so as of friday, i had a conversation with the director of oewd, joaquin torres. this was after my office hosted a phone conversation between mr. torres and worker rights works, which includes jobs with justice, the colectiva mujeres, the chinese progressive association, the asian law caucus, and countless other groups. i can't even remember all. it was a conversation -- bilingual conversation with many workers. the result that we worked at the end of that phone call was that oewd was going to come back with a proposal with an amount of money that they used from the philanthropic community for the undocumented workers who don't qualify for unemployment insurance. i spoke to mr. torres as late as monday, and he told me i would get that proposal, and i've been waiting for it ever since. the news was that low wage workers were going to be able to weigh-in on that proposal, and we would be able to solidify that legislation. then, this morning, i woke up to e-mails from supervisor walton and his staff, tracey brown, saying that the mayor and others were trying to amend

so as of friday, i had a conversation with the director of oewd, joaquin torres. this was after my office hosted a phone conversation between mr. torres and worker rights works, which includes jobs with justice, the colectiva mujeres, the chinese progressive association, the asian law caucus, and countless other groups. i can't even remember all. it was a conversation -- bilingual conversation with many workers. the result that we worked at the end of that phone call was that oewd was going to come back with a proposal with an amount of money that they used from the philanthropic community for the undocumented workers who don't qualify for unemployment insurance. i spoke to mr. torres as late as monday, and he told me i would get that proposal, and i've been waiting for it ever since. the news was that low wage workers were going to be able to weigh-in on that proposal, and we would be able to solidify that legislation. then, this morning, i woke up to e-mails from supervisor walton and his staff, tracey brown, saying that the mayor and others were trying to amend

so as of friday, i had a conversation with the director of oewd, joaquin torres. this was after my office hosted a phone conversation between mr. torres and worker rights works, which includes jobs with justice, the colectiva mujeres, the chinese progressive association, the asian law caucus, and countless other groups. i can't even remember all. it was a conversation -- bilingual conversation with many workers. the result that we worked at the end of that phone call was that oewd was going to come back with a proposal with an amount of money that they used from the philanthropic community for the undocumented workers who don't qualify for unemployment insurance. i spoke to mr. torres as late as monday, and he told me i would get that proposal, and i've been waiting for it ever since. the news was that low wage workers were going to be able to weigh-in on that proposal, and we would be able to solidify that legislation. then, this morning, i woke up to e-mails from supervisor walton and his staff, tracey brown, saying that the mayor and others were trying to amend

so as of friday, i had a conversation with the director of oewd, joaquin torres. this was after my office hosted a phone conversation between mr. torres and worker rights works, which includes jobs with justice, the colectiva mujeres, the chinese progressive association, the asian law caucus, and countless other groups. i can't even remember all. it was a conversation -- bilingual conversation with many workers. the result that we worked at the end of that phone call was that oewd was going to come back with a proposal with an amount of money that they used from the philanthropic community for the undocumented workers who don't qualify for unemployment insurance. i spoke to mr. torres as late as monday, and he told me i would get that proposal, and i've been waiting for it ever since. the news was that low wage workers were going to be able to weigh-in on that proposal, and we would be able to solidify that legislation. then, this morning, i woke up to e-mails from supervisor walton and his staff, tracey brown, saying that the mayor and others were trying to amend

today we have the office of economic and workforce director joaquin torres. >> great. director torres, thank you so much for taking the time to present and take some of our questions today. we know your time is short and that you have a hard stop at 11:20. the floor is yours. >> well, thank you very much, commissioner. can everyone hear me ok? >> yeah. >> ok, great. am i on screen? i'm not able to see if i am or not. >> you are. >> great. all right. thanks. i just wanded to say hello, everyone. i hope you and your families are safe and well right now during what we know is an extremely difficult time. that's why our office of economic and workforce development has been just tirelessly working across teams to make sure that we could affectively be responsive to small business community needs. and i really just want to thank very very much you, president laguana, for your leadership as well as the leadership for all of your commissioners who i know have been responding to deeply to the needs of the small business community. i also want to give a huge, huge shout-out to t

joaquin torres, and if you want to look up some of the services we have, visit oewd.org. joaquin runs that department. and even before this pandemic, i have been really laser-focused on trying to eliminate fees that make it difficult for small businesses, in particular, to be in business in san francisco in the first place. so even though this pandemic is challenging, i am so hopeful it will be an opportunity to provide some much-needed long-term relief for our businesses in san francisco. joaquin will be leading those efforts. we also have the president of the small business commission, cynthia huey, who will be moderating this discussion, and we have the director of the chamber of commerce here as well, native san franciscan rodney fong, who has been a business person pretty much his whole life. the wax museum -- i don't know about you, but i went to gallileo high school,and we used to sneak into the wax museum when i was a kid. so i owe you some ticket money, rodney. so between the wax museum, the restaurants and the hair and nail salons, the barber shops, the masseuse

today we have the office of economic and workforce director joaquin torres. >> great.director torres, thank you so much for taking the time to present and take some of our questions today. we know your time is short and that you have a hard stop at 11:20. the floor is yours. >> well, thank you very much, commissioner. can everyone hear me ok? >> yeah. >> ok, great. am i on screen? i'm not able to see if i am or not. >> you are. >> great. all right. thanks. i just wanded to say hello, everyone. i hope you and your families are safe and well right now during what we know is an extremely difficult time. that's why our office of economic and workforce development has been just tirelessly working across teams to make sure that we could affectively be responsive to small business community needs. and i really just want to thank very very much you, president laguana, for your leadership as well as the leadership for all of your commissioners who i know have been responding to deeply to the needs of the small business community. i also want to give a huge, huge shout-out to th