and up 34 cents a square foot. that is based on our use. so the credits were within itself, not within the one a fee that i was under the impression it was. that is where it was confusing how he got to his map. he was saying it out loud, going through how he would do the math equations. between $10 all the way down to what we were charged because he said that was an affordable fee. >> thank you for that. it sounds like what i am hearing is there is no distinction at all.' so it could be a big residential project for a big retail store and they all fall under the same umbrella. >> there might be some minor distinction in terms of something being built from the

ground up as opposed to taking over an existing space. that is where some of the credits like, coming in and taking over an existing space. so there is some variation but, there is some determination -- variation in the amount of the fee, but in the general if sommer were a boeing co. from a larger one that wanted to come in, the fee would be the same >> i do not see any further comment. i would like to open it up to public comment if there is any. seeing none, commissioner dooley. commissioner dooley: i have

written a possible motion saying the small business commission, in order to encourage small businesses, urges the city of san francisco to provide a separate set of lower impact fees for the easter neighborhood. anyone want to add anything? we would like to direct staff to develop another set of fees. >> that hits the nail on the head for me. can we have a motion? >> i will second that. >> to be proper, i would go to public comment. on the motion. president o'brien: do we have

any public comment on the motion? yeah. seeing, none, that is closed. do we need to take a roll call? any objection? the motion is passed. we will go onto the next item. >> thank you for coming out. we appreciate it. >> are you going to take reservations at your bowling alley? ok, good. >> item 8, director support of a report on the office of small business and the business center. update on a department programs

and announcements regarding the small business activities. just to note the legislative spreadsheet is included with the report. >> commissioners, starting out with the small business assistance center i have our numbers from july 2010 ended july 2011. we're down a boat are 8% increase. and we want to let you know that i am waiting authorization from the comptroller's report before it can post to the position but expect to be able to do that in december. next month we will recognize two intern who have worked in our office. we want to alert you to that. i also want to discuss the point of sale fee for electronic scanners. that has been in the news. i think we have a series of

discussions for the 2011 budget. we had caught this fee. we were able to work very quickly within one week's time to minimize the fee on small businesses and to have that be more proportional. so, i have a note in here on how we changed it to note that this is the modification, what we were the only county in the bay area that did not have such a fee, it is the lowest out of all of the other counties. because of the work with our office and i also want to express appreciation to the department of public health for responding to our request in figuring out how to more equitably distribute the cost.

next, legislation. the health care security ordinance. supervisor composampos table the legislation. though that has been tabled, i think, i would like to express appreciation to supervisor campos. something needs to be done. what the commission did not recommend approval, that this was not a way in which to deal with it, i want to thank him for bringing this to our attention. i think there will be more coming forward in terms of how to remedy this so that businesses who were not responding appropriately, there is still some accountability for them.

i am not going to -- the business tax, i will do a quick rundown. the business tax regulation code to fund public safety services, that is going to go on the ballot. it will be signed on -- it was signed on august 2. the enforcement on the minimum wage had a pass on its first reading last tuesday. the commercial control, it passed on its second reading last tuesday, august 2. limited live performance, it passed with the conclusions of the south park and sli area outside of the western some area

plan. union street and clement street, they have a hard cut off at 10:00 p.m. they will not be able to apply for the one hour extension after a year. it passed on hits of first reading. it will have a sector reading as soon as the board of supervisors return from recess. we hope for a late october. that is when people, businesses will start applying for their permits. prohibiting amplified sound, that is still in committee. as well as the coffee stores and video stores. you had the presentation last month. there are a couple of other

pieces of legislation we heard a while back that is still being held in committee. in regards to the ata, we want to provide you with an update that july 26, we held a presentation with the glenn parker merchants association. on august 3, carmen chu's office assembled a panel for the merchants of district four, along with the sf bar association. the opportunity fund gave a presentation and carla johnson from the mayor's office talked about cash. that panel was televised and is now running periodically on sfgtv. we have linked it to our website. on october 16, the mission in lower 24th merchants are having

a meeting. i will be working with them to bring together a panel. their meetings are from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. from 1130 until 1:00. it is on tuesday, midday. if you are available, i invite you to come. i want to a knowledge of the merchant's association. they were extraordinarily proactive with the video store, and there will be inspections. they did do their cast inspection. i want to applaud them that monthly, they are assembling a meeting so that businesses that

may have received a letter can come and talk to them. i attended a meeting last week and there will be some new business that received a letter and had it not been for their consistent information education through the emergence newsletter, she would have thrown away the letter. nashua be able to respond. i appreciate the merchant's association being very proactive and responsive to their merchants. and katherine who is the in turn is concluding her internship, but she worked this summer to really start compiling some early detailed information.

and we're close to 300 cases. this does not include cases that were filed in state court. if there are some interesting trends, there is a high number of these cases that are in the richmond and the sense that restaurants. there is just a little bit more data collection and we need to add this the cases. what i would like to do is start reaching out to the businesses, tracking who is so open and seeing if they would be willing to communicate information in terms of the amount of settlements. most of these cases, they settled out of court and so we don't know what the amounts are. those are some of the next steps.

mr. johnson has written a guide on how to hire an inspector. it has a good list of recommendations. live translated it to the six different languages that we have been transmitting material. america's cup. we are reaching out to the business organizations to get a meeting on the books scheduled in late september or early october to begin to talk to small businesses in terms of what they can do to engage with the event authority or with america's cup. that is being worked on and the plan for the types of

businesses, what is going to be needed, by that time, should be fairly well-defined, probably at the 500 foot level. but that we can start beginning to have the conversations about how they can become engaged with doing business. because the timing will be pretty quick once is done, trying to consolidate the number of presentations so that we maximize the number of businesses attending a meeting with getting this information out. i will be providing you with a list of the presentations as they get scheduled so that you are aware of that. if you know of any business organizations that are not on the list and need to be reached out to, then let me know.

the nondiscrimination or prior arrest and conviction record, he led the presentation last month with a hearing on july 25. only a couple businesses attended. scott has also been soliciting input, so i will be working with the legislation and policy committee in terms of what kind of final presentation we are going to want to have for this commission. they will soon be moving into some legislation. and what information they're going to need. so think about it and you can let us both know ahead of time, but the legislation and policy committee, this will be on the august agenda. i have been invited to participate in a task force that

is called the health care services master plan task force which is taking a look at combining -- combining from the planning side and the health side. and putting together a 10-year plan from those perspectives about what needs to be done from a health service side and how it affects planning. i have been invited to attend to representatives. there was an introductory meeting last week, and we will be conducting some public meetings and i will let you know those dates as well for public input and encourage you to attend those meetings. i will keep you apprised as more develops with vat. and lastly, i wanted to make a

note that the office has contact with the design group to work on developing a new logo for the office and a look and feel that will also affect the brochure, the web site, and the outreach committee will get a first presentation in august for some preliminary concepts of our identity development. and i am encouraging them to develop a proposal that develops a whole department. jane is working on designing a new website for us that will be easier to navigate. and a bit more sophisticated. this will probably take several months for us to do.

that concludes my report. >> i have a comment about the open sightseeing thing. i went on one of those a couple weeks ago. we decided to hop on it and who were around the city. you put it in your pannier, you have the year from things other was no amplified sound. is that on the upper deck? >> i just want to comment on the legislative action and the input from the commission. i am pleased to see that many of the recommendations on the sales tax has been taken very seriously peer ahead, and

literally -- has been taken very seriously. >> no public comment on this, we can move to the next item. >> and the main thing that i would like to report on tonight. how they want to form a committee to discuss formal retell and possible other items of interest to both of us. this might be an easier way to

go forward on some issues since the scheduling is so difficult for a full committee meeting and a commission meeting between the both of us. and to that extent, our committee recommended three members to be assigned to the committee that would be president o'brien, vice president adams and myself to join 3 planning commissioners to discuss these issues getting some headway going forward. the full commission is going to need to take action to establish that committee. i would think this is an appropriate time to move ahead with that?

>> we have a date schedule. it is not an action item for tonight, and we have time, so it will be agendized for september. once again, i am very pleased that we will be able to start addressing things, a good, solid, working committee that we can discuss things and move forward. i believe everything else we discussed has been in front of the full commission. that completes my report. >> any questions? next item. >> permitting committee report >> there is nothing to report this month. >> outreach committee report. >> please do not have a report.

>> president's report. >> just a couple of things. the commissioner pretty much covered everything as far as the subcommittee is concerned. the only thing she may have mentioned, but just in case, the president and the vice president will meet with corresponding members at the planning commission. and hopefully, we can move to formulate the subcommittee with the members mentioned already and take that as an action item at the next meeting following that meeting between the president and vice-president. that is the only other part of the item i would cover. just for myself, how it was mentioned a couple of times tonight that the merchant's association was reference and a very proactive on the

handicapped access issue. i am attending their meetings for probably two or three or four months now. maybe most of the year. i didn't announce who i was or anything, i just participated quietly. i just participated and made notes and observe the proceedings. last month, at the conclusion of the meeting, i introduced myself into a was. and know whether shea -- i should say mistakenly, or intent to report ont he a -- on the affairs of the small business commission. i concluded that if they like to approve need to be the

liaison, they unanimously approved. i goodwill myself and to another job here. they were delighted to have me present. they appreciated that i was there and they are very aware of the small business commission, as you can probably tell from some of the proceedings this evening around handicapped access. they also made it very clear to me that they will provide any support for issues we think are important. they would offer their opinions on issues going forward. not that they're not doing that already anyway. that is it for me. >> the vice president of the report. >> i have nothing to report at this time. >> commission reports.

>> i just want to let of i did attend the nondiscrimination for prior arrest or conviction hearing that we held on july 25. there were presentations from the public defender's office, the district attorney. members of the reentry council as well as the human rights commission. it was a very broad discussion about the issues around discrimination. one in four california adults has a prior are rust or conviction and with the rise of credit reports and background checks, there are a lot of companies with a very nominal amount of money will provide reports of people. it really is a significant issue and a significant barrier to employment for people, particularly in the african- american and latino communities.

as we talk about jobs and job creation, looking very seriously about how they can assist the intent of this legislation, it is very important and i will be watching this closely. >> i am glad you brought that up. we had the district attorney speak about the upper market and castro meeting. i believe it is october 1 when the state and counties have to apply where they will be getting an -- >> 700 people will be released and they will have to find the -- >> jobs for them. we have to reach out because it will all be part of the training. it is better to have them employed and doing something. i very much appreciate you bring that up today, because it did come up with the merchant

association meeting. >> is the most significant factor in reducing recidivism for an individual. >> and that concludes your report? next item? >> general public comment. >> seeing them, next item. >> i have a brief request. i think we spoke of as casually before, but i would like to involve our commission in out reach that would put the america's cup sponsors in touch with merchants and businesses in that corridor where it will be occurring may be negatively impacted by traffic and parking congestion. i think it is something we need to address.

it is a fairly large area that will be impacted. i would just like to see if we can be a liaison of some sort with the america's cut folks to try to help out and to mitigate those problems. >> just to clarify, it is about mitigating. >> primarily the parking and congestion problems. >> will there be a point person for that? >> i am not sure how we want to approach it. commissioner atoms, due have ideas on that? commissioner adams: we will be meeting later this month, so

when we meet, i will bring up the parking issue. i believe businesses are going to thrive in that area because of the amount of people in that area. when we have festivals and fairs, there is always a large increase in business and i hope the same things happen in the marina area. the parking issue, i am hearing a lot of people, it will be addressed. >> more specifically, also thinking about the business's operating in the immediate area of which there are many small businesses. i of the parking for those folks going in and out having meetings