wet, thursday morning. mark gleason i am the secretary treasurer of teamsters and we represent about 1500 parking workers in san francisco. and i do want to first thank supervisor weiner and cohen for sponsoring this legislation and also other supervisor whose have recently given us their ear to shine a spot light on the aspect of this industry that i am sure that no one would endorse and it is frankly the underground economy that we know what that is. my colleague will be coming up in a moment and talking in more detail about what we have found out there. and i will say that i do appreciate and applaud the budget analysts report, and it shows great improvement in recent years, about collection of the taxes. and which would also demonstrate that, you know, the bad actors that we have been talking about are probably fewer and fewer as we go along, but unfortunately it is our view that there are still some

parts of the industry where the underground economy is pervasive and it is unfortunate from the labor point of view, but conversely i would submit that for this sort of behavior to continue out there, is also bad public policy as it pertains to the transit first policy, and if you are going to come to san francisco in a single passenger vehicle, and that should be your premium mode of transportation. and i was also put eye spot light on this that as you are driving by and when you see rates that are so, low, in the 7 and 10 range and so on, something is going on in those garages and we are hoping that this legislation will put a spot light on that, thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker? >> good morning supervisors my name is david rodriguez and i

am a business representative for teamsters and one of my job duties is to visit some of the parking garages in san francisco to follow up with some of the members who have grievances or questions or concerns and while i am doing the routes, and literally across the street or sometimes next door which are non-union operators and i would say that more than half are spanish speaking which is my first language and so i will have a conversation with them and they will ask me, what are the benefits of these employees of the union under their contract, and i will let them know that it is better wages and job security, holiday and vacation and let them know and they seemed kind of shocked at this point, more of the majority that there is getting paid cash and i am not sure if it is under the table and some of them don't get paid over time and some of them are working ten or 12 hour days or shift and some of them are working six days a week and some of them and one of them is mentioned that they are paid in a personal check and by the

time that they get it cashed out they are not getting paid for the full labor, unfortunately some of the employees are not allowed to apply at the bigger operators because they are undocumented and don't have a valid driver's license and they will not be able to work in the bigger locations but this is a type of practice that needs to stop and we need to exploit that as soon as possible. thank you. >> thank you very much, is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? i know that we have some of our friends from local union 665. but, seeing no other person i will close public comment, and one thing that i would say is that i think that this is a great piece of legislation and i would like to be added as a co-sponsor, one thing that i would wonder, i was wondering about this is whether or not we should also approach the office of labor standards and enforcement to see if there can

be a more thorough review investigation of some of the business practices of these garages. because i am sure that they are all going to have things that are happening including wage theft and without the union protection, they get away with a lot of these things, supervisor mar? >> yeah, i wanted to thank supervisor weiner, but especially the workers from this industry, and really helping to shed light on how the working conditions need to change for those unregulated sites and i actually like how the legislation also it is not proactively supporting hiring and it is giving us more information so that we do the best to insure that san franciscans can be put back to work, especially those that need the jobs the most. i wanted to say that for mr. gleason that it is really helpful to understand that this industry is one that is a large one in our city and they are jobs for many san franciscan

and this is a way of insurancing that wages and benefits and living wage opportunities are for many of our residents and so i am very supportive and i would like to be added as a co-sponsor as well. >> supervisor yee? >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor weiner and to bring this issue to our attention, i guess, it is one of these issues where you would be in san francisco for a long time and realize that it exists and especially if you whether you live in areas like this part of town, or work in this part of town, and that, you know, pretty much, on a daily basis, you see these workers and you wonder what kind of protections they have, and so i am supportive of this piece of legislation but i do have a question, on i guess the line

15. paragraph 15. and in regards to the mail, the total number of males and the total number of females working in the parking garage and parking lot. i was not too sure what we are after there and whether or not this is information that we collect on a range of other type of workers, in san francisco. supervisor weiner? >> sure, and thanks for that question. so, first of all, initial matter, this industry is quite unique and we recognize that in terms of the requirements that we have placed on the industry in terms of information reporting that other industries do not have to report, so it is a unique industry. and i think that for the demographic data. there is a concern that the hiring practices and some of

the operators and i don't want to paint it with a broad brush because there are plenty of actors because they are riding out opportunities for the full diversity and including women and i am just looking for aggregated nrish to the zip code and tenure. and perhaps mr. gleason if appropriate, mr. chair... >> sure. >> do you have anything to add to that? >> yes, thank you. i have been in hearing of the sfmta where the directors themselves have asked, why is there not more women, i can tell you out of the 1500 that we represent in the industry there are just a handful of women who have been hired and these are just good paying jobs and we don't have any control of the union over the hiring and the hiring is completely

controlled and a union location or other by the employers, and in fact the employers have insisted over the years even in bargaining when i brought it up along with the other business agents they have insisted on controlling and holding all aspects of the hiring and these workers are hired and then after that they become the members of the union, we want diversity and we want really to be able to go into a garage, and say that there are people from every background and that is not the case often and there is a term that i use and some of the employees out there and they screen for ethnicity and you go in a garage and you find that everyone is one of an ethnic group and one age bracket and all men and so on, considering the unemployment that is happening in some parts of this city, or it is double with the state rate is for unemployment, local folks and

men and women should be or have access to these jobs and if there is something going on, i think, in the hiring process, where people are being put off, and perhaps, by their gender, and i don't have any prove of that except visually looking out there and see very few women employed in a good paying job, with the good benefits and i think that there should be something said about that so that everyone can have access to those jobs with a skill set, as you probably can understand, it is a physical job, and it is something that people can be trained for quickly and it would alleviate some of the unemployment that is out there, that is our position, we really want a very diverse workforce going forward. >> mr. gleason if i may follow up, did you want to follow up? >> yeah, i want to follow up. could i? >> yes. >> first of all, i want to commend that effort and i am not asking the questions to be

against this necessarily. i just want to understand why we are doing it and what is the impact? i was assuming that probably that is what you were trying to do was to shed some light to this. and as it was obvious to anybody that walks in the garages, and the parking places that it is dominate, a male, and so are a lot of other industries. whether and they are trying to improve it. so, my question really is, is there any way to put in the language that would give a little more here and give me the number of males or the number of females so i am trying to push them a little bit more. >> mr. gleason? >> well, again, i don't know how we can craft that as far as policy, i would leave it up to all of you and would i just repeat that while we really as a union and a labor organization, we want a diverse

workforce and we don't have any other way to fix that hopefully through this spot light is what i am calling it that would encourage the employers across the spectrum to be more diverse in every aspect including gender, going forward and i will repeat it was very interesting that i was hearing at one time in the sfmta and the directors and i was at the podium and they asked me why more women are not in the industry, 19 sfmta garage and very few women employed there and i had to strug my shoulders and say that as much as we would love to have a diverse workforce we don't control the hires, and i know in other industries they do. and we are just in the whim of what they do and these employees and they come on board after that hopefully again the spot light and we will get the encouragement to everyone in the industry to make it more diverse. >> thank you for answering my question. >> i want to follow up one more

question, but on that point, i do want to note that i think that supervisor yee has a good point and you know, maybe it is something that we can look into. and i do think that having the information is an important step in figuring out, you know, what else can be done. and i certainly would like to know more and i know that, for the purposes of enforcement having the information about the type of worker that we are talking about is always, useful for the agencies involved. but how do we, as a consumer, how do you know if a garage is union or not? >> we are going to be putting up insigna soon. and the employers have goed to that as we go forward. >> and the large employers in san francisco generally are and just to give you a quick snapshot and almost all of the large commercial office buildings in san francisco have our members in that and most of the class a hotels and of course the city garages as well but we are going to bring and put in the insignia up soon. >> the reason that i asked that

is that for many of us in san francisco we would like to know, you know, if the business were patronizing, in fact, is a union shop, because then there is a guarantee that they are treating the workers fairly. it is hard to know without that. so, that would, and i would encourage you to do that and that would be helpful for all of us to have. >> thank you very much. >> if i could illustrate one more point about the industry itself. because of autoation the days of them handling the revenue and as you can see in the report, hundreds of millions of dollars annually, these jobs are actually becoming much more labor ensensitive because they are almost like quasi warehouse worker at this point and your idea that the parking attendant having these hand out at the booth is going by the way side, what you actually have out are there members increasing the parking spaces by about a third and that is the statistic that the industry has and these are

nis physical jobs and good paying as well and we want to have a good, clean and transparent industry. >> thank you. >> and so supervisor weiner, anything else? >> so colleagues we have this item, can i have a motion to move this item forward? >> so the motion by supervisor mar? if we can take that without objection? without objection? thank you. >> with a positive recommendation >> mr. clerk, if we could go back to the beginning of the agenda, item one, please? >> thank you, mr. chair, item one has already been called. >> great. >> and we have a number of folks here who are to on item one and i would like to begin by asking the applicant in this

case, liz, zaninovich and i am a licensing specialist and i am here to request approval of necessity and these operated since 2006 and recently we exercised an option to lease this space, adjacent to our store. and expanding the store from 10,000 square feet to 20,000 square feet and due to the ex-paning of the premise, the california department of alcoholic beverage control requires what is known as a premises to premises transfer and what is required, the requirement of pcn and i just want to talk a little bit about the expansion and we are looking to improve the experience and when you walk in the store, the shelves will be lower and the aisles will be wide and her we will be able to offer an enhanced beer and wine tasting experience for our customers as well as a wine vault that has improved selection of wine, and we will

also be able to over more fresh food items and gourmet cheese and snacks etc., and so approving this public request will allow us to accomplish these goals. we have done, quite a bit of out reach with neighbors and after talking to us about our existing policies which are not changing, they were generally supportive of the project. >> could you talk a little bit about your out reach to the district supervisor? i know that this is in district two. >> supervisor farrell is very, very supportive. >> great, thank you. >> supervisor yee,? >> could you speak more about your fresh food items? >> sure, right now, i don't know if you have been to the store and we basically have an eight foot section of cheese. >> it is one of the terms of

fresh food and it is including gourmet cheeses and ex-expanding the store will allow us to expand and make that area bigger and it is what the customers are looking for when they come to this store and so right now, with the space that it is, there is no way to cram any more food in that store. >> don't you just have more cheese. >> we already offer cheese and meat and you know limes and lemons and i can't speak to what we will offer, going forward. >> perhaps, just curious, as you can speak into the mike please. supervisors my name is greg and i work with liz, and our ex-expansion of our food offers is under construction right now because each store is tailored to the area. as liz said this is one of our

most popular, for lack of a better term, stores with respect to our cheese offering and we also will be include and expanding our salsa and our chips and our snacks and also looking at grab and go type of foods. because we see a lot of people that are either in hotels or close by but looking for ready-made food as you have seen in walgreens and they have expanded these types of things and so we are looking at all of those things and we have visited as part of the preparation we have gone and toured the safeway stores and looked at their presentation and their cases have gone down into the weeds as to how we can duplicate some of those in this location and we have two other stores in the city and, this is what we want to have the flag ship and we want to put every bell and whistle and everything special into this that we can. >> so, if you, or do you know

if your plans, how many space are you going to allocate to your food items? >> i don't want to call fresh food because it is almost like what? potato chip is not fresh food to me. >> right. i can tell you in a square footage from the concept drawings that we have done so far, we are going to double at least double what we have. and food offerings. and an important thing to note, when you look at our application is we say that we are going from 10,000 square feet to 20,000 square feet and that is very true. we are not doubling our alcohol selection, in fact we have agreed self-imposed on ourself with the neighborhood that we are only going to, we have the opportunity to increase our footage of shelving for alcohol by a maximum of 17 percent. and which for what we are looking at now our plans will

not reach that much, the shelves will be coming down from the higher shelves to the lower shelves. and we will be as liz said we will be expanding the aisles and you will have a 40 inch waist and you are are wearing a 40 inch belt and we are going to put on a 40 inch belt and make it much more pal atable for the customers to wheel the carts down the aisle and just shop in the store. >> i understand the analogy real well. >> okay. >> supervisor mar? >> i was just going to thank miss zaninovich and the team from bevmo and i can see that you did significant out reach from april of last year, to november and meetings with middle polk and cathedral hill and the alliance for a better district six which also supports you, and i also want to say that with the new

hospital going in there, and i can see how expanding or making the site much better for people around it. and it is really a supportive and i think that it is good support reaching out to the neighbors as well. >> thank you very much. >> and maybe next time we should require a sampling of the expansion by the committee, especially the cheeses. if we could hear from the officer? >> good morning officers, with the alu and the san francisco police department. and ye, i am here to report on her request, she is basically representing bevmo and they have filed what they called the beverage and the expansion of 1301 van ness. and they are adding a tasting, license, which i think they are

in an undue concentration area and however in this case there is nothing new, it is already in existence, and it is just a requirement requirement of abc and there had been no protest letters file with the abc. and as far as the department recommendation is, northern police station has given a parole with the current and existing conditions, we have been in xhun waysing with supervisor farrell's office and they are in support of the expansion and as far as the alu we recommend approval that was passed on in june 13, 2006. >> great thank you very much. >> any questions? no questions, why don't we now open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. so, colleagues, we have this item, we have support from the

district supervisor, and we have had community out reach. >> so moved. >> so we have a motion by supervisor yee to move this item forward. with a positive recommendation, and just a question do you want to, have this send in as a committee report, so that there is more action? >> so that we can send it as a committee report? so that we have a motion to send this over with a recommendation positive recommendation as a committee report. thank you. >> congratulations. >> if you can call item two. >> item number two is a hearing to consider that the transfer of the type 20 off sale, beer and wine license from 129 california street to 829, 26th streetto david netzer for wine house limited, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. >> great, good morning. >> good morning, supervisors.

>> so, my name is david, and i am with the winehouse limited, and we also go by the dba as to the winehouse and we have been in business for 36 years, all in san francisco and we have been at current location, on 129 carolina street for 13 nearly 14 years and we are only moving because the landlord has expressed request in tearing down the building and putting up a 7 story condo and we are on a month to month lease and so we knew that we needed to move but we wanted to stay in the same neighborhood and we really like it and we found a spot in dog patch which suits our snaoeds. and we are just beer and wine and we don't sell liquor or cigarettes or chips or any other items. and chocolates. but we have done out reach to as required for the planning requirement that is required by the process, and we also, reached out to the patrero

boosters and the dog patch neighborhood association as well, who are both given us their blessing and i think that all of that correspondence is in the file that you have. i have also spoken with andrea in coehen's office and who gave us the go ahead for this meeting and we are looking forward to the new space. >> great, thank you much. >> any questions for the applicant colleagues? >> okay, why don't we now hear from officer dwarte? thank you. >> good morning, supervisors and yes, once again, to the nuts and bolts of this, he is very simply relocating, and we did do some questions in regard to the cat calls, and he has run a model business and has little police interaction at all and we did, reach out to supervisor cohen's office and we were not able to get a

response from them. and very simply, the department recommends that we just go ahead and recommend an approval for the relocation and once again, very simply, it is just a business relocating to a new address, thank you. >> great, thank you very much. >> why don't we open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public that would like to speak? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do we have a motion, do we have a motion by supervisor yee to move this item forward? >> yeah, i will second that but i just wanted to thank mr. netzer and you found a condo that really supports you and i appreciate the effort to reach out to the people from the neighborhood and it seems that there is strong support and thank you for 36 years as well in the neighborhood and i am supportive and i second the motion. >> thank you. and if we could also have being sent as a committee report, so that there is quick action at

the board. so we have a motion to move this forward as a committee report with a positive recommendation? and item passes. >> thank you, congratulations. >> if we could now go to item three?hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 42 on-sale beer and wine public premises license to larry livingston for the basement, located at 222 hyde street (district 6), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco >> great, if we could hear from the applicant? larry livingston. >> good morning, supervisors so the point is to house the world famous in the 30s to the 60s and the great likes miles davis and many others, adopted into what was the 3 deuces for the vip treatment at 222 hyde street. currently it is empty since much of last year, the previous club closed after five years of operations and i would like to

follow the tradition by providing music and entertainment to the location, and i have reached out to the communities including the building neighbor and the ministry and some of our building tenants and i received a positive encouragement for our plan and i also have attended alliance for the better district six meeting and have a lot of positive effects for the attendees and they asked to approve the application and i am confident that i can comply most of their demands. i don't understand the neighbors concern because i had lead the corner of market and golf in the restaurant and the jbar and a corner liquor store in the same building as my apartment and that is why i will have outside street camera and two trained security guards at the peak times and they will be present until 2:30 a.m. to control the crowd outside and i have a couple of comments to make regarding alu conditions. first condition is i have

negotiated a time restriction with alu, and abc, for three months. my understanding was that the officer will accept abc's counter proposal for 2:00 a.m. closing from thursday to saturday and i thought that i had a verbal equipment with the officer and that is why i put all of my savings into the base foment remodel and applying equipment and rents and etc.. first i thought that there was a typo sinces it said sunday to wednesday, eleven a.m. to 12 a.m. and repeats the same schedule from thursday to friday again. from eleven a.m. to 12 a.m.. so, i'm just wondering why, you know he put everything instead of just put every day and you know put it into 12 a.m.. there is a bar, half a block away and open to 2 a.m. every day and i feel strongly that it is unfair to compete with the existing bars with this condition and not to mention the financial burden for the next six months. also, on number two, i think it

should be removed after six months because i may want to transfer an on sale general license in the future. so i believe that it should be decided on the future hearing. and the previous clock had on sale general license, and we are down grading and complying all other conditions to build the trust with our community and so that is my thought here, thank you. >> so can i ask you before you move, thank you very much. for being here for your presentation. so, just for the record, are you against, the conditions that are being recommended by the alu? >> yeah, i am against the one and two. condition one and two, because, conditions one we had negotiated three months with abc and alu and the officer and myself and we went back and forth and my understanding was that the officer would