use one key on our ring of life, she gives us another. so i thank you for this new key that you've given me today and to donald and we're going to use this key to open some doors for young people in our neighborhoods and create some careers, as you all probably know i have a tv show and it's call buzzing around with doctor shelton and it airs on public tv channel everyday sunday night at 9 o'clock pm. but we need to train some young people in careers. i see them sweeping the streets. this is a good job, but it causes you to look down. we want to come up with something that make them want to look up. i will be talking to supervisors and i want to thank my family and friend who came to spend the day with me to receive this

great award. and i will put this among the other awards that i've received and i will be so proud so they that i received this honor from the small business commission and all of you that represent the great city of san francisco. and i've been in business there on broad street in the same location 40 years so now i'm going to allow donald to tell you something about his business. and i'm so proud of him because he could be doing other things instead of creating a business. >> good afternoon everybody. how we doing? i didn't have no speech prepared or anything so i'm gonna free style it. i created a movement back in my community and it 's a real powerful movement and i deal with a lot of at risk kids and

i been watching these kids grow up since i was 7, 8, 9. some lost in street battles and some got put away by chases that they made on their own. at the end of the day i'm just here trying to open up doors for the youth. before i was doing this i was a case manager and i just love dealing with kids and i try to help them get through they days and lives 'cause i'm from a neighborhood where these kids come from a broken home. so i'm just trying to be that big brother, that big uncle and that best friend so i'm trying to show them anything this life is possible. i'm 26, opened my first business up at 25 and i'm

just making i want happen. so i'm very thankful and i thank ya'll for listening. >> and thank you supervisor avalos. and practice smiling so you can increase your face value. thank you. and please allow me to say hi to miss

bridges thiscame in to support me. >> thank you and thank you for reminding ing us smile. now to scott wiener. >> thank you. i think one of the great things about this annual event is allowing small businesses to hear about other small businesses throughout the city because our city is so diverse economically and in terms of who we are and it does vary neighborhood by neighborhood, which is amazing. i'm thrilled to be honoring a group of small businessmen who run three successful bars with a fourth on the way soon. they are the owners and various combinations of the midnight sun, the queue bar and the edge

and will soon be opening a new bar called [inaudible]. i understand the managers of various bars are here today. bar life in the castro is very deeply integrated into our community. people are intensely loyal to the bars they love, the bars sponsor our sports teams. they are just in so many ways a part of our culture and a number of these bars have been around for a very, very long time. when we look at neighborhood institutions like the edge and like the midnight sun and newer bars like queue bar and very soon beau. these gentlemen really understand the importance of running responsible businesses in the neighborhood. as a supervisor

and resident of this neighborhood and as someone who does go out from time to time, vibrant night life is important to me and a lot of people in our community. we know the importance of the lbgt community. it is so important. we also know, and i know our colleagues tire of hearing me say this, but the night life in san francisco creates 4.2 billion dollars a year, and creates 50 million dollars in tax revenue. or bars and or night life generate not just 50 thousand dollars, but

[inaudible] not just wanting to be a place for the very wealthy and for the very poor, but we want to have a thriving middle class as well and our night life world and bars really do create those kind of middle class job opportunities for people, especially for young people. when we walk around we see to many people who are able to have a good paying jobs and that's incredibly important for our community. and these bars have not just bought bars, but they've improved each bar that they've bought. we know that the predecessors to beau had some problems in the neighborhood and they turned it around. a lot of us thought we were going to lose that space from our night life. when they

purchased the edge, the bar had a lot of problems with not necessarily being up to code. they went in and brought it up to code and embraced and kept the part of the edge that our community loved so it's now got a modern touch. they're also very involved in the community. tim, when he first took over queue bar, he immediately joined our neighborhood association. he figured neighbors and bars can work

together. they're also very generous with their spaces, whether it's hosting community fund raisers. we have very lucky to have in the neighborhood. night life doesn't just happen, it happens because great people make sure it happens in the right way. thank you for everything you do in our neighborhood. >> we'd just like to thank the small business commission, the board of supervisors and particularly supervisor /waoepbler for recognizing us today. and in particular i want to thank supervisor wiener for consistently recognizing that night life and

enterten such an important part of what mas san francisco so special. it's /porpblts important part of what makes our neighborhoods and communities so vibrant and a destination for tourists. our bars are really all about community. [inaudible] at queue bar or honey mahogany, who was the first san francisco drag queen on rupaul's drag race. we're just constantly hosting events and fundraisers for the community and we're just happy to do that. i wanted to thank the manage ers that are here today and the staff from all our bars because

they're the ones who keep the bars operating smoothly 365 days per year. thank you.

>> i do text scott when i go out in his neighborhood. it's great to see such a great diversity of businesses that are represented this month. i have what i feel is a very unique small business and i wanted to bring 1:00 am gallery. 1:00 am gallery, for those of you that may or may not know is one of our most important ten tenants or the sixth street corridor. they first opened their doors [inaudible] wanted their company to embody the passion for freedom of speech

[inaudible] inspires a growing number of the general public on the street for arts and exhibitions and teaches workshops and classes. i first met daniel in 2010 when i was running for this office and had an opportunity to /aeu /tepbld one of the [inaudible] events that the [inaudible] brian [inaudible] and brian is most well known for the building with the furniture falling out of it across from 1:00 am gallery. san francisco has

also had a very long history of graffiti and it's fun to go to some of your events when they come and seeing those young folks of me generation that grew up with these arttists just fawn over folks that have really made an impression on some of their young people. [inaudible] specialized if graffiti, urban and vinyl toy art. these are large scale murals with positive images. these art forms range -- graduates and china town community development center. they launched most recently the

1:00 am mobile app. it allows people to capture images only street and share you through the app. as you share these you can share, id, follow and comment. it provides accurate directions to current and preexisting pieces. i think what i look for in small businesses is not just to contribute to economic development, but to businesses that contribute to our neighborhoods. people were struggling to make sixth street a safer place to be and they had done a lot of work. it's amazing to see the changes for

the residents. i really want to commend you for being there and for all your contributions and for elevating art here in san francisco locally. >> thank you. it's an honor to be honor. ed my name is daniel pen, born and raised here. i'm proud of san francisco and how much it's changed here. right now we're in a growth period and technology and what not. i started this company in 2008 with the intent to offer this freedom of speech with an expressive art form to it

there's a lot of voices out there that don't get heard. more importantly you guys were talking about clear channel. this is somewhat in my normal day job just the voice of the hats. and there are a lot of voice for the /sra notes and it's not to say they don't have any power or say but sometimes they can't express that 'cause they can't rent a billboard or do a march so i want to up hold this american tradition that's really emerging as worldwide [inaudible]. in summary we do showcase street and urban artists from around the world and we do offer educational opportunities for people to /hrerpbl about the art culture. we offer team building

workshop for ouincluding schools, high schools, colleges, all different types of groups. and we also offer the art supplies that are a part of the culture, as well as launching our new 1:00 am mobile app, which is the beginning of a real archive of how street art is worldwide. it's born and raised in san francisco. my brother created it. he went to cal poly and he developed it after that. the arts is something i want to put at the forefront that we have a lot of fire power in this department and so far this the app a lot of the images are from there. we had 2000 followers in the /tp*eurls

month we had the app out. it's worldwide now so i'm happy for that. i don't have much to say other than the neighborhd is a difficult place to be. i have no complaints. the substation has improved the foot trafand the /skwrepbl feeling of the street. i see a lot more presence, makes me feel more comfortable. the building itself is something i undertook personally to /khraoepbl up and a lot of the issues with the building were from within. so taking this challenge on, taking the space on and creating 1:00 ammed like a real good fit. a lot of things in any life slowed down so this was a great opportunity to give back and reflect on what i really wanted to do. i don't see myself stopping this any time soon and i love san francisco and tha big word and

topic and i would love to engage any and everyone that would love to engage me about this topic. we have very in tune with the community. the community outside of district six spans to all districts here. i think everyone from even -- not all these artists are within that district, but i do foal that we would be able to help with the issues at hands regarding street art and graffiti. thanks for the op opportunity to speak. >> they do have monthly exhibits. i encourage you all to attend, but what is great

for him is that he wants to give back to youth programs. if you have schools or youth programs in your community, connect with him. he's always looking for more ways to connect with other neigu. >> congratulations. i want to invite you to my district to create 2:00 am gallery.

>> finally, come on up meek -- michael. i am honoring a native to san francisco. actually, michael served on the small business commission for about eight years the reason why -- i know mike has been honored or recognized in the past for various things. no? well, before the independent was the independent, it was the justice league and it was the one place where i and my friends could go to. we were welcomed in this /srepbl ewe, we were also performers in this /srepbl ewe. venue. a lot of the group

[inaudible] music wise and michael opened his door to new innovative and creative ideas. he's a lot older than i am, but that just shows you the kind of person he is and the kind of activity he allowed to happen. he stayed in the district and he's raising his kids in the district, but he continues to be actively engaged and active in the community. i want to say a few things about the independent, which is located in the heart of the western division. it's been a long standing city institution and has some of the best rock,

indie and hip hop shows in the district. there's always a long line, whether it be music, but also comedy shows and other events. michael's -- his suck success with the independent is a true success story and his parents were irish immigrants who came here in is 1960s. we won't hold it against him that he went to [inaudible] but he also went to uc berkley. his dedication to small business, spirit led him to open the independent where he continues to be a leader and innovator in

the arts industry. in 2009 it was nominated as the best small green buan michael's goal to create the first green rock venue in the country. he works with the police department, working with dpt, working with the city in a way that i think sets the trends for how the night life industry should do business with the city. i want to thank you for your commitment to san francisco, thank you for your commitment to the night life

industry and thank you for your innovative and creative way for san francisco. >> thank you. thank you for taking the time to honor all of us today. when i was listening to london speak, i was like, wow, this is a lot of stuff that london did for the african american center. when i decided to open up this space on the [inaudible] the streets were fairly slow and it's come a long ways. and one interesting they think caveat -- i know /*efrpbl everyone

has stuff to do, but in '96 i was opposing a youth curfew that was on the ballot at the time. i don't think that looked very goods at age 50 when all the permits were processed there. it then took a year-and-a-half, three different trips to the board of per met appeals. i can't prove this, but i suspect that i'm the only live venue that got a permit by literally beating the police at the board of appeals. i was an an sish

girls basketball game recently and i [inaudible] and we just laughed so small business people -- you just gotta persevere. never gonna be easy and there's no guarantees, but we have fun. so yeah, thank you. >> thank you soup supervisor breed. i want to thank all of

my colleagues and all awardees and all of you, and thank the staff of our city's office of small business. and i /aoeud i'd like to close it out, recognize the president of the small business commission, steve adams. >> you all did a great job with your picks today and i gotta hand it to you, you guys did awesome across the board. makes me very proud. i'm honored to serve as chair of san francisco small business week.