the former supervisor, malia cohen was really responsive and helped us out getting this program startedi would like it if the supervisor in my district where i live and own a business is supportive of a program. this is a flagship program in the city as well as the united states and one that is very well received by the businesses who are grateful of the process to go through to be added to the registry in addition to the financial benefits. i have advocated that the commission should have the authority to nominate worthy businesses to circumvent some of the delays we see when we encounter the supervisor's offices who are disinterested in the program and simply don't have time. i get that we have competing agendas but to make multiple requests to an office and be ignored is something that i just find real estatingly aggravating and something -- really aggravating and something that i wish we could be empowered. we can't just do it ourselves and it requires the supervisors and potentially the voters to change what was a voter initiative. the legacy business registry was approved by the v