presenting today we have sarah dennis phillip, executive director of oewd and katy tang, director of office of small business. thank you for coming in today, director and welcome. >> thank you. nice to meet you. i'm sarah dennis phillips. the brand new as in 14 days executive director of oewd. be patient with me, this is my first public preezentation, so you are the guinea pigs, so if i do anything wrong-excited to be here. i have a lot to learn. my background is not in small business. i have a lot to learn. katy so graciously took me on explanation of the work her team does and that you all do. took me on a tour of the permit center and our center in city hall, before i started, so i am hitting the ground arunning in terms of learning. before i get fl to our budget update, i just wanted to note that with regards to the small business successes you are championing given the last item, that is something clear to me even in the last two weeks and i think it is a part of the narrative of the doom loop everyone wants us to combat. right before this i was working giving a interview to a re

presenting today we have sarah dennis phillip, executive director of oewd and katy tang, director of office of small business. thank you for coming in today, director and welcome. >> thank you. nice to meet you. i'm sarah dennis phillips. the brand new as in 14 days executive director of oewd. be patient with me, this is my first public preezentation, so you are the guinea pigs, so if i do anything wrong-excited to be here. i have a lot to learn. my background is not in small business. i have a lot to learn. katy so graciously took me on explanation of the work her team does and that you all do. took me on a tour of the permit center and our center in city hall, before i started, so i am hitting the ground arunning in terms of learning. before i get fl to our budget update, i just wanted to note that with regards to the small business successes you are championing given the last item, that is something clear to me even in the last two weeks and i think it is a part of the narrative of the doom loop everyone wants us to combat. right before this i was working giving a interview to a re

sarah. dennis phillips, executive director of the office of economic and workforce development. i'd like to thank our analyst at the bla, severin campbell, as well as our analyst at the mayor's budget office. jack english, for their hard work around our budget, we are in agreement with the bla recommended ations with the exception of the ambassador related reduction. while we actively worked with the bla to achieve a reasonable reduction to the ambassador programs that we could work with and that wouldn't result in a drop in service to our residents and communities. we understand that there may be more cuts to be considered around the policy recommendations that could potentially result in further reductions to the ambassador programs and the powell street corridor project. and those we are not in agreement with with regard to those policy recommendations. we have a few slides to respond to this committee's questions from last week. first, around specific downtown expenditures, including at powell street, and secondly, regarding our ambassador program, its application across the

sarah dennis phillips, before she actually came to the office of economic and workforce development, peter cohen, formerly with the council of community housing organizations , owns whitney jones from cdc. ccdc for all of their hard work and brain damage to bring us to this point, this is a time limited reduction for three years and there are provisions in this legislation to force the tac to reconvene and re meet in three years time. but i think this is going to move the needle and jumpstart residential development in san francisco, not only in service to our housing element goals, but to our most importantly, our affordable housing goals. finally, colleagues, i would like to adjourn today's board meeting in the memory of a constituent who i knew for the last quarter of a century. judith schiff, who passed away at the vibrant age of 81. she was born in new york to parents who taught her the importance of education and social justice. she later lived in santa barbara and hawaii before moving to her beloved city of san francisco in 1987, where she earned her phd in education at usf. s

sarah dennis phillips, before she actually came to the office of economic and workforce development, peter cohen, formerly with the council of community housing organizations , owns whitney jones from cdc. ccdc for all of their hard work and brain damage to bring us to this point, this is a time limited reduction for three years and there are provisions in this legislation to force the tac to reconvene and re meet in three years time. but i think this is going to move the needle and jumpstart residential development in san francisco, not only in service to our housing element goals, but to our most importantly, our affordable housing goals. finally, colleagues, i would like to adjourn today's board meeting in the memory of a constituent who i knew for the last quarter of a century. judith schiff, who passed away at the vibrant age of 81. she was born in new york to parents who taught her the importance of education and social justice. she later lived in santa barbara and hawaii before moving to her beloved city of san francisco in 1987, where she earned her phd in education at usf. s