small business groups. with recommendations 11 we contemplated supporting merchants in adopting bulk purchases best practices. it would be bulk purchasing is trader joe's and big box stores have the luxury of administering with respect to their products. that is a large reason why they can offer more competitive pricing on a lot of products that our small corner stores and mom and pop shops also sell. it is something that i know a lot of the small grocers contemplated but not able to adopt a framework. we are recommending that they have time to fully base this recommendation on the working group. we are recommending that we continue these conversations with the office of economic and work force development in collaboration with the economic development partners to see if we can help facilitate some kind of bulk purchasing program that is managed by the merchants themselves. we know, too, the city has employed a lot of purchasing solutions. this is up to the purchase of p.p.e. and distributing those to us. w

business and all different types of small businesses it should go to small landlords and own small buildings that giving them breaks but now they're in trouble and our customers no longer have a safe place to see each other and the neighborhood is a huge increase and vandalism and there aren't people out walking and there's another person is safe with a mask on you can walk six feet apart and there's a huge gatherings that we can hear and not see and we have outdoor dining since june and you can sit at your table with a mask and not huge, they fight like crazy and all the way to november. it's not proven to be a place where transmission happens. you can show me facts and i've had people text me and i know every customer and i tested positive, i let anyone know. >> clerk: thank you to the caller. we have 52 52 listeners and 18 callers in the queue. thank you for your understanding with that. operations, please welcome the next caller. >> caller: hello. i just wanted to make a call for the city to invest more for small businesses and this is customers are still walking around and waiting to sh

my name is ryan gilbert and i'm a small business owner in san francisco. i agree with what they've said to far but i want to focus on the shared spaces because it's something that is in your control here and the primary health refused to buy data for their decision on the closure and i just wanted to provide some data that i saw last week on friday night when i stood outside a local pizza operations, when i watched them in the course of maybe 15 minutes, probably fill 30 orders and over half of those were for multiple large pizzas and so, if you think that shared spaces down and forcing people to eat inside in a city where they're sharing houses with four other people is a good, by all means keep these things closed but operators have spent a lot of money trying to provide shared spaces outdoors and it's counter intuitive to keep these things closed and force people inside. people who go out to see their friends -- >> clerk: thank you for procedure comments. your comments. let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hi, my name is john and before the pande

you're on your own, states, localities, municipalities, small town, small counties. you're on your own. that's not our policy. we're in this together. we want to help all of those in distress. so i don't know that i'll have anything more to say on this particular item but i am appreciative of mr. chabot's bill. i hope that his bill is included and i hope that we can pass something next week. to help all of those in deep distress. that would be good for our country. it's the right thing to do it's the moral thing to do. and i hope we do it. i will facilitate it when we get to an agreement. i thank the gentleman. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman too. in terms of our children, we know sending them back to school safely, the protocols are out there. child nutrition programs are administered in our schools. that's not happening because the kids are in those systems where they're not safely reopened, those kids aren't able to get the school lunches. mr. hoyer: will the gentleman yield on that point? i don't know about your school system but my school system is still prov

the new jobs created in america are created by small businesses. this they are critical to the american economy. when covid-19 hit earlier in the year, this institution, the house, the senate together, bicameral and bipartisan, republicans and democrats passed the cares act and the the paycheck protection program, it saved over 50 million jobs including in my district, the cincinnati area. i visited those businesses and talked to businesses who would have gone under. it is not just the small businesses that you are trying to help but it's those employees and families that those support. the paycheck protection program, the doors to that program were shut back in august. and all we need to do is pass legislation to reopen those doors and give small businesses to get an opportunity in the first round or a business that did but has revenue decreases of 25% meaning they are hurting and needing another loan, give them access. we don't have to put money in that program. there is $135 billion just sitting there and help those businesses and save those job

that hit small business. even for the people here, there is other data suggesting san franciscans are staying home and following the public health guidance and taking the virus for seriously to a greater extent. there is google mobility data that looks at how much they spend outside the home. all of these factors, the migration, staying at home, the lost of computers are converging to make things unusually difficult compared to other places. so that's my slide presentation and i'm also happy to take questions. >> i think we're going to go through each of the presentations and take questions and comments at the end. our next speaker is director torez from the office of economic and workforce development. >> thank you so much, supervisor. thank you, president yee. i'll try to move as quickly as i can through some of the repetitive information. dylan smith is going to be sharing the slides. i wanted to go through the importance of small business and the thorough presentation that was made. of course our chief ec

business and all different types of small businesses it should go to small landlords and own small buildings that giving them breaks but now they're in trouble and our customers no longer have a safe place to see each other and the neighborhood is a huge increase and vandalism and there aren't people out walking and there's another person is safe with a mask on you can walk six feet apart and there's a huge gatherings that we can hear and not see and we have outdoor dining since june and you can sit at your table with a mask and not huge, they fight like crazy and all the way to november. it's not proven to be a place where transmission happens. you can show me facts and i've had people text me and i know every customer and i tested positive, i let anyone know. >> clerk: thank you to the caller. we have 52 52 listeners and 18 callers in the queue. thank you for your understanding with that. operations, please welcome the next caller. >> caller: hello. i just wanted to make a call for the city to invest more for small businesses and this is customers are still walking around and waiting to sh

the first, is small business owners deserve a seat at table and i come from a small business families and my mother's family escaped in poll ant and the holocaust to move to brick lynn and opened up a store and a store that my mother grew up in and my father is holl cop and small tablecloth and waking up sunday morning pack up family truck to sell at festivals on the weekends. i understand very much the hard work that goes into opening and running a small business as a small business owner myself and it's in my blood. and the relationship our transportation the streets, workers and small businesses have never been more important and we've lost 3,000 small businesses and unimaginable numbers since march in our city. and i've seen firsthand how decisions made by the sfmta in closing streets to cars and allowing the shared spaces program to on three presidential campaigns and i would bring an organizers' perspective hearing all voices, bringing people together and advocating. i am a advocate and small business owner so that experience is useful on the board and my third my role at manny'

small step. it's really about building a bit of social capital, taking one small step away from the abyss that we are facing as a democracy, and we can survive in a swamp of mutual contempt. you and your viewers don't need to be told about what's happened in the past bunch of years. you know that we used to disagree with the people across the divide, with our neighbors, and now we hate them. there's studies that show we hate and fear our neighbors more than our traditional international adversaries, russia and so forth. so things have gone a little bit bonkers in the country. and this is just one small solution to try and help us see each other as human beings again. it's all about humanization. it's not about finding common ground. it's about remembering that the person you disagree with is a human being, because we know the kind of danger that dehumanizing others can do to a society. so we are in for cities now. but anyone across the country can do it. you can also go to our website to find out

like an hispanic owned small businesses account for 7.8% of total small businesses. 7.8% of small businessesn the country are owned by african-american or hispanic, and get they successfully received 10 point 6% of the total loans disbursed. despite some negative narratives i have seen i have heard loud and clear about the success i have seen from small business owners throughout the country. -- said we applied for the ppp loan which help us focus our energy on pivoting our business model. the funds allowed us to reassign staff to these opportunities, which ended up making up the revenue we lost from our traditional business. libertye owner of landscape in jacksonville said if i had to sum up the loan in one word, it gave us confidence. we would be in a much more difficult position without it. these represent only a small portion of comments we have received from small businesses about the program. outset, whilehe there are better days ahead with the promises of a successful vaccine we should have great confidence that before this time this year we will be living a very different situation.

hurt small businesses won't be well by the small business community. >> a tough year to look at thesesmall businesses being the backbone. small business confidence dropped to an all-time low. this is understood after what happened with the pandemic in the course of the last 8 to 9 months but when you look at joe biden in office and what that could mean for small business owners, people are really nervous right now. >> consumer confidence fell, the fact that holiday sales were good, probably retail therapy for all of us but the reality, there is going to need to be stimulus to help small businesses. the patient protection program has money that is unused, helping small business is vital especially as we enter a new phase of lockdowns. >> thank you for your insights, appreciate it, have a good day. >> still had organs spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a covid-19 relief program that only african-americans can apply for. the outrage and legal challenges rolling in. >> accused of stepping multiple people at a church after being deported three times, former dhs legal counsel mike pow

i am one small business and one voice but i speak to the by many.s faced many small small businesses in e country need help to survive. if i could ask for three things, first we need additional ppe and idle funds. second we need to ensure ppe loans do not have negative tax implications for small business owners and third commercial rent and deferrals on other rent assistance would be invaluable for even to businesses like mine where rental loans is a major overhead cost. i recognize the response to the pandemic must first be first and foremost about protecting lives but it mus must also focus on protecting livelihoods including those of the nations most vital small businesses. thank you. >> thank you so much. ms. williams. >> good morning chairman rubio, ranking member cardin and members of the committee i'm pleased to testify about why the community development financial institution must be central to the federal government strategy for reaching very small minority owned businesses. these businesses cannot afford for this to be an afterthought and public policies addressing the econ

okay. >> president laguna: small businesses, of course. but with the small business commission.but i'm curious -- you know, if -- you know, just running the same sort of general numbers here, right? i mean, if we guesstimate that it's on average $1,600 per business and there's, say, 43,000 businesses at the top end, we're looking at $71 million is what it would take to waive $1600 off of everybody's fee. does that sound in rough general ballpark based on your experience? >> i would want to say -- because i don't know. i do need to find out exactly what that would be before i could respond. i'm sorry, i don't want to provide sort of -- it may or may not. i don't know. because we'd have to look at the number of universal -- universal fees, you know, and the number of registration fee payers as well as the gross receipts and any leftover payroll from this year >> president laguna: but probably to safe to say that it's in the tens of millions? yes? >> i'm not -- i'm sorry. i'm here to talk about that particular -- i apologize >> president laguna: yeah, i know that it's an adjacent q

is- small for sale. hispanic businesses are in the 30's and that's devastating for the community and the small businesses who no longer have a job to go to. for the afghan american community, that numbers in the 40's. the question is minority owned businesses have been the hardest hit in this covid-19 economic slowdown. do you agree with the assessment that direct assistance, tailored assistance for those in similar situations -- similar situated businesses would have a wide rippling benefit to the economy? sec. mnuchin: i do senator, absolutely. and i would say despite the success of project warp speed and the fact we will have a vaccine distributed in large mass. the problem is now. these small businesses cannot wait two or three months. so i would urge congress again to reallocate unused money and more money to ppp. do a set-aside as we did last time particularly for underserved areas. u.n. senator warner and others have worked on a possibility of $10 billion to be invested into cdf eyes -- cdfis whic

i think the discussion on small business is so important and we continue to be excited about 10,000 smallu a wonderful holiday. i hope everybody stays safe and healthy. >> david, thank you, happy holidays to you, we'll talk soon. >> thank you very much. >> andrew. >> thanks, becky when we come back on the other side of this another big interview. slack ceo stew butterfield is going to join us his first televised interview since his sale to sales force. >>> some of the news on the coronavirus vaccine, the fda publishing a briefing document on that company's shot, data showing a favorable profile for the vaccine and it has no concerns that would preclude an emergency use authorization, we'll get an update from meg tirrell on all of that in just a coleup of minutes. don't go anywhere. "squawk" is coming back after this many experts predict the next gold rush is just beginning. so call us money reserve the only precious metals organization led by a former director of the united states mint as one of the largest us gold coin distributors in the country. us money reserve has proudly served hund

the first, is small business owners deserve a seat at table and i come from a small business families and my mother's family escaped in poll ant and the holocaust to move to brick lynn and opened up a store and a store that my mother grew up in and my father is holl cop and small tablecloth and waking up sunday morning pack up family truck to sell at festivals on the weekends. i understand very much the hard work that goes into opening and running a small business as a small business owner myself and it's in my blood. and the relationship our transportation the streets, workers and small businesses have never been more important and we've lost 3,000 small businesses and unimaginable numbers since march in our city. and i've seen firsthand how decisions made by the sfmta in closing streets to cars and allowing the shared spaces program to on three presidential campaigns and i would bring an organizers' perspective hearing all voices, bringing people together and advocating. i am a advocate and small business owner so that experience is useful on the board and my third my role at manny'

update and report on the office of small business and the small business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners, there are a few things thisat i want to highlight. i will be as brief as possible since we're creeping late into the night. you did see the mayor's press release announcing a third deferment. these are the tax and fees trathe treasurer's office -- that the treasurer's office sends out. these are not d.p.w. licenses and permits. so again, these will be -- these are being delayed until the end of october, october 31, and it will be the deferment of both 2020 and 2021. so at that time, it will be two years' worth of annual license, the unified license, the operating license fee's due. it also provides up to -- there's also an announcement of $1 million to help support for operators of shared spaces, and then, the release of $3.2 million in zero interest loans for the latino owned businesses in the latino community. so those are

is a small farmer. he lives together with his children and grandchildren serious person i knew in that room i went to school for 3 years my parents didn't have the money to allow me to pursue my studies i attended school from age 8 to 11 then i just started working without any training but when i worked on a coffee far. more choice for you. your go across. in this remote region of mountainous northern guatemala another small scale farmer john haas into a severe hair is visiting his father now 100 years old when used to work as a forced labor out on a coffee plantation or. the family converses in the maya language issue. while. i was born here in this modest area in the village and. i agree with that and it taught us how to work. hard here there was never enough to live from so people had to go elsewhere to earn money. where i was 7 the 1st time my brother and i accompanied our father to the coast they are. but i'll be higher in the course the i was paid with 3 tortillas but only when i filled my basket

i support small business grants that are going to be helping small businesses and i was a director for the walkway weekend and can i tell you and helped the retail businesses as well and so the shared spaces program needs to meet to continue and we need more money directed towards tourism and recovery and not only for chinatown but for many associations or district sets rely on tourism the money and thank you for listening and thank you for the opportunity to see a small businesses. >> thank you for your comments. >> may we have the next caller, please. >> night my name is jennifer hall and i'm speaking on and san francisco and the nail hall and the beer hall and the nail salon and a bar and the worst industries to be in during a pandemic. we have three kids and are in the public school system which is no concrete date or plan to start in-person school again. we need financial relief and the city prioritize leaving small businesses and the lack downs that have been ineffective and detrimental and it's not safe. we should be coordinating and we're all on the same page. sheting down shou

i introduce resolutions requested by the small business community. the first to support and i appreciate what supervisor safai said as well. i look forward to working with him to support permanent version of shared spaces program. second establishment of special advisory committee on federal stimulus spending for small businesses. third support small business relief as budget priority for the city. that last resolution will make small business economic relief priority for potential stimulus funds or funds from the next year that may be available to the city and county of san francisco. lastly, i am introducing an ordinance which i spoke about at the last meeting which will amend the administrative code to establish the san francisco music and entertainment recovery fund to save institutions vital, cultural and economic hubs for the city. we heard how devastating this has been for the venues shuttered since march. $15 billionsy start. if the previous aid package, these are insufficient to prevent closure and for some it is too late. in san francisco w

you're on your own, states, localities, municipalities, small town, small counties. you're on your own. that's not our policy. we're in this together. we want to help all of those in distress. so i don't know that i'll have anything more to say on this particular item but i am appreciative of mr. chabot's bill. i hope that his bill is included and i hope that we can pass something next week. to help all of those in deep distress. that would be good for our country. it's the right thing to do it's the moral thing to do. and i hope we do it. i will facilitate it when we get to an agreement. i thank the gentleman. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman too. in terms of our children, we know sending them back to school safely, the protocols are out there. child nutrition programs are administered in our schools. that's not happening because the kids are in those systems where they're not safely reopened, those kids aren't able to get the school lunches. mr. hoyer: will the gentleman yield on that point? i don't know about your school system but my school system is still prov

a lot of them are employees of small businesses and i-- i'm sympathetic to a small business owner who doesn't have the time or energy to go through the complicated process sometimes as establishing and running a 401(k) plan. anything we can do to incentivize them to take the steps, to make the economics work better through credits, to give them more options, is great. that will help expand coverage. >> thank you. any other thoughts on that? and then i want to go to mr mr. luskin for a question. any others? mr. luskin, i want to ask you to take a look at one provision, it's the non-spousal assets being able to be enrolled into a plan. can you talk about that and how that might affect some of the beneficiaries you serve? >> thank you for having the question, senator. and rolling over the non-spousal, and we look at account con sal-- consolidation. and the more that opens you up to lowering costs and allows them to take part in better returns, because incentives and paying for good investment advisement and so forth is important, but lowering those allows that to have better returns and

post pandemic recovery is a number of small businesses that do not qualify for the ppe. mike small independent music venues are the best example of a critical main street industry that is dying under the current covid restrictions. that's why worked with our friend from minnesota, senator klobuchar to enter save our stages act will keep independent venues across america from closing their doors for good. this would not just apply to a live music venues in austin, texas, this would apply to symphonies, to potentially broadway. this would apply across-the-boards, part i am proud to say 56 of our colleagues have cosponsored save our stages. making it one of the most widely supported stimulus proposals before the senate. we saw a lot of work to do but we do not have much time. beyond these three goals was a lot more i would like to see in the relief bill. and i guarantee all 535 members of congress would like to see more. the fact of the matter is we've been unable to reach an agreement on this bill with the most controversial priorities but it's time to take action where we

these small folks are struggling. what should be a consideration for them so they can survive and flourish. they are the fabric of the community. so many closed. lucky my corner grocery store. i go to say "hello" to the person running it. they are not there any more. i miss them. thank you, supervisors and officer, for taking this on. happy holidays. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> good morning. i wanted to take a moment to high light the advice of our entertainment commission and small business commission. first, i would like to start with a quote from ben bleman and his article. longer term our readers must address the issues crushing the small business before the virus. in the past decade san francisco is rated the worst place to open a small business in the united states. no big secret. the combination of permitting, zoning, commercial rent, taxes, fee, competition. it has placed burdens on local shops and restaurants for years. that is a direct quote from our entertainment commi

small business groups.with recommendations 11 we contemplated supporting merchants in adopting bulk purchases best practices. it would be bulk purchasing is trader joe's and big box stores have the luxury of administering with respect to their products. that is a large reason why they can offer more competitive pricing on a lot of products that our small corner stores and mom and pop shops also sell. it is something that i know a lot of the small grocers contemplated but not able to adopt a framework. we are recommending that they have time to fully base this recommendation on the working group. we are recommending that we continue these conversations with the office of economic and work force development in collaboration with the economic development partners to see if we can help facilitate some kind of bulk purchasing program that is managed by the merchants themselves. we know, too, the city has employed a lot of purchasing solutions. this is up to the purchase of p.p.e. and distributing those to us. we

francisco has is a small farmer. he lives together with his children and grandchildren serious person i knew in that room i went to school for 3 years my parents didn't have the money to allow me to pursue my studies i attended school from age 8 to 11 then i just started working without any training but i worked on a coffee far. more to a story. your go across. in this remote region of mountainous northern guatemala another small scale farmer john haas interests have your hair is visiting his father now 100 years old when used to work as a forced labor out on a coffee plantation or. the family converses in the maya language. while. i was born here in this modest area in the village and. i grew with that and it taught us how to work. hard here there was never enough to live from so people had to go elsewhere to earn money you know where i was 7 the 1st time my brother and i accompanied our father to the coast. but i'll be higher in the course the i was paid with 3 tortillas but only when i filled my basket with at lea

the first, is small business owners deserve a seat at table and i come from a small business families and my mother's family escaped in poll ant and the holocaust to move to brick lynn and opened up a store and a store that my mother grew up in and my father is holl cop and small tablecloth and waking up sunday morning pack up family truck to sell at festivals on the weekends. i understand very much the hard work that goes into opening and running a small business as a small business owner myself and it's in my blood. and the relationship our transportation the streets, workers and small businesses have never been more important and we've lost 3,000 small businesses and unimaginable numbers since march in our city. and i've seen firsthand how decisions made by the sfmta in closing streets to cars and allowing the shared spaces program to on three presidential campaigns and i would bring an organizers' perspective hearing all voices, bringing people together and advocating. i am a advocate and small business owner so that experience is useful on the board and my third my role at manny'

about 950 billion dollars, nearly $1 trillion to small business. billion, $160 billion to state and local government. 950, 160. state and local government. health-care workers, police and fire. teachers, sanitation, transportation, 160. 950. but we need more here to exploit the opportunity that is here. meantime, it's $2000 and will go a long way not only to sustain the national security of america's working families, but will help small business to thrive as well. so these things are all connected. havee same time as we monday passing in bipartisan fashion, the cash act, the cash act, caring for americans with supplemental help, caring for americans with subtle mental health, the cash act, we also that day had an overwhelming vote to override the president's veto of the national dissent authorization act, the ndaa. overwhelming. overwhelming vote. 314-87. republicans voting to override the president's veto. we hope that the senate will follow suit. they had a big, strong vote in the senate in favor of this bill , hopefully they will stand by their

as it relates to small businesses, hoosier small businesses have been hammered and so many others around the country. said 75%nfib survey of members would either consider or go ahead and apply for a second round of ppp assistance, the sort that is included in the senate package. whether it is ppp assistance or inclusion of the restart act, the legislation, bicameral, bipartisan i put together with senator bennett of colorado, it now has 58 cosponsors with the addition of senator perdue of georgia in the u.s. senate. 180 in the house of representatives. again bipartisan. i will continue to push on this small business front and on the other fronts i mentioned to provide relief to the american people. unfortunately, it seems that house is focus on other priorities. they are focused on something pertaining to marijuana. toing more consideration marijuana policy before years end. that can be debated. the far-left is to cool their jets right now as we deal with the serious business and the of ourff request constituents around the country. >> [indiscernible] relief -- on covid relief, have you

billion, nearly $1 trillion to small business. billion, $160 billion to state and local governments. , $160 billion, state and local government, health care workers, police and fire, teachers, sanitation, transportation, food workers, $160 billion, $950 billion, but we need more to exploit the opportunity that is here. and, in the meantime, this $2000 will go along long way not only to sustain the financial security of america's working families but will help small business to thrive as well. so these things are all connected. at the same time as we have passing in bipartisan fashion the cash act, the cash act, caring for americans with supplemental help, caring for americans with supplement help, the cash act, we also had that day an overwhelming vote to override the president's vito of the national defense -- theto --'s ceve of ndaa.ent's veto of the 109 republicans voted to override the president's veto. we hope that the senate will follow suit. they had a big, strong vote in the senate in favor of this bill. hopefully they wil

my mom was a small business owner. i know how hard small business owners work and they are struggling. i met with several of them in hillsborough, west of portland. these things are regional. just south of here, wine country. they are small businesses, they have tasting rooms, they are struggling. plus some of them have smoke damage and can't have a crop this year. we listened to them, that's why we passed the hero's act in may, and again in october. here's another chance that the senate will take that up. >> you are hopeful it will get done. >> i am hopeful. if they listen to people the way that i and my colleagues in the house have listened, they will recognize there is a need. there is a light at the end of the tunnel. >> there is some distance to end of the tunnel. >> there is distance to the end of the tunnel. if we don't get that aid pack an out, the woman who was terrified, the city official in one of the coastal cities said that we need that aid because we don't have enough to keep your public services going if

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no small amount of irony. her state just approved legalizing cannabis, and this legislation would prevent the federal government from interfering with what her voters decided. i have been waiting for this historic moment for a long time. i was in the organize oon legislature, we were the first state to decriminalize cannabis. and i have been working from bangor, maine, to santa barbara ever since trying to end the failed prohibition of cannabis. it is happening today. because it has been demanded by the voters, by facts, by the momentum behind this issue. it is now a $17 billion industry . it employs 250,000 people. it's powerful in terms of economic development, but more important, as my friend from massachusetts said, this is an opportunity to strike a blow against the failed war on drugs that has literally destroyed hundreds of thousands of young black lives. black people use cannabis no more frequently than whites, but they are arrested about four more times, in some parts of the country it's much, much gr

tens of thousands of small businesses closed. hospitals and nursing homes struggled while millions of merica cans were left jobless. they paid a steep price with voters giving house republicans 2/3 of the seats needed to take back the majority. i thank president trump for signing bipartisan legislation even with its flaws that included several separate bills that rides on the annual funding bill for the government, including covid relief, a ban on surprise medical bills and urgent tax relief for families and local businesses. i recognize that today's cash act will pass with bipartisan support, republicans and democrats alike and i respect the decision of each member of congress. but for me, i worry that this whopping $463 billion won't do what's needed, stimulate the economy or get the job less back to work. at this point in the recovery, the fact is it is hard to stimulate a main street that is locked down by local politicians. this won't help restaurants get their workers back or hospital industry rehire workers or won't get en

some liability insurance curves, which would help small businesses, small schools and local government. very hard to trace these covid breakouts. those are some of the key points. by the way, you've got roughly $600 billion that is unspent and will be reappropriated. reporter: you don't want to say -- mr. kudlow: i'm going to lead it to senator mcconnell and speaker pelosi and others. we are in touch daily right now with everybody. that includes the republican house leader, kevin mccarthy. >> can i follow up? given the stats -- [indiscernible] >> and given the economic numbers we saw today and i know you disagree with some of the characterizations but you say it is below what economists are hoping for, how hopeful is it that a bill will be passed in a lame duck session? mr. kudlow: i have argued that targeted areas should be dealt through. and i see no reason why we couldn't have done this last summer, early in the fall, particularly small business and unemployment. and i would add to that, i know senator mccome and i think he is right, some liability insurance reforms would also help

the small business commission is the small public forum for economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco it is the best place to get answers about doing business in san francisco during the local emergency. if you need assistance continue to reach out to the office of small business. item 10 adjournment. >> do you want to make a motion? >> yes. this is commissioner yekutiel. i would like to motion to adjourn tonight's small business commission meeting in honor of the cliff house. a brief word about the cliff house. 157 years old. it was built by senator john buckley and cc butler. purchased by the first jewish mayor in 1883. there was a dynamite explosion in 1887 which destroyed it. there was a christmas fire in 1894 which burned it to the ground. then the mayor rebuilt it in 1896. this business survived the 1906 earthquake. then was burned to the ground in 1907 again. rebuilt and changed ownership a few times, but at long last in 2020 due to the covid-19 crisis it was announced yesterday or sometime this week that it was going to permanently close december 31st. they have

so where's the small business people, those who are unemployed. cities and towns who are worried about laying off frontline workers, hospitals who are in financial distress, they need help from the federal government. and we are here to say we think there is a pathway to an agreement that can provide that help for a temporary period. now, the challenge is, and a number of my colleagues have talked about this being a victory for the american people. if we pass it, it is a victory for the american people. this is step one. we have a lot of steps going forward. but to provide help for people who are in need, that's why we're here, and that's what we intend to try and get done and i'm pleased to be part of this effort. now, representative reed is here. >> i don't need the stool, thank you, josh. well, thank you, and thank you to the senators for such great work. i just wanted to take a moment to thank the leadership of the problem solvers caucus that worked tirelessly on this effort. i wanted to specifically recognize abigail spanberger from virginia,

small business groups. with recommendations 11 we contemplated supporting merchants in adopting bulk purchases best practices. it would be bulk purchasing is trader joe's and big box stores have the luxury of administering with respect to their products. that is a large reason why they can offer more competitive pricing on a lot of products that our small corner stores and mom and pop shops also sell. it is something that i know a lot of the small grocers contemplated but not able to adopt a framework. we are recommending that they have time to fully base this recommendation on the working group. we are recommending that we continue these conversations with the office of economic and work force development in collaboration with the economic development partners to see if we can help facilitate some kind of bulk purchasing program that is managed by the merchants themselves. we know, too, the city has employed a lot of purchasing solutions. this is up to the purchase of p.p.e. and distributing those to us. w

so many of these small venues are not. my question i guess of you with your cool jump set over there in wichita is, could you explain how it would be really hard to bring back these venues? you cannot stop a finger and they are going to be -- cannot snap a finger and they are going to be up to come back with your low margins. >> many of our venues have taken generations to build. in smaller markets like wichita, this is an ongoing effort that is passed on from generation to generation to get an act to come to wichita kansas has been the work of many decades of people. not only that but to get the spaces that are appropriate for hosting music, you mentioned first avenue. that is a magical place. there is not another space like that in the world. if you lose the 1st avenue, it is going to be impossible to replicate that. you cannot go into any warehouse and have that magic. int is true of the cotillion wichita and all these venues across the country. even if they are not historic, new venues -- a certain theme to it. senator