we do track by ethnicity in terms of clients served and industry on the back we have our first report for the business portal and as you can see - under the highlight section on the right side of the page it's 13 the portal launched on november 17th and the average number of users is one hundred and 14 it was 9 users like in 23 part of that my guess is we're not requiring people to sign in we're not able to capture any personal data we were able to at least capture people's e-mails so it makes it a little bit less

on and on reduce we're seeing an uptick with the individual are that are on the portal and go to the crack with additional assistance or coming to the office as a result of visiting the portal and then because we're noted asking people to sign in with their zip code we have some indicators but adapt drilled recycle we used to like the supervisorial district so this also gives us the business portal has the startup kit it gives us a view of the top kits access of people and then at the top on the left hand is location of where people are coming are

from to access the site with at least we can tell whether they're coming in from san francisco and if that's the highest number was california being second. >> what's the difference between sessions and users. >> sessions it would be that it can track same users so like someone like me going could go back continually and the user is the unique user. >> interesting so see you have 4 hundred and 88 international. >> that they know about us. >> they are going to move money into new york city they're blind investigators and the portfolios the sfgov page there's there's a website the portal is highlighted there. >> it's interesting to know

what people are looking around for all right. anything else. >> that's it with the dashboard and activity take place with the portal and the business assistance center in the report i just highlighted out again, i talked about from the mayors state of the city but the women's economic power the women's empowerment section from the state of public safety address under the prosperity and there will be a meeting in the next couple weeks to have discussions around it and if the commission would like to be involved this is something we can did you and take a look at if you have ideas on what he would like to be involved with this the short-term rentals officially february 2nd was the first die that the individuals needed to register to clarify

some of the process with this ever individual needs to become a registered business and they need to do that before registering with the planning department they do need to also file for the transit occupancy test and this is going to be somewhat confusing and i feel somewhat sadly for those individuals because right now any of the hosting sites they're not certified as certified hosting entities to file the transit occupancy take into consideration with the city but some of the sites are also worldwide w withholding that 14 percent in preparation they're going to have to pay it so that's an unfortunate thing for individuals they themselves are going to have to pay that tax a host site become certified but the treasurer is aware the

individuals maybe double taxed so once the hosting site is certificate they've set up on mechanism to file for refunds. >> do you have a special tab on the business portal for - it seem like a perfect opportunity were going to have a rush of people coming. >> jane was great for aggregating the tax informs and the planning department also, we are advising people to you know if they have been highlighted on the site for you know have been listed on the site for a couple of years to strongly come clean on the back registration back taxes they owe because once a hosting site does register the

tax and treasurers office will ask for a list of individuals that have been listed on the site so if they've recorded when they register now and it end up being they find discrepancy there will be penalties seated to right now, we're that's one of the things we're kind of really encouraging people to be honest about. >> get good with the take into consideration collector. >> was there outreach to those. >> i side know that some of the hosting site they're also trying to educate they're the people that are registered with them and also providing them with information i do know that airbnb is saying we're collecting the transit occupancy tax for you but but

you know which is somewhat they're doing but the cats you don't have to my it but the individual does that have to pay it until the hosting site becomes certified so i do know that some of the hosting sites are going their own outreach. >> the transition period to be expected there are complications anything else. >> also in our packet is a letter so steven cornell was appointed to the sfmta advisory committee and the background a while back i announced liz borden woos was appointed to the sfmta as a small business representative that came out of the meeting with the small business leaders there is a letter that the sfmta sense advisory committee has

forward on to full board to recommend doing an economic impact in regards to the construction to local businesses in regards to the polk street scrape project that ties in a little bit in terms of the presentation that are are going to want to be getting from the departments and i'll get into that in just a minute also on march 5 the members of the small business commission group will be meeting with bart to discuss construction related projects and conversation as well i want to inform you that both jorge and i have met with the seismic structure team that's monitoring

that i'm norris the spot maybe the building that has ground floor commercial might wait until further they have seven years into come into inclines in the property owners are moving forward with the seismic improvements i've seeing ground floor commercial space going dark as a result of it so we want to try to get a full listing of the property to go each and tracking i know what's going to happy with them if you know they're going to be returning afterward and also at the same time track ada at the entry in terms of whether the property owners are taking the opportunity at this point especially in the business is dark to do educational entrance that will be something we're working on and in regards to the

last commission meeting your request to have a hearing regarding construction related projects and outreach and communication so we didn't make it in time for this meeting a lot of it was having to do with the last minute of dealing with the fire and so i didn't have adequate lead time to have the departments come but so we are able to march 9 and 23rd look like appropriate dates right away right now in terms of the legislative schedule and the departments to invite i wanted to make sure that we in agreement that will be the sfmta mta and dpw and planning and oewd in regards to working with the private developers.

>> can we make sure that's a meeting in the evening most of the impacts are during the daytime so it would be invites to have that opportunity for them to come. >> all right. 0 that's the march 23rd meeting so just want to make sure you know. >> no. >> the earlier, one. >> i'm sorry march 9. >> okay. >> thank you for that correction i switched the meeting dates so overview as i understand you want coordination of major projects and so, so there's a master coordination plan for projects and you know does that master plan work also exclude private projects and then you know does the city like we have

a gun control o good neighbor policy for the city's do they have a good neighbor policy would each the departments ask that in time for the private investment and wanting to know prongs is there sort of a last number of years you'd like to get some look at the number of projects the department has de over the locations size - >> i'm not interested in a historical prospective i'm interested to know if there's currently in there a crook a way to coordinate their efforts i don't think we need to have a historical prospective but going forward because we have heard stories and witnessed situations where there are offering will

you explain projects and kind of amplifies the distribution to local businesses if we hear from the organizations if they have liaisons or policies in place that require they coordinate those efforts so are they effective? if not how do we get them to do so >> so that's leads to the next power point the next legacy will be heard and i'm having a meeting with the sf historic society to discuss the marketing program and any remind you that the legacy legislation right now is just for register sort of benefits for like tax

rebates and things like that are developed and will come latter and we have the updating legislation it's scheduled also i noted that supervisor avalos is conducting a hearing around the minimum wage i'm highlighting 3 businesses that have been in the media borrowed land bookstore and restaurants and ab button sited minimum wage is a linchpin for their decisions and then there's i won't go into great detail the last thing the s b.a. director will be here on march second with the partnership are the national gay and lesbian

association thaig their hosting an lgbt business builder at the auditorium so this is contracting with that with that unless you have questions that concludes my report. >> yes. a question in regards to staffing i know you mentioned that you are yes, we're almost done with the jane position so should have that completed the location. >> process implement by the end of the week i received the list of names for the interview process for the commission secretary so we'll be scheduling and reaching out and scheduling interviews reaching out to the commissioners on the interview panel to start scheduling that >> we'll give you some help.

>> all right. >> all right. thank you next item. >> the president report whose that (laughter) i have only one thing i did attend the first meeting in preparation for small business week and little did i know what i was getting administrative review into and . >> i got myself out of it. >> a whole bunch of meetings i'll keep you, you posted terrorist an informative and kind of preliminary orientation and most of the people have been to the rodeo before i'm the new one. >> item 7 is vice presidents report. >> yes. first congratulate mark in his new position i want to officially congratulate you, and, secondly i wanted to thank

all my fellow commissioners for voting me for another term of vice president in this role thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and lastly i attended last week or a little bit over a week going ago the women's orientation of the kickoff meeting and was invited as a commissioner to talk to the women and happy to report there's 0 out of 38 attend device that have or wanted to start a business it was a great meeting just wanted to report and able to talk about our office there were so many questions and people 3 didn't realize the accessibility of information our office offend so i was able to plug. >> all right. next item >> item 8 is commissioners

report. >> any commissioners? commissioner riley >> yes. wanted to report i put the interview panel for the first interview and the second interview with the applicants i think we're done. >> thank you great. >> commissioner president adams. >> i want to say i attended the council merchant dinner at the aortic golf course this was one of the best dinners and commissioner tour-sarkissian was under and the director was there we were representative active and acknowledged. >> thanks for doing that. >> any other commissioner reports all right. next item >> item number 9 is general public comment so this is the call for general public comment allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the purview

system page 2 within the commissioners purview and suggests new future consideration any members of the public that would like to public comment or make a suggestion for future meeting seeing none, on to the next item. >> item 10 is new business allows the commissioners to announce new business items. >> on to the final item. >> item 11 is adjournment. >> we have a motion to adjournment. >> i motion to adjourn. >> then we're done where's my gavel?

>> hi, i'm corn field and welcome to doing building san francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. let's take a look at that. >> here at the spur urban center on mission street in san francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. i have guests today, pat

buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both structural engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake what should we do? both structural and maybe even important non-structural things. >> you hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. what you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. if you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. if you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck

chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make

sure that your structure is okay. if you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. if you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their due diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. >> when i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. >> especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work

in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. and that is something that you could do for yourself and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we

need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask? >> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the

owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on ♪ >> welcome to hamilton recreation and aquatics center. it is the only facility that has an integrated swimming pool and recreation center combined. we have to pools, the city's water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide.

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>> good morning, today is february 12, 2015. welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is john avalos and i am the chair of the rules commit. i am joined to my left by president greed sitting in for supervisor cohen and to my right is supervisor tang our clerk today is lisa sumera and today's meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff. thank you for your service. we