bay area. and, 53 percent of the businesses who attend have been in business for three years or more which we are really happy to target the small business owners and we want the people who are in the small business community to celebrate with them and so we are happy about them. i hope that you all had a chance to attend and i am not sure if you guys have an experience that you just wanted to call out and something that you felt was very important about san francisco small business week? or that we should continue to push forward p, and any you do

an excellent job and i would like to say publicly that since your involvement with this you have really elevated this event and i remember years ago that we first had the room at the hotel in japan town and it was a one-day event and where it is at now and you have really raised the bar on this and i don't know how we can top it. >> and i am sure that we will about to hear how we will top this later on. and so, which i don't doubt that you can do. and i thought that flavors was excellent and i like, you know our committee decided to, you know, charge with flavors and it worked. and i mean, and so we kept out mostly kept out, but you made it more interesting and more of of a networking event and i noticed this year, they were

kicking us out at 8:00. and in the years past it was empty by 8:00. and so i thought that was a great sign. >> yeah. >> just as a comment, while we do charge a $20 fee, we still do sent 75 percent of the attendees coming through with the free passes through the merchant at work and through the sponsors and the neighborhoods and non-profit communities and our goal is not to exclude small business owners but to rather filter the people who just want to come for free food. >> it works i think, that is great. >> and i thought that it was fantastic and i participated in the event. nice work. >> thank you. >> so, real briefly, the tenth anniversary of san francisco, small business week, 2014, has a lot of really neat, unique opportunities and some challenges, and so, the tenth anniversary of san francisco, small business week also cohen

sides with the small business commission and it is the 30th or 40th anniversary and so we have had some discussions around maybe there is a collaboration of partnership or how we can talk about the small business at the table and something that is, and i think that is really to pull together to try to elevate and really just have a dialogue and celebration with some of it and within the core community. of the small business and we are very excited to take what we have done and push it forward. >> and we do have a few challenges for this upcoming year and the space that we have held our conference at in the downtown campus is the sf state downtown campus gave up their lease and so we have nowhere to hold the conference and we are currently in process and we are talking with a number of

hotels, and with the director we are trying to reach out to see if the city is interested in a partnership. >> what about the grams? >> the bill grams civic center, could, and the classrooms are challenging. and okay. >> i think, and there is a number of them, but they are rather small, and the av would be a bit of a challenge, i think for the cost being and we looked into this last year d it is visually not the interesting but it is not... there is a lot of very small rooms and so, we think, that bill gram, if possible or a hotel which will be a lot more expensive. than in the past, we are also running in the date challenges with the metrion in terms of being able to bring in a tent

for the first couple of weeks and so that is the challenge around the flavors of san francisco that we are kind of looking at. >> that is why we have you. >> we are currently working and we are not just me, and i have to say that you know, we have a tremendous committee and they are already working on like, the directors and already reaching out through the city to try to have a partnership with mascone and leslie maloy is working with the assistant managers of the larger hotel and we are trying to just find out what the opportunities are, and we are also, we also may approach the new port crews ship terminal about the flavors and that is a large space and that may be an opportunity. >> so we see a lot of opportunities in terms of you know it is a great event, and we have some great partners who are celebrating their important anniversaries this year as well. and hopefully we can get some

press around all of that and hopefully we will find the homes for these events that the small businesss in san francisco have come to really appreciate. if you guys have any ideas around that, it is welcome. otherwise, i think that the commission is very, very much for their continued financial support and the support of the staff that you allow to work on the committee, we could not do, but we do, without the director and her team supporting san francisco small business week, so. >> great. >> thank you, and before you finish, is there anyone who would like to make public comment on item number 6? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you, again, adam for everything. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, adam. >> next item. >> it is number 7 on the agenda and following item 7 we have

items 8 through 12 and they are six sets of meeting minutes and we must go through each step in the process, but seeing, there may not be the public comment on each of these we may be able to do that quickly. we will move along, item 7 is the approval of the february 28, 2013 minutes. >> approve. >> move. >> second. >> we have public comment on item 7? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. we can take consensus, do we all approve? >> i just have one minor correction. so we do need to change the date, on the front sheet to thursday february 28, 2013, not 2012. >> okay. >> okay. >> good catch, director.

>> okay. next item? >> we need to take if there is no other corrections or changes to the february 20th? >> and we approve as corrected? >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> next item. >> 8. approval of the april, 22, 2013 meeting minutes. >> do we have public comment on the approval of the april 22nd, meeting minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have... >> move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> next item. >> item 9, approval of the may 20, 2013 meeting minutes. >> do we have public comment on the may, 20th, 2013 meeting minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> move to approve. >> second. >> make this easy on you. >> yes. >> all in favor? >> aye.

>> aye. >> copy and paste. >> item 10, approval of the june, 10, 2013 meeting minutes >> do we have public comment on the 2013, june, 10, minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion >> move to approve. >> second. >> now you guys are going to mess it up for him. >> you go for it. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> next item. please? >> mr. president, i have item 11, approval of the june, 24, 2013 minutes. >> do we have public comment on the june, 24, 2013 meeting minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> next item please? >> item 12, approval of the july 8, 2013 meeting minutes. >> do we have any public

comment on the july 8, 2013 meeting minutes? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion >> move to approve. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> and great. >> excellent. >> we are all caught up. >> moving on to agenda item 13, this is the director's report. the director will update and report on the office of small business and update on department programs and legislative mat and hers make announcements regarding business activity and this is a discussion item. >> well, first before i get into my report, i want to relevant come christian for his willingness to sit in on the seat of the commission secretary and to fulfill that role and function while we during the interim. thank you and, welcome. >> you are doing a great jofnlt

and commissioners now that we have a approval of the minutes, we have updated the plan and that is in your binder. and so, i am going to and i have adjusted my director's report to reflect, our action item and serve, the report each month, on goals that have so i just wanted to let you know that the quarter two, for 2013, or the first quarter two of 2013 for the dashboard and we will have complete this week and you will be getting a copy of that. we are working with ken stram of two bridge communications to design some surveys for us. two of the surveys are to reach

out to the departments, and now, that we are we have been in the assistance center has been in existence, we want to do an analysis on the effectness of the department of our department, the center as it relates to the departments to see, are we, or are the clients that we serve, more informed when we come to engage, are we hoping to make their jobs any easier? and things of that sort and get any feedback in terms of things that they would like to see us improve on as well. and the same thing for with our economic development organization and then to do a comprehensive survey to the clients that we have served to date. and so, those surveys will be designed and conducted over the next three to four months. so, i will be having information on that to be reporting to you. and then, goal two, we

successfully advocated for additional funding through this last budget cycle, to be able to do specific out reach for the gross receipt and that was really important to make sure that the businesses have a smooth transition into the gross receipts from the payroll tax and the business registration over the next two years will be doing a tiered increase and so we want to make sure that all businesses especially our sole pry pry proproters are prepared for that transition. >> and then, a couple and i am not going to go through necessarily everything, and on-line business portal, we have the funding for that, and we are now in discussion and it looks like we are going to be the goal for what we are going to be accomplishing for the on-line business portal is developing sort of the entry section.

and so, which, may sort of dove tail as a redesign for our office website as well. and developed some and then start transitioning the departments into an on-line fillable pdf for application forms. and so, those are kind of just the three key goals of what we want to accomplish in the next year with the budget and the funding that was received, for the business portal. and stream lining report, we are still in the final edits and so, hope to have this to you by the end of august for you to review. in terms of the goal four, so for the recycling centers and the crv, the reception value, we now have had the fourth closure of a significant recycling center are almost fourth closure with the recycling center with the market street safeway. and so which is and i reported last week that there was a

closure of the geary street safeway. and so this is escalating our need to sort of deal with this. and so, i have been in conversation with jason elliott to start looking at this as a comprehensive thing for the city to address. and some proposal to put forward to the state because this is a state law, and so, any unique things that we may need to do will have to be addressed sort of in that context of it being a state regulation. the task force has two meetings left and so, the last two meetings we will be setting forward some recommendations, and i will let you know what those are primarily we have been doing fact finding and getting some information, and the one thing that has happened which i thought to me which is sort of a key element of the

direction to go in, that we can identify, and i hope with the recommendation, is because of this wage task force working together, with the city attorney, the district attorney, and private law firms, and there was one entity that olse had and there were some wage theft and the business closed was going to sell the property and the entities were about to leave town, the employees alerted olse and because of the wage theft task force it really, the people have established a relationship so, the city attorney and the district attorney, and the private attorney, all worked together to take some immediate action that they needed to take in a matter of like 72 hours. and did it and got it done and really prevented, this entity from being able to sell their property without baring the conditions of selling their property would then have to

mean that the back wages would be collected through the sale of the property. so i think that to me is the intention of the big message of this is that instead of necessarily doing the new laws and regulations it is how do we make much more efficient, what we do have on the books and the actions that we can take. and that is something that even at the state level they are starting to work on is doing the it and developing the inner agency task forces to be able to take more immediate action and lefaging what is in existence. >> and so, christian has been staffing the office on the historic historic. and the seismic safety, and ada and we are expecting a draft proposal to come forward. and we may have something to report to you next month on

that. and in terms of what these draft proposals are and the conclusion of this project is the end of october; is that correct?? >> the understanding is the funding that have to be used by the end of september. and so, we will be making recommendations from our end in relationship to this document but we will report to you on probably be more like the first meeting of september kind of where we are and what we are seeing and the out comes of this working group and the mobile retail christian has met with the merchant groups on august second. and proposed an initial concept of a way of permitting with a way of designated spots of the nc areas and the neighborhood

commercial districts. and that was meet with decent reception, and so it really stimulated a lot of good conversation. we will be looking at that in relation to what that means, so the clients served we are about even for july with 2012. and i have capped the time line as regarding the commission's secretary, and the hiring time line. and a couple of other time lines is that i don't have in the report is commission is sponsoring so, small business saturday, is been a project that the commission has been involved with for the last two years and the american express and does a big promotion on for the small business safety with

the saturday after thanksgiving, and the woman's impacting public policy has been their local group working to kind of help organize it with partners here in san francisco. and one of the feed backs that the merchants gave to this to say that we like to see this being extended not just on saturday. but for many other 50 year round, and so they took that back to american express and american express is developing a pilot project and san francisco is the selected city to do a build up of a shop small campaign. and to do a build up to small business safety. so the small business commission is helping sponsor baners. and that are going to be put up city wide. and we will have approximately 250 baners that are put up city wide that say shop small along with the council of district

merchants. and those will go up, i think, october, the beginning of october and so i will be sending out to you what the banner looks like and the proposed areas. and we can put up sort of the recommendations, but, it all depends on what contracts are in existence in terms of banners being up on the poles and when they are coming down but you will be getting that information from me in the next week. >> and then, to let you know, that tim robbins is doing a film with his new movie big eyes and they will be doing the filming in north beach at the end of the month and so hopefully the film commission and the rest of the neighborhood team is reaching out to the north beach merchants but i do think that i would like to let you know if any of those big things are happening because that is in general good for business when this happens. and in the city. >> run that by, again, we don't know about that.

>> it is the zombie apocalypse movie. >> okay. >> and then, and then the adl reads the affordable care act. i am going to be sending and i am just going to send to you every opportunity that you might be able to have to engage in a webinar around covered california both the individual mandate and the shop mandate and so the shop program just came on-line last week and available for a small businesses to be able to take a look at the different portfolios that they could purchase an insurance package with and so because this, and from what how i. and to put it simply, one needs

to kind of understand how this all works as we take a look at the affordable care act. and the healthcare security ordinance and how those two sort of overlap. and without having a good understanding of a foundation as to how the affordable care act covered california, is the market place or the exchange program for both individuals and small businesses, without understanding how that all works, and some of the dollars and cents around it, so i encourage you to play around with it, and take some of your employees in terms of what they make and play around with the different levels because there is bronze and there is silver, and gold, and plat um in terms of dollar values that you can contribute based upon your wage that you might get a certain amount of subsidy. and so, i just want to really encourage to you take some time

to start playing around with that information and that data on the website and the covered california website but also to take a look at this and engage at least one seminar with the covered california, individuals and one with shop. >> and then, in terms of legislation, i have highlighted in red, three or four pieces of legislation, that have been referred to the commission. and that, the legislation and policy committee will hear at their august meeting. and then, the, there is one item that the legislation and policy committee did hear around alcohol regulations and introduced by supervisor cohen but it is on hold right now, although she may or we may and the commission may hear this after the recess and then,

there are two pieces of legislation that the commission has heard that has been signed by the mayor, and items that are not schedule in the committee and because we are having this large discussion around the formula retail i have separated out the legislation that is the commission has already heard, in regards to the formula retail. and criteria, and formula retail proposed changes, but these have as sophie has indicated the planning commission has asked us or the supervisors to put these on. and so these items are on pause, while we deal with the larger formula retail question. >> when is the recess end? >> the recess, the board of supervisors are back the first week of september, and the first four supervisors meeting is september third. >> okay. >> and so with that, and unless there are any questions, conclude. >> what type of a business was

that? >> in-home healthcare. >> okay. >> and i have a question, just you may not know the answer and if you don't, just let me know. and on the affordable care act, and that matches up with the health security organization in san francisco, i got the impression from looking at the board of supervisors here, you know, that this week or last week, and it is still leaving a lot of people and the affordable care act it seems like is going to a lot of people are going to healthcare today are not going to have healthcare with the affordable care act if the healthy security ordinance is kind of abolishes or whatever. >> i guess what i am trying to say is that i was surprised because i thought that the whole reason for the affordable care act was to dramatically expand into covering people that don't get coverage today. because they could not afford

it. there is a significant number that are going to be covered by medical and it is really how i describe it as the affordable care act is more of an individual mandate and the healthcare security ordinance is an employer mandate. and where sort of the realm, that is sort of getting into the part time employees. or the small businesses. who can't. currently afford to purchase health insurance. they may have been meeting the

main date of the healthcare ordinance by contributeding to the city auction which is healthy san francisco or doing an hra. the city option, and so, if you are eligible for medical or the exchange program, which in california is covered california. the city option, does not meet the affordable care act standards in terms of health insurance. and so, if you qualify for any of those. then you can't enroll in healthy san francisco. the hras, which we are still waiting to get the final determination on is the hras have been a way that the employers have been able to meet the mandated spending requirements, to be able to get those funds to the employees, to spend on health expenditures, but it is the affordable care act does not

allow for hras. but the big question is how does the employer get the funds to the employee, you know? to be able to utilize for the health expenditure, which that is the big question. >> right. okay. >> and i just want to i was just surprised with this kind of i thought it was going to cover more people really, but i guess that i am not correct on that. >> but what it does is that it allows more individuals to be able who are not covered by their employer, who provides the insurance, it does, it actually does cover a lot more people in the lower, lower, lower, income in terms of being able to move on to medical, and move in there. and i think that where it kind of the question is, is, the idea of you were required to purchase your own insurance and

making it more affordable, and to make it able to do that and so it allows the individuals to be able to say that i am going to take a look at the five different insurance entities, and they are offering the same type of thing, and they maybe it is a slightly different dollar values or you can purchase sort of, you can pay a little bit more and you are going to pay a little bit more per month, then you pay less in terms of your co-pay. and you know? that type of a thing? and you pay a little less but then you pay more out of pocket. for your co-pay. >> and so, but, at least it allows you to look and actually sort of measure what you are going to get for the dollar spent. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. >> next item, please? >> item number 1 4, the president's rt