the san francisco business portal, which we launched a few years ago, you can go online and navigate all your issues that you have with your permits and everything in san francisco. we have open in san francisco, which is a small business acceleration program focusing on the food and restaurant business. we've helped over 150 entrepreneurs open small brick and mortar food based businesses in the last year. this is nothing but good news for all of us. once again, i want to thank the supervisors for this honor to be here before you today and celebrate small business week with your honorees. and again, you all have great honorees. supervisors, you have nominated a great group of businesses that include restaurants, realtors, hardware stores, neighborhood food markets, children's centers, jazz clubs, each are an integral part of each neighborhood they are located in. this speaks to the close relationship that you have with the small businesses in your district. thank you again to the san francisco small business community. we really appreciate the many contributions to your neighborhoods

businesses start, stay and grow in san francisco. and some of their accomplishments that happened under todd was the san francisco small business portal, which guides business owners through permitting and legal compliance, mayor lee and todd also created small business solutions teams. they launched sfbiz connect and created san francisco's first buy local campaign and shop and dine in the 49. oewd oversaw the creation of 130,000 jobs in san francisco. and when todd came in, remember, we were in a recession, and look at what you've done. and you've contributed to lowering san francisco's unemployment rate from 6.9% to 2.1%, the lowest in the city's history. todd also won the 2016 james irvine foundation leadership award for reviving urban manufacturing to create middle class jobs. todd was a proponent of equality-driven work force programs bringing living wage careers for san francisco and low-income communities to initiatives like the mayor summer jobs program, youth jobs, tech sf, city build, and since 2012, the mayor's youth jobs initiative has connected 41,000 san francisco youth into internships and job opportunities. 81% of the