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september 2018 >> same house, same call without objection this resolution is adopted. >> the next ordinance is for transportation and for vendor mandatory services to provide supplies for an additional counteracting amount not to exceed approximately 39.1 million through july 31st, 2014. >> same house, same call. this resolution is adopted >> item 46 is an ordinance to establish a height food retailer promising program. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. alongside with my co- sponsor cowen i'd like to urge you to support our healthy program will
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help to transform our mom and pop stories to stop selling junk food. the purpose of the legislation will hyperhelp us to gain access by providing incentives for existing small businesses and mom and pop convenience stores to over produce. it's to help the small business owners who wish to create a better business policies. it supports the amazing and a long-standing groups like the south east workforce groups the tinder store coalition and the isn't institute and a many other for environment for justice where they began 10 years ago in
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neighborhoods they've all helped shape this legislation to address issues of food access and community height. i want to thank the arab groceries information and helping in reach out and drafting and support thisors o ordinance. in many part of our service there's not many that offer vegetation and there are an overabundance of stores that sell foods high in sugars and salts. this will help the smaller businesses to become for competitive and will offer more healthy foods. the programs will help in
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supplementing oots small business owners. and it will be mended with the department of public health of public health and the store coalition and establishing the associations. this will create a specialized one stop shop for an array of services. to participate in the program retailers must agree to receiveables to devout areas for allow fat products to participate in their program so that's over one 3rd of their stores. the retailer must not have one fifth of their stores to
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tobaccos. and a community advisory group that's composed that destroy stewart's and grassroots city staff will meet to help with guidance. the preliminary vehicle will be the invest in neighborhoods that's already activated. i'm proud to support this foundation work and lord to watching it grow. i want to thank nick from my office along with the grassroots in tenderloin. i urge your support colleagues >> thank you supervisor mar. >> i'm also very excited about this legislation. i want to appreciate supervisor mary's office and want to
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recognize some of the organizations in the tenderloin that also worked on 3 are the issue, of course, is we have community that are low income community that don't have access to the healthy foods. it has to be improved. what's excited is it's grassroots and two there's a strong youth leadership in this legislation and third there's an incentive that is an incentive legislation and it's not a punishment approach. i want to thank a lot of folks. those folks have been working in
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the community and neighborhoods to identify stores and identify allies and partners and to transform our neighborhood. we have 73 corner stores and the good news is they got a 3 star rating which means they were selling vegetation and meats and they were working on the types of advertisements on their stores. this legislation is important because it appraise an incentive to work cholesterol with our store owners and incentives to change their small business practice. talking with the american arab grocery association they
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appreciate we're trying to work with the small business owners and to provide them incentives through dollars to make in a realtor. from the attained for many, many years we've been trying to attract a large service grocery shore and have not be able to do that but if we work with the small businesses and try to help them shift their sales from tobacco but to help them model selling healthy foods. i'm really proud to support this legislation and want to appreciate everyone that was involved >> supervisor mar. >> yeah. things supervisor kim. i want to say how inspiring that
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was to work with the supervisors in that district. or the youth of vietnamese youth center their collaborative in supporting the small businesses. one of the most spierg piece ofs legislation because of the bottom-up legislation groups and also the people who support the intends it's been a great learning experience to learn from our grassroots folks from the city. thank you >> colleagues can we take a roll call vote on this item?
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(calling names). >> >> ordinance is passed think is first reading . >> from sixth street subject to specified finding. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. since i've come into office it's been a fast-growing corridors. with those folks coming here on a daily basis. we're reaching a tipping issue where moss more residents come
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to this area. a few weeks ago a couple of folks who opened a small retail on second street is partnering now to have a few service grocery stores in a neighborhood that lacked one. it's been great we've been able to find a grocery store. as this area continues to develop at least 31 units will be coming on line and we're expecting thousands of workers. this is the time for the city to study what type of facility on our streets. both preserving exist locally small business owners that have
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made this their home in several areas and even new businesses while you encouraging a diverse commercial area while stabilizing working areas. this is the serving areas and the future opportunity for ownership is at handor as this area continues to raise rents are gop. and we have many retailer establishments on market. 10 fast food restaurants which are two-thirds. and additional formula retail
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may eliminate profundities opportunity for businesses to grow in the mid market area. it's important we protect our vital small business owners that have transcribed to the vitality of this area. so this is the legislation that's before us today. it places intermediate controls for 18 months as we study the retail citywide. it's on businesses that front on market street. understanding there are market uses that are positive. we did can i ever out an exception for grocery storess. so it's not a blanket
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restriction. we limited the area from sixth to van ness because they're more businesses orientation. and we have the mall on market and fifth and fourth. i want to acknowledge there's several districts like 2 example 5 and 10 so we look forward to working with particular reason to work on their study to include the areas clid market area and kings street. i want to thank the supporters of this legislation the market association and the arab successor and the chamber of commerce and also, we want to thank the small business owner commission for their unanimous support.
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thank you. the last item was unanimous were item 48 >> item 48 is ordinance is a lounge located at gary boulevard with the convenience of the city and a same house, same call. >> item 49 a resolution with the transfer of an off sale of the general license to best doing business as city target will serve the community and a colleagues can we take this same house, same call. this resolution is adopted >> item 50 is a motion at an election to be held on ordinance amendment the any of us code
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allowing the employees to ask for flexible working hours. >> colleagues i appreciate our consideration of our family friendly ordinance. all of us probably a number of times every year are asked what we're doing for families and while the city has helped to build affordable housing we know there's more we can do. this is a proposal that can be more of a solution. in years i've heard from parents juggling daycare and childcare and soccer and decreases appointment. 90 percent of those folks have
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surveyed conflict environments. this is something i and many of us have thought about as we've thought about raising families. because of single-family households and women entering the workplace this traditional family only make ups one out of 5 families but the expectations the care has not changed. we looked around the world for policies. in 2007 there were 3 united
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states senators then senators hillary clinton, ted kennedy and barack obama that proposed in congress a flexible work environment. they having asked for changes in job shifts and to tell commute or share a job. this came from other countries like great britain and ireland and new zealand where this policy has been an excellent one.
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it adds a penny to the expense of an employer if the employer is unable to make clients services or other good faith services they're able to deny the requests. it would be enforced and it will apply to all caregivers. but based on feedback we've expanded this measure to care of of not only their children but take care of a spouse or domestic care imperative. their taking care of of their parents like many elder adults.
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when we centered. some of this limits the employees who are laerg than 20 employees and for employees that have worked at least 8 human resources a week. and i appreciate that with those all the times the business community no longer opposed those measures. i'm recommending we move it forward. when we have discussions for working families we had two goals around this legislation.
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to make sure we were educating the public and we've done that. i would mention in the last couple of weeks our democratic leader nancy pelosi is talking about the measures and a also hillary clinton. the second thing the advocates want to make sure we got this passed. it was unclear if we needed a majority around the ballot. i want to thank the mayor because he said heel sign the version. let me make that clear we have the votes to place that on the ballot and we know it received the support of many of the san franciscans.
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this will allow us to get this done faster. i plan during roll call to introduce an ordinance that is exactly what we have hear and hope to move it to pass it in september with an date of january the first. this is a direction we want to go so we can have legislation for that. i want to thank the team from the employment and library for the city attorney's office and the office of labor standards enforcement and the department of health and the small business commission and the feedback we've received from the orchestras. as far as the organizations i
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want to thank the law clinics from law schools and a better balance and the work and families coalition also here in san francisco i want to thank the advisory council and the united food and commercial workers and the gender appreciative issues. as well as supervisors yee and supervisor breed who has offered to support this issue. i want to take a moment and thank my aid keating republican who worked around the clock. and with that colleagues i'd like to ask if we could send this motion back to committee and in case anything unexpected
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happens but as i said today, i want to introduce this what date of january 1st >> colleagues the president has made a motion to send this back to the rules committee. i have a second from supervisor avalos >> i want to thank supervisor avalos i'll be adding this afternoon. >> item 51 is a motion appointing naomi to the entertainment empathies. >> colleagues supervisor wiener. i just want to say how great it is we're able to reappoint her to the entertainment commission. we appointed her last year she brings a strong public height to
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the empathies commission. it looks like she might move out of the city but i'm very, very happy she's going to be on the commission and a colleagues the last item being unanimously can we take this same house, same call >> we've completed all our special orders why don't we go to item 62 and this was considered on thursday and forwarded to the board as a committee report. it's a resolution to determine the type of 21 off sale general license to tenth street to the wine will be serviced for the night of the city >> colleagues same house, same call? item 63. >> it was considered by the
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land use committee on monday and was forwarded to the board as the committee report as a new title granting the revokeable title to the right-of-way to construct and maintain infrastructure for hospital operations at 825 jackson street. >> same house, same call this resolution is adopted. madam clerk let's go to roll call >> supervisor breed. >> i have one very important resolution today. supervisor cowen and i have introducing a resolution to support the historic recess of marcus bookstore. i know that folks have reached out to you this has been a challenging issue. we all know that marcus brooks.
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this is the first place i bought my first book but this is a community place. i want to go through that history to talk about why it's so important that we as a city get actively engaged to do whatever he can to insure some protection for this historical building. i'm introducing this resolution to peruser the marcus bookstore which was jim both city building and to urge that's current owners to have someone uphold the building. founded by marcus brooks he's the an icon in japan neighborhoods and is a renounced
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center. marcus books has been a meeting place for organizations like west side community services and the development organization and the black panthers and the 17968 strishgz at san francisco state college. the store has hosted incredible icon like rosa parks and james baldwin and malcolm x. marcus books is a historic treasure in our community who's future are under factory attack. the building opened its doors in 1953 and it was founded as a jazz place. bill holiday and other go placed
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at jim bosses city. it's not an compensation to say that the building helped put fill more on the map. and yet in the 1960s the san francisco redemonstrate agency tried to remove the map and trying to demolish it but a diverse group of folks came together and the house was literally picked up and hauled to its new locations. although many vindicate to be sworn were sealed destroyed. ful from there it continued it's historic america. the business and it's buildings
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are a tests time to our legacy of the japanese communities but now the building has fallen into the hands of an owner who is not interested in keeping marcus books as a tenant in the building. with this resolution i and members of the community join here today are asking the new owners to sell the building to someone who will maine maintain that. i want to thank you all the debt is inspiring and there's truly too many folks to thank. not a day goes bay by when someone is asking me about the bookstore and what they can do to help it. it
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