 here with Councilwoman Julie Menon, who's always just coming up with great ideas of how to move our city forward in the right direction. I'm really excited about this bill. These two bills we are announcing today. Today, a whole hearings is signings on two important bills that help our small businesses and working New Yorkers. For too long, the boulder of bureaucracy has gotten the way of working New Yorkers, working New Yorkers as small business owners of endless red tape, complicated processes, and agencies, silos have made it harder for New Yorkers to open and operate small businesses. And COVID-19 has only made it even harder. Today, we change that and fulfill a key commitment from my economic recovery blueprint. Today is about promise made, promises made, promises kept. Intro 116 requires the commission of small business services to create a one-stop-shop NYC business portal. This is something I talked about often. We send our small businesses and business operators around to too many different locations just to get a business open and operated. Through this portal, all applications permit licenses and related information needed to open and operate a small business in the city would be available. We're so happy to have Gail Brewer joining us as well. Business owners have enough to worry about, and we are giving them some relief by lifting the bureaucratic burden off their shoulders. We are giving them all the tools they need in one accessible location. This is something we talked about over and over again. We heard this from business owners repeatedly, the challenges and difficulties of navigating government just to get their businesses open, and we're removing those challenges. Small business, we say over and over again, they're the lifeblood of our city, and they are driving our recovery, and we want to make it easier for New Yorkers to set up shop across the five boroughs. The days of going to a dozen different offices and websites, those days are over, and we are just getting started on how we're going to continue to alleviate, if not eradicate those boulders that are in the way to prevent businesses from operating. COVID-19 forced many businesses to close, leaving many commercial properties vacant, and we want to turn vacancy signs into open for business signs, and that is why this next bill help us get there by keeping better data on commercial vacancies in our city. Intro 383 amends the commercial property vacancy registry law. It requires the supplemental registration statements be filed by August 15th and February 15th each year, rather than a single filing on June 30th. This is intended to increase the frequency of reported data on commercial vacancies in this city. So important, small businesses are the heart of our city, and being able to open a business and be aware of the vacancies is a way to ensure that that completely continues to beat a healthy heart. These two bills ensure that they are at the center of economic recovery, and our businesses will stay there. So I want to thank Speaker Adrian Adams, Councilman and member Julie Menon, sponsor of Intro 116, and Councilmember Gail Brewer, sponsor of Intro 383. And I want to again thank both my commissioners for their input in both these bills to ensure our small businesses are able to open and operate and remain open in this city. Right now I want to turn it over to Councilmember Menon to say a few words. Again, thank you, Julie, for this bill. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. I am so ecstatic today because you're going to be signing into law Intro 116. And before I talk a little bit about Intro 116, I really want to thank Commissioner Kevin Kim for his partnership. He's been a great partner in this and I want to congratulate my colleague Gail Brewer on the signing of her bill as well. So Intro 116, as the Mayor says, creates a one-stop-shop portal. I campaigned on this issue when I was running for city council. I'm a former small business owner. I used to own a restaurant and catering business that was located not that far from here. And I can tell you firsthand how difficult it is to navigate city bureaucracy. If you want to open up a restaurant in New York City, you're literally dealing with 20 different separate applications, eight different city agencies. Frequently you have to take a day or two off of work just to navigate that bureaucracy. Well, no longer will that be a case. With this one-stop-shop portal, we're literally consolidating every single city agency into one portal, one app in 11 different languages, and you're also going to be able to pay fines directly by clicking a link. And so this is going to make it so much easier for our small businesses to operate. After COVID, we've seen that close to one-third of the city's small businesses are at risk of closure. And so today we're taking an enormous step forward to tackle this bureaucracy. And so once again, I want to thank the Mayor and I also want to thank the Speaker for her leadership in getting this bill through. Thank you. Thank you. Always coming up with good ideas. And I now want to turn it over to Council Member Brewer to comment on intro 383, Councilwoman. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. And I want to thank Council Member Menon for prioritizing this. I certainly want to thank the Department of Finance staff, a wonderful commissioner. Thank you very much, Presta Nieblak. And I want you to know, Mayor, these are two great commissioners. You know me, I don't like a lot of people. They're very special. So I was really, some time ago when I was President, I was proud to pass local law 157 in 2019. And it established the city's first database to track vacant ground and second floor storefronts. We did that with then Council Member Helen Rosenthal. And the goal then as now is to help neighborhood civic groups and policymakers use data to map vacancies in their areas to help fill empty storefronts with new businesses. The database went live in 2021. And since then we've been working with advocates and businesses and the administration to improve its effectiveness. The bill signed today will report vital information to assess the proliferation of commercial vacancies, including whether ground floor commercial properties are vacant, owner or commercial tenant occupied, and the expiration date on the lease. This will give more data for better decisions. This bill also improves the timeliness of when data is collected and shared by the city. Thanks to the amazing work of the Department of Finance and the city council staff, we've reduced the lag time that data needs to be submitted to the portal and in collaboration with finance, we have reduced the reporting window to 60 days. I don't think anybody would dispute the fact that storefront vacancies lead to more trash on our sidewalks, darker streets, less foot traffic, and less economic applicativity. This bill is a win for our communities and will help us bring back those vital small businesses to our beloved commercial corridors. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, you know, some women. We will now invite the public to comment on the bills if there are any public comment, no comment. Okay, I will now sign Entrel 116 and Entrel 383. We're going to go back to 283.