SB 635 is a bill that has been introduced by Senator Mark Leno to give communities the ability to determine the hours of on-sale licensed premises (bars and restaurants). The bill is community empowerment at its best. It enables local communities (in SF the BOS and the Planning Commission) to decide if there will be extended hours at all and, if so, the exact location where those extended hours would be allowed. These decisions should be made at the local level, not by legislative fiat in Sacramento, which is currently the case. The plan could authorize extended hours applications on one or two streets (like the Embarcadero in certain blocks, or the nightlife corridor in the new SOMA plan on 11th street) or be confined to existing areas of high density nightlife where the need for adjustable planning exists today. The community plan could require some clubs to close at 2 am,… Read more
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Electronic Invoices in California: Welcome to the 19th Century
Electronic invoicing is one of the simplest and most effective ways to efficiently run a modern business. You can create, send, and archive electronic invoices in a fraction of the time it takes to do the same task with traditional, paper-based methods. Electronic invoices eliminate the problems that inevitably come with paper-based processes such as misplacing paper, duplicating or overpaying invoices, or making late payments. Electronic invoicing services can be set up to include online notifications that remind approvers that an invoice needs to be processed. Electronic invoices also help facilitate audits, because AP departments can more quickly provide access to electronic invoices than to paper invoices buried in files. Last but not least, electronic invoicing is better for the environment. Hundreds of thousands of trees are harvested each year to support paper invoicing in the US alone, not to mention the related energy and pollution costs; and although digitizing… Read more
