isn't enough the lack of federal violation was a little bit disappointing we've seen commitment on the issue but not time and didn't what can the federal government do about safety and strengthen our transit system nate he said we can partner and holy for much stronger federal role and leadership without the ability to fund it he couldn't say much he very much wanted to move 2, 3, 4 a positive direction about the issue of funding and we think that would be important to continue work at the local level we cannot do it alone secretary fox mentioned the strong partnership around the land use the better land use we plan the more ability to travel by

bicycle and transit we recognized this is a partnership are the states and the locating locality we expect the federal government to come through with a major consensus on the next bill and barbara boxer has announced to leave the senate we hope with her colleagues before she leafs deliver a of municipal court year bill with that i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you, colleagues any questions or comments okay. on to public comment on this item is there any public comment on this item on the legislative agenda seeing none, public comment is closed. and we have a motion on the floor. >> on the motion to amend the masking. >> supervisor avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim

supervisor mar masking is amended. >> okay. the motion is amend the masking 83 is amended and the underlying can we take that without objection? okay. so we'll >> i also wanted to amend the eric mar so. >> thank you leo. >> next item. >> state road charge pilot update that on a informational item. >> good morning here to talk about the charges you've read in the news this modern and some earlier in the week california is preempting for a new pilot program we want to talk about the proposal and what it monies for california so california is exploring a charge that comes out of key group that mark mentioned the elements to move forward the pilot and sb 77 we

established a technical advise committee that met for the first time last month to implement a pilot program at the beginning of 2015 this is something else that assembly speaker atkins spoke in support of last week as well when is the rod charge an update you where you charge the drivers per mile of gas consumed he think it can be tracked from anywhere of a flat fee to a gps tracking system that lives in our very long and under the system one of the key points it is fuel-efficientcy vehicles will use the road so everyone paid transportation tax is based on the user fee it is meant to be a approximate i didn't when it was implemented there was basically

a flat fuel economy across all vehicles some vehicles get 15 miles per gallon so the gas tax is easy to collect a part of the federal, state it depreciates worse from there without either a new funding or severe cuts in expenditures we're in trouble and so a little bit more about the gas tax the federal gas tax was last raised in 2003 and the inflation adjusted dollars it had more valuable to the there's in the last exactly to californians spend $108,000 per

year due to the deteriorating roads so why not raise the gas tax well, the state and federal gas tax lose it's value and rising costs of construction so who was $0.04 per gallon it was 11 point 2 cents but with the gas taken into consideration tax people don't pay their fair share they pay overall lower fees for gas but not transcribing that is a big political lift it takes quite an effort why is the road usage the answer it moves treating the roads like water and public good it is more equitable because the users pay their fair share and

lower efficient vehicles pay more than the less efficient vehicles so from american people equality technology we have the gps and other technology that can assist us in collecting it and it won't be degraded as fuel-efficientcy continues to grow that is pretty intense that the electrical vehicles in 2015 there's a small part of technical cars but 20 thirty most will be electrical and not contributing to the funding source so factors to consider that the pilot program will go into how much it costs to implement and administrator you think about the tracking vehicles in the united states it starts to add

up how easy is it to use you need to plug in and not remember to turn on and tech reliable that's an expensive component and how much the fee structure and who do we charge has to be easy to endorse and engage the private sector in the administration and technical and there's policy concerns that comes to mind when our talking about the charges and equate so oregon is leading the way with the usage charges in 2012 they had a small pilot about 88 policymakers experienced it offhand and kaetsd and informed the public this is the fee that was in place of the gas tax so the users got a refund and a number of goals to chief the

easy of use and on system that is privately administered prrnt were given 3 reasons one a flat monthly fee and one that recorded the meanwhile track and i guess the cell phone you use grps to track in state and outside of state so they did find their charge raised 48 percent more this led to the next pilot 05 thousand users that is going into focus july 1st, 2015, the plan to charge 1 point 5 cent per mile and that's between the federal and state government and a so things to consider fuel implements and what technology will it replace the embarrass

tax how do we address the privacy concerns and more likely to kept it and how do you spend the revenue that pilot will hopefully address if not all of those questions. >> great, thank you supervisor mar you just explained the technology you said if a gps system a a driver has to elaborately allow their systems to be tracked to know how many miles your gone. >> there's a range that has processed and consciousness in oregon you asking can self-report and a or pay. >> fee and less tracking engages combajz about it reaches up to a gps whether you're on a public or private road and only

charge you for the public or private road but if you have the gps and have that level of engagement with excuse me. with the device you'll get benefits and not have to pay as often. >> supervisor kim. >> actually go back to our gravel on page 9 why are interest two bars for every 5 years. >> there's two bars one the model year and the second bar is the entire fleet. >> the fee. >> the fleet of vehicles so ever so the model year is what the cars get reduced and the rest is the composition of all the fleets so ever car. >> so the first bar is the cars that are actually mustard and the second the cars purchased.

>> the first one is the cars purchased in the years shown and the seconds bar is all the cars in the entire state so everything that was purchased in 1990s through the current date and in terms of what we anticipate. >> correct. >> it's great to see that electrical cards are predicted to make up a majority of cars in the future it's great to see i guess one question he have it makes sense the rational how can we insure that it didn't stop buyers of cars that are looking at hybrids because it decreases the fees they pay.

>> that's an important question the rational is the gas tax is such a small portions of what you pay so electrical cars you're not paying but maybe now saving $2 a gallon you're still saving money per glag. >> so the greatest incentive being the reduction. >> thank you. >> uh-huh. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you chairman and thank you for the presentation a quick question and probably a dumb question but not all gas equals are the same is there a way to capture the use of road captures a large truck vs. an impact car. >> the trucks are charged under

a different system right now only pedestrian cars but an application to larger vehicles into effect in new england and germ they have usage charges hair been piloted for something else. >> is there i'm wondering if there's any other way in which other jurisdictions sort of pay for the roads road uncle tax which i understand you know the benefit of it there is a regressive element i mean are there other things that are done in the country and the world we can look at. >> this is probably the most forward thinking one i've seen i mean you see the traditional sales taxed and gasoline taxed

that is the closet and the lower efficiency vehicles that cost less over paying in gladdening gasoline tax will be less. >> supervisor mar. >> another question about the slide that commenting raised the question about so it looks like electrical vehicles are going to it looks like a tone fold increase in 10 years and then still a good portion of hybrid vehicles as well is there data you can give us on the increase in use of electrical cars that's helpful to understand how a new policy might impact the city and counties cities like ours we have a bigger percent of hybrids and electrical cars ask there data on our city or statewide. >> i haven't gotten it but

we'll look at that and get back to you. >> ask there any reason we couldn't create our oppose vehicle miles program here in san francisco. >> i think it requires state authorization. >> okay eaten for congestion active management we don't need it for that. >> we can look at as well. >> great colleagues any other questions thank you for the presentation very interesting. >> we're looking to see what happens in oregon and how that goes as and a at the go to the next portion of the project is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item 5 is an informational item we'll go on to our next item.

>> item 6 introduction of new items this is an informational item. >> colleagues any new items or issues go to public comment is there any public comment on item 6 introduction to new items seeing none, public comment is closed. and go on to our next item. >> item 7 public comment. >> our next item is on for general public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. prior to our adjournment i want to thank sfgovtv broadcast jessie larson and nona melkonian thank you for your services our next item. >> item 8 adjournment. >> colleagues, we're adjourned thank you

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>> good evening it's that monday february 9, 2015, and it is 531 this is the small business commission meeting mr. president, before we do the role call i need to make a note due

to technology complications beyond the departments and city's control the agenda did not get poefd on our website so we need 2 hours in advance the agenda was posted at the library and the room on time in execution with our da because we don't have any action items on the agenda i said it was our discretion to move forward with the meeting i want to be clear with the public and perhaps we can just call and see if there's call for any public comment on that. >> let's call the meeting to order if there's phenomenon or anyone from the public that objects please let us know

substantially we'll take that matter up at the later meeting there's no action so we're on to addressing any items but we'll precede with tonight meeting seeing no objection can we have the role call. >> so commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena is on his way commissioner white commissioner riley and commissioner tour-sarkissian mr. president, you have a quorum. >> all right. so the first matter of business as also the general public comment this allows members of the public to comment generally on the issues and suggests now

items for that the future any public comment on that item? seeing move on to item 3. >> item 3 presentation and discussion on the city and county of san francisco economic strategy report before you tonight, you have a presentation by ted iguana the city's chief economic ate and in our binder is the draft report the full draft report and lou also you have a power point presentation. >> welcome gentlemen. >> good evening, commissioners it's great to be back before you todd with the office of economic workforce development it's with a lot of pleasure we're able to come before you tonight with the i can't want to the san francisco economic strategy as you recall back in 2004 the voters approved proposition i is

mandated the city develop and in a competitive strategy for the city that strategy led by your office in coordination with the torres office published the report in 2007 has been a guiding document for our office concluded the office of small business to strengthen our economy and connect san franciscans to the jobs the proposition requires that the city provides and do conduct periodic updates the economic strategy today is the culmination of our currently up to date strategy we want to do a couple of things first is to provide an overview of the key strategies goals and second we want to review key action the city has taken there's a range of actions from creation educations to

transportation but we wanted to do for the small business commission as well as business development month generally and ted my colleague will be joining me to do that portion and ted e gone will present the core of the strategy as well as continuing the surveillance and i'll be coming back up to the podium to discuss our conclusions and look forward to a robust discussion with the commissioners. >> welcome. >> hello so as todd mentioned 5 key foundations that the 2007 economic strategy covered it gave us a myriad of policies and actions today in the interest of covering things purview i'll be

highlighting things regarding our business climate and the neighborhood work. >> would that be easier for you to use that. >> yes. okay so the first thing was recommendation was to create a local issue that promotes the qualities we've heard from businesses that are payroll expense taxes and they thought that was great so in 2007 sorry 2012 through a lot of hard work with the community and input from groups like yours including the small business up to one million dollars the gross receipt tax were passed in 2012 we're in that season and hopefully it is going smoothly

it's our first payment in february the outreach is strong we've worked with the community and excited to see this phased in second recommendation dealt with business outreach and we've - we're proud womd helps with the small business center that was opted since the publication and our work on the investment crossroads those are things we are doing to increase the communication with the private sector we also worked hard to strengthen our private sector partners so our work with different business and merchant associations the ethnic lgbt commerce and the china sf and sf

asia with sf matdz a number of organizations we work with and again, it's to keep the communication what's working and not how the programs can be improved we laefrnd the one stop business center in 2008, and regina's team did that more than 16 thousand small business clients have been seen a as of may of last year that's. >> huge number and a great way to connect with the small business community and provide the support and developed an online perpetual for the experience from home as people are interested in starting their own business in 2013 we launched that portal that was phase 2 now phase 3 do the creating of the

process and find ways to streamline and make it more easily to navigate for small businesses as a part of the - in 2010 oewd did a small assessment and got a lot of information from small businesses that resulted in the cb g b in ways that small business better access and access to capital was one of the concerns for small business a number of the resolving loan funds the micro loan program and after because of this because of our increased communications with the business groups we are here about problems and discover issues with ada and lawsuits we developed the americans with disabilities act assessment

program which is 2 hundred and 50 businesses and the storefront to help with the storefront vacancy and the job squad that continues to facilitate communications and continue to talk with small businesses it's hard to get out of your offices and sometimes to learn about what is going on so a tool for small businesses to access so that go is to the increase of the small business services win city hall we're using sales force and see what each other a dog and what programs their assessing and we've also again continued to work with our department of workforce development organizations to streamline our complying client referrals sometime is the fact