. >> clerk: item two, welcome to katie tang, executive director of office of small business. this is a discussion item. >> president laguana: katie, welcome. it's so exciting. before i make any comments, commissioners, do you have any comments you'd like to make to director tang on her first real hearing all by her lonesome? commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: just want to wish you the very best. we're excited to take this journey with you. we're side by side and we're excited to take this journey with you. >> president laguana: thank you. vice president. >> vice chair: thank you. we're excited like you are and welcome. yeah. we're excited. let's take 2022 and make san francisco great again. >> president laguana: great. commissioner dickerson. >> commissioner dickerson: it's so good to have you, director katie tang. i really believe you are the best person for the job and i look forward to working with you and so far, i have all the trust and i believe we are going to do this as a team. we're going to move this forward. >> president laguana: commissi

welcome to the new katie tang in her new position. i think this is the first time i get to see her in her new role. so congratulations, director tang, and i look forward to working with all of you. happy to answer any questions after ms. lee speaks. >> president laguana: thank you. ivy, you have the floor. >> thank you so much, president laguana. and thank you, supervisor, for all of your hard work. and really amplifying this issue and for the work of your staffer jeffery who is a pleasure to work with on this. commissioners, thank you for your time. the previous times that ibeen before the small business commission, you know, the commissioners have offered really substantive and thoughtful feedback that has really improved the quality of the legislation that we have managed to ultimately then introduce and pass. i want to actually say that commissioner ortiz-cartagena, i remember working with you on one of the first pieces of legislation which i ever handled which was the fair chance act that moved the criminal inquiry further in a j

. >> clerk: item two, welcome to katie tang, executive director of office of small business. esident laguana: katie, welcome. it's so exciting. before i make any comments, commissioners, do you have any comments you'd like to make to director tang on her first real hearing all by her lonesome? commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: just want to wish you the very best. we're excited to take this journey with you. we're side by side and we're excited to take this journey with you. >> president laguana: thank you. vice president. >> vice chair: thank you. we're excited like you are and welcome. yeah. we're excited. let's take 2022 and make san francisco great again. >> president laguana: great. commissioner dickerson. >> commissioner dickerson: it's so good to have you, director katie tang. i really believe you are the best person for the job and i look forward to working with you and so far, i have all the trust and i believe we are going to do this as a team. we're going to move this forward. >> president laguana: commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie:

to grow and build on what has been built as we move -- as you move forward with the new director katie tang. so there's exciting opportunities that are ahead with that and so i wish you joy and excitement even as we deal with some difficult issues or as you will deal with some difficult issues moving forward. i think i'll just leave it at that and so thank you so much for the recognition and, yeah, i'll leave it at that. >> president laguana: thank you so much, director. >> commissioner dickerson: we love you, director. >> president laguana: indeed, we do. now the commission would like to honor -- i don't know why i keep pronouncing the h. would like to honor commissioner dooley. we'll have supervisor peskin present the certificate. is the supervisor on yet? looks like we will have -- >> good afternoon. surprise. i am not the supervisor. while i lack the supervisor's star power, what i do bring is an affection and appreciation for commissioner dooley that goes above and beyond over the course of my past six years working in this office. the supervisor does send his regards. this is an extra

ben also worked with supervisor katie tang.ook a second round and she put a couple years into the school sf program and we got that done i'm proud to say. one of the first home sf projects is actually under construction in my district. 200 units of housing, all unio built . in the context of that, there have been a lot of other projects and a lot of other buildings and proposals that have not necessarily been able to go through the process in a timely manner and where we are today when you talk to people in the construction industry, when you look at our economy and uncertainty, when you look at supply chain issues and the cost of materials and how they increase and how the cost of instruction has increased when youtalk to the planning department , you will see that we are beginning to slow down. so there were a number of different renditions of this proposal here today but what we did was we took a step back and said let's start in the industry that's most impacted witches the building and construction trade. we had about a ye