we've done tonight and look forward to going home soon. >> supervisor compos. >> i wanted to recognize my staff and i think we should all have your staff in the chambers to stephanie and thank you for the work and stephanie in particular, thank you for the time you have spent here and i also want to acknowledge the staff of all the offices and mr. chair in particular, i want to say that your staff has done a tremendous job and you should be proud of captain stephani and margo kelly. it's hard to be an effective supervisor without having an incredible staff and i think that the fact that everybody has commented on a tremendous job that you have

done, it's not just only a reflection of you, it's a reflection of them. so i echo everything that has been said and the fact that we're here so early is a testimony to the work that has been done by the chair and by every member of the budget committee, thank you for the sacrifices you have had to make in the last few weeks. he want to make two -- i want to make two points. moving forward, i think there's -- there are some changes that can be made in terms of the process, how budget works in terms of the board and the mayor and one of the things that i think we could do going forward is maybe getting the budget even earlier so we have more time to digest a lot of the things that are here. with that said, i think this chair and this committee did a tremendous with the process. i want to thank you chair and how

you have interacted with the districts. it's not easy to do. of course the mayor's office and kate howard and your staff. thank you for the professionalism and the hard work and we couldn't do this without ben rosenfeld and rose. and their amazing staff and the city attorney who is here as well. thank you for the legal counsel that they provide. i want to mention a couple of things because i think the budget is the most important policy document that we can pass as a board and there are gaps and there's always things that i certainly wish that we had done and hopefully we'll have an opportunity to address some of those points and certainly the cost of living increases, one of those that i think we need to continue to watch because our workers work very hard and it's an expen sifb -- expensive

city so i feel for that. but this budget is a reflection of how unique san francisco is. not only have we restored the hiv cuts as supervisor wiener said, and thank you for your staff on that. you're doing things through this budget like projecting the transgender community in areas like the mission that had been sent to physical attacks and the fact that you're preventing that kind of violence is something that said a lot about who we are as a city. the fact that we're including in this funding for transgender health for the basic procedure that our transgender brothers and sisters need as part of basic help, that's a testament.

you're adding health care to undocumented people who wouldn't be covered. that's the city we are and i'm proud of that. so nothing is perfect, but i think that this is something we should be proud of. of course to the community who are still here with the workers. thank you for your work because you're the ones who make it possible for us to be accountable. and so last is to reiterate again, mr. chairman, it has been a pleasure to work with you. you should be proud of what you have accomplished and i think it has been a special week for us in san francisco and it's appropriate that we close with this moment as a board behind this budget. thank you. >> supervisor kim. >> i'm not sure if my mic is on. thank you. supervisor

compos talked about the budget being -- and i think that this document is a good reputation of our values. i want to thank avalos -- supervisor avalos for -- thank you. it's not late enough. late enough for me to change, but not as my last two years. but i want to appreciate the leader of ship of supervisor avalos, real legal negotiating around a lot of -- of 11 different supervisors and our needs and working with each of us in insuring our priorities were in. i had two and they were amongst our most vulnerable population, it was the seniors and youth, and i'm happy to see that we were able to restore of

the cuts that were happening to these most vulnerable populations whether it's after school or academic enrichment for our young people or nutritions and other services for seniors. i think that's important. in terms of our city wide priorities, our sity had one and it -- our city had one and it was housing. this city as we had mentioned is becoming unfordable and it's important we support our affordable housing and low substidi program. and i'm excited that has been put in for year two and it's going to make a difference for those in san francisco. the second priority was of course our hiv cut. this is something that we have feel heavy among. i'm glad we were able to restore cuts that didn't happen locally but happened at the federal level. that was heavy for all of us and supervisor wiener

were leaders on that. i was happy to see some of our city wide restorations around our wreck centers and parks. i think that was a great addition to this budget as well. so i will thank our office staff, april venaron and ivy lee for working with our district 6 stakeholders and i'm editing our list to make sure that our top priorities were put into this budget and they stayed late on both nights and i want to recognize that april did have a loss today of a very dear, close friend and she stuck it out for the day and i want to appreciate her and her family for that. thank you. >> okay. thank you colleagues. i thank you for your comments. we have some procedurals items. i want to add to the comments of my colleagues,

thank you for your support through this process. it has been an interesting learning experience and we got through it and we have something that we can be proud of. i forgot to mention, stancross, thank you. and the aids of my colleagues, thank you. we don't get it done without you and thank you for sticking it out. >> i want to thank you avalos for trying to gather that information. thank you supervisor for all of that. >> and to all of city staff that's here from our city attorney's office and controller's office, our mayor's budget director and your entire team that is here, and all of personal time you sacrificed, thank you forgetting this done. this is a remembering flex -- reflection of you. colleagues, we have a motion or could i have a motion to amend the budget as indicated in the summary amendments fiscal year

14-15. >> amended. >> we can do that without opposition. so moved. >> we got past that one. motion to accept the mayor's technical adjusted by the mayor's budget. >> move. >> we can do so without opposition. >> motion to table item number 1 on the recess agenda the resolution to suspend the reserve. we can do that without opposition. not funny. >> motion to approve items 1, and 2 on this thursday morning agenda's to approve the proposed salary ordinances and authority the controller to make adjustments to implement the committee's adjustment and pass a budget. can i have a motion. you can do so without opposition. motion to prove items 3 and 4 approving the

treasure island authority and the investment infrastructure. motioned by supervisor wiener. we can do so without opposition. >> i want to thank anyone involved. have a great night and we'll see you in budget committee in a few weeks. [ applause ] >> any other items? >> we are adjourned.

small business commission meeting. the time is now 2:07 p.m. and the meeting is being called to order. before we begin we would like to thank city hall media service and sfgovtv for their continued support of our meetings. we would like to ask members of public to turn off your cellphones and digital devices. first item, roll call, president adams? >> here. >> commissioner white? will be joining us momentarily. commissioner dooley? >> here. >> commissioner dwight? >> here. >> commissioner o'brien will be joining us. commissioner ortiz-cartagena is absent/excused. [skph-eurgs/] yee commissioner yee riley. >> aye. >> commissioners we have a quorum. >> thank you. first item. >> commissioners, item 2 is general public comment, this allows members of public to

comment generally on matters in t commissioner's purview and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on anything that is not on today's agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. next all right. >> commissioners, this places you on item no. 3, discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file no. 120 996 administrative code healthy food retailer incentive program, ordinance amending the san francisco administrative cold by adding chapter 59, sections 59.1-59.9, to establish a healthy food retailer incentive program to oversee and coordinate the city's incentive and assistance programs for healthy food retailers.

explanator documents is the board of supervisors file no. 120996 and presentation by nickolas pagoulatos legislative aide to supervisor eric mar. >> thank you again for this opportunity. this is a revised version of the original legislation that you considered. it's improved in some significant ways. primarily we have had an opportunity to work with both the community, as well as to reach out to other supervisors, particularly those supervisors who would receive the most benefit from this legislation. so as you will see, we do co-sponsorship from supervisors from districts 6 and 10 and we had the opportunity to examine the questions and suggestions made at this committee,

specifically as to how we could improve the legislation and we have incorporated some of the suggestions that were made into the revised version that you have in front of you. the goals remain the same. we wish to support small businesses in san francisco in this case particularly convenient stores and convenient stores in those parts of san francisco where there is a lack of access to healthy food. again, that right now would primarily be in the tenderloin and bayview districts, but we are also looking at other areas of the city where the program could be expanded. the outer richmond, which we discovered through the work of the department of public health, where there is had a lack of access to healthy food and visitation valley, where there is a lack to healthy food

and in the future we would like to expand into those areas. but for now, what we're going to be doing is focusing on where resources are currently being deployed by the city. the way the legislation works is fairly straightforward. we are going to be working primarily with the department -- i'm sorry with the office of economic and workforce development and using the resources that are already at play through the invest in neighborhoods program to help store owners who wish to turn their stores around and become less reliant on alcohol and tobacco and really become healthier, not just in terms of what they are offering to the community, but also as examples of how stores can become different. how change can happen in neighborhoods through existing businesses. it's an idea that came to us, as a result of looking at what was happening in san francisco, as a result of the expansion of

formula retail. a lot of our small businesses are being adversely impacted by formula retail. one way of approaching the problem is to build up the capacity of our existing businesses by making them more competitive by meeting the demands of changing demographics in neighborhoods. and also by giving them the ability to provide products that may be in demand in certain neighborhoods, but that just aren't present. so we are going to be piggy-backing on work that is already happening through oewd, through the department of public health, and just as importantly, through community-based organizations like the southeast food access coalition and the corner store coalition in the tenderloin that are working not just with merchants, but also with the community to show the benefits of healthy eating to work with community members to show them

how to cook with healthy foods, with fresh foods and how to store fresh foods. so it's a really comprehensive program that is going to be housed in oewd. it's going to provide a one-stop resource center, where a merchant, who has an interest in making the change can come, and get information not just about the technical aspects of it, but how to access that community support to get his customers to really see the benefits of healthy eating and make sure that there is going to be a demand for these new products. the other thing that i wanted to mention is that we did listen to some of the concerns that were raised at the commission the last time we were here. there was a desire to have ongoing input from an advisory group. oewd is going to be charged with convening such a group that is going to consist of again community members,

merchants, and also just as importantly, we're also going to be working with consultants in the field who have done store makeovers,, as well as food distributors, fresh food distributors, who can help us to work out how to get price points down. so that this merchandise cannot only be accessible to the merchants, but can also be sold at price points that are going to be achievable in the neighborhoods that these stores are in. we also examined the issue of establishing a safety net for the businesses that do choose to embark on the path of becoming healthy food retailers. initially the idea was to let's look at perhaps tax breaks to create a safety net for those businesses, that see a drop in income after the first year of embarking on this path. we looked at that with the tax assessor's office and we looked at that with the city attorney's office and frankly, it's just not -- it's not a

benefit that would benefit as many of the businesses as we would like because of the change in the city's tax code. a lot of these businesses are not going to be paying that much in taxes anyway. so in its stead what we decided to do was offer a three-year commitment on the part of oewd and the department of public health so if a business starts on this path and runs into problems those departments and all of their services will be there for a minimum of three years to ensure that technical assistance will be there for them all the way down the road until they achieved the goals that they set out for themselves. as i said, we have been working very closely with both city departments, as well as community members. today we are going to be joined by jorge rivas from oewd, who will talk about the role of oewd in this

program and susannah lavery, from department of public health, who has done the work on the ground and she will talk about what is already happening in the bayview and in the tenderloin and we're also going to be joined by larry brucia who can talk about how it happens and how feasible this sort of change is and finally, i wanted to bring up camell, former president of the american grocers association who has been tremendously helpful in helping us to make it better legislation and he is going to talk about how the

merchants' community views this legislation. so thank you very much again for this opportunity. i am looking forward to any questions that you may have and hopefully for your support. thank you very much and i would like to turn it over to jorge rivas from oewd. >> commissioners, thank you, nick. my name is jorge rivas with the office of economic and workforce development and we're just here to show our support for the legislation and illustrate some details of how it will be implemented from our office. our office has committed funding for the next fiscal year, to support the program. oversee the implementation of the program through the investment framework and in addition to that, we'll be paying for the consultant. some of the technical assistance that will be provided to small businesses and in addition to that they would pay for interventions

that the businesses are interested in. phase 1 is the assessment of these businesss and with our community partners we would select the businesses that would like to participate and go through the assessment and secondly, second phase they will be provided with the actual technical assistance and interventions of the program. so again, the money will go -- the first fiscal year, and the following year will be in charge of monitoring and making sure that the businesses are successful. and i will be around for any questions, if you have any. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners i am with the department of public health. so our motivation of course has been public health and the link between access to healthy food and chronic disease, of course especially in neighborhoods

called "food deserts or food swamps." and one area is corner stores and we have been looking at research about this. there are other efforts along the lines across the country in improving access to healthy food can have a significant economic and health impact. there is research from philadelphia, for example that shows that a comprehensive approach to working with corner stores can actually address disparities in low-income communities, working with corner stores and schools as well and stores can make money by selling healthy foods and they look at the profit margins like fresh breads and low-fat milk and fresh produce and things like that. the most effective scorn store programs are comprehensive and that is what we have been piloting here in san francisco. i will describe it quickly. essentially there are two main components, the third would be a policy, like this. but there is the community side. so in the bayview there is a team of young adult

professionals called the food guardians who are from the community and actually drive this process and work with the corner stores and work with the corner store owners and do the campaigns and link up the stores more effectively with the faith-based organization, et cetera. they do door hangers to hang in the community for folks to shop in the stores. the second piece is the business side, which i won't say much about, because larry brucia here to speak to that. looking at redesigning the store and freeing up space so produce and other healthy products can be highlighted and works very closely with our food guardians. in the tenderloin there are five leaders who have assessed over 50 stores in looking at ways to improve the offerings at those stores and work with studio. i just started to work with the

american grocers association. so i just wanted to say that our idea around this comprehensive approach is to support the small mom and pops while addressing health inequities and strengthening community and promoting economic development. so i am available for questions after. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is larry brucai and i started in the natural food industry with the invention of trail mix 40 years ago. 8 years ago i got to purchase the design-build company. we look at the corner store markets in a very unique way. we remodel and design all of the independent markets and, in fact, you probably have not visited a retailer in san

francisco that we haven't probably touched one way or the other. but with the corner store markets it's a challenge. because they are very small, and the challenge is to be able to fit in produce and natural foods in a way that will be successful. so what we do is that we look very closely at the store and we do all the measurements within the store, and then we come up with a way to bring in fixtures and shelving systems that allows them to keep the same products that they have, but now to be able to add to those products produce and natural foods. this way here, they don't alienate their existing customers and still keep the customers that are coming to their stores, but at the same time now, they are introducing and showing these new products to the neighborhood. and quite frankly, i haven't seen a store yet that hasn't had a customer base that wants to buy produce, because it's really a universal language of food all over the world, and

we know it's not only important to get the store designed correctly and show how the products will fit and be there, but more importantly, it's a sustainability of the idea. because once that store is reset and looks great, now the challenge is to maintain it. so studio associates working with the san francisco public health department and the food guardians will continue to visit that store for the first eight weeks. and then we will visit that store each month for the next three years or actually two and a half years. this way here, we continue to help the store owner understand how to keep that produce and those natural foods selling, sustainable and being relevant to the customer basis that they are in. so i think we have worked already with three stores in san francisco. the first store now we have actually we went from one 4' product section to two 4'

produce sections in a very little store and we're very excited about that and the food guardians have been tremendous in following up with these retailers. so we're glad to be able to help the small business markets and delighted to bring natural foods into the little corner stores that sometimes get neglected. thank you very much and i will be available for questions. >> thank you. >> my name is camil, a board member of the american grocers association and i am here on behalf of the board and members to support this program, because we see that in the interest of our members and in the benefit. thank you. >> thank you. any other speakers? great, commissioners any comments or

questions? commissioner white? >> what is the typical budget to overhaul a corner store? >> as i mentioned we have been doing this as a pilot using grant money, which is why this is the logical next step. and it's about $16,000 to $20,000 and that includes equipment. so shelving. produce bins, aisle tables, as well as the technical assistance. the actual time of the food guardians, and our time is in-kind from the department of public health and the food guardians comes from health promotion grants. that is separate. the way we have set it up, part of the $16,000 would be a grant and part of it is a loan over

the 3-year period, which may be forgiveness, depending on the standards that are reached. >> okay. >> just so what we do is that we'll go into the store and we'll actually measure the complete store. so we now have what is called an as-built and we can put that on auto cad and relayout the store based on that and determine the refrigeration and equipment and shelving. that is part of what we do in getting the store to look the way it needs to. >> thank you, commissioner dooley. >> can you tell us a little more about the centralized resource center? is that like a brick-and-mortar spot or