>> do we need to take public comment on this? >> we do. >> any members of the public who would like to comment on item number seven. seeing that public comment is closed. >> i think what i'd like to do is -- christian can work with this and massage it and present to the outreach committee sort of maybe a little bit more of a -- put it together a little more into a tighter package and then come back for the next commission meeting in november with something that you can affirm, that you would like to sends over to the sfmta board. >> do we have a date? >> november 18 and i was going to do that during my presidential part. >> that's for the joint committee? >> no.

for november's commission meeting. >> you're hoping to have that [inaudible] meeting before the end of the year? >> second week, our first meeting in december, which would be the second monday of the month. okay, next item. >> our next item is item eight, director's report. this is a discussion item. >> commissioners, you have in your binder the director's report. jane sent out to your the dashboard, our quarterly dashboard and so wanted to just bring to your attention that we have seen a reduction in our client services, so in consultation with christian and martha and jane, i think some of the things we can attribute to this is the job squad has

been out and are facilitating the needs and responses that are assistance to businesses that they come contact that may have been referred to our office. we need to now go and serve cross reference entities that have contacted through our office license 1, 2, 3, if they've got to our website and on to that, so in that respect license 1, 2, 3 facilitated their need to get assistance in our office. also, there's been a decrease in unemployment or an increase in employment so many individuals that we saw, especially during the height of the economic downturn, people trying things on their own, so

if there are more individuals who are employed may be less likely to pursue other avenues for income. this is the first quarter we've seen a decrease so i will go through and go back and do some more cross checking with the percentages of decrease. are they existed businesses, is it more in our start up businesses and things of that sort so we'll have that report for you next month. >> that's overall /tkeu decrease of 11 percent? >> it's a decrease overall of 3 percent. >> it's summertime too. >> so the healthcare security ordinance, accessible parking

affordable care act has two meetings left and these meetings will be we are still waiting for some file determinations. the city is still waiting for some final determinations we have around the mra and other items that, from the federal government so we hope that we will have those definitive answers in this timeframe that the council needs to make some recommendations to the mayor. >> i'm hearing good things about the california on line. you hear the national stuff with issues, the california -- covered california is actually working quite well. i know several people are gone on it, mixed results as far as, like, costs on people. i know some people whose

healthcare costs went down and i know a handsful of people whose healthcare costs went up. we have a mix, but as far as, like, accessibility and everything, i've heard no issues with that. >> well, that's good, that's good to hear. and then the online business portal next week will be going before the budget and finance committee to release the funds to start working with to work with contractors to help us develop the portal. osb, we have developed an integrated intake form if somebody comes through the website and wants assistance so when they fill out the form it triggers us that there's a new prospect. >> it's called a prospect and we can contact them and follow

up with a detailed case. >> the same thing with the counter, people now enter in their information and it goes directly into sales force so this should cut down on our time in doing sort of the dual, whether everything before was written on a piece of paper and entered in later. we have that ahead of us. then the [inaudible] resolution you heard at the last meeting was approved by the board of supervisors last tuesday. i'm working on fine alizing our agreement, but there's some special considerations we need to work on with them, but we're just about complete in finalizing our agreement so we'll have a unique agreement with them, and then we can work on identifying our first three

borrowers that we'll have as a trustee. i provided you with a list of presentations and workshops that we will be -- the staff is going to be engaged with in november. we do have the launch of small business shops mall banners are up. i don't know if you've seen any yet as sort of the lead up to small business saturday, but we have also started working to promote small business saturday as well and kicking off that campaign. we talked about the joint hearing with sfmta board. i wanted to highlight in the dashboard one of the things we are particularly proud of is the business of [inaudible].

came to our office in 2010 and we connected them with la cacina and the opportunity fund. they started out with just a cart in justin her man plaza and now they have a store front. they're going to be opening their second store front. they're not a recipient of the revolving loan fund and they have plans in which they want to franchise. anyway, they're one of our -- i wanted to bring to your attention -- one of the businesses we've helped that's taking off and started out from a food cart, you know. that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> next item please. >> i'm number nine, the president's report, this is a discussion item. >> in november we only have one

meeting on november 18, a 2 o'clock meeting. i decided since we have veteran's day on the 11th and thanks giving is at the end of the month i figured one meeting next month because i didn't think you guys wanted to meet two weeks in a row so if everybody's fine with that we'll hold on to that /skel /skwraoud. schedule. other than that i don't have anything else to report. >> thank you mr. president, that takes us to item ten, vice president's report. >> yes, i just attended the san francisco chambers neighborhood summit. that was really nice to have the supervisor come out and to have different departments in the city to come out to talk to some of the small business on the corridor. it was a morning meeting and had a great turn out. >> great, thank you. next item

please. >> item eleven, commissioner reports. >> commissioner dooley. >> i had the job squad come out to the north beach business association and gave an ada presentation. fortunately it wasn't really well attended, but i want to put it out there that it was very well prepared and those that came got a lot of information. also attended the council district merchant's meeting on the 15th. great, commissioner riley. >> i was invited by the chinese tv station to talk about small business commission so i already have some information available so i went -- it was a half hour program and i also introduced our public how to start a business in san francisco, the chinese version. regina, you might be getting a lot of phone calls requesting for [inaudible].

>> great, any other commissioner reports? >> next item please. >> we have item number 12, general public comment. >> we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on anything in any future meetings? >> feel free, welcome. >> thank you [inaudible] and vice chair of the california commission on the disabled access. i don't know, did you talk regina, about -- >> that was an item already addressed today. >> we're really trying to reach out to the small business community around the state and get more recognition of our commission and what we're trying to do. you're going to be talking about the recommendations that came out around the disabled placards and -- >> yes. >> we'll be working on that also. >> we talked about that and approved that already so thank you for your work on that. >> any other members of the

public? seeing none, next item. >> takes us to item number 13, new business. >> any new business? seeing none, next item. >> item 14, adjournment, this is an action item. >> do we have a motion to adjourn. >> i move. >> all in favor, i. meeting over.

♪ hi, i'm naomi ma con i'm here to discuss proposition d on november filth.

they spend more $23 million for drugs health care services laguna hospital and sf county jail. encourage he authorize outside companies to negotiate drug prices and prop d will reduce the prescription drugs that would set policy that the city continue to negotiate with the drug companies to reduce the costs and ask the state lovers to reduce the drug prices by 1/3rd if you vicinity you want to make it city policy to reduced the prescription drugs and i want the city to ask state and federal representatives to sponsor legislation for drugs

brings paid by government if you vote not. i'm here with the lady ms. cell we're joined by the former member of the president and on opponent to the measure. thank you for being here. i'd like to start with ms. kelly. why do you feel this proposition is so important. and a well, this is the first in the nation on drug pricing. this is a policy that will put san francisco in the forefront of fighting for lower priced drugs. it's very important we do that. i know for a fact a sister who has parkinson's and a friend who has diabetes. sometimes, people have to decide between into custody and drugs. this allows tour at the to go on

record to ask for fair pricing on drugs. to bargain for fair pricing on drugs the way the veterans administration does. it only applies to the money that the city pays for drugs. month drugs go to people with aid and to children and to a poor srnz and disabled people. this will allow. though have for money for the drugs those people need and not have to turn it away. that's all it's doing. it's a policy. and also will askor lovers in the city and our lovers in the state to work for this fair drug prirgz within the state and within the national government and this is what we need to

bring the ac a up and help that >> mr. faifrj. >> this is the right before his the roman order touched on that. what we need it money is needed for research. this particular dispute start over the pricing of t bolt which is an aids drug and it's cost it's put out by june lane scientific. people objected to the costs and on the other hand, the cost of the drugs went into the hundreds of million dollars that's a difficult problem and the city of san francisco has been paying for this drug if this drug didn't exist there's many people who wouldn't be alive. we need the money for the groups

that do the research. many drugs fail that are successful. just two days ago our pharmaceuticals opened $14.04 the next day it was down. $11 declined in one day 66 percent. it's a pear cancer drugs. that's typical are what happens. i site overlooking another one there was a suddenly drop back in agriculture those repeatedly happen. i have to compensate our research companies otherwise they're not going to be in the field and costs lives. this is the position of the house and a senate 33 they have to encourage the companies in order to save lives. ms. kelly while this sound like

a great change many people are reluctant to building they'll see a difference >> i really want to talk about would the opponent of this just said. i don't have the money to buy drugs myself. i also don't have the money to buy stock in drugs companies on let me just tell you something the ceo's make hundreds of millions of dollars. there's enough money for r&d. every year those companies are a profit and every year more people can't afford their medication. there's a difference between being very rich and ridiculously rich. this gentleman says that congress wants the pharmacies so have the money and congress

wants money from the pastes to keep returning for offices. they spend more money on politics and fighting against thienl that are spent on r&d. this is extremely important. this is going to help the people of san francisco are. f that work in every other country we're is only country that is gouged like that canada and france isn't mr. faulkner would you like to respond >> the truth is we have the best pharmaceutical companies in the world. a lot of companies lose a lot of money but i can guarantee i our pharmaceuticals are going to

take a lost. a lot of companies run into those problems and jill adjourn scientific nicole worked out well, they're new drugs is a combination of four different drugs they put together. i understand the aids foundation they want to cut prices on the other hand, they have the next drug to be developed they're to need money for it. if we cut back too much it's going to cost lives and result. we have the best medical establishment in the world if we want to cut down it's goes to cost lives. it's a vow judgment. adjust price has been discussions and kissing restraining order the roman order sdutdz it but in this

case, the drug companies need the kind of medical research we need. some use the fact to invade our patent and do cut rate versions of our drugs. if we didn't go ahead and do our medical research a lot of drugs won't exist and a lot of people would die a lot yearns. in the earlier 1 hundreds people live about 47 years old. i'm 4r50rgd to living to about 80. i've read a lot of cicero i'm not interested in him i'm interested in human beings. the prices have gone up. when this gentleman said many people are doing to die many

people are not i getting their medication and their dying. we're asking for fair prices not asking to take money away from r&d pr it's interesting when a drug company fails everybody feels so terrible i can see that you want them to succeed. and nobody faults the drug company. i've been a teacher for 40 years if the student fails they say their something wrong with me. there's something wrong where is the pharmaceutical companies if they can't keep their drug prices down and forego those ohio salaries in order to save people. that's their job not just to make money and they can do that.

18 thousand people signed this ballot measure to get it on board. everybody is backing this measure. people who haven't spoken to each other in 20 years are backing this because this is the good thing for that the people of 70 >> mr. that infamous. i don't care whether the drug companies fail but i care that repel amelia reach gets interrupted. the futures of the company's i don't care about but i care about the net medical research which lives are riding on that's where i favor using the money. i put in the voters hand good things to put money into and i listed thirty cancers companies

and i urge you to donate to those companies. we need more medical research not less. there's a lot of hard choices but if you're trying to save a maximum number of lives the more medical research the bhert. i'd like to close the program with a few comments >> i donate to almost everyone medical nonprofit. i even what can for aids, for diabetes, for breast cancer envy sister a breast cancer survivor. i can important patrick's she's a parkinson's survivor but people are turned away from cylinders they have to choose between their food and their drugs.

we need, we need foe serve more people. we're not going to hurt the pharmaceutical industry we're asking them to give us for those people the children, the elderly, the disabled and those surviving from hiv aids a little help. i think they can do it and it would help them to be hell up >> at the. >> mr. faulkner. >> i've been an elected official i've seen many people with aids die. what happened is with modern medical research they're getting positive results. money is needed for medical research. i hate to be a modern groperer

but money it needed to save lives. in particular those who have hiv aids san francisco is well provided forever the federal government pays a lot of the costs. i want the drugs available to help people because i've known people will today of those awe flishgsdz my vaug is that i favor medical research promoted by every one >> thank you. we he hope this discussion has been informative for more information please invest sf elections.com remember it's available for voting from 5 to 8:00 p.

november 5th. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hi, i'm marconi i'm here to discuss prop b the measure will be before the voters on test november 5th. they have a proposed site called - prop c is an referendum. a referendum is the process by which the voters can proof or

reject legislation. a 3 point plus acres is on washington street. on 2012 the board of supervisors approved the construction of two mixed used buildings containing 3 hundred residential units and a properly operated fitness space and under parking. in approving the project they adopted the ordinance to there the height limits. the referendum be submitted to the voters for approval or recreation. it will not take effect unless it's pass see if you vote yes. you want the ordinance passes which influences the height along drum street if you vote

no. you don't want the owns which increases the heights to take effect. prop b which also concerns the washington site qualified after prop c it would create woodworking parks and housing district. the sdrishtd would include two buildings with a total of 1 hundred 21 to nine hundred 41 units and there the building from 84 feet up to 1 hundred and 36 feet. a privately owned a height of 6 stories along embarcadero and payment for the housing fund a public park and open spaces and sidewalks on at least 20 percent of the site