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 done

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? . >> all right. good morning everyone. how about a big hand for our dancers? i can't hear you. [cheers and applause]

yeah, give it up to them as they head back to the hilton. let me begin by thanking all of you for coming out today. it's such a beautiful day in chinatown, is it not? i see larry excited to go clean. first of all i want thank all of you for coming out. it's very important and from our department, the department of public works. we are so excited that you guys have come out today to join hands with us to keep our city clean and green, and every year for the chinese new year we always hear and the chamber of commerce and all of the chinese organizations here always work with us to make sure that they bring a lot of people out to help us clean the community so thank you everyone. all right. also earlier this

morning our agency has been all over chinatown preparing for the chinese new year's festivities. there are so many events and chinatown is the mag nent of bringing tourists into san francisco and we have to do our part and there is no way that our agent or rec and park or all of the agencies together and get the city cleaned and your extra hands are very much appreciated so give yourself a hand for coming out and keeping our community clean. [applause] i am going to introduce someone who i call a cheerleader of neighborhoods and someone that taking care of neighborhoods has been his priorities, and also former director of public works but now our mayor ed lee. please welcome him. >> thank you muhammad. good

morning everyone. i want to thank muhammad and the entire dpw crew. you know muhammad he's going to be the grand marshal this year at the parade. all right. i can just visualize him. he will say he doesn't have to piece a garbage up because he's the grand marshal and i want to thank you for can i -- kicking off the chinese new year and valentines day. muhammad where is my flowers? >> [inaudible] >> i want to say thank you to all of the community groups that are working together with our departments to make sure that our neighborhood here, not only

chinatown, the entire district is clean, ready for not only valentines year and the new years and there is going to be a lot of celebration. today we have the flower mart and you will see people buying all of the symbols of happiness of welcoming in the new year. i want to give a hearty thanks to the chinese chamber of commerce who are here today. thank you very much. [applause] eddy raise your hand. i see a lot of the chamber members here and i wanted to thank the chinese benevolent association who are here and thank you to all of the departments here represented. how about a hearty hand for these department ?ses yeah and we have our special guest that are performing all day long. they're going to remind everybody not to trash

the place, make sure all of the tourists and people coming from neighborhoods enjoy the great few weeks coming up. make sure they are also keeping the neighborhood clean. i want to congratulate again introduce our new direct supervisor julie christensen for being here and the hilton and a big sponsor of these teams and always here and making sure the youth is working together with our businesses. i had the pleasure of being able to join all of you at the different events the next few weeks. i also want to say we're working hard together with the supervisors, with our office, with the neighborhoods, not only to do more housing, but we got to keep our streets safe. today when we're cleaning the streets make sure everybody who is volunteering pays attention

because dpw and all of the agencies and rec and park we're making sure anyone that drives big trucks in and out of the district whether delivering all of these goods or dog construction like they're doing on this public restroom that will be finished very soon. no matter what they're driving whether in a city vehicle or truck or they're delivering great goods or they're the big trucks we're training everybody to be safe. watch out for pedestrians and what i ask is that pedestrians big and small are also looking both ways and making sure they're safe. we invite a lot of people on our streets and our sidewalks. we just want to make sure the number one thing is everybody is safe. this is important to us because without your help, without your safety you have nothing else to share and we're all about sharing more prosperity in the city. we want to build more housing. we want to make sure that the low

income housing is the best it can be and increase housing opportunities in the city and everyone shares in the great prosperity in the city. we want it here in chinatown and north bech as well. and how about that more house something yeah, we can work on this but during the holidays it's about celebrating the culture and sharing and making sure peoplend chinese folks have a long history here and we want to share it with everybody in the city and i am proud of our public works and the rest of the city departments joining the volunteers. have a safe day today. this is the 19th year? 15. wow 15 years of cleaning. i know muhammad has all of these

statistics and we got rid of the graffiti on the street and i know it because i did them myself and the traffic and the light polls and i want to thank all of the crews and making sure you're safe out there and great appreciation for everyone. i see you out here, the wonderful agencies. there are so many of you and i know muhammad is going to go through the entire list, but yes let's keep volunteering. let's keep asking people to make sure that they respect our communities and let's keep the district clean. this is a welcoming in of the entire year of the ram and let's ram through a wonderful year for everybody. thank you very much. [applause] >> all right. give our mayor another big hand please. so i know you noticed these three guys out here and i know you know what they represent. does everybody know what they represent? who is the green?

>> [inaudible] >> comp post. who is the black? >> [inaudible] >> all right. who is the blue? >> [inaudible] >> recycle. okay. so i want to thank our partner for the clean team, but also leading the nation in this rheology and has been instrumental in making sure that all the stuff that we try to get rid of it goes to the right place and reused and by their leadership san francisco has been able to increase its rate almost up to 80% now. 80%, so we have to go that 20% and that 20% is the hardest to get to, and so you see these guys out here and they're here to remind you to recycle and put it in the right

place. all right. give them a hand please. [applause] as we go from district to district it's always our honor for us to ask the supervisor of the district to come up and say a few words and i know julie has been involved in many, many community projects around chinatown, but as a supervisor for the district this is her first clean team so please welcome her. julie christensen. >> good morning. good morning. as the supervisor it's a special day for me. it's new years. i love the custom of starting new years clean and fresh. it's also valentines which is about love and i think we all love chinatown when we clean and fresh, so today we're grateful to you for helping with that. my job as supervisor is to

act on your behalf to thank people who have made a special effort to make today a success so i don't think we can thank muhammad enough for all that he does for district 3 and chinatown. let's give him a big round of applause. [applause] and our mayor of course who keeps a special eye out for chinatown. thank you mr. mayor. [applause] and all the representatives of our city departments, especially phil ginsberg who keeps the park nice and we're starting on a new project to keep it nicer. thank you. and to rose pack and all of the members of the community who work hard everyday and not just special days that make chinatown a wonderful place to live. thank you to all of the communities, so as supervisor we turn our thanks into certificates of appreciation,

and so this is just a physical way to let people know that we're really grateful for what they do. there are groups that participated today especially on behalf of the community i would like to thank the chinese chamber of commerce for their participation today. is eddy here? eddy thank you very much on behalf of the community. thank you. [applause] eddy, you get two. and let's see do we have a representative of pinuen here? anybody here? you're going to get two norman. you just stay right there because there is one here with your name on it. we're out of order now. here we go. chinatown community development center, reverend norman fong. thank you norman. [applause] and do we have cyc here? our

community youth center. who is here from cyc? the ambassador program, all of the things that they do. thank you very much. and then so thank you to all of the community members. thank you. thank you, thank you. [applause] and then we have our community business partners in this. they contribute in so many ways both financial and support. today we have doris from the hilton here. thank you doris for what the hilton is doing for this event. [applause] can you hold all of that? thank you. and then today we have a special thank you to walgreens. do we have anthony stewart and

shirlee from walgreens. are they here? >> [inaudible] >> it's great. we give them a certificate and we get a check. what a good deal that is, but thank you to walgreens for their support. okay. so that's the end of my job. you guys are going to start yours. thank you so much for your help today and for what you're doing for the community. i will turn it back to muhammad. >> all right julie thank you very much. as you know nothing happens in chinatown without the chinese chamber of commerce and with the clean up events the first stop public works makes is to the chamber so that we can get a list of all the things that people are concerned about, but even more than that when i started by work with the city at the public works department the chamber was able to take me to go all over china to be able to see how they keep their cities clean, and as a result of that we have learned a lot from

china, but also europe and other countries on what it takes to keep a city clean and all those ideas, some worked well in san francisco and helped our department get to where it is. i am the first to admit we're not where we want to be but we're almost there and on our way so with that said please welcome rose park from the chinese chamber of commerce. >> good morning. i can't believe it's only 15 years because the mayor mentioned 18, 19 years. that's how long i felt it has been. i remember the first time we do the clean up i had to raise the money to buy the gloves, to buy the brooms, to buy the dust bin and we clear out all of the suppliers in chinatown and then muhammad told me the gloves were not industrial gloves and the