dooley is to recommend approval of the ordinance and amend sections 14.1 b to read 10 business days and section 1.4 e five business days and 5.3 to list a 12-month reporting period. who seconded that motion? >> me. >> president, would you like a role call? >> yes, please, for the record. >> commissioners, adams? >> aye. >> clyde. >> aye. >> dooley. >> aye. riley. >> aye. >> it passes 5-0. >> thank you. next item, please. >> commissioners, item 11, directors report. an update on the report of small business. update on departmentment

programs and make announcements regarding small business activities. special item. >> commissioners, i will submit to you in writing mostly the directors report, just a couple of things to just note. one, i did want to say, i also wanted to thank you for your leadership and guidance. that helped staff greatly when we, you know, get direction as well from you. so the one thing i did want to address in my directors report in regards to health care ordinance and will i think this is probably a -- whether this falls under policy or under outreach and economic. but with the affordable care act going into implementation, those phases, there is going to be reporting of amounts that

businesses are going to have to do. for small businesses, i don't think that kicks in until -- you know, after 2014, but it is going to have -- they are going to have to report on their w-2's the amount of expenditure they pay for an employee's health care. and i participated in the webinar to be able to start getting a better grasp as to what the affordable act will mean the small businesses. i think this commission, it would be great to have this commission take some leadership and conduct some special hearings to start getting information about what the affordable health care act is going to require and how that interfaces with the health care security ordinance so that we're working -- so by 2014 if there are any changes that need to be

made on an administrative function in terms of reporting that we simplify as much as we possibly can so this i think for 2012, this will be a significant project for the commission. so just wanted to bring that to your attention. and then lastly, just wanted to note that we have -- we're winding down on the presentations to the small business community around america's cup and to have -- did approximately 30 presentations in october. so there are still a few more to do but just wanted to let you know that we have been trying to do as much outreach and you received the presentation so -- but if there is any questions in, you know, from businesses that you talked to, i know that we still need to reach out to

the businesses and the designed area and -- but this is for how business can engage in business. that's pretty well winded down and so -- we'll be discussing the next phase will be really working with our neighborhood commercial corridors and how we work to market and promote them. so i'll conclude and submit the rest in writing to you. >> thank you. no further comment in this. next item, please prsm >> commissioners, the next item, i apologize from including it from the previous month. i believe i do have to call it and then we can move on. that was discussion of possible action to approve the office of small business 2011-2012 budget. that was approved by you last month. >> ok. next item. >> commissioners. item 13. legislative policy committee

report. >> i was not aable to attend though i would like to defer to commissioner o'brien for any comments he might want to make. >> i'm not going going to make any comments. i'll refer to next month. >> next item. >> commissioners, item 12. committee report. >> we have nothing to report. >> item 15. outreach committee report. >> we did not meet. thank you. >> commissioners, 16. president's report. >> nothing to report this month. >> commissioners, 17, vice president's report. >> i would just like to report i did attend the council of district merchants dinner october 28 along with commissioner dooley. director -- and that's the san francisco merchant district's dinner where we honored captain

greg corales of mission station who does an amazing number of things for small businesses in that area. i forget the firefighter's name that we honored that night too. >> a wonderful woman. >> yeah, she was a breast cancer survivor and she assists fire fighters with cancer. if san francisco we have high clusters. i thought that was pretty moving. so that's it, other than visiting neighborhood merchants association. >> thank you. next item. >> commissioners, 18, commissioner reports. >> my report is brief as commissioner adams says i attended the merchant district's dinner and i have been working with american express directly in regards to small business

saturday and trying kind of tweak a few things to make it work for san francisco because it is kind of a boilerplate so then i've been able to make some recommend dages that will work better for our san francisco businesses and help with the rollout for that so i'm still continuing working as kind of a liaison with them so if anybody has any comments they want to incorporate, please let me know because i speak to them every single day. >> well, i want to thank you for that because i'm noticing a lot more people are participating this year than last year. so i would like to thank you for that. i've noticed a lot of people have that small business saturday sticker now on their businesses. >> we're going to have little cards that are going to be push -- passed out in the next few

days to let the shoppers know advance that there is something special going on. >> yeah, my merchants didn't know what was going onened that year, because they did that presentation, everybody wants to get involved. >> so we're going to be rolling out to posters. the small cards that they can take with them. to remind them. so when they are making a sale, they can say hey, be sure to come back on saturday. you get a $25 off your purchase on american express that day. we want to get as much information out there as possible so it is widely utilized. >> great. >> if i may call the item for commissioner reports. >> you called it. >> ok. i just want to highlight one meeting, the america's cup presentation to the manufactures.

i attended that meeting. it was really informative and it was great to see so many manufacturers excited about america's cup doing business with america's cup and during america's cup using it as, you know, an impetus for their businesses and i would like to for the public, just note that america -- s.f. maid now has a pop-up store in the banana republic flagship ship which i think is a real win for them. what great thing for a national retailer, banana republic, which started here, the gap, to feature san francisco-made products in their flagship store. it is going to be ongoing. >> it is through the season. the holiday season. it was great to go and meet the different owners of of the small businesses. i spoke to the -- coffee and

chocolateiers. it was nice to see the businesses supporting each other. that's all i would like to highlight but thank you. >> i just want to comment one more thing too. we have been having meetings concerning small business week. 2012. and right now, we are doing outreach to raise funds for this. so if anybody is interested in helping out -- we're going to have flavors again. we're trying expand it to a breakfast this year and all-day workshops. once get a lot of this stuff finalized, i will be bringing it back in front of this commission. >> any other commissioner reports? seeing none, next item. >> commissioners item 19. general public comment. seeing none. next item. >> commissioners 20. new business. >> commissioner clyde?

commissioner clyde: this week, sfgovernmenttv, pg & e and the new power program. the rates for the renewable energy s.f. program, the renewable energy, apparently the rates for residential will go up between $7 and $14 a month. it was very interesting to me as a san francisco resident some of the assumptions that were made in the presentation, one is well, $7 isn't that much. a couple of lattes. $14 a month for a larger place isn't so much. what struck me is the cost to businesses of electric rates. what will they jump when san francisco is all thely enrolled

in -- automatically enrolled in the green energy program and that's, you know, the gist of it is everyone in san francisco will be enrolled in this program at once. and yes, it is the right thing to do for the environment, to use as much renewable energy as we can, but i think when we look forward, we should have a presentation on what impact this will have to our business community. and analysis to have rates for pg & e. these ongoing to costs and their increases are extremely significant to our small business community. thanks. >> was that community choicing a -- choice aggregation? >> yes. community choice aggregation. >> it was not at lafco.

it was -- i'll go back. but the presentation that i audited was on community choice aggregation that everyone, all the residents will be enrolled in it and it will increase the average residential cost from $7 to $14 and up. depending on the size of your house. now, this asks, you know, this starts -- >> pardon me, commissioner. can i pause for one moment, for meeting, the recording. >> is it rolling? >> it is rolling. >> ok. just quickly, could you -- we did have something in the news letter, we have been contacted by pg & e. they are working with sf

environments through outreach because of this automatic enrollment. will you just take a look at the news letter and make sure that is what you talking about. they did approach us and i did make a note to them that did want to have a presentation to the commission at one of our upcoming meetings. so and then we can ask about the -- you know, the -- their plans for outreach. s.f. environment has an ongoing plan for doing outreach. >> thank you. >> next item. >> commissioners, item 21. adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> commissioners, the meeting is adjourned at 8:5 2:00 p.m.

>> let me start over. [roll call] president olague is absented. the first item on calendar is items proposed for continuance.

item four, case to that and 11.0949d -- case 2,011.0949d. commissioners, with that, i am not aware of any other item on your calendar being proposed for continuance. commissioner miguel: is their public comment on the items proposed for continuance? if not, public comment is closed. commissioner moore: move to continue items one through four as read into the record. >> thank you. on the motion to continue items one through four as proposed, -- commissioner antonini: aye. those items are continued as proposed. the next item is -- you are now

at your consent calendar. item 5 constitutes the consent calendar today. consider to be routine and will be acted upon by a single call -- single roll call vote of the commission appear there will be no separate discussion unless you or a member of the public was-so requests. in that event, the matter would be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. it is a zoning map amendment. commissioner miguel: is there any public comment on the item on the consent calendar? if not, public comment is closed. commissioner borden: i move to approve the item on consent. >> on the motion for approval of item 5 -- commissioner antonini: aye.

commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. the item has been approved. europe commissioners questions and matters. commissioner moore: -- >> you are now at commissioners questions and matters. commissioner moore: ideas were presented. some provided answers, and as always, there was a huge group of new questions. very insightful first set of questions came from the bay trail, describing at least eight very specific projects which would be advantageous to be accomplished. at some point, perhaps we can get a presentation.

very positive response by everybody who heard it. along fisherman's wharf in the jefferson street area, which makes so much sense. i think there will be a major push to understand how that really can help the city as a direct benefit from the america's cup. i will report on the other details as they come up. there was solid discussion, and i am positive that the right people are sitting at the table. commissioner antonini: often, we discuss ways, the subject of one of our items last week was to foster greater public participation or planning issues, and i think that is a great topic. we are not alone in disappointing public participation. the election on tuesday, i think if we are lucky, we might get up

to a 40% turnout, which i think is really not good, and i do not know what the reason is, but being a student of history to some degree, i think in 1975, we had a turnout for a mayor's race with an open seat. beth -- i am not really sure why so people vote, but it is an area of concern. commissioner miguel: i wanted to take the opportunity -- although the results are not official, they seemingly are final -- to congratulate the winners in the san francisco election held this week and also to say thank you because my mail box can become

unstuffed and my phone can stop ringing. >> thank you, commissioners. we can move on to directors report, directors announcements and review of past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> thank you. just three announcements today. i wanted to announce, and i think you have a flier on this, the workshop and the chinatown street design project that is happening november 16 from 4:00 to 5:30 next wednesday. there has been a series of workshops on the effort on broadway. separately, i think you know, tomorrow is a holiday in honor of veterans day, so the office will be closed tomorrow, as are most city agencies. third, i will be out of the office, as i think i mentioned earlier, in new york for the zoning conference in mentioned

happening in new york city. i will be out, and kelly will be in charge of the department. there was no board of appeals hearing this week. that is it for me unless there are questions. >> commissions, there was also no historic preservation commission hearing. >> good afternoon, commissioners. planning department staff here to give you your weekly update on board of supervisors activities. the land use committee heard a resolution titled rental options for the property at 2121 third street. this is an option in the eastern neighborhoods plan. this was the first time the land use committee has heard a development agreement that would allow on-site rental housing and set of payments into the inclusion rehousing fee. it was absent -- after a resolution authorizing the director to execute the agreement. the proposed project has already been approved by this commission but needed board action on the

final agreement. this agreement will commit the project sponsor to providing affordable rental housing on site. typically, the affordable housing requirement for this area would be a fee equal to the cost of 20% of the unit. in this case, the agreement will allow a reduction to 17% inclusion very requirement and a $1 fee for gross square foot waiver of the eastern neighborhoods public benefit fee in exchange for the 30-year commitment to affordable rental housing at this location. after a short hearing, the committee recommended approval of the resolution to the full board. on tuesday as the full board, we had a couple ordinances, which i told you a little bit about. they passed on final reading. the first was the ordinance and ending the alcoholic beverages controls for bowling alleys in the mission, special use of district, and this will be amended to allow sale of beer and wine at a single screen

movie theaters, whether they are for profit or nonprofit. that passed on final reading. also, the ordinance titled acts of god or other calamities. you recommended approval of this on july 14. the ordinance was amended per your recommended modifications and this week, it passed on final reading. there were a couple of new ordinances introduced this week. they amend both the planning code and the zoning map to create the chinatown transit station special use district. these ordinances would permit inhalation of a mixed use building in the chinatown naval of the chinatown station for the central subway. these ordinances will be brought before you in january. commissioner miguel: thank you.

>> thank you. >> thank you. commissioners, we can now move on to general public comment. this category has a 15-minute time limit, and members of the public may address you on items of interest to the public that fall within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission with the exception of agenda items. agenda items may address -- may be addressed only at the time they are briefed on the calendar. each member of the public may address you for up to three minutes each, keeping in mind that the entire category has a 15-minute time limit. commissioner miguel: thank you. [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am hear from the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. the draft environmental impact report for the beach shall

athletic fields have been released. project removes over 7 acres of natural grass and replaces it with over 7 acres of artificial turf and 10 banks of 60-foot lights 150,000 watts. this project will be lighted every night of the year until 10:00 p.m. it is located in the western end of golden gate park, an area designated by both the national register and the golden gate park master plan as wild and forested. the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods has respectfully requested that the planning commission extend the public comment time for this project for 90 days. the report has been released very recently. this is during the holiday -- the height of the holiday season. we have already had a few holidays, and people will be out of town, have family visiting, things like that. the report is quite dense. there is a lot of technical information, and we would like the opportunity for our members

who are not all experts and need to really plow through this to have the time to go through the report to digest it, and to submit comments so they can have informed comments that we feel will help the process. therefore, the coalition is requesting the 90-day extension. thank you very much. commissioner miguel: thank you. if i have called your name, just come up. any order. >> hello. my name is britain crawford, and i would like to say that i approve of the community plan and think it will have a positive impact on the community -- commissioner miguel: glen park is on the agenda. >> yes, it is on the agenda. commissioner miguel: you speak when that item is called.

these are, as for items not on the agenda. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am revisiting an issue i raised last thursday. our request for reinstatement of the art deco rather than the modern big box design on the proposed cvs store -- i wanted to give you a status on this. commissioner antonini met with us, reviewed both plants, and he agrees that the original design is far superior, much more in character with our neighborhood. commissioner antonini and our neighborhood architect contacted the planner, who says he cannot do anything until he is directed to do so by his boss. calls to kelly by commissioner