i'm dee dee workingman with the chamber of commerce. first of all, he want to thank you the commission and the mraptd and the planning department staff for undertaking this study we think it's critically important because of the legislation that is coming before you and the board of supervisors that will impact the definition and policies regarding all kinds of retail within the last year or so we think the policy is important we have the correct and up to date data to come up with a new set of policies. i was appreciative to be part of the first stakeholder meeting last year. that was very productive and useful. our interest to the chamber it that policies will create balance we think the most successful corridors are those that have healthy mixed of all retailers like local or large retailers

i'm dee dee workingman pr the board of directors voted for having this ordinance we're the only chamber of commerce that has taken this position we want to thank supervisor cowen for helping us with this and help draft the ordinance. we were able to get input both on larger companies. we're comfortable with the language and the intent of the ordinance. our interests primary were were to get qualified applicants into the jobs and enable the position to be filled. we didn't want this to be cumbersome that you set people up to fail all along the process to be hired and there is something that makes them unsuitable weighing we've advocated this early so it will happen after the first interview and we're graltd about that. everybody we worked with all the companies and biz businesses were clear they were comfortable. many don't have this provision on their application but this was a given the box would come off. we didn't want o l s c to be second guessing the decisions that the employers make whether or not the civil action was an issue. it was the timing that the employer can you couldn't