thank you, regina. for those of you looking to contact these organizations, you can find their contact information in the program you should have picked up when you sign in. for those of you who are prospective entrepreneurs, if we could limit the acronyms and talk more about what those acronyms mean. >> sounds good. thanks, mark, virginia, and leader pelosi for putting on this event, and for all that she has done -- thanks mark, regina , and later pelosi. we have been able to access resources through the sba and the cdfi fund which helps get money to small businesses in this time of need. opportunity fund is not a bank or a government agency. we are an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to provide capital to working people to help them earn, say, and invest in the future. we focus primarily on businesses that are not yet bankable. most of our clients are themselves low or moderate income people or working in low or moderate income neighborhoods. but not exclusively. we will look at any b

and the last thing that i've approached regina about that we're going to be looking into is we have an idea that the small business assistance center website could develop a shared calendar. we all put on workshops, different training opportunities for our clients. and we market them individually as organizations but we would love to have sort of a city centralle place where we would send our clients to that website and then they would find out about the workshops, all the organizations are putting on. so this would be a valuable way that you can help us in promoting the training that we're doing to clients. so i invite any questions that you have for us and thank you for your time and your service. >> thank you. commissioner, dooly? >> i just wanted to thank you so much for what you do. it's so valuable. i just can't thank you enough. >> any other commissioners? >> i just want to tell you, all commissioners that i have recommended these services, repeatedly, mostly to women, young women who are interested in starting their own businesses and i believe i have experienced with each orga

thank you, regina. we will open this item for public comments. and we will close public comments. and this item we can move forward with recommendations. so done. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some but traffic, but central market is more of a thoroughfare than a destination after the sun goes down. on december 9, the artery project's launch brought a party atmosphere to market street, led by ma

thank you, regina. we will open this item for public comments. and we will close public comments. and this item we can move forward with recommendations. so done. madam clerk, do we have any other items before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to city hall. the great city hall of san francisco. [applause] we have been busy this morning but it has been a pleasure all morning to greet so many people love the city. i cannot think of another 10 people who love this city. i want to thank each and everyone of you because your volunteering -- i know that word. volunteer for one of the greatest cities in the world. what you will be doing, sacrifices in time, interactions with you, with various commissioners, it will be a wonderful experience, one that many of you will continue to do, and some of you about to do for the first time. i see former supervisor bevan dufty is here. david from the department of the barnett. emily. commissioner shorter, thank you for being here. bruce, thank you for being here. tom, roberta from the mt

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like others it was a very difficult decision before i acknowledge the business, i wanted to thank regina and her staff, i think that chris was here a little bit earlier. there has been tremendous work. there are a number of activities on saturday, especially, with efforts that are going on to shop local but it should be every day that we have that spirit of shopping local and supporting the backbones of our neighborhood. first i see jetta and all of the small business commissioners. thank you for the hard work. i'm looking at the website. -- has run the place for 17 years. i could smell the bakery from my house. throughout the day as well, they have helped to revitalize the small in richmond area as well. keeping the neighborhood beautiful with what they have done, with st. escaping and other things around the business. mike currently runs the bakery and -- as well since their parents retired. about a year ago, they thought that the business needed new energy and a renovated it. this is a tremendous relegation that helps our whole neighborhood with benches that curves around the trunks o

my name is regina ramos. my daughter said maybe i can and stand a little bit about this. i don't know much about it. she knows a little bit. >> did you sign the lease termination letter dated october 26th? >> no, i did not. >> do you have anything further? >> know. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> the gentleman who spoke and left the room, none of us likes advertising. perhaps if you like for cbs, you like it. there was a time when when -- had a lighted sign on the eiffel tower in. proposition g chemo long and i guess this could be considered an amortization schedule. the board of supervisors passed 604h. if this line is removed, it cannot be replaced. the effect of that was to create a severe in balance between an owner of a property who had previously had the right to display an outdoor advertising sign and the company to whom he least that right. such that by legislation would have been created would have been a contractor, take-it-or- leave-it. fathey talk about whether this s voluntarily removed. they talk about whether this is a forced measure, an act o

i want to talk about my fellow commissioners who are here today, regina and her staff. they do an incredible job for the city of san francisco. i want to thank all of you. i am just in proud that we have a board of supervisors that support small business, and on behalf of the small business commission, i want to thank you for your tireless worker. thank you very much. >> i want to thank you for being here. this does conclude this session. at the small business week. -- happy small business week. we have a little bit more business to conduct, if you can leave the chamber quietly this would be appreciated. we should move out the general public comment. >> this is the opportunity for members of the public to address the board for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the board, including those items being considered for unanimous adoption, but excluding those that have already been considered by the committee. they may address the board for two minutes and each member of the public will be given the same number of minutes to speak except

president olague: i wanted to recognize regina, dick andt this time. from the small business commission. gosh i want to first acknowledge that the small business commission supported the first piece of legislation, and to express our great appreciation to you to take a look at the great number of definitions and to streamline its. i have not had a chance to digest all of the options yet, but i have been mindful for option #1 for a certain amount of our restaurants. a limited restaurant condition. just making a note of that, but we really look forward to working with the commission on this and we're extremely appreciative that we are moving in that direction of simplifying this for our businesses. everyone to offer our support in terms of outreach. president olague: i did speak with committee members. i am not sure how we're supposed to a knowledge people that were in office before, but he is interested in engaging in some of these conversations as some of these other members of the public as well. i am grateful you will be engaged with our staff and se

. >> regina bello designs this kitchen with a contemporary his flair at. . but she says working out the rest was a joint. >> everyone here is wonderful and everything was brando, we did not have to fix anything or patch and walls. we can and put the paint on walls and went into town. >> money raised for ticket sales pace for the baltimore symphony orchestra a's education program. >> is exciting to be downtown. this is world class as it from the symphony and world class living here at the rest of. >> it is a great opportunity for people who have not visited and wondered what is behind those recalls. >> they might decide to live here. >> i am hopeful for that call. >> the crow iraq rejected program runs through may 30th and parking is a great the the event runs through may 30th and parking is ge's free. >> now your forecast. >> radar is chilling rain in the area with showers and thunderstorms to the west of baltimore. it will be with us throughout the weekend. not everybody is getting wet right now. even the i-95 corridor is still dry. the thunderstorms will b

i am regina and i live in north beach myself. and i can't really add too much more than what's been said. i think the restaurant owner, excuse me, expressed it very well and all i can say is we're in a world class city and you need to have access to people who need to get in touch with you and in orderer for us not to have dropped calls or in order for high speed on the laptop, you need to have these antennas installed and it is, i think, it's krushl and extremely important -- i think it's crucial and extremely important and essential. we do need this. thank you. president olague: thank you. >> reset the clock. >> commissioners, i am a resident of the district three, although not in north beach. i publish a newsletter for the social media set, twitter, win tin, and facebook and this past week it was about microsoft buying skype which means they, one reason they want to do it to build enhanced messages into the microsoft phones for more connecttivety. i am urging you to deny the d.r. and look into the argument for this as carefull

regina is not here tonight. we are working closer with other ideas and frankly, we need your input. i don't have all the answers to small-business and what is going to help you not only stay afloat, but help you get more customers here. i do know some basic things. if we keep reducing the homicide rate, as we have done in the last few years, you will have more customers. thanks to the partnership between the police department and all of your involvement, that reduction has been extremely helpful for the business. i would be welcome to engage folks tonight if you own our business to talk with you specifically about it. i am trying to put some money into the improvement programs, trying to get some of the big businesses in the city to put some funds in to help small businesses create that relationship. other ideas we have, we are very open and i am working with the small business commission to come up with better ideas, something specific to address areas. i will be very open to talk with you after this. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i have a number of cards and related to the recreation a

>>reporter: forest and regina a are living the nightmare that is the bay area real estate market.covery bay kim is among a growing number of homeowners who are upside down on the mortgage. >> we are in the 500,000 range and the house would i say is somewhere around 230,000 dollars in value right now. >>reporter: make you feel better at all that you are not alone. >> somewhat but it's an awful stressful situation having to go through this as long as we have been going through this. >>reporter: according to this web site more than 38 percent of contra costa county homeowners owe more on the mortgage than the house is worth. home value just keep falling. since the peak of the market home value have fallen even further. close to 35 percent in the bay area sentences the peak of the market compared to 25% nationally. homeowners are getting very frustrated. >>reporter: pittsburg mortgage counselor elaine cox says homeowners are giving up in a county where home value have dropped 51 percent sense the peak in 2005. >> bank are not doing principal reduction and homeowners are losing hope an

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