lucile, but sweepy as well. sfgiants.org in people are interested, and we're really getting rolling on this. thank you for your time. >> any other commissioner comments? >> i would like to say thank you very much for coming. i am actually the one that requested that you come today. and i did sign the pledge. and i also took the graffiti watch classes and i'm actually almost out of all of my cleaning stuff. >> we'll make sure that you get some, commissioner. >> i am on the list, which i do like, but i want to thank you for this. this is so important especially this time of year and with america's cup coming up. it's one of the things that i used to push when i was with the castro merchants was get out there and sweep in front of your store. because we have people coming from all over the world to this city and we're known for being

a very clean city, but it takes an effort to do that. i really appreciate that and people will watch this on tv and i will encourage everyone watching this on tv to go and sign up for the giant sweep and actually sweep. and don't sweep it in the street. one thing i learned in the training, people think into the streets thinking that the street cleaners pick it up and that is not cool. sweep it into a dust pan and put it in a receptacle. >> the department of public works is there to help, if you need brooms or pickers or you want to do a special event with a merchant corridor, we're happy to help you with that. we have got the tools to help san franciscans whether it's businesses or residents, community groups neighborhood associations, we want to make this work as a partnership with people. >> yes, and they will do that. and i want to give a shout-out to peachy mathis and jim, who

have both been doing the graffiti-watch trainings and going to the giant sweep events. i know there was a big one last week and you have promotions. i was at the game on friday night and they had you up on the screen. so i wanted to give those two individual shout outs, because this is important to the city. you can call 311 and they will put you on the list. it's so important for merchant corridors, just to go out there and keep them clean, because this summer the world is going to be coming to san francisco and we want to put our best food forward. so thank you very much. and thank you for presenting today. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, commissioner, i really appreciate your time. >> any members of the public who wish to make a comment on the giants sweep program? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> commissioners, before we go

on to the next item, i can work with jane to do a reminder about the giant sweep program coming up in the newsletter and link to the pledge and other information and also encourage the merchant associations as well to participate. >> thank you. >> our final presentation of the day, item 6, presentation and discussion on the healthy workplace coalition by julia parish. >> welcome. >> hi. thank you so much for having us. >> one moment while we get the powerpoint.

&i'm going to go ahead and start without the powerpoint, but you have a paper copy of the powerpoint in your folders on the left, if you want to pull it out. i may have forgotten to save it to my flash drive. i apologize. i am the director of the heavy mother's workplace coalition and a little bit of information about who we are, is we're a collaborative of a variety of different groups in san francisco, government agencies, non-profits and employers that are committed to improving workplace polices for women and particularly for women with families and child-care

obligations to promote both health outcome and generate equity in the workplace. some of our partners -- oh, you found it, so good. so we were formed basically to address health disparities and the outcomes with women with children and gender equity. our partners include the san francisco breast-feeding promotion coalition, the department of health, the sbc, san francisco wic, et cetera. the reason is the employer polices around lactation or project pregnancy accommodation and leave really do have an affect on both the work life balance of the employees and

outcomes in terms of critical health outcomes. so we are aiming to highlight employers who are providing these polices and supporting their employments, and also start a conversation about how we can work to make the polices that are in place even more effective and work for everyone involved. the way in which we're doing this, we worked with all of our coalition and we did surveys and a lot of researches about a variety of polices and created an assessment. it's a really easy assessment. it's one-page. it's not going to be too burdensome to fill out. basically the policies are in three categories. there is lactation accommodation, parental leave and then workplace flexibility and work-life balance polices and employers can fill out the

assessment in order to get an award. and we work together really hard to find an assessment that was appropriate for a wide variety of different kinds of places of businesses. we wanted it to work for small and business and places of employment that had primarily women employees and not. and so there are three levels of the award in its current form and basically the bronze level award mostly mirrors the legal requirements that are in place. so this is really about making sure that people know the obligations that they have already to provide for their employments employees and help the employees know about that as well and also highlight ideas for ways that some employers may go above and beyond and move a higher level and get a higher award and distinct and create longer term

movements in the sense for working with employees to get higher employee morale and better health, which saves health care costs and less turnover, which reduces costs and supporting working women and families in the workplace in san francisco. on the slide is a picture of the assessment, which you also have in your folders. as you can see it's one-page. it really shouldn't be too onerous. and the idea is that everyone should be able to fill it out and email it back to us. if you have any questions, you can always email or come to the workshop that we're doing later. again, 60% of familis are relying on women for at least a quarter of their income and we want to make sure that women aren't placed in the position to choose between the ability to take care of their family and provide for their family in

this particular need. so how do you apply? it's really easy as i mentioned it's a one-page assessment that you can download from our website healthymothersworkplace.org. once you complete it, you aoa mail email it back. we're having a workshop on july 25th, anyone can come and you can make any comments and we're always happy to engage in discussion around any of these things. and there will be an awards ceremony at the federal building september 9th and all award winners will be honored at that ceremony. and if you have any questions, i am more than happy to answer them and i'm here with my colleague elizabeth, who

directs the program with me. we are really excited about this and we really think it's a great opportunity for employers in san francisco to highlight their strengths and get publicity around these very important issues. when they are doing these great things for their employees, we want to recognize them and encourage that in any way that we can. >> great. commissioner dwight. >> it says here size, company must have over a thousand employees worldwide to participate. >> that is a separate initiative and there is additional information in your folder. >> so what are your size categories? >> we have no size categories. if you see on the assessment, there is one category that has a line and above the line is fewer than 50 and below the line is great than 50. because that is the greatest divide in terms of legal requirements for what employers

have to provide their employees. we hope that employers of every size will participate. >> any other commissioner comments? >> so i guess one could also use this as kind of the self-assessment to determine whether you have friendly polices or not. >> that is exactly the goal. we have talked to one employer in san francisco, who thought this was going to be a great learning experience, to learn a lot about themselves. because some of these polices don't always come up, you know? companies sometimes don't have a lactation policy, because they haven't had a lactating employee, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't sit down and think about and have it ready. the other great thing i forget to point out, on our website, which i highly encourage you to

visit and you can like us on facebook and twitter. we have a toolkit, which you also have printed out in your folders, that give sample polices. a lot of resources, for more information, we're continuing to develop the toolkit to include even more sample polices and we're trying to make it as easy and accessible as possible. you can find a lot of stuff right there on the website. >> i would also like to add to that, part of this has been informing and empowering workplaces and one of the companies that we have been working with actually was a bronze and saw a couple of areas where they could improve their own polices and get silver. so they are actually working on that now and taking the next step, which is really the goal. >> commissioner riley? >> for each of the larger corporations they have the hr departments and are well-informed of the requirements, but for the

smaller businesses, they may or may not have all of the knowledge. so what kind of outreach effort do you have to try to educate the smaller businesses? >> one of the things that we include on the website is links to a lot of these resources that explain both the polices and kind of the requirements of what is boiled down to be in this assessment. again we're trying to make the assessment as short and simple as possible. we're dealing with a lot of different laws and polices at the same time. so it's slightly a generalization, but there are a lot of resources on the toolkit and the website that people can find and sample policies, so they don't even have to write them. >> we also recognize that a lot of people that will apply are small businesses and it can be very difficult when you don't have a hr representative who knows all the jargon. that is why we're holding our

workshop in july, helping those with questions to improve their policies and we're hoping that that starts the conversation around what they can do. >> are you working with any of the merchant associations? >> we haven't directly been working with them yet, but we're hoping to reach out to them, especially through your newsletter, and other outreach. >> that's a good idea. >> thank you. >> any other commissioner comments? do we have any public comment on item no. 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you very much and chris, let's do something to get through the newsletter. >> we actually already exchanged some draft language as julia mentioned, we're part of the organization and our office has been working with them. so we have already got

plans for the news letter and we'll do some outreach with merchant organizations. very excited because it's a voluntary assessment and educational opportunity for businesses on a whole host of areas related to maternity/paternity and other workplace requirements >> and proved provide a link to their website too? >> absolutely. >> thank you, commissioners. >> next item, please. >> item 7, president's report, allows the president to report on recent small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. >> i did speak at a all-day forum on heritage or legacy businesses in neighborhoods in san francisco and how to teach

them to thrive and what works and doesn't work? as you all know lately in the news, you had the gold coast moving and other businesses closing. and so there are other businesses that have been in business in this town, you know, for as along as san francisco has been around. it was very, very informative and i actually spoke on the afternoon panel about family businesses, and there was a very good presentation by the gelert foundation, that is based out of the university of san francisco, where they actually work with families on generation-passing from one generation to another. and if that doesn't work, selling to employees and other mechanisms. so i found it very

fascinating. it was very interesting, because you would be amazed at how many legacy businesses there are in this city and how long they have been around, from hardware stores to paint stores to bakeris, victoria bakery in north beach. the jewelry stores. it really woke me up on how many small businesses that are family-owned that have been around for 100 years in the town. >> that shaped the neighborhoods. >> and are still in the neighborhoods. i thought it was awesome and that is my report. >> commissioners, item 8, vice president's report, allows the individuals to report on recent small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. >> i have nothing to report. >> item 9, commission reports. >> do we have any commissioner reports? seeing none, next item. >> item 10, general public

comment. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make any comments on any future meetings concerning this commission? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 11, new business. >> does anybody have any new business? seeing none, next item, please. >> item 12 is adjournment, is there a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> i second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> meeting adjourned. >> commissioners, the final is 3:24 p.m. >> thank you commissioners.