corridor to lose 20 businesses there's got to be a way to soften the blow it certainly with all the residential building right now i know moving around the city it you know kind of a double blow for many businesses it is never ending for them you know they just simply not being able to withhold the businesses it is two years say of building you know that's unrealistic we need to consider the health of our small businesses as an important part of doing any infrastructure promotions i don't feel comfortable sacrificing a number of what many long term businesses to do it there's got to be a way to work to you know not have that happy i'm disturbed about even

on about polk street the economic impact not for a year you know having the small business for many years that maybe a little bit too late for some of the businesses they may go under they mating might not but we need to think about up front some of the impacts before we start a project. >> commissioner tour-sarkissian. >> thank you i agree with our president i think in the project goals we have to have 3 proengz how do we define what constitutes an economic analysis and we have to get the elements that should be included also it is going to be a challenge for this commission to come up what

the recommendations what triggers that reports and finally and equally important what we're going to do to if, in fact an economic impact what will be the recommendations and the levels of remedies so this is going to take quite a bit work to analyze and report and brief the mayor's office by december 31st. >> note the commission is not comfortable i mean or their needs to be more time obviously more time to be taken to do the job well so but i think once we start gathering the data putting it before you the data and information you have the time to review it hear it and access it and provide the direction to the

staff to work on. >> i think if i may finish on the issue in getting the opinion of those different departments is important to us i believe at least to me in the sense i gage what they don't internally and the procrastinations they take how they communicate with other depth and finally in place today and what we should do to improve it but the career we need to think about in defining economic impact analyze analysis and when it's triggered who triggers it and to the extent the departments are going to be involved we should hear them and see what the position has been

and is today. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> i think to piggyback on that i may have a question how realistic do we develop the criteria and all the approaches is it possible when their transpired for us this commission actually to see it in front of us or have a say not approve we're obviously not a body for this but i mean those projects go up all the time and truly included i know there is outreach we're better off when i started this commission i mean there's no true he recalls or he was the and commissioner white. >> we're codifying in a more efficient way in the past with

the departments as commissioner dwight said we've spoken in the past with the mta process what i our recommendation did not seem to be taken seriously and so i'm hoping that this passed will load to a more compelling state of you know things that must be considered and can't be dismissed because they're not convenient for one group or another okay commissioner l. riley. >> yeah. i would like to hear public comment to see whether or not to shed light. >> okay. so there are no other commissioner comments do we have members of the public that would like to comment on this item?

>> hi question. i'm available to answer any questions sacramento that from the golden state restaurant association first of all i want to start off we're in support of the street light infrastructure projects they're necessary but at the same time our support of consolidation of public and private projects to minimize time and as far as the economic report or analysis whatever seems to be we really support smoking gun coming before, during and after it is hard to conceptual lists because the projects have helped after their completed making more assessable but as was mentioned small businesses cannot absorb the costs and the beautification for

the necessary projects we have to take into account the necessary construction i know we have businesses in in which that has power outages so we're definitely in support of this economic analysis in whole so - >> thank you for coming out. >> thank you. >> mr. cornell, sir. >> dwight. >> president dwight. >> commissioner you're here in that forum. >> steven cornell a lot of traffic out there i think this is very, very, very important i just want to remind you when they start it build bart a million years ago before some of you were born it changed market street completely that was the

street in san francisco public rates went up and down and suddenly after the first year all the businesses went crazy lost christmas busy business and everything that's how we got the law no street construction in neighborhoods in the mc 2 districts between thanksgiving and christmas a lot of businesses went down the total no preplanning third street, west portal i've seen anothers that was mentioned a few minutes and ocean avenue and polk street no one have any idea of what happened to the businesses beforehand the effort you guys are looking at and hopefully pass this is very important i wanted to before i just lost

it read to you some lines if the preamble from the what is this the general plan of san francisco under the planning department one of the things that commutes muni service overburden our streets is neighborhood parking it is part of the general plan at existing housing the neighborhood to be conserved and protected where it is preserved in the neighborhood and number one existing neighborhood retail uses be preserved and enhanced and future opportunities for employment's and other things for the businesses that's in our general plan it is never considered in any kind of small or medium or large sort of prongs this would be a great

thing thank you. >> thank you. >> scott i'm speaking as cal insurance this time i applaud the commission for taking this very significant step forward in assisting small businesses to with stand the construction projects in their area i don't think that small businesses really want to stop the projects but want to be brought into the discussion as was talked about before, during and after this is a great step in the right direction it sound pro tem from regina that she's getting a favorable response if i understand from various departments and is encouraging that needs to be developed further down the road. >> thank you. well i think all important issues that is

important that the stakeholder feel they're being heard and this can be that forum it is important we bring the departments together to discuss the possible things to be done so that's our intention okay. any other public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. . >> so commissioners you don't have to take an action i agendized this in this case but unless you want to formalize it you may want to backtrack and it is good to take a recommendation and then we'll set out i'll work with the president and vice president on first timeline to take the comments you've provided tonight and breakdown a plan of which you you know what will the departments present i think

there will be information that will have to be delivered to you in stages and then go back and continue to work on it it will be an ongoing work on the departments and the business leaders stakeholders to provide the direction and for you as well so. >> do we have a motion to approve with the staff commissioner tour-sarkissian. >> i was truly going to suggest mr. vice president that we have a motion and we incorporate your comment at least i'm taking the defining the project the goal of the project and a.d. do adding an item to the consequences remedies will be and that will be the - so i take the first paragraph that was read into the record. >> good to have a lawyer on the

commission. >> laura. >> and adding to it you know your suggestion mr. president has to what is the recommendations for actions as a result of those reports. >> okay. >> and i would move that that be the motion. >> and - >> and may i suggest we're not going to predetermine the remedies at this point but in this area in terms of where the remedies to be determined in the areas. >> just to include that as part of the project. >> i'll second that. >> just to clarify the motion to approve efforts by o s b staff to move this project

forward as by commissioner tour-sarkissian. >> all right. with that, just one moment please. commissioner president adams commissioner dooley schmitz commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner tour-sarkissian and commissioner l. riley. >> and with that we have a motion approving to move forward with the economic impact as so amended. >> perfect all right. on to the next agenda item item 5 director's report. >> i have a verbal report for you tonight i want to let you know that last week there were 2 events one with the s b.a.

administrator i put the information in your packet at the last meeting in terms of the procurement workshop with the national gay and lesbian chamber of commerce and the golden state association our la concina mexican restaurant commerce on the supplier diversity with the employment and at the federal level this was well attended and our office was asked to speak a bit about the services that we provide and then i was also able to share that for our lbe certification a depreciation for businesses to be able to identify themselves as lgbtq businesses we don't give preferences at the federal level

they'll base it upon the veterans and at the local and state we're in theable but the businesses can distinguish themselves and it can be on the database the next day square hosted an event ladies at lunch it was part of the march being the international women's month so they're about 3 hundred women that were there and there was - so they had 3 break out workshops around marketing and regulations and so again, the office was invited to talk about our services highlight the business portal so was that productive it was

reaching there 0 their clients and so there was a significant number of new businesses that were just starting so they were happy to hear about the services in city hall and the business portal then i want to let you know that working with the department of environment again the recycling issue is coming up again with the closer of the recycling center at safeway another market street one hundred and 17 small businesses are in that convenient zone will now be impacted we are in terms of having to now do the buy back for recycling so i think what we're looking at is there creative solutions that can come up i think we as a city

our policy sdishgsz are the transit first were moving away from you know we've continuously reducing the off-street parking eventually places i imagine that viewing like the example of market street safeway that those sites will eventually be developed and so we will be you know even if the recycling center was there and retained over a period of time those places are going to turnover and be developed and removal for off-street parking for the recycle centers or buy back so i think there are things that are happening within san francisco not only for the small businesses in terms of the policies but in terms of our policies that the city and how

we're moving forward to making it important complicated and difficult to comply as the policies are written in short of having to do working with our student representatives our issues are relatively unique because we're san francisco where you know most of the state places have parking lots big parking lots so dealing where small recycling centers or having machines in a small location is easier to do to be able to comply with the regulations with that said, time to make modifications to the state law i'm working with the department of environment and their leadership trying to bring in supermarkets and ecology and those that do business around

recycling to make creative solutions to look at it from a land use policy is going to be challenging for us as a city to continue to be able to comply with the regulations so wanted to bring that taushgs e to your attention and okay. >> 10 the portal i've asked jane because she is doing some work on the streamlining project i'm going to be scheduling her on a quarterly session to keep you up to speed on items that are being developed in the portal the portal is launched we need to continue to sort of modifications and upgrades to the portal but shields streamline the first project it is talking to what is it takes to open a restaurant and the map

to help from at least a one basic sector what is the point and what's the efficiency we can start taking a look at i have a question it would be nice to get like last time the tables how many people use the portals and what venue in san francisco from other states that was helpful last time we got that from you. >> and i will have her make sure that's part of the report and with the quarterly dashboard i'll send you that information too but i think you probably benefit from a deeper dive than presented on the quarterly dashboard in terms of the use of the number ever starter kits the things of that sort of and then lastly i do want to let

you know from the executive office of the white house the technology of that did contact our director of technology to want to have a discussion about our business prltd their taking a look at at the initiative they can do to pep help the small businesses in terms of streamlining so i really want to give credit you know. >> to - >> so it's nice to receive some recollection about some smart initiative ways to help small businesses. >> i hope that will help you know support we would support that the federal government supports our portal. >> we're yet to have a meeting to have a discussion i think that those kinds of discussions will probably be included.

>> and then lastly i mean commissioner dwight you hopefully, will expand b upon small business week with coming up and that's exciting we have a lot of new things i think not sure i've mention last time we'll be going back to the all day quenching convention on friday as opposed to wednesday we're using the chinatown city college campus that was the day it was available to use we're pleased we're now going to be able to return to an all-day conference that was highly attended and something that businesses you know really appreciate and was really kind of one of the functions for small business week. >> i couldn't have said that better is that the end of the

report. >> that's the end of my report. >> so suffice it to say oh, number 6 president report as a co-chair the preparations are going on and as the executive director it was recorded the venue was improved over last year and there's is a high demand for this day of small business talks so we're working at the schedule to be on the agenda and who is going to be speaking about what we're going through ideas about that but high tech companies in san francisco that are reaching out to provide the services that is an awesome forum for the new acknowledge of business tools that are out there it will be a

good learning for small business owners. >> i have nothing else to report the next item vice president reports commissioner white isn't here we'll skip that and on item 8 commissioners report any commissioners report commissioner dooley. >> yes. i've been attending the planning department and supervisor mar's sessions on trying to define sub sarz in terms of retailer and find a legal way to define this we're finding it to be quiet a challenge want to give you a heads-up it will be coming our way soon i urge you all to put your minds to how we might be able to handle this the planning department has said we're to deal with it as used rather than ownership which makes it

extremely complicated and we're working hard to deal with this new issue. >> okay commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> last week the attend a working solutions and small business one and she's part of the city's resolving loan fund with an specializational motivation for the year. >> fantastic. >> commissioner l. riley. >> yeah we you and i interviewed the first interviewer for the secretary position are we're going to have a second one. >> i'll follow-up with you off like that. >> and also i substantiated the meeting with bart the bay area

rapid transit along with the director they send 3 people to make a presentation on the plan they gave us i think it was a good meeting you know there's a agreement they will work with the small businesses and the office of small business to share they're planning it will not interrupt the small business. >> what was the context of the - what in what stent a they'll plan in what context. >> the context is coming from the quarterly meeting with the mayor and again talking about the infrastructure projects the mayor encouraged different members those that are interested from that group to meet with the different departments and bart is one of the entities that government entity that deals with infrastructure that the city

interfaces or businesses interface with so scott has been setting up the meetings there's been a meeting with dph and different meetings? a meeting with bart to have general discussion and they also provided a presentation on a better bart which i mean will likely schedule if not urgent but schedule that you're aware of the bart scheduled projects that they're working on. >> and also, they mentioned that the affair only covered 75 percent of their costs so in new york their central station underground lots of restaurants and shops and that yes, i did. >> a lot of revenue and

mentioned in asia like the 81 pa and hong kong and underground the way station there's an underground shopping mall so asked him to consider that >> i may add one point of discussion a substantial amount of discussion twenty-four hour in light of our hourly workforce and sort of the mitigation of where they live and the complexity of bart to be able to do that. >> i've met with tom and the s.b.a. and they plan to have classes in chinese in chinatown and the city college campus and wanted to have a mixer so in chinatown it will be sponsored by the east west bank i told her to meet with the east west bank

they're a provider as well as the. >> okay. >> i'll let adam know about that. >> any other commissioner reports. >> i have a question about the come back to the economic interact analysis is bart going to be part of the agency we'll be talking to. >> it's too far from what we're trying to do. >> i think in terms of it's not that it should be k4ri9d but in terms of what we're able to influence mostly is really around the city infrastructure project that's not to say that we couldn't use what the commission end up