>> yes. >> commissioner yekutiel? >> yes. >> clerk: motion passes 7-0. >> please call item number 3. >> clerk: item number 3. small businesses forum. impacts related to the covid-19 emergency, opportunity for business leaders and community service providers to present on economic response to the covid-19 local emergency and provide recommendations for recovery. discussion and possible action item, presenters are carlos solorzano, mark trim -- please mute yourselves. >> okay. >> clerk: wait. not done. sorry. there's feedback. everyone who is not muted, please mute yourselves. presenters are carlos solorzano, northern regional chair, hispanic chambers of commerce. mark quinn, adviser and former san francisco small business administration district director. laurie thomas, executive director, golden gate restaurant association. jen dasilva, executive committee chair of freelance economic development alliance. and founder and executive director of start small think big. and rodney fong, president and c.e.o. of san francisc

commissioner yekutiel. >> commissioner yekutiel: thank you, very much.and we look forward to working with you over the coming months. obviously, we can't speak whether we support or don't support the ballot measure. i have two questions. one, the ballot would be on in november, we're currently bleeding -- bleeding small businesses -- you know, in our city. so what are you working on between now and november? and what do you think that you would work on if it doesn't pass? >> yes. so most of what this changes or will that we have in our planning code -- so, you know, we are certainly trying to expand our program and just process permits quicker. we recognize that, you know, this process can't be as long as it takes for many small businesses to get through it. so supervisor peskin had an ordinance before -- or a commission a couple weeks ago that would kind of require us to process c.e.u.s associated with small businesses and neighborhood commercial corridors. in kind of the timeframe that we're supporting cp3 permits. so we will continue to prioritize the

commissioner yekutiel. >> commissioner yekutiel: thank you, very much.and we look forward to working with you over the coming months. obviously, we can't speak whether we support or don't support the ballot measure. i have two questions. one, the ballot would be on in november, we're currently bleeding -- bleeding small businesses -- you know, in our city. so what are you working on between now and november? and what do you think that you would work on if it doesn't pass? >> yes. so most of what this changes or will that we have in our planning code -- so, you know, we are certainly trying to expand our program and just process permits quicker. we recognize that, you know, this process can't be as long as it takes for many small businesses to get through it. so supervisor peskin had an ordinance before -- or a commission a couple weeks ago that would kind of require us to process c.e.u.s associated with small businesses and neighborhood commercial corridors. in kind of the timeframe that we're supporting cp3 permits. so we will continue to prioritize the