Details Meeting Name: Committee on Small Business Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 1/30/2025 1:30 PM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Committee Room - City Hall Jointly with the Committee on Economic Development. Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS Meeting Items (10) 10 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia                     Roll call Not available T2025-2958 *       Oversight - Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Small Businesses. Oversight   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available T2025-2958 *       Oversight - Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Small Businesses. Oversight   Filed, by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0449-2024 * Althea V. Stevens     Creation of a commerical landlord watch list. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services to establish and maintain a commercial landlord watch list. This watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past 10 years, has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have engaged in commercial tenant harassment within the meaning of section 22-902 of the Administrative Code. In addition, the watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past three years, has engaged in a pattern of behavior that in the opinion of the Commissioner is consistent with harassment or exploitation of a commercial tenant. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0449-2024 * Althea V. Stevens     Creation of a commerical landlord watch list. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services to establish and maintain a commercial landlord watch list. This watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past 10 years, has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have engaged in commercial tenant harassment within the meaning of section 22-902 of the Administrative Code. In addition, the watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past three years, has engaged in a pattern of behavior that in the opinion of the Commissioner is consistent with harassment or exploitation of a commercial tenant. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1082-2024 * Mercedes Narcisse     Study and report on fees and costs required to start and maintain a small business. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS) to conduct a study of fees and costs required to start and maintain a small business, and to post online and issue to the Mayor and Speaker of the Council a report that includes recommendations to reduce or offset such fees and costs. The study and report would have a distinct focus on regulatory compliance fees and costs, and on fees and costs unique to small businesses that are minority or women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) and to small businesses located in neighborhoods underserved by public transportation. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1082-2024 * Mercedes Narcisse     Study and report on fees and costs required to start and maintain a small business. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS) to conduct a study of fees and costs required to start and maintain a small business, and to post online and issue to the Mayor and Speaker of the Council a report that includes recommendations to reduce or offset such fees and costs. The study and report would have a distinct focus on regulatory compliance fees and costs, and on fees and costs unique to small businesses that are minority or women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) and to small businesses located in neighborhoods underserved by public transportation. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1132-2024 * Oswald Feliz     Geographically targeted regulatory compliance services for small businesses. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS), together with the Office for Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) to determine, on an annual basis, the most common types of regulatory violations issued to businesses in each Community District. SBS would also be required to develop specially tailored regulatory compliance services for small businesses in each Community District, and to annually report on its findings, programming, and recommendations in relation to geographic trends in regulatory compliance challenges. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1132-2024 * Oswald Feliz     Geographically targeted regulatory compliance services for small businesses. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS), together with the Office for Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) to determine, on an annual basis, the most common types of regulatory violations issued to businesses in each Community District. SBS would also be required to develop specially tailored regulatory compliance services for small businesses in each Community District, and to annually report on its findings, programming, and recommendations in relation to geographic trends in regulatory compliance challenges. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available                     Not available