lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." so san francisco small business week we've been doing it for 10 years about inspiring and educating and connecting small business week to have them thrive aim leslie the co-chair

of small business week along with the small business week commission steve adams and together we've been involved for since its inception and it's really about being for impressive and more resources full to and we're going looking forward to today and this is special, in fact, the top ranked part of small business week a day you'll get great information and interaction and to join me to kickoff the conventional is the executive director for the city and county of san francisco regina. (clapping.) >> thank you leslie this year's theme to small businesses they're the vitality no our corridors and neighborhood and shape our community.

the small business convention has became the most popular of offering during the week and this year we're featuring free educational and inspirational workshops success panels and a procurement panel in expo. the last session ends up at 430 are a reception overland it's hosted by a hardworking committee including our honorary mayor ed lee. mark convincing the district many of the for small business administration and emily from behalf it compromised of the team tom and marlow and hannah and kathleen bustling and the san francisco chamber of commerce and leslie and karen.

the renaissance center and the san francisco development alliance and sharon miller and the district organization henry and the golden gate association sf entrepreneurs and the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce and sf city jeremy and adams and alison now, it's my direct pleasure to introduce to you, your presenting sponsor bank of america for this year's small business week bank of america small business regional executive on the west coast is emily emily i'd like to invite you up >> good morning it's a real pleasure to be here and small business week is is an exciting week for all of us we're

thrilled to go be the presenting sponsor we understand power and significance of small business tloos across to city and really exciting to celebrate the entrepreneur spirit behaving has a long his in san francisco over a one hundred years no california and our founder opened the doors of the bank of italy in 2004 and came bank of america in the 1930s since then a lot of influence we've had and participation with the city to build it to what it is today. we were part of the funding the governmental and golden gate park and the funding the

renovation at the ferry building we are on the ground individually helping people person to person making their financial lives better everyday. the heritage commitment lives on through the floifb work and the effort we have everyday working with small property owners hocking to help them and mayor ed lee has helped to support the small business community and encourage entrepreneurship like sunday streets that's the most popular open street project in the united states this increases the foot traffic to the small businesses see more business everyday and last year with the help of the white house they brought silicon valley to the public it be tangibles programs

concluding health care and open government and transparency and finishing. during the small business week 2013 they announced the loan fund that made $12 million available to support small businesses boost the local economy and create jobs. the merging business loan program extends fund to institutions it focuses on lending to the entrepreneurs and growing industries like manufacturing and apparel and industry sector to create jobs for local folks. in this city small property owners have a terrific opportunity and and team bank of america loortdz to our continued work with the mayor in partnership and support of the local enclosures please join me

in welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you for that introduce emily good morning, everyone what a great time to be in san francisco weather wise my economy wise i've been thinking about the loiter seeing if i could win the loiter but one of the reasons if i could dream about that winning that i'll spend all the money in san francisco because we have such a rich con gorgs of businesses of people making things in 0 san francisco i couldn't think of spending it anywhere outside of the great city that's what i think about spending it all in the city. well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and

county of san francisco go that's on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 small businesses in san francisco. they compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs that's the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences there's a statistical appreciation but ufo our strong economy is reflected in the small businesses. while everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons

why one of the reasons great 23i7b8 institutions bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this great convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting today's event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a that's a story it continues to resonate throughout the rest of the country businesses helping other businesses and helping our community. i've added a number of things to my busy i didn't agenda on a weekly basis every tuesday, i visit is a business in the city and talk to the ceo and cfos and people working with the businesses but get to talk to the employees and find out what's attractive and try to meet the challenges and usually it's about transportation or

schools now those days it's about the price of housing and building more housing thaitsdz that's where we generate our ideas i added to that meeting not because i want to get out of city hall but on fridays now i've added an hour to get to go to the commercial corridors of the city and walk and feel what people are doing and stick my head into the local restaurant and the eyes cream particularly that takes along or the local toy stores and futile iowa we can do. and listening to them and talk with them and react with all the policy decisions with regina and others tisk with our economic development office and awe our

small business programs and those ideas turn into immediate reality so we create 1, 2, 3 license ability where small business can get our licenses or permits quickly we're going to open a single portal for small businesses that wyoming want to have one place to go rather than stand in line for different permits and attitudes we'll have >> prayer by the chaplain. >> that online and open 24246 so 7 so entrepreneurs in our pa gambles can do thing. but there's also things that are big picture things i'm glad to see the gentleman helping me to really out a new business tax system in the next 4 years we've

done it will help with the talking to the small business county and see whether an outside tax will help the city small businesses weighed in we know our new business tax will support the small businesses in the city and we'll do more along with our assessors office we've got loans and grant we're matching them up with our 12krik9d captains and mrovs to make sure the corridors are safe and we've got neighborhood grants that are visiting in the programs that are working hard to get out there. it's no longer in any estimation about money known e money it around the city there really is harnessing that in ways to help people succeed and get the jobs.

i'm going to thank the small businesses and large ones you're helping us with jobs helping me so much we can go out and tell the folks how about a paying summer job 7 thousands of them we did that saturday to help small businesses and we're going to have a big meeting with all the businesses and they'll be raising their hands over a question who helped you get our first job and all you have so to do is send the lovely thirty seconds someone helped you, you to get our jobs for the recreational managers and institutions. as we relive that i hope to create another generation of kids that appreciate how when i become conceive you taller than and help accountability pr this is the culture of san francisco

this is why i came in and decided to live and sacrificed my golf free speech to be the mayor of san francisco. but it is more than a dream it's visiting in each other this is what small businesses do they ask for help and invest in others help and this is the huge kwenlz that come to the town the big conventions don't want to ride the cable cars they're asking where are the real neighborhoods in san francisco y where can i go out and see thing and experience things that are very strong in our neighborhoods because they're coming from places it's a lot of vanilla the same thing over and over but they want to see the cultures

and that's why we have 25 neighborhoods we're investing in. i'm proud this welcome to announce our small business honorees and you'll see the diversity when i go through the names the sushi and the automobile repair shaping shop that is changing the shops in the past the has a valley and the hampton creek foods talk about a new maine nasal egging free and the electric bike super store the triple 52 do brewery and, of course, i added in matt restore their special in our city their pete's are a that was started by two deaf business

leaders that are taking orders because of the technology and the ability of the blending the technology with their small business they're taking live orders in their restaurant and their entire staff is deaf. so those are stories that others are going to tell over and over again, the diversity of the city this is how we're successful and those continue to draw the biggest conventions around the world to come to san francisco and see how the businesses are helping us and, of course, they're helping government as well. so again, this is a way of me saying thank you to all of you working together you, you know, we've got sf made and i can't leave the stage without thanking mark and katie they're leading

some 4 thousand people in sf merchandising and working with the small business community saying we can give back to great manufacturing and the offer lay that's happening there. they petroleum pump in 3 hundred and 95 thousand dollars a year gas station to the small business week and to the partnership with s b.a. you and part of the entire obama administration set the tone for the country and next year i get the privilege and honor of hosting the conventional of mayors in san francisco 2015, 3 thousand mayors and we're going to add 3 thousand mayors around the world to the convention to come to san francisco to create

jobs and maintain good requirements and help our kids and create jobs and keep our city safe all of this is part of a whole network of relationships and the ones that know how to create the relationships are the ones in business that's how you survive and succeed in the city with that, take the opportunity the proclamation that signals that small business in the city and regina please accept this and to all you have who you are part of this great week thank you very much

>> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that

attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic

images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie

looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate, near the end. hysterical in your

flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because san francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the

programming. ♪ looking into meridian's future, she says she wants to keep doing the same thing that she has been doing since 1989. to enlighten and disturbed. >> i really believe that all the arts have a serious function and that it helps us find out who we are in a much wider sense than we were before we experienced that work of art. ♪

test. >> so before we get started today just a couple of announcements we'll ask you turn off any sound producing days and we'll also ask you take any secondary conversations out into the hauling if you want to speak we request you fill out a blue card we call the names on the blue cards before additional public comment if you're speaking under public comment you'll have 3 minutes. >> 3 minutes. >> on each item and when making public comment please remember to address the commission the commission neither the commission nor staff will answer