mr. fagosi is here as well. let's start with you, ian. >> thank you so much, chair haney. good afternoon. i'm staff to supervisor connie chan. thank you so much for hearing this item today. so at the request that the office of small business, supervisor chan introduced this ordinance along with supervisors peskin and ronen to transfer $400,000 from the historic preservation fund in order create a new program for legacy businesses. during the budget process this past june, our offices advocated for a much needed expansion of grant funding for the legacy business program. at the current $1 million in annual funding is not nearly enough to sustain this popular and successful program. that supports our most cherished small businesses in san francisco. so thanks to the support of the budgets and appropriatations committee we were able to allocate $500,000 to the legacy business program with $100,000 allocated for additional staff person, for processing applications. and remaining $400,000 to qualifying small businesses. this is a technical fix.

mr. fagosi is here as well. let's start with you, ian. >> thank you so much, chair haney. good afternoon. i'm staff to supervisor connie chan. thank you so much for hearing this item today. so at the request that the office of small business, supervisor chan introduced this ordinance along with supervisors peskin and ronen to transfer $400,000 from the historic preservation fund in order create a new program for legacy businesses. during the budget process this past june, our offices advocated for a much needed expansion of grant funding for the legacy business program. at the current $1 million in annual funding is not nearly enough to sustain this popular and successful program. that supports our most cherished small businesses in san francisco. so thanks to the support of the budgets and appropriatations committee we were able to allocate $500,000 to the legacy business program with $100,000 allocated for additional staff person, for processing applications. and remaining $400,000 to qualifying small businesses. this is a technical fix. which would allow the office of s

mr. fagosi is here as well. let's start with you, ian. >> thank you so much, chair haney. good afternoon. i'm staff to supervisor connie chan. thank you so much for hearing this item today. so at the request that the office of small business, supervisor chan introduced this ordinance along with supervisors peskin and ronen to transfer $400,000 from the historic preservation fund in order create a new program for legacy businesses. during the budget process this past june, our offices advocated for a much needed expansion of grant funding for the legacy business program. at the current $1 million in annual funding is not nearly enough to sustain this popular and successful program. that supports our most cherished small businesses in san francisco. so thanks to the support of the budgets and appropriatations committee we were able to allocate $500,000 to the legacy business program with $100,000 allocated for additional staff person, for processing applications. and remaining $400,000 to qualifying small businesses. this is a technical fix. which would allow the office of s