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 report. >> okay, i just have one issue here. and seeing how the board of supervisors is on recess and there really is not anything to hear in the next meeting, if everybody is... i would like to cancel the next meeting and start again in september. >> how do we all feel about that? any comments? or questions? >> okay with me. >> wither going to have policy

meeting because we have a lot to talk about there, but in the reviewing the agenda going forward i did not see anything and so i would like to bring that up. >> seeing none, we will not have a meeting then on the 26th of august. >> perfect. >> and that is all that i have for the president's report. >> next item, please? >> item 15, the vice president's report. >> no report. >> public comment? >> we don't need public comment. i like to comment that that commission white. and he did a great job. and that is hence the reason. number 1 6, commissioner? >> do we have a commissioner report? >> i am moving forward about the agent is he office and and

i met with the member of the north beach business association and we are going to have the actual summit in october and i am definitely want to work with christian on his historical information that he is doing on ada and no eval merchant association have requested to be involved. and council district merchants, and so basically we will meet in september and get our laundry list in order so that when we have the actual summit, we will not be saying the same thing 20 different ways. and we are hoping with everyone in the same room, we might actually get some changes moving forward that will help the city. >> great. >> any other commissioner comments? >> seeing none, next item,

please? >> next israel em is item 17, general public comment. >> are there any members of the public that would like to make any comments on any future meetings. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item. >> 18, new business. >> do we have any new business? >> just have one question. s maybe you need to go back and research it but i was curious what i forgotten, what the follow up was to the work that the small business commission and the planning commission together with regards to making it easier for certain businesses to get a permit. >> the sb 4 p. >> yes. >> and so, i will... >> maybe you immediate time need time to go back. >> i think that that is a good item to new business is to get an update from the insider in terms of the number of businesses that have been able to partake in the sb 14.

>> okay. >> okay, next item? >> 19, adjournment. >> is there a motion to adjourn? >> i move. >> second. >> okay. all in favor. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> motion, meeting adjourned. pe. hi, i'm lawrence. we are doing a special series about staying safe. let's look at issues of water and sewer. we

are here at the san francisco urban center on mission street in san francisco and i'm joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. what are things we should be concerned about water. >> you want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. we recommend that you have at least 3-5 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. >> the storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. >> right. of course at the puc we recommend that you store our

wonderful delicious tap water. it's free. it comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. so find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. i use it to water my garden. >> of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. >> yes. it's an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. just make sure you check the label. this one says june 2013. so convenient you have an end date on it. >> and there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. >> sure. if you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ;

not the bowl but in your tank. in any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. there is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. the recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. you add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. the other option is to boil water. you need to boil water for 5-10 minutes. after an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. the other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly

as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. we have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water.org. >> people should not drink water from pools or spas. but they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. let's look at those issues. >> sanitation is another issue and something people don't usually or like to think about it but it's the reality. very likely that without water you can't flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. you need to think about sanitation. the options are simple. we recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash

bags available. you can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once it's used. you take a little bit of our bleach. we talked about it earlier from the water. you seal the bag completely. you make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. >> thank you so much, >> hi, i'm lawrence corn field.

welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay safe. we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a

little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake. >> well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. >> and renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. and it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays their rent. this is a huge impact on building owners. >> it's huge, it really is. you know, a lot of owners don't realize that, you know, when there is an earthquake, their money flow is going to stop. how are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live? >> what else can property

owners do in residential rental housing before an earthquake? >> well, the first thing you want to do is get your property assessed. find out what the geology is at your site. get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. the structural losses, a lot of times, aren't going to be that bad if you prepare. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. >> so, what is a nonstructural issue that might cause losses? >> well, you know, pipes, for instance. pipes will whip around during an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those

problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and

bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us >> say the pledge of allegia e allegiance. of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. mr. vice president i'd like to call roll