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~ ~ demonstrate there is a local need. to go through and be scrutinized around some of those comparisons with small

businesses and come out the backside with something that really has a starting point of being wanted by the local community. if you look at where formula retail wants to go, it does not go into a lot of the communities which is the greatest need for jobs or services or retail diversity. they tend to go to places where there's already lots of money and where they can outcompete other business necessarition he. they are not big risk takers. if you're trying to encourage risk taking that goes to compelling business relationships, not whether they have a sea requirement. it is time to update some of the controls. a couple of quick things. concentration analysis is really helpful. formula retailers often want to congregate locally. it is important to recognize whether that's tipping kind of the proper mix. an economic analysis is good. i would say to the chamber's point maybe businesses that are fewer than 20 outlets should be exempted from the economic analysis. one recognition they be a slightly different kind of financial backing than larger corporations. thank you. >> thank you. any other speakers?

seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have questions? no questions? okay. i know two weeks ago we heard the planning department's proposal and this commission approved the planning department's proposal. and in this commission's opinion, you know, it keeps formula retail in check and it actually in some ways strengthens it. in my opinion, in a very fair way. supervisor mar's legislation tightens what we currently have. we currently have a law on the books, prop g, and one proposal

tightens controls but loosens it up on some ends and tightens it up and actually adds more categories. and then we have the one today which really tightens it up. and i wish supervisor mar was here to present. i like it when a supervisor -- something this important, i think the supervisor should be here to present for this. you know, personally, i support the planning department. as one previous speaker had said, sick months went into that with a lot of data. in the 10 years since prop g, we were able to see what work, what doesn't work ~. there does need to be some tweaking. so, with that, i support the planning department's -- i cannot support, you know, supervisor mar's at this time,

but i wish the two of you can get together and see if we can work out something. it would be better to go with one instead of two. so, that's just my opinion. any other commissioner comments? >> i have some comments. i was absent from our last meeting so i'll kind of just summarize. while i appreciate the effort and the time that supervisor mar and his staff has put into this issue, i do believe that the planning commission has conducted a very thorough due diligence, and a process that's consistent with their expertise and their purview. i think that the proposal that they've presented is thorough. i think the methodology, the process, and the outcome are exactly what they're there to provide to us as both legislators and citizens of san francisco. so, i stand by the commission's support from the last meeting for the planning commission's proposal as it stands.

>> commissioner ortiz. >> again, like previous meeting, i want to thank everybody because i know this is a very difficult topic. and it also make it hard for us as a commission, at least in my perspective, it's segmented. we get bits and piece he from the planning agency. i didn't a vote, but i agreed with most of it. it was well thought out and planned. although i depth agree with it, it make it hard for us when it's hodgepodge. it's a very difficult issue as it is so i think we all need to come together and come up with one decisive legislation and make it easy for us and the residents of san francisco and the small businesses of san francisco. >> commissioner dwight. >> i also want to compliment the people who came out today to speak for public comment. it's so important for people in

the community to come here in front of all of these commission meetings and express your points of view. you've raised some very interesting points today. you know, oftentimes we think -- we tend to be very polarized about this issue that big store bad, small store good. and you've raised some really interesting points. i mean, where would our arts and entertainment be without the largess of some of the largest companies in san francisco? where would our youth employment programs be without some of the largest companies here in san francisco? and to your point, there's a matter of choice in all of the communities. and i think that this legislation that was originally adopted, as mr. cohen pointed out, provides for conditional use process that is effective. it puts the power in the neighborhoods themselves, which we agree with here. we think that the neighborhoods should have their own autonomy

to make these decisions on a case-by-case basis because the city is not homogenous and should be dealt with by the communities that occupy the various geographies here. so, thank you very much for coming out. it's vitally important and it's essential for us to hear your point of view. so, thank you so much. >> commissioner riley. >> i also agree that we need to have balance in the community, you know, small and large business, job creation and all that. so, i stand by our support for the planning department. ~ proposal. >> commissioner ortiz. >> just one thing again. burger king was my first job as well. [laughter] >> okay. do we want to take any action on this item? maybe yes, no, or no action whatsoever. >> may i make a suggestion? i think take no action.

i mean, we've already taken no action. i just don't want to encourage the same legislation of another supervisor. i think the various people have to come together and present one collaborative effort. i recommend no action on this item. >> i second. >> okay. so, to the motion put forth by commissioner ortiz-cartagena to advance this with no recommendation to the board of supervisors, we'll take a second by commissioner riley and take a roll call vote. >> commissioner adams. >> yes. >> [speaker not understood]. >> yes. >> commissioner yee riley? >> yes. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena? >> yes. >> that motion passes 6 votes in favor, none opposed which takes us to the next item on the agenda, item number 6, discussion on board of supervisors file no. 131064. ~ 140 52, building code temporary fee reduction.

this is a discussion and possible action item. and we have with us for a staff presentation gail [speaker not understood] from the department of building inspection. >> welcome. >> hi, good afternoon. i am gail [speaker not understood]. i am acting finance manager for the department of building inspection. the legislation before you today renews the building code to provide a temporary six-month reduction for staff services. this year the department is projecting about a 30% more revenue than we have budgeted for this year. the dbi budget for next year has about an 18% increase in revenue. so, we do have more revenue than we actually need to provide the services of the department. we've had this problem for the last couple of years and the additional revenue has been wonderful for us to do one-time projects like we have a couple capital improvement projects in our budget or technology type projects, but we don't need to continue to bring in this much revenue. so, right now we're working on a fee study, which is probably going to be completed in

august. and after that fee study is complete we'll revise all of our fees on a fee by fee basis which will probably need to go up, some will need to go down, but right now we do have too much revenue. so, what we'd like to do is a temporary fee reduction of 7% which allows small businesses and anyone getting a permit to have a small break on their permit fees in the short term. and then once we finish our fee study we'll do legislation that amends our fees permanently. this will not be across the board. it will be fee by fee. so, that's kind of our proposal. there is a 7% reduction. it's about a 1-1/2 million dollars decrease of revenue over a 6-month period. it's not a lot of money, but it does acknowledge we are collecting too much money right now which is a rather unique problem to have, but we do want to acknowledge we are collecting too much money and we are addressing a problem long term. it's just not going to be done in time for this budget. so, we want to do a temporary reduction and a halfway fix

through the year. >> any comments? >> nice problem to have. [laughter] >> and i give the department a lot of credit for coming and doing this because it will help a lot of people. so, i really appreciate that. before we vote, do we have to take public comment on item number 6? do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on item number 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. [speaker not understood]. >> i move we support the fee reduction. [laughter] >> do i have a second? >> that's a second. >> to the motion to recommend approval to the board of supervisors of this legislation we have a motion by commissioner dwight, seconded by commissioner white. commissioner adams? >> yes. >> commissioner dwight? >> yes. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena? >> yes. >> commissioner yee riley? >> yee. >> commissioner [speaker not understood]? >> yes. >> commissioner right? >> yes, the motion passes 6

votes in favor, none opposed. which takes us to the next item on the agenda, item 7, >> so, commissioners, before i get into my report, i want to introduce you to forest lu. did i say your last name correctly? forest comes from us as an intern in oewd working with marianne thompson, excuse me, on the business tax and our gross receipts transition program. and, so, forest comes to us by way of the asian pacific islander public affairs association program. so, definitely commissioner yee riley, want to introduce the two of you. so, forest is going to be helping with doing more outreach to our chinese-owned businesses around education for the gross receipts because we are going to be moving.

now we've gotten through the first increase around business registration. there is the filing that's coming up, and helping businesses understand that we have this five-year transition with partial payroll tax and partial gross receipts. so, so, i just wanted to introduce because forest will be partnering with our office and then doing community outreach as well. so, welcome, and thank you. >> this is a summer internship? >> forest, you want to come up and just say a couple words about the internship? >> [inaudible]. yes, a summer internship through the organization she mentioned, should be ending in late august. >> where are you in school? >> i just graduated from ucsb.

>> congratulations. >> thank you. >> my daughter is going to be a junior at ucsb. >> do you speak cantonese and mandarin? >> just mandarin, unfortunately, for this community. >> fantastic. welcome to the effort. >> yes, thank you. >> welcome. >> all right. so, i want it provide you with some updates. the small business development center, we have gone through a round of doing interviews for business advisors and have selected 24 preselected business advisors. so, and then the next step is to hire a small business development center director. i didn't put it in my notes, but just to let you know, jordan kline who was spearheading this transition, has accepted an offeror has accepted a position over at the

city of berkeley ~ in their economic development program. so, holley long will be taking over this project. last week the mayor met with small business leaders and commissioner dwight, i'll ask you to also chime in on this. the three key topics that the business leaders addressed the mayor, working on -- continuing to do more local hire -- more local purchasing at the procurement side from small businesses. and i do want you to note that actually the mayor has asked naomi kelly in the office of contract administration -- excuse me, not office of contract administration, office of contract management division. they're actually -- they've hired a consultant to do some analysis on ways to improve the

14-b local purchasing ordinance. so, the mayor is actively engaged in looking at what can be done to improve and increase our local businesses getting contracts. and then the other two item that were discussed were the minimum wage, as that item was introduced the previous week, and then, of course, the health care security ordinance. and while this will still be for some businesses a bit of a challenge to be able to meet these mandates, there was definitely appreciation for the mayor for stepping in and, you know, bringing forth measures that were the best at this particular point in time that could be done, and that, that we're not taking a look at, especially for the minimum

wage, the ballot measures that seiu had put on the ballot. and one note to that. christian checked in this morning at the department of elections and the ballot has not been officially pulled. so, it's still there. they have until july 7th to turn in any signatures, though we've been informed at the meeting by the mayor and jason elliott that the unions have said that they are not going to move forward with their ballot measure, but just note that it's still there. and if -- >> they don't have the signatures, can it still get on the ballot? >> no. >> it will still be there. it has one more ballot cycle that it could get signatures. >> oh, okay. >> so, that means there could be some strategic tactics in keeping it filed. so, yes. so, if they do not turn in signatures, that doesn't necessarily mean that it cannot

be on the ballot again. but if they do not turn in signatures the second time around, then it is officially pulled. so, with that, i think commissioner dwight, i'd like to know if there are any words that you or anything you would like to share from the meeting at all. >> i think i would just like to commend both the mayor and his staff, especially jason elliott who has been very busy and diligent on the -- well, all of thea issues, but especially the one that i've been most involved in, which is minimum wage, that they were successful in their efforts to get to a consensus position, even though it's not to everybody's liking, as is usually the case with consensus -- with consensus. it is, i think, a reasonable middle ground which minimizes the negative effect that would have been caused on small

business by the seiu's proposal and just strikes the most effective balance that we could get to. and, so, once again to commend the mayor and his staff on their efforts to make that happen, because had they not gotten involved, it would have been a very different outcome. >> next, again, the mayor has his summer youth jobs program and it is targeting 7,000 jobs this summer. last summer we were able to place 6,800 youth into internships or jobs for the summer. so, targeting 7,000. so, again, that's something that if you know businesses -- the united way is spearheading the program. so, if you know of any businesses that are interested or have summer jobs, then please, you know, direct them.

i'm make sure after the meeting just to re-send out the information for you. >> and the window is still for that? so, there's still time? >> yes. um-hm. >> okay. i guess some schools are getting out last week. >> um-hm. >> okay. >> and then last week i attended the california commission on disability access is developing its strategic plan. and in the last year and a half -- in the last year -- i think a year -- they brought on a new executive director and, so, the commission is actually taking some really good formation and direction, which is really helpful for us because i think that we -- over the next couple years we might be able to get some traction at the state level to help improve the environment of thing that we need at the local level. so, our office was invited to be part of that since we've been doing -- san francisco is,

you know, a leader in the programs that we've established in working with small businesses and getting compliance. and then, of course, all the work that christian has done in developing an analysis at the federal, state, and local level of what government can do to improve -- how government can improve itself to help improve access. so, so -- that was -- and also san francisco, we have our chapter 38 which is the landlord obligation. so, we are asked to come up and share that and be -- and also help set some strategic direction for that legislation. last week supervisor mar had a [speaker not understood] on the california crv zone. while there is a trend in the reduction of recycling centers without sort of solving --

without sort of figuring out a way to sort of fill that void of what recycling centers are, our small businesses are going to be the default recycling centers. and, so, debby raphael who is the new executive director for the department of environment is committed on working together with all the stakeholders, state, ecology, other recycling providers in our office to figure out what we can do. another important item that i brought up is that, you know, the way the law was written is really intended for supermarkets which we think of like safeway, other larger entities trigger a convenience zone. now our smaller market street based upon the dollar value that has not changed since

1986, are triggering convenience zones. so, that's a particular issue in terms of the state looking at the city in terms of saying, you need to be -- you need to be facilitating an x number of like recycling centers or means for individual to be able to get redemption for their, for their bottles and cans. so, that number is increasing. it's not just created around thing like safeways or those kind of large entities. we've talked about the minimum wage ballot measure. the health care security measure passed on last week. it was its second reading. and, so, an irrevocable expenditure was passed with a three-year phase in. so, 80 -- 50% of your expenditure needs to be

irrevocable for 2015. 80% for 2016, and that 100% for 2017. so, i think for the commission moving forward, there are some thing that i think we might be able to do some analysis, put forward some direction of things to give some advisement to both the mayor, to the better than expected of public health, to the department of public health is going to be doing some data analysis as well as because there is -- in listening to the department's commission's -- the department of public health commission, the concept of what was in the first health care security ordinance that supervisor campos proposed, that program. there is some interest to see if there is -- if that is feasible and doable.

so -- just really quickly. and that is if you are 50 or more employees, this ordinance. 20 or more. >> 20 or more, okay. >> affordable care act is 50 or more where you have to -- >> [speaker not understood]. >> it passed already. it's passed. >> um-hm. and this, you know, i do want to thank supervisor breed and supervisor farrell for negotiating this particular proposal. so... and then i provided you a list of just an update of some of the legislation over the last couple of months that the commission has heard and just where it is. and now moving on to office and staff updates. so, one, i sent an announcement to you this morning to officially announce that christian murdock will be

leaving us and his last day will be -- it's officially july 4th, but july 3rd since july 4th is a holiday. christian has a new position with the city of pacifica and it's one that i think is going to be very exciting for him and really aligned with his original career goals. >> is he going to be the mayor or what? [laughter] >> some day. >> and i think, you know, it's going to be -- i'll let you speak a little bit about it, christian. i think, you know, what christian's learned here at our office he's going to really be able to take and directly apply to his job, and especially around the disability access. i mean, the more that we can really improve things at a local level, the better off for individuals who have disabilities and for our small businesses will be. but why don't you say a few words about your new position. >> sure.

so, you know, you'll find out when you get there, i guess. but the goods that i stole, i'm going to be serving as an assistant planner for the city of pacifica. so, the staff planner that you see when you go to the counter to get at the permit in any city, i'll be doing some of that work as well as some of the back office processing of other projects. what really interested meed ~ me in the opportunity that would help them is what i believe is going to be a concerted effort at some focused economic development planning and really trying to diversify the economy in the city and their tax base and really look forward, you know, what the city is going to be look throughout the 21st century, taking it out of the 20th century in some way. so, it's a challenge that i'm really looking forward to. so, i'm happy for the opportunity, even though i'm awfully sad to be leaving here because i enjoyed the work, helping small businesses here. >> it is with personal and

professional sadness to have to say good-bye to christian, but always really want to encourage people who are advancing their careers. that is extremely important. so, this is christian's last commission meeting and, and we have an acknowledgment for you, of which president adams will do in the president report. and i also want to inform you that we have a new temp working, assisting martha at the counter, bruce jones, who is working part time. and the two currently vacant positions of testing has been completed. so, i'm waiting to hear who are the top entities to begin the intake process. and i really want to appreciate president adams, vice president white, and commissioner yee-riley for agreeing to be on

the hiring panel. very important, especially for the commission secretary policy analyst position since this position directly services you. and then we also -- i'm not sure if i mentioned it last time, but we have two volunteer usf law students for this summer working one day a week. and one of them, ronnie rodriguez is conducting research on factors on a business that may factor into its determination of whether an accessibility improvement is readily achievable when the direct or indirect costs associated is by cost through local government in time or actual cost. >> [inaudible]. [laughter] >> and then we also -- >> sorry, pacifica just went