decade. we don't have a full fledge grocery store, all the produce that comes into city begins in the bayview. we proud to be served by a vegetable store. everything is stored from our community. it is a great honor to be given this designation. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> thank you so much for the recognition and also want to thank my beautiful wife because i wouldn't be here if it weren't for her creativity and relentless work in the community. thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you, supervisor

cohen. it is my honor to make this presentation. i'm hungry right now. every single year like all of us i agonize about the choices of restaurants i happen to represent the district that i have been told that is highest number of restaurants per capita on the west coast. today we decided to take a different approach to honor an organization in district 3 that for the past has been promoting sustain able food systems in supplying restaurants with high quality foods. the director for urban education about sustain able

agriculture otherwise known as -- it's an operation that operates the world famous farmers market. since 1993 the market has served a critical link between our residents and local farmers and offers the best quality products available. the market plaza serves many businesses in the south of market. it offers programs about sustain able agriculture. including cooking, programs and youth group. and they have cooking

demonstrations top bay area chefs and they demonstrate recipes and ingredients purchased that morning. i have offered several pieces of legislation. i'm appreciative of the work that mr. stock dale and colleagues have done to contribute to the promotion of the sustain able agriculture and our food system. i want to thank you on behalf of the organization. please join me in thanking him. [ applause ] >> thank you very much for this very unusual recognition because we are not a restaurant. we are the supplier to the restaurants. and that is a critical link that we are proud to be part of. many of the san francisco restaurants are world famous for their commitment to using local fresh seasonal and sustainable ingredients. that's made

possible by the unparallel diversity and quality of products available here in northern. and our non-profit is very proud to be the place where those farmers, food artisans, restaurants, home cooked and where we can all gather and celebrate some of the best products in the world. we are also very proud of the extensive array of educational to understand what this great food is and to have a healthier tastier life. for the calendar in 2013 we have many vehicles registered for our restaurants. and we are very proud to serve that segment of our community. so, again, thank you for this

unique way to recognize the restaurants by recognizing all those other people who contribute to that bigger food system. [ applause ] district 9 colleagues, supervisor campos will be our next presenter. >> thank you very much, mr. president. i know that we are all eager to get to our restaurant. i think that one thing that i would suggest is that the next time we do this that we ask every restaurant that is recognized to bring a

sample of the food they offer. to members of the board and public. i think it's only fair. i am truly honored to recognize and institution in district 9 and that's emmy's spaghetti shack. i would ask emily and her folks to come forward. it is my pleasure to recognize emmy's spaghetti shack as part of restaurant appreciation month. emmy's spaghetti shack is a well loved family and family owned restaurant in the community that caters to families in the mission district. it's an unpretentious

atmosphere. they know that family is important and the customer is always right. that's been my experience. emily's opened in the year 2000 south of caesar chavez and after working in the restaurant industry for years, emily wanted to open a place where she and her friends could hang out after work, where they could eat comfort food, and where they can feel comfortable and have a neighborhood atmosphere. and they have definitely created that. the goal of the restaurant was also to have affordable prices and something that i think is really important in any restaurant big portions. and that has allowed emmy's to be the kind of place where you can feed working class people in the neighborhood and which was

an early part of her business model. it's something that is critical to here business plan today. emily's spaghetti shack is a women owned and operated business and hires locally and promotes from within and has been an institution in this part of bernal heights mission district 9 for the last 13 years. so it is my honor as a district 9 supervisor to recognize you as the district 9 restaurant of the year. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, we are so honored. we have been there for a long time. we've seen a lot of changes in the neighborhood for the better in our community. our family has continued to come back. we do higher from within. i have a lot of employees who have opened their own restaurants in the neighborhood, the front

porch, rock bar and a lot of other people. we would like to really empower people to open their own place and anybody can do it. i just started out with just an idea like you said and i really appreciate the recognition and thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you for what you do. [ applause ] thank you supervisor. >> thank you, i don't know about you but i like to have my

dessert before dinner. i'm not honoring her because she that is best ice cream in san francisco. it's incredible because the ingredients she uses is the ingredients they used in the 1950s, the way she creates her ice cream and soda and atmosphere, you walk in there and feel like you are taken back in time. but not because of the incredible flavor of the food but you are taken back because of the incredible customer service. we almost didn't have this place. it took her almost 2 years of so much bureaucratic paperwork

and drama. since she's opened, she's opened with so much happiness and desire for this community. it make me feel bad that this process is not better to move businesses like hers. i have mr. -- from the institution. he was very helpful in helping her navigate through the bureaucratic process in the community. i want him to say a few words about julia and her ice cream bar. >> thank you. it was my flesh -- pleasure to have a conversation with julia about a place for a neighborhood family serving kind of restaurant in the head. it was a brilliant vision and her percent --

perseverance to carry through this. she's a remarkable person with great vision and determination to see it through. to that end, it has become a landmark in the neighborhood, an instant landmark from the day it opened to today. it is the centerpiece of most people's walking in the hate valley area. it is truly a restaurant where you will get the best ice cream that you will probably ever eat in your life. this is world class quality from our own local person and i'm delighted and thankful that she has succeeded in this venture. so, thank you. >> let me just add that juliette reached out to me looking for people to hire in the community. wanting to be a community serving businesses, she's offered her business for

community meetings. anytime she was asked for support in the community, her search warrant -- answer is also yes. because of that you are my business of choice, not because i'm proud that you are going to be featured on the network channel for the cooking program called unique sweets. but there is nothing like going to this location and experiencing. you have to go try it out. make sure you don't double park because i don't want anyone to get a ticket. go there and enjoy the atmosphere. it's an incredible place with an incredible atmosphere and an incredible treasure in the city and county of san francisco. it is truly my honor to award you to certificate and thank you for making san francisco a

better place and a place to enjoy sweets. thanks. >> [ applause ] >> thank you supervisor breed. i appreciate your support. as a supervisor and a customer. i see supervisor breed quite often. no, this is a great honor especially with all the great restaurants in san francisco. it's a great place and i'm glad to be in that spot. thank you. [ applause ] >> let me ask before our final speaker, supervisor, kim, has your person come back? >> i will just say who my

restaurant appreciation awardee is, i imagine that it's difficult to leave the restaurant in the middle of day. my honorary is pizza inappropriate -- napolitano. they are from maples and making their pizza dough everyday. i'm sorry he couldn't be here today. his food is wonderfully delicious. i encourage you to all check it out. >> thank you and for our final

presenter, i would like to let city staff go back to deal with our appeal. i would like to recognize supervisor from district 11, supervisor avalos. >> thank you president chiu. i would like to call up vicente from bistro it's on mission street where important that -- italy and just recently bistro was the contestant and

they served a dish that was absolutely amazing and these recipes come from the filipino culture but deeply added to buy a family experience as well. their style of food is cuisine is modern filipino bis stroe and the yelp reviews are great and attracting people from all over the united states. people coming from as far away as florida and lots of folks coming in from the los angeles area. their restaurant has quickly become a neighborhood favorite. this is something that is particularly challenging in this area. so restaurants that are working really hard to provide a really great cuisine. we need to make sure we are out there and visiting and eating and enjoying what they have to

offer. this is also really great to honor bistro this month because it's filipino month. thank you for your great food and your holding it down in a quiet little part of the mission street. the excelsior district. >> thank you supervisor john avalos for recognizing our restaurant. we appreciate it very much. and you are all welcome to visit us and checkout our food. we are open dinners tuesday through sundays. address 4994 mission street, right at the intersection of italy and

mission. [ applause ] >> supervisor, that is our final presentation for today. i think we are all abundantly hungry and we have a lot of places to go in the city. i want to thank you for all in the amazing restaurant world and making this city an amazing place to live. i would like to go back to our special order. i do not see our city staff. i hope you can hold

the fork for everybody. we have a number of people on the roster. i have a couple of brief questions. i think many of us know that this appellant is about as sympathetic as possible and i think we all have questions on how we want to address this. just so i'm clear, maybe this is a question to mr. lee or to mr. gibner, under the law that was passed earlier this year, there is not a ground under the appeal to adjust the fee unless we find there is not a relationship and nexus of the impact of the development. >> deputy city attorney john gibner. that is correct. there is only one ground for reducing or our adjusting the waiver fee

that there is no relation between the nexus impact. >> and as well as the appellant ability due economic or disability. >> that is correct. >> that we might carefully constructed upon which is on this base. >> that's right. the fee is based on a determination of the nexus and the nexus study provides the largest fee that the board could have imposed for conversions. but it was in the board's legislative discretion to impose lesser fees or create exceptions legislatively for people who meet certain income requirements. >> thank you, one follow up question, i was informed by my staff that there was one or two

ellis act evictions at this site. could you let us know if that's the case. i can ask any of the city staffers. >> we don't have the research on it. that issue is going to be part of the review of the application is my understanding. that would be done by the dpw. >> it's my understanding under records from the assess or's office about the ellis act evictions in 2004 and 2005 if there were that would not an allow the conversion and the fee would not be charged. can you give us a sense of what that impact might be if that turned out to be the case.

>> deputy city attorney john gibner. i think this question is for dpw. >> why don't we defer that. i have a number of people on the roster that would like to address this. >> thank you, we got the information and personally went to the assessor's office and learned there was an eviction in 2004 and in the ellis quarter was documented in 2005. it seemed to be the case where this was a senior disabled. i think it's important to get this information. this is my larger question in terms of planning in terms of how we vet condominium conversions application. there may be that this is the building that is trying to go through, but i want to make sure we have a process in place to ensure we

are following ordinances to follow in place. my question was to the mayor's office of housing. i appreciate the incredible difficulty of this particular case and certainly when i first learned about it, i had a lot of mixed feelings about what the next step would be. i completely understand that the only bases by which to appeal your fee is to challenge our nexus study which allowed us to put a fee in order to buy pass the condominium conversion lottery. challenging that analysis challenge , of course has a -- and i have a separate -- i know that hardship discussion did come up during

the tic conversion discussion and actually it was supervisor yee who had suggested offering and option of a fee deferral until the moment that there is a financial benefit that is actually given to that unit owner. so not paying at the moment that you apply but applying for a fee deferral for the moment that you have that financial benefit incurred upon you for that reduction of payment that you are able to go through your individual mortgage process which is actually one of the owners of this building actually implied with a reason as to why they were applying for this. so i had a couple of questions on the memo that you served to the board of supervisors. one of my questions of course is on the actual value of the financial benefit conferred upon conversion to condominium.

i apologize we took a break and i have to go back to it. but, in your memo, the mayor's office of housing suggested that there has been an immediate benefit. it's hard for me to scroll through. i had this prior to the restaurant appreciation month. it was based on the value that was estimated. i want you to let us know how it was estimated and what it was based off of. >> i'm with the mayor's office of housing. per the memo we came up with a clear benefit for all tic owners and benefits because we don't know how much they put in terms of the down payment and what her monthly

mortgage payments are. it's hard to say with a lot of specificity. we pointed mostly to the nexus study. predominantly it's the benefit around increased equity in your home through a superior form of ownership. as a condominium owner and a joint owner as a tic and the banks recognize that. they recognize that by charging you oh lower interest rate and giving you the ability to refinance. it came up earlier whether or not the appellant would be able to refinance. i think i recall from the original documentation that the mother was the cosigner in the original loan and it's likely that it maybe a similar situation she would be in after condominium conversion, but the banks do provide more beneficial terms.

so under a tic loan when i looked at it earlier this week, it's about a 4.75 interest rate versus a condominium loan which would be a 2.25 interest rate for her home loan. you would be able to refinance, a better home value, resale value and more discretionary income to support your fixed income to do other kinds of home equity improvements in your home whether you wanted to do other sort of improvements to improve the condition of your life. >> i'm actually on the memo now. on page four it satisfies after deducting standard city administrative fees. what is this based off of? is it

decrease in potential mortgage payments due to interest decreases? >> right. it's the value of going from a joint tic ownership model to an individual condominium owner. it's a superior form of ownership as you increase the benefit. that was part of the 2001 nexus study. >> even without selling your unit there is a financial benefit with your mortgage benefit at the moment the subdivision map is conferred. can you explain about the fee deferral profit at which point you are granted the financial benefit. what would the process of applying for the deferral

be? i know that you can use that to pay towards your condominium conversion bypass fee? >> john from the city attorneys office. maybe i can address some of the questions, because this is a 3-unit condominium subdivision, it's not one of the maps. the final map approval is granted administratively by the count is is you surveyor. it's when the fee is made when they qualified for deferral. once that map is approved, then it can be reported at the county recorders office and that officially makes it a condominium in legal terms.