on delivering positive customer service at the end of the day people are going to be better served if we give them positive customer service and promptly answering their questions and if we don't have the what's-her-name to find out them. that concludes my presentation. . i want to say that i very much want to thank regina for the meetings she helps us to do our best by small businesses. this partnership between the office of small business and the office of department of workforce development has had great working relationships and we've achieved a lot in the last few months. we're looking forward to doing more. i'd like to call out commissioner riley i had an

interim this summer part of his job was a work with the chinese-american community and he was able to come back with a comprehensive report and at least i want to call out a new person to our team susan she'll be helping with the outreach and greg has a new person as well if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> i think your outreach is going very, very well. >> so thank you. >> and people seem to understand it. so they know what they have to give this year and next year and the difference between the it two but people in the business community gets it >> oh, great, thank you. i think when we were come piling the summary we wanted to know

we're doing the right thing to do this is kind of not the best measure of ones success the fact that under the business register fee we only had two complaints and we kayaked back with the board of supervisors and kiektd back with the mayor's office and everybody and only two people relied with a complaint it's not the ultimate measure of our success on scaping people happy but that information is comprehend >> commissioner president adams we need to call for public comment. >> any public comment on that item? >> yeah. i've been on vacation two long.

>> public comment we have public comment on item 3 for changes to the tax regulation code? seeing none any public comment on that item? >> do i have a motion. >> i second. >> roll call. >> commissioner president ad s adams. commissioner dooley. commissioner dwight. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. commissioner riley. supervisor paul and president adams for your information commissioner white sent information she'll not been able to attend the meeting. with that, we have a 6 zero vote

to send or send recommendation to the board of supervisors to support this measure. i want to collect and thank you, greg and mary ann thomson and knowing how things in the office as we get calls and got very if i calls during the business recommendation it's been a fun partnership over something that is very complicated and who would have thought taxes can be fun but it's been a fun partnership and make sure that people get informed we have new businesses registering everyday so i want to extend my appreciation for the great work you've done >> thank you good job. >> next item, please. >> next item is item 4

discussion and possible action to make recommendation to the board of supervisors on the file police code for the amount of time days and arcadia for the location restriction for and mechanical announcement dies and remove obsolete codes in environmental finding. this item has moved through the board of supervisors i've agenda can i see it you're welcome to take action or take a vote in support of what's take the opportunity it has moved through the board of supervisors there was a delay in the city clerk's office to the commission and also supervisor breed's office wanted to expedite the ordinance

so that there were businesses that needed to have the amendments made so we'll want to express our appreciation to the board of supervisors sensitivity and to appreciate that co-sponsor nor johnson is here to inform you thought what changes are made they did an excellent job in the clean up of this code but i have agendized it as an action item so not necessary to take action but with that connecticut nor would you like to take this over >> good afternoon connecticut nor johnson elective aid to supervisor breed i want to reiterate what the director said we were not able to make it here on a july the legislation was in particular to a part of the

district and get things throw in july so that went to land use on july 28th and then to the board of supervisors and passed unanimously it will come with a second reading on september 2nd it's not entirely done and supervisor breed will be introducing minor amendments i can discuss but i'll keep this relatively short i think this effort started out as a measure to make things easier for small businesses i am hoping the san francisco small business commission will be an ally. there was a small business 3w5i789 of frequenting gal in the european hate in district 5 that bumped into the plodding they're a shirt screening print shop and ran into both the

police code they contacted the entertainment commission that afforded that and we looked at into the police code and frankly find quite a bit of it no longer relevant and expensive for businesses. i'll mentioned a few things back in the 82 there was concern our arcadia were corrupting the youth and the board of supervisors at the time this is in 1982 wrote extensive regulations dealing with or a cascade games it was 6 thousand words dlailt when and where our arcades can be in san francisco. this has been outdated there are reference to the department of electricity that does not exist and to the other department

there are arbitrary positions on the square footage and not have an arrest warrant cascade game within 5 feet of another or a cascade or gas station in the district i haven't figured out the reasoning if you're knowingly in violation of the requirements the chief of police will impound our arcades until you pay to the police department. thirty years later a lot of those regulations look cumbersome and upper necessary and there was a lot of concern about the impact of the arcades on children arcades can't be opened occurring the school year because of truant but in 2014 if a child wants to ditch class they act e, pull a cell phone

out of their pocket we want to bring this up to the counter era there are appeal to people in my age growing up in the 80s so we worked with the entertainment commission and the police department and the city attorney's office to completely revise the code i'll 0 talk about that briefly st. the permits for small businesses that point to add a few games it maintains the offering site and strengthens the controls against illegal gambling foreclosure and that's sensitive to the police department and streamlines the process to bring it in line with other practices. currently under the existing code if you want to add games

there's 3 hundred plus dollars for an arrest warrant cascade game each other so we want to give the restaurants the opportunity to add the arresting cascades without the fees. that's ultimately the intent of the legislation there is details at the land use committee that effected the arresting cascades that was approved and we amended that with concerns under the entertainment commission i can go into detail but we pa made a distinction between bars and non-bars the idea that the entertainment commission times to be engaged with bars and work with them on a good neighbor policy and it's different than some businesses so we want to make the distinction so that the entertainment commission can maintain it's off-site with bars

that's what happened that determines the minimum number of games before a bar needs a permit from the san francisco entertainment commission i can go into that but that essentially is the high-level overview and by way of context the entertainment commission was kind enough to put together a list of the or david's cascades it's a relatively small amount 11 locations that have a one devices and it's a popular universe and i want to finish by showing the stack of letters in the upper hate. the entertainment commission staff said it was one of the most positive responses from a business and those are just some

of the e-mails and letters we've received in support of free gill watch and this is demonstrate to the community they have a pinball lead for people that spend time and get to know one others we wants to make the process easier. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them >> any questions commissioners. commissioner >> thank you for your presentation i have a question on the number of thresholds. 34 and 10 and 4 and 11 requiring a license. how did you come up with those numbers and what is it based on >> there's currently is a definition for an arrest warrant

cascade under the planning code and in the police code 11 e.r. more games constituents an arrest warrant cascade you have reached a critical mass of games below 11 there's more flexibility we said for non-bars anything below 11 they don't need a permit the entertainment commission doesn't need the oversight. there was some debate how we deal with bars originally the legislation that was introduced said a bar can have one game and anything else needs another permit. the - supervisor breed said allow bars to have up to four games that passed at the land

use commission and passed at the board of supervisors and the police department were concerned about that it meant there would be businesses between 2 and four outside of the good neighbor policy and their purview so supervisor breed and i and the city attorney's office meet with the police department after that 72 the board meeting and it's a good come mice a bar can have one game and 2 to 10 over the counter permit and the application of a will be wrafd that seven hundred plus fee will be waived and if the bar has 11 or more a permit from the entertainment commission and the fee will be imposed >> this will be submitted next week. >> correct. >> any other commissioner commissioner dooley. >> can you clarify the clause

on the arcades and i and the inclusion it's unclear to what those categories are i - i'm sorry. what section of the legislation commissioners. >> under the all the times prohibition on - i'm reading the digest. >> okay. can you give me more definition on what a neighborhood or community business use area would be this is. >> sure so if you look at the long form the legislation you'll see about three or four pages of crossed out language that dated back to 1982 that controlled the mechanic devices based on square footage you can't i mentioned it you can't have one 15 feet within an arrest warrant cascade

3 pages that was infected we trial court tried to delete all the obsolete portions and so what you'll see in our version of the legislation i can't have an arrest warrant cascade in a residential area with some car vouches for churches on their property by the long and short we deleted the vast majority of the locations infected in 1982. >> any other questions. >> i've got to tell you i support this i know in my neighborhood there's a bar that's going with or cascade games they've spoken with our merchant group and everybody is excited to have 80 and pack man games? neighborhood we're excited in upper market for

that. >> i was going to ask commissioner president adams in you're in the upper market and supervisor wiener is a co-sponsor of the legislation. >> and we're all like waiting for this place to get open it take care of an open space. >> good for you. >> anything to clean up the old police code and any other commissioner comments before we take public comment. >> any public comment on item 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner do we have a motion? >> i move to support. >> second. >> roll call. >> all right. and commissioner president adams.

commissioner dooley. commissioner dwight. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. commissioner riley. supervisor paul. and commissioner white is absent. >> great, thank you thank you, commissioners. >> next item, please. >> item number 5 is the presentation on the department of health point of sales dies ordinance number 195 or chapter one 15 of the administrative active code we have commissioner from the public health department providing you with a presentation. this is oh, >> this is discussion only right. >> this is discussion only no action item and just for your

information commissioner in our packets are we have provided number commissioner has provided the inspections that have taking place a look at the counties state and local fees local forums in case you want to look at that and in 2007 a letter for the particular legislation i do have information that the commissioner monoroadway was provided for the local issuance i'm going to distributto distri.

this is the regulations what they are and the state regulation >> how the local municipality enforces. >> thank you for coming. >> you're welcome i'm glad to be here. >> i'm going to go through a brief summary of how we implemented those programs. the whys and where weer at this point in time. i provided in our back up a lot of well, a certain amount of data maybe you want me to terminator it and why those figures are what they are on the expertise and revenue side and the register portion.

in 2005 the reiskin was adapted and large county implemented a point of sale register program san francisco did not. in 2007 the department of food and agricultural conducted a survey in san francisco and that's the letter that's dated october 24, '07 and many the first page of the letter you'll see where san francisco county 67 stores were in compliance and 80 percent so san francisco was above compliance.

so the commissioner scott paling son departed in april of 08 i came on board in october of 08 and considered what we would do about the point of sale there was a trespassed to adapt the point of sale san diego and fresno and los angeles all the coast counties we preceded to propose and adapt the regulation in jill of 2010. if you go back to the recent survey you'll see your fees are the least expensive.

and we are the highest for those large stores retail outlets with the cap of $773 at the time, it was adapted the logic was that the small stores shouldn't have to pay as much as the larger stores as you can see the only county that doesn't have to data standard of ordinance is marlene county. i'm going to go directly to the inspectors program and what the right side are. first i'll go to the revenues. we adapted the fee in july of

2010 that's not reasonable to send out invoices to my businesses in the last half the year so we decided to wait until january of 2011 this is a our first invoices. there wasn't a list of businesses in san francisco that maintained and operated a point of sale. so we knew there were some registered locations businesses that had scanners we we used the scales from our dies from our

gas petroleums to begin the process of identifying the businesses with point of sale stations we sent out 2 thousand invoices in 2011. and we got a subsequential number of them we sent out a letter in multiple languages to try to explain what we were doing. that was we know there are more than 2 thousand so the following year if you go to the mid of that page you'll see that we decided to go to the sf data po s 5 hundred and 54 thousand businesses that's unreasonable that's the entire we can't do that so we ended up encouraging

as many as we could we ended up in 2012 sending out well - let me back up in 2012, we sent out over 2 thousand invoices and then we obtained an sf data source there was that was unreasonable to building we had 5 hundred and 54 thousand. i put everybody that i had on cleaning up the list. and that will be reflected and you'll see how much more we spent in 2012. so in 13 we sent out 15 thousand plus invoices we got over half of them back. it was boxes and boxes of them that were being returned to us

and our phone lines were jammed. it wasn't going to take any more messages we cleaned up that list and it requires manual entry and it requires my staff time who have walked the streets of san francisco and driven the streets of san francisco just from their experience trying to figure out when a who thinks to delete and which ones to call. in 2014 we got it down to 3 thousand one hundred and 52 invoices. and that includes everybody small businesses and large retail outlets. to date we've got less than 2 thousand let me explain. my instructions to the staff

were you'll go out and you'll go out with this list and you'll inspector those businesses and if they interest have a po s they'll get a refund they'll have to apply but if they're not registered we'll delete them from the database that's how we're down to 2 thousand businesses from a corrupted file at the tax collectors that was bizarre. that's where we're at right now. you'll see the 39 percent of the businesses have one po s and two to three have more than that. so, now i go to the part where how much have we spent

>> how much have we received. i'm not sure how many of you have experience hiring through the city but this was a new program and i have are a person to conspiracy and do the inspections i had all my staff. so we spent about 95 thousand 2 hundred plus up front on staff that was like half of a person and hiring of another half of year we brought in $68,000 and in 2012, we haven't hired everyone but we spent 93 61 but got in