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.

supervisor kim: the afternoon and welcome to rules committee. my name is jane kim, i will be cheering today's rules committee meeting. i am joined by a supervisor elsbernd and scott wiener in place of supervisor farrell. the court today is miss wong. we like to thank jennifer lowe and mark bunch.

>> of the items on the agenda recommended go the full board unless otherwise indicated. item #1, ordnance amending the as minister of code to establish the commission for power, purpose, and duty to establish membership criteria. supervisor kim: the author of the legislation is here today. supervisor wiener: today, will be considering legislation to help san and cisco react to and plan for the future of criminal justice in this state, specifically around realignment. a lot of folks will see a reduction in state prison populations. that will be accomplished partly by shifting prisoners to county

jail. in the future, there will be sentences that in the past would have sent prisoners to state prison who instead will go to county jail. this will alleviate the state prison overcrowding. it also has the potential benefit, particularly in a place like san francisco, where we really have a focus on rehabilitation and trying to cut recidivism, we have a possibility of having a more effective process and having a lower recidivism rate if people were to go to state prison where there have been some other issues that we have been able to address more effectively here. this legislation will create a commission to -- comprised of the various criminal justice in stakeholders in government and the community to put together

guidelines for sentencing to make sure that we are being smart about how we sentence people. and people that need to go and spend time incarcerated do so. and those that don't need to spend time incarcerated and can be rehabilitated in other ways, we are able to do that. we want to be smart about sentencing policies and practices. first, i want to note that we are introducing amendments that i have distributed to the committee and the clerk. of like to invite lenore from the district attorney's office to come and talk about the legislation. we have other department head's here. >> thank you, supervisor wiener, my name is lenore anderson, chief of the alternative programs commission.

i am here today on behalf of the district attorney to describe the recidivism reduction ordnance and what it would do. we are happy to be part of this process and we think it will be important for a san francisco. i will take a few minutes to talk about the background that supervisor wiener talked about. i will go through the details of what the legislation does. on october 1, we had one of the biggest changes to california correction's policy in decades, and that is realignment. counties are much more responsible for a larger number of offenders that we have been previously. in terms of custody at supervision in the community, we are responsible for a huge population of people cycling in and out of the criminal justice system. the question is, and light of

the new responsibility, are we engaging in practices that are the most effective and most likely to reduce recidivism of those individuals in the criminal justice system? if we don't do a close review and make sure we are engaging in the best practices, we run the risk of having additional responsibilities that can create additional pressure on the justice system without either a reduction in crime or reduction in recidivism. we thought that this was now the perfect opportunity given that we have more responsibility at the local level to do a close analysis of the sentencing practices. that is why we put a commission together. what the commission will do is create an advisory body that will analyze a sentence in patterns and make recommendations for sentencing reforms to advance best practices and criminal justice. let me tell you who the members

would be. the district attorney, the public defender, adult probation, a juvenile probation, the police department of public health, a member of a nonprofit organization that works with victims, one that works with x offenders, and academic researcher, -- an academic researcher. the commission has a different responsibilities and i will go through those briefly. comparing those to other jurisdictions, there are best practices that we can learn from other places that might be helpful. in addition to that, we want to look at how we define recidivism locally. come up with definitions and come up with standards for the department that are responsible for reducing recidivism. once we have those standards, we would like to recommend some departments specific goals to make sure that everybody in the

criminal justice family is focused on the goal of recidivism adjustment. we would like to take the time to look at state laws and make sure that there are -- it would allow us to better implement best practices locally. the sentencing commission will look at and budgetary savings cand costs to see if we can invest further in incarceration. and finally, the commission will work with other departments to work with facilitating training for recidivism reduction. this proposal is for a three- year committee. this body would be collaborating very closely and hopefully supported the work of the standing bodies including the reentry council