Recommendation to declare ordinance establishing a small business recruitment, retention and growth pilot program, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Item 16 is a report from City Attorney. Recommendation to declare ordinance establishing a Small Business Recruitment, Retention and Growth Pilot Program. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. Councilwoman Price. I want to make a correction in the ordinance on page two. Line ten of the ordinance. We want to add the words quote and is a small business, end of. Quote, after the word beach. Other than that, I'd like to move this item. It looks like it's been seconded. I do want to take a moment to acknowledge and I neglected to do this the last time this issue was before us. But I wanted to acknowledge. The work. Of Councilmember Urunga for helping us, helping Councilwoman Mongo and I in moving this agenda forward. He sits on the Economic Development Committee with us, and I believe that he is also supporting us in every effort that we can to find incentives and opportunities for small businesses. So I want to take a moment to acknowledge him, because I neglected to do that last time. Thank you. Thank you. So any member of the public that wishes to address council on this item. CNN members cast your vote. Motion carries six zero. Item 16. We did item 16. And we've done item 17. That's it. Oh. We're going to Cuba. No, I have no announcements. Me neither. Oh. I'm in shock. Councilmember Andrews does not have anything. We have public. Yes, we do have public comment. So we're going to take that first. That was the. On which one? I apologize. Would you like to come forward? Thank you. Yes. Thank you for giving you that. My name is Reggie Carter and I am a homeless vet and I was at the village of Cabrillo as an employee. Also, I was in the program that was funding my college education, which was AmeriCorps while I was there. Our funding for AmeriCorps project was was take money was taken out of it by a person that worked at the location to handle the real estate property. And she resigned. And you're sending more money back over to a program that steals from people that are trying to help themselves? You know, and I'm just a part of that because right now I'm living with someone and I'm homeless, you know, and I brought this up several times to this board meeting. You know, I sat there for a whole almost hour and something. And you speaking about dogs, what about the people laying on the street? You know, I'm really tired of seeing it everyday. I ride the subway train and it's always African-Americans. It's always African-Americans with all this stuff in the seats. And then, you know, you tickle them, you know, and then that's revenue. And the same thing. I just saw a Ferguson, you know, and when is this going to stop? You know, if you really care about people. Well, while some of you are adopting these terms to adopt some people, and that's just my opinion. I'm sorry. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Thank you, Mr. Carter. So under new business. Councilmember Richardson.