the cost of the salaries for the employees might be far less. >> good point. any other comments, commissioners. we won't be calling for a vote. but i will call for public comment on this item. any public comments? >> seeing none. item closed. no. 10. >> approve amendment no. cs 113 b. >> i will move the item. >> it's been moved and seconded. >> any public comment? seeing none, it's closed. commissioners, would you like for me to call for a vote or hear more on the item. >> a vote. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye.

>> motion carries. >> it's been moved and seconded. any public comment on these items? this item is closed. >> are these trails that we passed years ago? >> no these are trails by san mateo county. >> division management and this was for easement. they manage the trail and pedestrian bicycle and people and dogs. >> any other questions, commissioners? i move the record show that it been moved

and seconded. is that okay? >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> the motion carries. madam secretary. next item. 13. >> approve the terms and conditions and authorize the general manager to execute a purchase and sale agreement and any related document to facilitate the purchase of approximately 84 acres of have approved agricultural land. the date should read november 4, 2013, and we'll make that change on the final resolution. >> thank you madam secretary. commissioners? >> when were we briefed on this item before? >> it's closed section. >> that's why we can't talk about it. i knew something was

closed in my mind. >> i will entertain a motion? >> i will move it. >> it's been moved and second. any public comment on this item. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> i have some questions. they are going to lease the property? is that correct in do we know what it's going to be leased for? >> through programs, general manager infrastructure, this is a case where we were leasing property from the private entities in order to drill wells and create a safer working environment for the workers in a tunnel below grade. the owner wants to sell the land free and clear. we have basically two options before us. one was to move forward with eminent domain on

the lease portion and the other option was to purchase the property on the open market. we negotiated with the owner. our offer is 10 percent above. what is critical on this particular item is that if we do not have the wells in place we'll spend 3 million $3 million to make a safer work environment and have the ability to sell it after the construction is complete. >> i thought i read here that they are going to lease it? >> they are going to lease it back for a short period of time until they move off the property. they will lease just the house area because the plans were to sell the house and retire. >> so how much are we going to lease it for? >> the lease is basically it's

a free lease back as part of making this transition happen because the current lease on the well has expired. so as a counter for not having us vacate the wells, they will lease back during the move out period. >> for free? >> yes. >> they have maintenance obligations so they will maintain the property while they are in possession so that's a cost savings to you and you don't have to handle the property and trespassers, that sort of things? >> as part of the price this was considered as part of the price. >> is there a time limit for them? bhaps #2ksh what -- what happens if they decide to stay for 10 years. >> i can't remember the exact date. brian is here.

>> 18 months. >> okay. this item no. 13 has been moved and seconded. public comment is open and closed am i right? i will call for a vote. all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> the motion carries. we went out of order to make sure people were paying attention. madam secretary please call that last item. >> i apologize for missing item no. 11. it's authorize the joint funding agreement with u.s. geological survey for an amount not to exceed 335, 000. >> moved and seconded. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> the ayes have it. motion

carried. next item. >> item 14 public comments on matters to be discuss in closed session. >> motion asserted. second. is there a public comment on attorney-client. seeing none, all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. we are going into closed session. >> item 16, conference with legal council. pursuant to california, list gaegs existing litigation mark appear and matt appear and san francisco, item

17, conference with legal existing >> it's been moved not to disclose. second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> is there any new business? >> the november 26th meeting has been canceled. shall we deal with the december meeting as well? >> while we are all here assemble to make that announcement. >> it's december 23rd

rd >> sometimes we have the meeting in december. >> we won't have it on the 24th. is it appropriate for me to announce that november 26th and december 24th meeting are canceled. >> if that is the pleasure of the commission? >> without objection it's so ordered. >> okay. then seeing no other business. this meeting is adjourned. >> >> >>

>> good afternoon and welcome to the october 28, 2013 meeting of the san francisco /kphaul business commission. the meeting is called to order at 2:03 pm. we'll conduct a roll call attendance. commissioner adams, dooley, white. >> here. >> ortiz-cartagena. >> here. >> riley. >> white. >> here. >> we have two commissioners absent but we do have a quorum. item two, general public comment. anybody here that would like to

make a comment pertaining to any items that are not on today's agenda. seeing none, public comment is closing. next item, item three, approval of october 17, meeting min utes. >> motion to move minutes. i move. >> all in favor. >> i. >> any opposed. next item. item four presentation and discussion on board of supervisors file number 130781, special finance taxing law. we have with us >> thank you for having us here today. i welcome the opportunity to talk to you about the mandatory soft story retro fit program. the ordinance that you see before you, what i wanted to do

was explain about what we're working on here that will be at the board right now. to give you some context i think some of you may be familiar with the requirements of the soft story ordinance, but to give you an idea of what the requirements entail, it's looking at the building stocks that we saw significant damage in after the loma earth quake. we've noticed an issue for years and have been trying to deal with this in a comprehensive way that the conducive to the property owners and small businesses that are in them. we think this affects roughly 6,000 businesses that have been -- 6,000 buildings that have been noticed and about half would be required to retro fit. about 7,000 local employees. we've seen from other devastating earthquakes around the world that these small

businesses are is most venerable businesses and if they're damaged by earthquakes they'd likely go out of business and not return. that would change the character of san francisco so we want to help that but supporting these buildings. the ordinances before you is talking about special financing option so one of the things mayor lee deserves cred sit for is that he wasn't comfortable putting forward these ordinances unless we had financing options available for these owners. we had a voter approved general obligation bond for 350 million dollars and only about 60 million of that are used. we know people have a hard time applying for public financing options but it's important to know they're there. we started talking to banks about two years ago and they

have all agreed to be flexible, help owners refi and pull out money or a second based loan, an equity loan, a construction loan. we have the big banks, the small opportunity lenders and the small banks and we want to work with all of them. for those of you not looked into this, there's a clear track record of tieing retro fits to sustain ability. and the replacement resources needed to build a new building. this is a way to use that economisting green finance program to be able to issue a

public financing to these buildings which is paid back over property taxes over 20 years. it's another option we have for property ordinary owners trying to comply with the ordinance. >> i want to say as one of those bankers that got involved with the program i think it's great. i do know last week, wednesday, the san francisco association of realtors down at fort mason talking about this so your outreach was great because the turnout there with all the building owners and all the stakeholders was tremendous so i just want to congratulate you on your outreach in this program and working with all the other banks 'cause all the banks were there, everybody was represented and it was a very good event so i want to say i really appreciate your outreach on this program.

it is for important. for better or worse we live in a n seismic active city. i want to thank you for all your efforts over this /pa*sz past year. >> thank you commissioner. >> i believe you all have a postcard in front of you. obviously it's a marketing challenge to get all the details of an ordinance into a 3 by 5 card there. it has a link to our website which is www.sfcaps.org. >> do we have public comment on item number four?

seeing none, public comment is closed. any other commissioner comments? this is great. i really appreciate you coming and talking about this. like i said, it is very important and congratulations on that event last week at fort mason. that was a great turnout. >> yeah, to have 1000 property owners in a room was great. we have an open door downstairs in the earthquake implementation program so if you have any questions or want to do any additional outreach to the small business owners we're happy to do that. >> just a quick question. any of our small businesses that are in the commercial spaces in the building then if they have questions about how this is going to be financed that we should encourage them to encourage their landlord to contact you? is that the correct means? >> sure, or the department of

building inspection but we're happy to be the resource as well. we want to give them the maximum amount of time so the people subject to the /orbd /tphapbs have anywhere from five to seven years to comply. anything with a ground floor commercial space has the full seven years so we wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of that as well. >> thank you patrick. >> thank you very much. >> next item please. >> that brings us to item number five, presentation and discussion on the job squad survey findings and delivery of services. >> before you start i want to do just a brief introduction. commissioners, as you know the job squad is part of our invest in neighborhood program and that which is directed by mr.

torres. our job squad folks work within our 25 neighborhood commercial districts, but extend themselves out to other areas where needed and manish and francis will tell you about that. manish and francis have been spending an extensive amount of time in our neighborhood commercial corridors going door to door to businesses and did a brief review of their survey analysis to the small business leaders at the meeting with the mayor and thought this would be a good opportunity for them to inform you of their findings that they have done in their surveys 'cause they've covered a lot of miles in conducting this and so just as we hear from other business organizations, i felt it was very important for you to hear the feedback that they have

collected in doing their door to door outreach to our businesses and neighborhood commercial corridors. with that i'll turn it over to manish and francis. >> thank you for having us here today. my name is manish goyal and this is francis chan and together we make up the job squad and we wanted to provide you -- before we get to our findings -- a briefover overview of our program, what we do and what we've done since january. it's our hope at end of the presentation we can get some feedback from you and develop a partnership with the commission. just a brief background on the job squad. this is part of the mayor's 17 point jobs plan, along with the

invest in neighborhoods initiative, which is really a commitment by the mayor to help out the small business community. we serve as a resource to the neighborhood small businesses by providing assistance that brings our resources to the merchants. we try our best to cut red tape by providing businesses with a navigation tool through the city rules and regulations and we work with our departments to help businesses access programs that have really valuable resources and services. we try to provide a level of assistance to the businesses that ultimately can help them create jobs. as this program matures we will look at our program again to see what works and what doesn't work and really try to hone in on the products out there that help out the small businesses. from the beginning we thought it was vital to work closely with the office of small business and in short the mayor

designed this program to be the extending arm of the sbac to rely on the technical expertise of staff to help us in our day-to-day activities. we work closely with sbac on many projects ranging from the west portal fire last october to outreach for the americans with disabilities act compliance for the small businesses to working with individual merchants that may have some issues that they need to address dealing with city rules and regulations. we're a baseline service for the invest in neighborhoods program and the services we provide are uniform for those 25 corridors, but we're also citywide so we do our best to help out every corridor. there's two of us and the city's very big so we're doing our best to reach out to ever

commercial district. the partnership we have with invest in neighborhoods helps us out a lot. that's something we'll mention in our findings in a few minutes. direct assistance for us begins with outreach and we started our outreach for the corridors to introduce businesses for our services. the goal of our outreach is to educate and inform businesses about the resources available to them. then we also want to help the businesses by guiding them through the available services that they have from city departments and to provide them with someone on the ground who can take the concerns back to city hall. we want to see these businesses succeed and we want to do a better job of providing the assistance earlier and addressing the issues sooner.

direct assistance to us means being attentive to businesses from the mundane to removing a garbage can in front of their business to addressing quality of life businesses to parking issues, which is obviously a big one. for those problems we're working with city departments to raise those concerns and develop solutions. as i mentioned helping businesses comply with american's disability act is really important to us because of the impacts it has on the business and we're actively working with sbac and invest in neighborhoods. i want to bring francis to talk about our efforts. >> [inaudible] and to reduce

the risks in facing [inaudible] to begin with impact district outreach [inaudible] door to door with it public education through [inaudible] and provide the technical assistance and enroll them in [inaudible]. we have /aeu assisted over 100 businesses in china town and we can't to work with merchants in district six and nine within this year. >> one of the other things we do for the invest in neighborhoods program is track vacancies in those corridors to help promote those marketing vacancies through store front,

assess.com and monitor long term vacancies. each quarter we compare a report and compare against the current condition. before we started with this program the office of economic and work force development worked with sbac to respond to ocean avenue fire. after that fire they requested job squad to take over that function. when we started the west portal fire happened and so through that incident we're learning lessons and working with sbac and department of emergency management to develop protocols and what we can do before and after the fire. we're working on citywide projects that will provide tools for small businesses. we're working with the office of small business and the office of civic invasion to develop a tool that can help

businesses know what's happening on their block before something happens so if the structure project, mta projects, things like that, we want to let them know what's going on for a disruption occurs. this new too will allow businesses to get more information before an event occurs. just really quick we're working with several different departments and entities. the office of small business, mayor's office, municipal transportation agency, planning, film commission and a few other departments as well to kind of really understand what the landscape of notifications are. every permit that's out there and every notification that's out there is really different by departments and their outreach approaches are very /stkeufrpbt as different as well. right now the mayor heard from his small business leaders as a recent round table and they

were expressing /tpr-s ing frustration with the city to work on these projects so the mayor gets frustration and is looking at all avenues to approach this. now we're securing a vendor, going through the procurement process, but we /wabt want to come back to the commission once we have a tool in development to take concerns and address those as we develop this tool. when invest neighborhoods started it collected parcel and business information for all its corridors and we believe we can continue to use this information and expand upon it to assist us all in tracking the vacancies but creating a database to help us understand the needs of the individual business. over time i wanted francis to speak briefly on that as well. >> after completing our first

round door to door outreach in invest in neighborhood corridors, all 25 [inaudible] database in april 2013 so first we will create a [inaudible] included business contact information and also with the nature of the surface and in july we enhance it with further details like establish a contact person's name, the language spoken and also their involvement. this database is helpful not only for us but also for the city departments to deploy an effective and efficient outreach. we are expanding the outreach on to up to date knowledge for the city to learn about [inaudible] vacancies and to develop long term

strategies for business corridors. for potential business owners it helps them find ideal locations with different advantages like a preestablished kitchen or things that reduce their [inaudible] costs and also shortens their evaluation time to open the business. >> so really quickly we're going to mention our outreach approach. it was close to businesses are. what we decided to do was work in tandem with the invest in neighborhoods staff to let the businesses know along the corridor that we can help them with their individual business needs, but then also try to address the