interested in doing some textile talk, people did like that and take a look and see if there's other things that we could be doing throughout the week to keep activities going throughout the week. >> great. >> since the conference this year will be on friday. the short term rental legislation, so last week the office of of small business and oewd staff met with the tax and treasurer's office and planning regarding oewd, if you are going to be engaging in short term rentals. the key thing that we will be working -- we have already started to get inquiries about the process on this and the key thing for our, the staff at osb to be communicating with businesses

is that if they have been doing this in the past i mean technically just because we now have a specific process for the registry program does that mean that they still had to register in the past with the tax and treasurer's office. so there will be consideration for businesses do need to give consideration about whether -- individuals need to give consideration as to whether they are going to be honest about their past years because there will be back business registration and back taxes, you know, the transit occupancy tax that will be due. so we will have some discussion with folks around that in terms of, you know, making sure that they give consideration about that, you know, because basically if

a claim is filed against them and if there is looking into them, finds out that they weren't honest and that they did back business registration and transit occupancy tax, there will definitely be penalties assessed to them. but that process the planning department does have it up. it's also noted on the business portal in terms of the process individuals need to go through to register. so they do need to get a business registration before they file their application with the planning department. >> i have a question about that. >> uh-huh. >> how does that work in terms of short term rental so this is different than a b and b, i thought this was all -- this is something different. >> this is all part of it. >> they are businesses? >> they are businesses and

they have to submit the transit occupancy tax. >> so everyone has to do that. >> you aren't saying there are businesses that operated just renting short term rentals illegally, rather than individuals renting their homes. >> if you are renting to make money on this then you are a business. so that is the perception of the city and the tax and treasurers a office. so that's why i'm saying that while we now have a codified means with the planning department that does not release people of their obligation that they actually in the past were, should have been paying the transit occupancy tax. >> is that going to be an amnesty program, i wonder.

>> i think, i mean the tax and treasurer's office will not say a blanket. the probability, the key thing i think is that we want to encourage people to register and to come into compliance. >> get right. >> better to get right now than later. so the next is there are four pieces of legislation that i have given you copies of to take home with you and the dates that they are scheduled before the commission. so there is a regulation relating to residential uses that are being developed near places of entertainment. supervisor tang is introducing legislation to develop more criteria around massage establishments and requiring them to be conditional use again.

previously any state-certified massage establishment did not have to go through the conditional use process but that was changed at the state last -- at the end of 2014. so now local municipalities can do a conditional use around massage establishments. and then the castro neighborhood commercial district, noe valley and upper market there are some changes to the -- i didn't put the full title in here -- around office space conditional use for financial and certain business services, ground floor commercial. then i also want to bring to your attention that supervisor avalos has called for a hearing on the impact of the minimum wage increase on small businesses and city-funded nonprofits. this will be in february. so with regard to

small businesses i will be meeting with oewd i think his interest is to see if the city is giving some thought in terms of assisting businesses helping them prepare for the minimum wage increase and what other plans that we have in regards to that for business assistance. and then there is a hearing to explore the short term and long-term strategies to alleviate the flooding along folsom street. any time there's a major rain they experience flooding. >> there used to be a like there. >> supervisor campos called for that but it is not scheduled. then in your binding, commissioners i have included the meeting schedule for 2015,

we didn't get a chance to discuss this so i wanted to be sure it was fine with you. we will have our normal schedule for the may small business commission meeting. in terms of staffing updates we are in the second round of interviews for the business counselor project manager position and hope to have that finalized within the next couple of weeks, not necessarily the person working but the position, the candidate finalized and starting the process with dhr and then dhr is supposed to have the list finalized for me

to begin scheduling interviews. >> finally. >> that concludes my director's report unless you have any questions for me. >> no, no questions. public comment? do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on item no. 5? seeing none, public comment is closeclosed. >> i have one comment, regina president adams last year come up with the thought about small businesses being impacted by the works throughout the city and had suggested that we should maybe have hearings --. >> construction. >> construction. and i think that that idea was a good idea because a lot of businesses are being impacted by construction

in the city. should we not --. >> we can bring that up under new business. >> maybe bring it to --. >> i got a text today from somebody, you know, who knew i was coming here today and said, okay, i got a problem because of the construction in front of my place and business is down by 40 percent. i know you see a lot --. >> it was on our agenda for january 3rd for north beach. >> mr. president, i think it's fine because you did bring it up under new business for us to discuss it under the director's report because in the past i have had future agenda items. >> thank you for bringing that back up because that's been on my mind. >> february 9th commission meeting is relatively light at this particular point so i could target to ask departments to come before the commission. is that what your interest is

to have the departments come before the commission and --. >> yes. like i know, i mean every one of our areas, it's just one great -- i know we need to get stuff fixed and stuff done now, but celtic coffee company right here on mcallister sends me a text, my business is down 40 percent since they've been digging up the place and he can't get deliveries in and they are not working with them. >> i'm hearing the same two ways. one is multiple projects going on at the same time that shut down an area or the opposite, which is one project after another after another, unceasingly in the same locations. >> and we know these projects have to get done. >> right. >> here's a good example. dpw did an awesome job with the

castro street widening project. they had a person there at site so if you needed a delivery or you had a problem there was a one point person to talk to and i forget her name but it worked. so if somebody had a delivery , you know they would accommodate that for the delivery. >> like an usher. >> it really worked. it really really worked. if they can implement that around the city and we can bring this up --. >> that's a great idea because it's someone on their team who speaks their language and they know if that person who comes to them rather than some merchant jumping up and down screaming about their delivery and they are going, dude, we have to do our job. >> and dpw on that project, i got to tell you, they did a great great job. and you heard very few people complain about that project because there was somebody to go to. >> commissioners, i do have one question because we do have

the city-related projects but there's a good deal of just right around here on the other side at hayes valley, a lot of private development that's happening. so the question for you is do you want information, presentations on the intersection of that and what could be done to better coordinate -- it's one thing for the city to make that directive, but we have city projects overlay with private projects. >> i think it's important because vickie was taking up parking for projects. frequently they are not there or they leave construction materials in what would normally be a merchant corridor parking spot. >> just abandoned on our street. we're still there. >> that is another large issue to folks. we've all seen them take up a whole block with something and then it just seemed like they left.

>> they did. >> so commissioners, what would -- i will work to see if we can get this scheduled for february 9th since our commission meeting is relatively light. otherwise it would be maybe in march. >> yeah. >> but if you do have some suggestions or specific things that you would like for me to ask departments to be aware of or to think about ahead of time, please if you could get those to me again maybe by the end of the week, that would be awesome. >> that's a good idea because otherwise we're just calling them on the carpet for some blue sky discussion. i think if we have some suggestions that have come from our constituents or ourselves in advance because that shows we've done our homework in advance rather than just saying, hey, we're getting a bunch of complaints and we're calling you on the carpet to explain what's going on. what do you recommend, business

owner, what would you like to see? it's a really great idea to have someone on site especially for big projects to have someone as the liaison so it's one of their people tasked with kind of keeping the peace during the project. >> that worked. that was the first time i've seen that done. >> there's some big projects coming up. you're not going to do it for every project because it's putting another person on the job but for big projects that makes a lot of sense. i like that. >> very good. >> also the timing of the work or different aspects of the work and taking the small business perspective is important. that's something. >> yeah, asking them about what their policy -- they have policies about overlapping and contiguous projects so i think that we battled that on port ero hill and people got in a

tizzy because it violated their stated policy. we can ask them to come in and ask about their stated policy to mitigate disruption. they are not blind and they know what they do has the potential to disrupt business and they have some stated protocols around that. whether they get followed or not i don't know. >> i think, for example, one of the things mark brought up what happened to those signs that used to say if the construction parking wasn't being used by a certain hour then it reverted back to public parking? >> that's a policy. >> i don't see those any more. >> they may not put them up but there's a law about it. >> i don't see them. >> if they don't show up. >> these are the kinds of things that are great. obviously what's recorded here, your questions, i can take that and ask the departments. just

hearing the conversation we have our entertainment businesses good neighbor policies perhaps the commission could draft up, you know, a good sort of business neighborhood policy for especially for our private -- especially private construction projects that the planning department can incorporate into the entitlement process. >> maybe if we closed it to the relevant folks, we'd like to invite them for a conversation about -- rather than -- the other is we want you to come in and give us a report. >> right, right. >> but just have a conversation about what's currently in place and what some of the feedback we're getting from our respective neighborhoods and where we might be able to work together to figure out how to make some improvements. >> not just the bad, the good too. when you said the castro street widening project,

mohammed, i gave him a ton, a ton of credit with him wanting to do it all in one fatal swoop rather than dragging it on for six months. >> not fatal swoop. >> mohammed is awesome in how they handled that project. you know, everybody is happy with the way they handled that. >> all right, okay. so the -- great, all right, so i will work on that and i will confirm that, you know, we will be able to have the departments available for the 9th. all right, so we are now officially closing item no. 5. so moving on to item no. 6 is the election of officers the small business commission president. in accordance with the commission's rules of

order, article 2, section 3, the election of the president must occur at the regular meeting of the commission in january of each year. the president shall serve a term of one year and shall be elected upon vote of the commission. this is an action item. and commissioners generally the procedures are that nominees are made and nominees have the opportunity to make a statement and then action is taken in order of which the nominations are submitted. >> okay i would like to nominate mark dwight for president of the commission. >> i will second. >> any other nominations? >> thank you. >> would you like to make a statement? >> i would be delighted and honored to serve as president

if elected. >> okay, do we want to --. >> well, we have -- you nominated, seconded by commissioner yee riley so we will i think go into roll call. >> and the nominations are closeclosed. >> nominations are closeclosed. >> i'd like to take public comment on this. do i have any public comment on the election of president? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right, i shall take roll call. commissioner adams, yes. commissioner dooley, yes. commissioner dwight, yes. commissioner ortiz-cartagena, (inaudible). commissioner yee riley, yes. commissioner tour-sarkissian , yes. >> it is unanimous for

commission dwight as our new president. >> thank you very much. >> moving on to item no. 2 is election of officers, small business commission vice president. in accordance with the commission's rules of order, article 2, section 3, the election of the vice president shall occur at the regular meeting of the commission in january of each year. the vice president shall serve a term of one year and shall be elected upon vote of the commission. and the same procedures follow in terms of nominations. >> okay. >> all right? >> we have a nomination for vice president. >> i nominate commissioner white. >> i will second that nomination. >> commissioners, since we do have a commissioner who is nominated and not present i have confirmed with the city attorney that the commission

may go ahead and take action should they desire. >> have we confirmed her willingness to do so? >> yes, she is at an emergency. >> we would like to take public comment on item no. 7, the election of the vice president. >> are there any other nominations? sorry. >> nominations are closed, correct? >> no, it's still open. >> three, two, one. now they are closed. do we have public comment on the election of a vice president? seeing none, public comment is closed. director. >> all right, roll call. commissioner adams for the election of commissioner monetta white for vice president. yes. commissioner dooley, yes. commissioner dwight, yes. commissioner

ortiz-cartagena. commissioner yee riley, yes. commissioner tour-sarkissian, yes. prrp and it is unanimous. item 10, president's report. >> i have nothing to report other than thank you everybody for your support that i have had the last 3 years as president and i'm looking forward to just being a commissioner. i'm looking to just being out there and representing small business. >> well i want to personally thank you for all the service that you have provided and direction and support to me and the staff at the office over the last 3 years. >> likewise, you've done a great job. it's frankly intimidating to me, you are so

plugged in, not only to your own neighborhood but everything else in the city, going to take me a while to get even half the bredth of plugged-inness that you are. >> i think you're plugged in pretty well. >> i'm plugged in to dog patch . >> item 11 is vice president's report. the vice president is not here so shall we move on? >> next item. >> item no. 12 is commissioner's report. this allows commissioners to report on recent small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. >> commissioner dooley. >> i wanted to report that i've been working with the tenants of the flower market and they have now formed a tenant's association and elected a board and they are now in active negotiations with the developer who has purchased

the property and are hopeful they will find a way to create leases and plans that will benefit both the developer and the tenants. this is the first time in about 50 years that all the tenants have joined together as they did originally 50 or 60 years ago to form an association of mutual interest and it's pretty exciting to see that democracy in action. >> great. commissioner dwight. >> i just wanted to report that i attended the mayor's state of the city address so we were represented there. and it was great, there was an extraordinarily inspiring presentation to start it off by a woman from the bayview which was just brought tears to people's eyes. the mayor's address was fantastic as well. it's really been interesting to

watch his speaking style as he's gone forward. he's very composed and it was really well done and it was in the new produce mart which was interesting. it's not yet occupied but the building is completed and looks like it's going to be a great thing. >> it's pretty cool down there. >> literally, it's a little chilly there but it's a nice facility for the produce industry. they have a couple primary tenants already so that was great. >> there at 4:00 in the morning, it's like a city unto itself. >> secondly, i am joining the city hall centennial committee. this is the hundred year anniversary of the completion of this fine building in 1915 and my great great grandfather was a scotish immigrant whose company was the stone company, the granite company, that not only quar quarried and cut and

set the stone here. we had a presentation at the chamber of commerce our last board meeting at the chamber of commerce and mayor brown was there along with the committee head, a fellow by the name of richard peterson, who is heading up the committee. it was a passing of the hat, raising $4 million, but i'm going to get involved and see if i can't, these things always get away from small business sometimes and i want to see if i can't in the process make sure some small businesses are involved. in fact they are planning a big lighting ceremony and that lighting equipment will stay after the ceremony which will be in june and a lighting consult taepbs out of dog patch is the contractor on that. i will see our small business interests are represented in the city hall centennial activities.

>> the historical society has taken this year's program throughout the city and they have a lot of programs scheduled inviting different communities to participate. remind that you a lot of state, a lot of countries were represented in 1915. it was a year-long activity. and this is a good topic to kind of think about as to how we can, as a commission, bring the small business perspective. >> that's a great idea and maybe, again, inviting someone from that organization to have a conversation with us because this year is also in june the united states mayor's conference coming back to san francisco. it was here in 1997, i think. so hundreds if not thousands of mayors will be

here in june. as a matter of fact, the lighting ceremony for the city hall is planned coincident with that so the mayors will all be able to see this. and so there's a lot going on this year and maybe we could have someone from the historical society come in if they have a bunch of things planned. >> i'm actually involved with the hundredth anniversary of the ppie so i can definitely help with that. >> representing some of these communities at a meeting with the historical society. i think they would welcome kind of an initiative on our part and would take care of the, of exposing how our initiative, if any. i have to say that their kick off event is in february beginning of february. so if we want to be part of that, and i think it's quite an important, you know, event in

the city and county of san francisco --. >> february 3rd is the kick off. >> let's get the information to each of us. >> that afternoon is the commission meeting, february 23rd. >> it's the friday, the friday of that week is the kick off, it's the same day the world's fair opened a hundred years ago. >> is that the 26th? >> so it would be the 26th. >> and it's a year-long -- was a year-long event in the city. so we can fit in 10 months of --. >> right, because the auditorium and the city hall was built for the same event. >> all right. >> my birthday is on the 27th, in case anyone wants to know. >> commissioner yee riley. >> it's not my centennial, by the way. >> i was on the panel for the

interview of the candidates for jane gong's position. we finished the first round and second round and the last interview is this friday. hopefully we will be able to fill that position real soon. >> any other commissioner reports? let's go to general public comment. do we have any members of the public who have items for future meetings? seeing none, public comment is closed. our next item, new business. i think we talked about the construction. >> is there any other new business that the commission has that wasn't addressed under --. >> other than understanding the historical society and other, whatever --. >> whatever we can do to promote small businesses. >> all right. so item no. 14 is