valuable and all of you have done a tremendous job. if luke o'brien happens to be a business owner, that -- he did a fantastic job as president. at a time for continuity that san francisco is coming out of this recession it would be important to point him in as the vice-president. he can assist some of the new commissioners in the process of validating this very important commission. i do not think it is an issue where disputes or personal -- this is a matter of efficiency and a matter of providing the right continuity to ensure this commission performs a valuable services and has performed in

the past. thank you. >> i am sa 41-year resident of bernal heights. i own my own small business and i have been involved in the community and performing arts especially with the mission district and with the mission cultural center. with the pickle family circus. i am keenly aware of the need for small businesses to thrive for small restaurants that have entertainment space for nonprofit organizations to have expanded a rehearsal and performance space. it is an important industry. it is a major tourist attraction here. luke o'brien is a recent

acquaintance. he has come forward and help me on critical issues in the community of related to real- estate, restaurants, entertainment, and supporting our vibrant arts community. i've also had the pleasure of meeting mark dwight and visiting his establishment on 22nd street. quite an impressive place and i compliment you on your maiden voyage tonight and the wisdom you applied to many of the items. i think officialdom away too. on this point for continuity in service, i think electing luke o'brien vice-president is a good idea. thinking. -- thank you. >> i am a lawyer in san francisco. i was at fourth avenue and clement for 30 years.

a represented many small businesses. i met luke o'brien in this regard a number of years ago. he is very hard worker. i think you all know that. he is pro-small business and he will support a vast array of small businesses, not just one kind. i have found him not to be a partisan person. he does not take sides. unnecessarily. he has -- he is very smart and he has a heart. i hope you will support him for vice president. thank you. >> i am chairman of the san francisco coalition for responsible growth.

president, commissioners, i would like to welcome you to the commission team. commissioner dwight. congratulations, commissioner clyde on your recognition this evening. thank you. i have come to support this evening luke o'brien for vice- president. for small business commission functions as the central point of information and referral. for entrepreneurs and small businesses. you need a strong team. commissioner o'brien brings a perspective and experience through the wide range of different businesses that he has been involved in and currently,

in his real estate and development capacity. in addition, he works with other city initiatives, i just named a few. there is the dbi's advisory committee, the community action plan for seismic safety, he is a member of the mayor's task force of the socks story retrofit program. -- a soft story retrofit program and he worked on the permitting subcommittee where his -- he has demonstrated his vast experience of the permitting processes in dbi and in planning. as i referred earlier i do not know where he gets the time to be with his wife and his two small kids who are at school. we heard some things this evening about the 1.5 million

small business revolving fund. it is exciting to know about that. also exciting that the current mayor declares that jobs and economic activity are his priorities. we have seen and he has demonstrated his activity there with the announcements from zynga, sales force, linkedin, twitter, zendesk, and others all employing. the city needs a strong small business commission trade with commissioner o'brien's rob lowe energy and experience to ask you to vote for him for vice-

president. thank you. -- remarkable energy and experience to ask you to vote for him for vice-president. thank you. >> i am the president of the south of market business association. congratulations to commissioner dwight for being on the sustained commission. it is a valuable commission to have in the city for small businesses and of course, congratulations to janet clyde for the time she has put into this commission and how much work she has done. i have known commissioner o'brien for quite awhile. i have noticed how much work he has done toward helping with the small business commission. i also do now that he has gone out in the association [unintelligible]

he is a dedicated person who wants to help small businesses not just for himself. if he does care about himself he would not be on this commission. he is a great person and we do need continuity. i do also see fresh people coming on board by commissioner clyde. it takes awhile to get used to that position and when you first start getting -- is likely to get into that. and welcome to everyone else. i am supporting luke o'brien to be elected as vice president. thank you. president adams: any of the public comment? seeing one, we have one commissioner. >> i would like to speak to a couple of the issues that were brought up. one is continuity. if we had insisted on continuity of our last election

i do not believe commissioner -- our current president would be the president. he was elected vice president at his first meeting with us, i believe. i do not think continuity is an issue. i think diversity is an issue. diversity of political opinion, political is an issue. the current team lacks that diversity. understanding something is not the same as being that person. understanding the point of view of a latino or african-american or woman or restaurant owner or understanding the point -- i might understand the small builders and the problems of the residential builders but i am not a small residential builder. i'm a restaurant owner. i think it is important that somewhere on the commission we enforce some diversity. and not allow the power of just

numbers. it is great to see friends and business partners and people that what has helped to come out and wait through a five hour meeting. that is a testament. i have to say. again, a concern for the commission is the strongest commission and the strongest commission is a diverse commission. that is the basis of my current concerned with the commission going forward. and again, president adams was elected vice-president and his first meeting. i will say i think a continuances in order. -- continuance is in order.

>> can we make a motion for continuance? commissioner riley: one of the reasons why i have stuck to my guns is a fundamental belief that we need to get away from this division that we have in san francisco. i believe it came round shortly after willie brown stopped being the mayor. we have developed this terrible bipolar society. you're on the side or on that side. i genuinely believe in my heart of hearts that we're entering into a new era where those divisions will start to disappear slowly. one of the indicators i see of that is i think commissioner

delonte -- olague, would categorize her as someone who is from the progressive left. i do not like labels. i am stating what people may perceive her to be. mayor lee would have been categorized by most people as probably a moderate. and to see him elect commissioner delonte -- olague to be commissioner to replace mirkarimi spells a possibility where the cap amortization goes away. that is part of the reason why i wanted to serve as vice president. maybe we will not be having this discussion. it will just be as any other election. the president was president for

multiple years and there was no discussion that we have to have someone from a moderate now. president chiu: has been president for two years. some may see him as a progressive. maybe we should not have that. an election is an election. the sooner we get away from having to mandate the results of elections based on some other criterion other than just that, an election where people have the right to vote their conscience, everyone has the right to throw their hat in the ring. the best man one can accept it and move on. that would be great for this commission. i'm proud of the fact that for most of this year it is interesting. we have been unanimous most of the time. tonight was the first time for me that i voted against the prevailing vote. that is the first time i can remember that happening. certainly for me it is. that is all i want to say. thank you. commissioner dooley: a wanted to

make one more comment which is i appreciate commissioner o'brien's comments i am not judging people on progressive, moderate, whenever. i have to say for myself personally, i have been incredibly offended that i have the knowledge, the mayor's office has deliberately told many people to not allow me to become the vice president. if you do not think that is divisive and continuing on the same path, i do not know where -- with the difference is. i find that appalling. i will stand by that. >> roll call? >> as the director instructed, we will vote in order of those

nominated. if one of the nominees received four votes, that person will be voted in as vice president. if not, we will continue down. the first nominee was commissioner o'brien, nominated by commissioner riley. on that motion, commissioner clyde, no. commissioner dooley, no. >> commissioner dwight, aye, commissioner o'brien, commissioner adams, yes. commissioner o'brien received four votes. we will not have to proceed to the next nominee, the vote was 4-2. >> xm. -- next item. no. 15. directors' report. >> i will be brief. congratulations to commissioner o'brien. i did want to make it a quick

note that a former commissioner is now head of our sf china program that we have that is the joint public partner -- public-private partnership. it is exciting we have a former commissioner that will be working with and because we've worked close with that in any in the past. quickly i want to identify that both the office is jointly sponsoring a workshop on the benefit corporation with small business california on monday, february 27. if you want to come and learn more or if there are business entities you know of that might be interested in this, let them know. limited live performance permit, there have been 11 applications today. 10 have been issued and one

still needs to have its hearing. small business week, we have had some discussions. we are in our committee meetings. i wanted to give you a heads up. we're likely not going to do the shopper never heard program again this year. we had a meeting early in december with 13 different merchant organizations. they did not find value in the program. they wanted the city to be marketing and promoting what they're already doing. that said, i do know there are certain merchant groups that have come to value the opportunity of having that the fee waiver. that does not preclude the office from doing the legislation on the fee waiver. we will likely not be doing all the programmatic stuff to promote the event. they can do their promotion of

the event. and whenever they create we can put on the website as an activity for small business week. i wanted to give you a heads up on that. and then quickly, as noted, the charter amendment has been continued to the call of the chair. we will be working closely with the mayor and the board of supervisors on potential other opportunities to achieve the same results. the license consolidation bill, that legislation had passed. letters are going out now to businesses. you may have received one. from the tax and treasurer's office, itemizing what they have on record are the business licenses that you have registered to your business. should there be a license that business loans -- no longer has, they need to contact the licensing department to have them removed. we do have a year window to be

continuing to educate and promote the annual license consolidation project. i wanted you to know the letters have started coming out in case you start getting questions from businesses. supervisor mirkarimi is plastic bag legislation, supervisor olague has picked it up. it was heard at the february board of supervisors meeting. there are some additional amendments that the department has responsibility for implementing our reach, doing a more robust outreach education to stores and consumers and some clarification on the backs that are exempted from the legislation. one other note. congressman hunter, have made note of this awhile back, introduced a bill, h.r. 881

along the federal ada legislation. the last couple of weeks have been having a conversation with somers -- senator feinstein's office wanting to get more information as to the impact of what has been transpiring around the lawsuits that small businesses have been incurring. we have yet to see whether it's senator feinstein might pick up something similar to congressman hunter's bill but i will keep you posted as that develops. i'm not going to go through every single detail. a reminder that our retreat is on march 21. we start around 12 or 1:00 p.m. and go through 8:00 p.m.. i have met with commissioner adams and we started to draft an

agenda for that retreat. there will likely be other additional items added. we will beginning -- be getting information in preparation for the retreat. with that, unless there is any questions, i will conclude my report. commissioner o'brien: i went and testified that the first meeting. i've understood there was a second hearing which i could not make it wanted to find out what happened or what you think of the possibilities. >> i think -- what has been communicated is that there is a willingness from the board of supervisors and the mayor to work together to ensure that we have job creation legislation. but at this point in time, the

understanding is the charter amendment may not be the best fit for this particular election, the june election cycle. that is not to say it might not be revisited for the november 11 cycle. president adams: thank you. director, next item. >> legislative and policy committee report. >> nothing to report. item 17. >> nothing to report. >> item 18, outreach committee, nothing to report. item 19, president report. >president adams: i have nothing else this evening. >> item 20, vice president's report. >> nothing. >> item 21, commission reports. >> i want to report i attended

several meetings with a group of active -- the city's small business committee people. they want -- but have been meeting to plan an event in mid- march of this year. we're hoping we can help. because of the funding, we have to put on hold and that is my report. also there were a lot of lunar new year celebrations. i attended quite a few. one is the year of the dragon. they issued a stamp. it was a very big event. mayor lee was there. we headed dragon dance and a lion dance and i am -- invited scott to go to the meeting because it wants to work with the chinese business owners. -- he wants to work with the small business owners. >> i wanted to report on the

status of handler cards. i want to remind the public if anyone watches us at any time of the night or day since we are on a lot, apparently. everyone who works in a bar or restaurant or cafe needs to have a food handler card and it needs to be a certified ansi card. the training is available on- line. it is a 90-minute on-line course. everyone is required who works in a food permitted establishment to have one of these cards. i want to give people a heads up so they are not caught unaware when they have their biannual health department inspection. that is my report. thank you. president adams: item 22. >> general public comment. president adams: is there any general public comment?

seeing none,, next item. >> new business. president adams: next item. >> adjournment. president adams: is there a motion to adjourn? >> second. >> thank you. the meeting is adjourned at 10:20 p.m. >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food.

there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a

pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy and smoky. i will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers. i am going to stew them up and

get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. >> bring it on. how are you feeling? >> i feel good. i spent the $20 and have a few pennies less. i am going to go home and cook. i will text message u.n. is done. >> excellent and really looking forward to it. >> today we're going to make the san francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. it'll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. then we will put in the fish soup. the last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. it will be delicious. when i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down into a nice sauce. this is a good time to make our fish stock.

we will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. family dinners are very important. any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart into it. make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. >> i am here with a manager at the heart of the city farmer's market in san francisco. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about the organization. >> we're 30 years old now. we started with