Lee Leffingwell: A Plan To Help Small Local Businesses

Austin mayoral candidate Lee Leffingwell has three interesting plans to help local businesses and to stimulate the local economy:
1. Provide free assistance services to local businesses.
2. Create a standing commission on existing local businesses.
3. (The most important one, from my point of view) Try to award more city contracts to local businesses.
He says attracting new high-tech, green businesses to Austin is important, but that the focus should be on protecting businesses already there.
Novel thoughts. Anyone in Dallas listening?