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.

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