october 28, the el maqidiza, the petite market opened with meta, through meta, and this was a market to help the entrepreneurs going through meta's program be able to, instead of maybe having a pushcart on the street, be able to sell their wares, there's now a small market with -- that's divided into different sections and they have a section where they can begin selling their goods and starting out as a business and growing their business and hopefully being able to move into their own retail space. i encourage everybody to go by and commissioner o'brien stopped by for the opening, as well. november 3, i attended the california planner's conference to present on what the city is doing about our changes with the mobile food, and it was fascinating to hear from many different cities who were there to -- who were there to hear the presentations, that they're very impressed with what the city is doing, san francisco is doing. and then saturday was the valley economic development center's annual access to capital business expo. there was about 200 businesses there and we had a table at t