. >> i attended our regular market business association meetings and our samba is going to be joining with the south beach business association, and also i attended an event, cosponsored by the arab american grocer association around ice raids in a time when businesses are being visited by ice in the city. >> great. >> so your two local business groups are merging? >> south beach and south -- >> and what was the reason for doing that? >> south beach had some infrastructure issues and we just decided to merge forces. >> share expenses and what not? >> yes. >> do we have public comment on item number 7? seeing none, closed. >> item 8, news business, new items for future consideration by the commission. >> i want to suggest we revisit an actually spend time researching the concept of helping small businesses purchase their store fronts. a number of business i know have done this and i feel like this is really the ultimate way to protect a small business from being evicted, is if they own their store front. some folks are doing it through a tic and i think with the crisis we're in right now, we really need to