be a really good baseline survey. we don't want to lose too much time in gathering that baseline data because who knows? in a month's time, i don't want to say anythi