>> president laguana, this is commissioner ortiz. >> welcome, william. please go ahead. >> i just want to also -- i want to thank everybody, our team at the office of small business. i know the extreme pressure and amount of calls that you're handling and taking. i want to thank you. don't think that your efforts on the street are not noticed. we appreciate all your hard efforts. i do want to echo commissioner -- supervisor peskin and ronan. you guys were amazing to hit the floor running and get liquidity on the street when we needed it. obviously i represent the mission and the mission economic development agency and liquid thety for small business through an a equity lens is always something i'm going to champion. one of things here at meta we're working on is providing programs for people that don't have social security that their status is in question because a lot of our proprietors are immigrants and english is their second language. so we're a program that does that and we've been advocating for these funds to be administered by cdfis because we h

>> president laguana, this is commissioner ortiz. >> welcome, william.please go ahead. >> i just want to also -- i want to thank everybody, our team at the office of small business. i know the extreme pressure and amount of calls that you're handling and taking. i want to thank you. don't think that your efforts on the street are not noticed. we appreciate all your hard efforts. i do want to echo commissioner -- supervisor peskin and ronan. you guys were amazing to hit the floor running and get liquidity on the street when we needed it. obviously i represent the mission and the mission economic development agency and liquid thety for small business through an a equity lens is always something i'm going to champion. one of things here at meta we're working on is providing programs for people that don't have social security that their status is in question because a lot of our proprietors are immigrants and english is their second language. so we're a program that does that and we've been advocating for these funds to be administered by cdfis because we ha

. >> president laguana, this is commission kerr ortiz. you mentioned nit your memo but also the equitable. definitely in our neighborhood, you can start seeing the predatory speculators and from our cultural aspect, our businesses have been barely holding on and trying to keep the neighborhood culturally centrc and we're in great fear we'll be replaced. the gentrification will take [inaudible] hype drive because of this. thank you for mutting -- putting that in the memo. for certain neighborhood, we're really scared. >> there is a very real concern and threat that folks that are well-capitalized right now and have lots of money for lack of a better word and are not in a place of being threatened are now going to have a fire sale on small businesses and real estate all over the country and we'll be able to swoop up and consolidate all of these distressed businesses. that has negative aspects to it in terms of maintaining cultural communities like the mission. and also has significant anti-consumer aspects if a diverse small business ecosys

. >> president laguana, this is commission kerr ortiz. you mentioned nit your memo but also the equitable. definitely in our neighborhood, you can start seeing the predatory speculators and from our cultural aspect, our businesses have been barely holding on and trying to keep the neighborhood culturally centrc and we're in great fear we'll be replaced. the gentrification will take [inaudible] hype drive because of this. thank you for mutting -- putting that in the memo. for certain neighborhood, we're really scared. >> there is a very real concern and threat that folks that are well-capitalized right now and have lots of money for lack of a better word and are not in a place of being threatened are now going to have a fire sale on small businesses and real estate all over the country and we'll be able to swoop up and consolidate all of these distressed businesses. that has negative aspects to it in terms of maintaining cultural communities like the mission. and also has significant anti-consumer aspects if a diverse small business ecosys

i'll just say i'm glad we're doing this, and i support it, and thank you, commissioner laguana and dominica for bringing this up. >> let me just say on a personal level, we had 30 or 40 rentals on south by southwest. our business helps artists go on the road and play shows, so it's going to be increasingly difficult for people to have public gatherings. that is an extinction event for us. maybe i'll have to resign. i might not have a business in a month or two, so -- but nonetheless, it's simply an extraordinarily challenging event that none of us have any context or ability to sort of assess. there is no plan for this. we've never had anything like it in our lives, and i feel really strongly that this is the time to stand with our government and with our leaders and support them. not out of blind loyalty because we really are in this all together, and the only way we're going to get out is all together, and we need to support each other as a body, as citizens, and as members of the city and as members of this country and as members of this planet and help each other get through this -- thi

and what i've heard directly from those businesses, and we have the support from sharkey laguana, the chairman of the small business commission, a letter of support from the golden gate restaurant association, if there's not something, something that's fast and low barrier, then say good-bye to some of our favorite businesses. and i know representing both the portola and the mission district, that so many of the businesses in the mission and in portola are immigrant run. these are not businesses that are ever going to have the capital, the assets, or the capability of applying for these high burdened s.b.a. loans. so what i would ask of our community is knowing every detail. this is going to be a constantly changing situation, and by acting today, we're saying, you know, we're willing to take this risk to support our small business community in a time where we're never going to have the full information. and with that, i turn it over to you. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you very much. let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to comment on ite