>> 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 now closed and item no. 15 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. we are adjourned. thank you, everybody. (meeting adjourned).

>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban

center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and

people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows

what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to.

>> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help

or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't

recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and

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order. >> ladies and gentlemen, the chair has called the meeting to order thank you and can you please turn off our electronic devices it tends to truant officer with the equipment in the roam may we all rise for the pledge of allegiance allegiance. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam president i'd like to call