businesses and residents. also, there will be penalties for businesses that are -- have complaints after they've received their permits, and if a permit is applied for and is issued but not activated in six months, then the -- then that location is up for somebody else to apply for a permit. >> i have one question. we were talking about the possibility of developing some sort of materials that would help potential applicants know either which areas are just not allowed, or -- you know what i mean, to give some guidelines in terms of before they go through this whole process, if they have a location in mind, you know, if

there could be some materials developed that would indicate whether it might work or not. do you know if any of that was discussed? director dick-endrizzi: that's not part of the legislation. that would be part of the administrative implementation and that would be for -- i mean, our office is going to have to sort of create some of these guidelines anyway, because we're the ones that provide most -- we talk to most of the vendors that come to our office. so we'll work with the department of -- i mean, department of public works on that. i mean, residential areas are specific, you know, they're not allowed there whatsoever. so there are one-day permits that someone can get if somebody chooses to have a party and wants to have a mobile vendor at their property for a party.

so we will be working on those guidelines. we're having discussions with the department of technology to work on g.i.s.ing the permitted locations so that when somebody comes to our office we can pull that up and see what areas are taken and what areas may be available. there could be some creative ways of which vendors could also work together, which right now, two vendors could not be next to each other the way the current code is. so it could be that two vendors might think that they're complementary and could be next to each other. so -- but we will be working on the criteria. the one component is is that after this passes, d.p.w. will hold a hearing -- their administrative criteria that

they're going to be using to -- should they need to conduct a hearing for any other criteria that needs to be developed, like not parking in or putting a pushcart in front of a blue zone or red zone or bus stop, you know. there are certain areas that we will specifically state they can't be. but didn't really think that those kinds of things really need to be in the legislation. president yee riley: how much time does the business have after they receive the notice of protest? >> there's a 30-day noticing period. the d.p.w. will mail out and there's a 30-day period. >> 30 days? director dick-endrizzi: that's our general standard of noticing, is 30 days for the

city. and i also just want to state that, again, the golden gate restaurant association was included in the process, as well, so has approved the legislation. president yee riley: any more questions? >> steven cornell. i'm not familiar with the legislation but i know the food fares, someone wants to put a food facility, they have to provide sink and drainage facilities for each one of them. but if i go out and see a hot dog vendor out here in front of city hall, there's no sink there. there has to be some kind of consistency.

i don't know if they do one or the other, but hopefully that's consistent. director dick-endrizzi: what's not in here is the health code regulations because the health code regulations are very specific and they're slight modifications for one-time event s for street fares as opposed to permanent, but all cart -- and one of the reasons we're doing this is because there are a lot of carts that are out there that are operating illegally and part of that reason is is that -- let's say for a pushcart, a pushcart can be anywhere from $12,000 to $18,000, so if you're not going to be able to get a permitted space, individuals are not investing in it. so that was part of the reason for making the changes. though none of these mobile food vendors will be able to get a permit until the department of

public health has signed off on them and they follow very strict state guidelines on what can be done with mobile food. >> i think it's a great idea. i'm just saying, you have to go through a lot of hoops if you have food at a fare and it doesn't seem like you have so many regulations when you see some of these guys on the corner selling hot dogs and i think it should be consistent, whatever it comes out to be, not one okay here and not okay there. president yee riley: thank you. any more public comment? dick-endrizzi. director dick-endrizzi: i want to express my appreciation to supervisor dufty and the

planning department who put in a lot of time, in addition to our office, but in working with the ggra, the mobile food vendors, to come up with a comprehensive plan. i want to publicly express my appreciation for that. president yee riley: i know you and staff have been working on this for a long time, as well. so thank you. >> i think that we've worked on this a lot and i would like to propose a motion to recommend that we do two separate. secretary schulmann: if you could do a motion for each item, so if you want to make a motion on item no. 8. >> yes. i would like to make a motion to add a recommendation to the planning code zoning changes for mobile food facilities.

president yee riley: do we have a second? those in favor? >> aye shul shul -- secretary schulmann: motion for item 9? >> i'd like to move that we make a recommendation to approve the item 9 which is mobile food facilities, to change the code with the department of public works permitting authority. president yee riley: we have a motion. >> second. president yee riley: all those in favor? >> aye. president yee riley: motion carries. next item, please. commissioners, item 10, we were scheduled to have a presentation by the barbary coast conservancy for the beverage arts.

unfortunately, they were not able to make the presentation today. staff will schedule them for a future meeting. director, do you want to make comments now or do you want to include them in the director's report? director dick-endrizzi: i'll include them in the director's report. secretary schulmann: item 11 is the director's report. commissioners, you should have the report in front of you. to give you an update, so, for client surge at the small business assistance center, in 2009 in october, the assistance center serviced 118 clients and for october 2010 we serviced 239, which is a 50% increase. excuse me, it's a 100% increase. we also now have a youth works

intern. some of you have met her, milan chung. i think this is her third week this week working in the office. she works 9 1/2 hours a week and we have her assisting staff and doing data entry for the sales force, doing basic assistance for martha in terms of copying all our forms and documents at the small business assistance center and doing some administrative help. today she helped chris assemble the packets for the commission. outreach events for the small business assistance center that we partook in, october 19, we intended biz tech day and spoke to 200 different businesses. it was very interesting to be there because people in this sector don't think of having a

government resource table as something to be at their expos. people were fascinated and spoke to us and it was very interested to see the number of small businesses that are starting up that are business-to-business, they're targeting small businesses to serve. october 27, the mega-construction, mega-connection event, and thank you, commissioner riley and commissioner dooley for attending and you can speak about your experience at that shortly. there were about five businesses, l.b.e.s that attended. not all of them were from san francisco, but from the greater bay area, to speak to the big projects around the high-speed rail, cathedral hill, st. luke's, the development

that's happening at the hunter shipyard, candlestick, the central subway project, the transbay terminal project and several others. the feedback we got was that the businesses found this very valuable to be able to network with the primes on the projects. october 28, the el maqidiza, the petite market opened with meta, through meta, and this was a market to help the entrepreneurs going through meta's program be able to, instead of maybe having a pushcart on the street, be able to sell their wares, there's now a small market with -- that's divided into different sections and they have

a section where they can begin selling their goods and starting out as a business and growing their business and hopefully being able to move into their own retail space. i encourage everybody to go by and commissioner o'brien stopped by for the opening, as well. november 3, i attended the california planner's conference to present on what the city is doing about our changes with the mobile food, and it was fascinating to hear from many different cities who were there to -- who were there to hear the presentations, that they're very impressed with what the city is doing, san francisco is doing. and then saturday was the valley economic development center's annual access to capital business expo. there was about 200 businesses there and we had a table at that expo. updates on legislation and policy matters before the

commission, the congestion pricing, i want to bring it back on to your radar. this report is due at the end of the year, though i've heard it may come out at the beginning of 2011, but i'm going to assign this back to the legislation and policy committee for direction to staff on what you would like -- what you would like to do moving forward with the congestion pricing. supervisor mercariemi's legislation on the plastic bags. there's not a hearing scheduled at the board of supervisors but i do want you to know that

they've made changes to the legislation that the paper bags be from five cents to 10 cents and eliminating the specialty retail bag exception. because these two changes are significant enough changes from when the full commission heard it, i have made a note to the supervisor's office that we need to rehear this again once it's made its way through the sequoia process. first-source hiring, chris has sent you the legislation. this is legislation that has not been before you, but i want to bring it to your attention. it's fairly deep and comprehensive. today, it was heard in land use just as an informational briefing, so i encourage you to watch that hearing. staff will be getting a briefing from oewd and city builds on it, and then we will be the first

initial run-through with our legislation and policy committee, but i do want to bring it to your attention and really encourage you to start reading the legislation now. the park list, the planning department released the r.f.p. on september 17, and as the r.f.p. period ended on october 18 and the department received 43 applications. the department was able to approve or conditionally approve nearly all of them and the noticing process will begin shortly. the accepted locations were located throughout the city and the planning department thanked our office in helping get the r.f.p. out through our newsletter and because of our assistance in the outreach, there was a large response in the r.f.p.s.

the interim zoning control for the van ness avenue special use district, this matter is currently on hold. it's supervisor alioto-pier's legislation. we'll keep you posted if there's movement forward between now and the end of december. the healthy male salon initiative passed out of the board of supervisors and the next step for our office is to work with d.o.e. on the implementation and outreach for this. the restaurant interagency consultation team, kelly pretser from the office of economic and work force development will be the primary project manager for this project and we're slated to have a first meeting with just the department to define and outline our process and

procedures for working with the restaurants some time late november. the date hasn't been set yet. then, an update on the a.d.a. outreach materials are being worked on. i will have a final draft for the outreach committee to review. met with supervisor chu and the mayor's office on disability today to discuss some comprehensive programs. are there some ways that we can take a look at institutionalizing ways of notification to businesses about the a.d.a. and their responsibility for always coming into compliance, and information about the cast certifications and how that could benefit them. also, opportunity fund is

interested in developing a loan packaging program for the a.d.a. it's probably going to be geared more towards loans to be able to do the cast certification and tenant improvements as opposed to legal fees. but once we have the program implemented, we're really going to be targeting outreach towards businesses that haven't been sued. so it will be nice to have a loan package there as something to offer with it. and then supervisor carmen chu wants, and part of our outreach is to outline, what really do the credits and deductions need and what does that look like in dollars and cents. so that's something we'll work on, as well. my hope is that by the end of the year we really have this program ready to go, rolled out, launched, and then we'll be working on our outreach plans.

and then's couple of calendar notes. the san francisco council of district merchants has their annual dinner on october 14. october 26, the healthcare reform task force met again. at this point, there's nothing critical for me to report to you. we're still working out some interpretation definitions, guidelines of where the task force is going to focus. i did make note that i did meet with h. herman from the barbary coast conservancy of american cocktail. san francisco is a city that's renowned for being the creators of cocktails so he's interested in working with the city to figure out how best we can promote cocktail week and the fact, just as we were working with the alcohol recovery fee and talking about microbreweries

and the artesianal wines, there's also artesianal spirits, as well, cultivated and made here. so really want to -- he wants to work with the city to figure out how we can support cocktail week in san francisco. and then want to bring to your attention march 2011 we're doing the retreat. you have some proposed dates in front of you. right now, i think staff is encouraging that if we can try do it during the week, that would be the preference, it will keep our overtime down. if we have to consider a saturday, we will. but we have proposed dates i'd like for you to take a look at them and if you have any comment on them now, but otherwise, we'll be following up with you to finalize that particular date and one last item is that the

galert family foundation forwarded me today their request for us to assist in potential nominations for awards for the gelert family foundation awards so i'll forward that on to you. and that concludes my report. do you have any questions? commissioners, i want to add that inside your packets there was a letter from paul henderson who met with the outreach committee and since there's not going to be an outreach committee report, i wanted to mention to you that he addressed to the full commission because there's information in there that may be of interest to you. president yee riley: any questions? secretary schulmann: item 12, legislative and policy committee report. >> we've already gone over that we reviewed in legislation and

policy here today, so no additional report. secretary schulmann: item 13, permitting committee report. >> similarly, a lot of the stuff has been covered. but just a few notes i will mention. we did have a presentation from a ms.-- i'm not going to get the first name right. but it's ms. sha. anyway, this is in connection with trying to stream line the billing processes that come out of the treasurer's and tax collector's office and it was an informative presentation but the gist of most of the presentation was that they're still doing a lot of data gathering, they're reviewing the processes that are in place right now. they're also looking at the technical requirements that might need to be brought into play to streamline the process. they have to deal with different

agencies and who creates the invoices and how they would assemble that into a consolidated bill. one observation i made from the presentation is that there would never be the possibility of having one universal bill created by someone from the tax and treasurer's office for all invoice types for different billings that they send out, whether it's property taxes or annual fees or business registration licenses or whatever. but that doesn't mean that they couldn't do a lot of stuff to improve it and make it more consolidated. so it's still -- it's a lot of gray area yet before we can make a more clear report back to everybody but it's a work in progress. we also have a topic called the impact fee that we're kind of keeping an eye on. and i just wanted to let

everybody know that we have a web site now which is a complete list of all citywide development fee register and it's on the d.b.i. web site. i don't have the exact url for it but i'm sure if you do a google you'll find it or if you were to call the d.b.i., they would be able to direct you to it. do you know the by any chance? >> chris, do you know what section under d.b.i.'s web site? secretary schulmann: this is a relatively new feature, as of a week or two ago, it's available on the d.b.i. home page prominently displayed. i believe tuesday sfdbi.org or something like those lines. >> yeah, and the impact fee, people could have thought it was exclusive to developers.

i think it's got the name of developer as part of the topic of impact fees, but it's much wired than that which is why i think it's valuable for people to know about where they can reference because for instance there's a thing called a waste water fee to be applied to new businesses if they're going to be big consumers of water. and it impacts them and it's quite expensive and that will be something that affects any business, not necessarily a developer, per se. so i think this could be a handy reference for anybody who wants to see what the impact fees are out there and see a comprehensive list of them. the other thing is that i am kind of tentatively working on a combined commission hearing for the d.b.i. for planning and for small business. i'm working on the agenda. as a matter of fact, i'm having a meeting on wednesday morning with a couple of members of the

other commissions to strategize on an effective agenda for a meeting in december. for now, it looks like it will coincide with our regularly scheduled meeting, which minimizes the impact. but i'll report back later on how that goes but i want to give you a heads up about that and that concludes my report. commissioners, item 14 is the outreach committee report. i don't know if the commissioner -- pardon me, clyde is not here. i don't know if the director wants to add anything, but i do want to report that the committee did meet in october and considered a number of items that had been previously discussed.

director dick-endrizzi: so, for the outreach committee and commissioner dooley, feel free to provide comment -- so, we did have a presentation from paul henderson from the district attorney's office to give us -- to provide the commission with a beginning understanding of the issue of infractions versus misdemeanors in relationship to the sit-lie law, and this is being done in preparation to help both staff and the commission understand the process when infractions happen, what's the process of how they end up, you know, getting through traffic court, whether the mechanisms of which they're

heard and this is because now -- actually now that lie has passed, we anticipate that the task force that supervisor chu put forward, the commission voted in support of it, recommendation, that that will probably now be initiated to help provide some monitoring and oversight and i think what the commission has heard from the business community is the frustration around infractions and so paul henderson gave us information around that. and if you had any comments that you wanted to add in regards to his presentation, that you want to share with the commission, commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i just thought it was very informative. it gave us a better idea of what's been