call. commissioner adams, aye, commissioner dooley, aye, commissioner dwight, aye, commissioner ortiz cartagena, yes, riley, yes, sarkissian, yes, white, yes. that passes 7-0. okay. so item 4 concerns the planning code provisions. i think that as we have already noted that we commend the efforts to adjust the planning code as it refers to this sole practitioner and the ability for four up to four sole practitioners to share a space and that is what the supervisor is recommending but we won't know whether it's finally approved from the planning commission until they do so. i'm

supportive of that. the question, the crux of this is the conditional use for certified legitimate practitioners. we have had a lot of discussion about that and there is a lot more discussion outside of this room with that and it sounds as though it's intractable at this time that there is not going to be accommodation. we can object that here just go on the record to saying that we wish it would change, but again we are a recommending body. we don't do anything other than make a recommendation. if we want to make a recommendation we can go ahead and do that. is there a commissioner that wants to propose a motion? >> and again, sort of with kind of an over arching and some specifics, i think it would be helpful to be

on record to support supervisor tang because there was discussion at the planning department for the sole practitioner establishment to have it be just one but to support supervisor tang on the conditional use exemption for the sole practitioner with four and then also to support what the planning department did put made a direction to staff as to find an expedited means to define and final a space for conditional use process. >> right and to explore the elements of amnesty program. correct? >> and again there is one more meeting if you want to take final action after you see the amended legislation or you can go ahead and take action tonight. >> okay.

>> i would like to see it again. >> you would like to see it again? >> yes. when it's finalized. >> okay. do we want to have a motion to at least see the progress? >> yes. absolutely. i would make that, i would definitely like to make a motion i do support the progress and i really appreciate supervisor tang making it up to four. i think that's really important. i do agree with commissioner dooley. it's like another burdensome. it's something else that has to get conditional use. i think this whole city is going to get conditional use if we don't stop it somewhere. i would definitely put forth a motion to hear this again but support what supervisor tang has done up to now especially with the common scenarios.

>> all right. do we have a second for that motion? >> i second the motion. >> okay. all right. so commissioners, i will do roll call. all right. commissioner adams? yes, commissioner dooley, no commissioner dwight? yes, commissioner ortiz cartagena? no. commissioner riley? yes. commissioner sarkissian? yes, commissioner white? yes. so we have 5 in favor aye and two nos. so that recommendation to the direction of the legislation is going in passes but then the commission is going to review the final draft

at the april 27th meeting. >> correct. with that, i think that concludes items no. 3 and 4. >> yes, thank you all for committing the time you did and efforts before this meeting we received a number of very thorough letters detailing this issue and i appreciate that from the community and also appreciate the engagement of the supervisors office and the department of public health and so, it goes on from here. so thank you all. >> commissioners we will move on to item no. 5 which is the directors report. so in your, i do not have a written report for you tonight. in your packet though i do want you to

know that, in your packet, i don't have a copy of it myself but there is a calendar of events for small business week. hang on just a moment. maybe item no. 5 or 6. so very excited. >> i didn't get it either. >> saturday, the city's sidewalk sale is memorial weekend? >> we are doing it both

weekends. some on the 18 and some on the 23rd. >> monday night the 18, flavors of san francisco our kickoff event from 5:30 to 8:30. this is a large networking event for small businesses and to meet with our small business week sponsors and the city departments and other non-profits that provide resources and assistance to small businesses. >> tuesday is the small business annual awards to honor honorees and that's from 3-4:00. that does involve the commission. so we have the president open, the vice-president close and we have a reception for the

honorees right before. that's the tuesday. then tuesday evening we have three, i think events going on. yes, three events going on. the mega made contact with golden gate businesses association and the castro merchants at the lgbt center and this year for the first time the api how to succeed as an american business owner. commissioner riley has been working with tong from the sba working together for this event. and we have a latinos entrepreneurs business in adjourn. journey --

we have three events which is exciting. that's tuesday evening. wednesday evening is business awards with bank of america. this is a small private reception event. then thursday is a small business champion mixer. so this is a mixer with the council district merchants and sf economic development organization doing a mixer together. very pleased that this year st environment has come on as a sponsor and will be sponsoring this event as well. then friday different this year than the previous years but we are hosting the conference at city college the chinatown campus. we found that the event small business week is most successful when we are able to host a

conference with multiple multiple workshops. we weren't able to do that last year. it did okay but not extremely well. we had difficulty finding space to host the conference where we can have ten workshops happening at four different times throughout the day for each of those sessions and so in the past we had used city sf state downtown campus. they closed one of they are floors. so city college campus was able to accommodate us on a friday. this will be a change for us to do it on a friday but i think very important. i will send you out the finalized list of conferences and we have some very exciting new things for the conference this year. we are also kind of targeting to have our conference to have a little bit

more direction towards existing businesses and not just start up businesses. so that's exciting. then after that we will have a small business conference happy hour in the lobby and ending the week again with sidewalk sales. so, that is the big thing for the office. i do want to announce that carol chung that has officially started her position as the business counselor prince george's -- prince -- project manager. she is now working in the office, her first day was march 30th. so, i will have her come to the next commission meeting during her work hours to introduce herself.

carol does speak both cantonese and mandarin. she worked at city college at the dental school. next, i think i was not able to really get the information that i wanted to get to you to really start preparing for the legacy business program so we will engage with that. i will be sending out a series of items that i do need to have you read ahead of the next meeting and so be looking for that from me later in the week. and then i do want to let you know that we are engaging to enhance our sales force so that we are one automating some surveys to start having better engagement and improved engagement with the individuals that we have

serviced and counseled special those that it's been a while so we can check in and see how they are doing, are they growing their business or did they actually get their business open so we can sort of understand what some of the needs are and remind people that we are there to assist them. i think with that i will just leave unless you have other questions. >> what about commission secretary? >> that will be finalized hopefully soon within the next week or two. there is a couple steps with dhr that we are waiting to get some confirmation back on. >> perfect. thank you. >> i know i'm in a hurry. so i have nothing to report. >> so that concludes my report. we can move on to item no. 6. president's report. >> i have nothing to report. >> item no. 7, vice-president's report.

i have a long list, kidding. nothing to report. >> item no. 8. commissioners report? >> i have one item. i did attend the -- >> next. >> payroll tax to -- gross receipts tax seminar. the feedback with cpa's. it was very good. the outreach that the city treasurer's office has done, his name, greg cato has done especially with the cpa's that were in attendance. there is about 30 of them. i just want to give a shout out to greg and jose cisneros on that outreach. there were

people complaining and it wasn't perfect, but greg was able to answer all the questions and i was very impressed with the outcome of that. that's it. >> any other commissioner reports? okay. that's it on that one. new business? any new business. >> item no. 9. no new business. that leaves us to item no. 10. adjournment. >> i motion to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> any opposed? we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ]you.

>> as a voter you have a choice on how you can vote you might cast your vote by mail or vote earlier in city hall if you choose to vote earlier you'll go to our powell plays might be a church or in regards garage they'll make the voting as uncomplicated as possible yes what does 3 take to be a poll working and what exactly does a poll work working do letting meet some. >> aim jack. >> i'm co-author la. >> i'm tiffany and charles and

my name is elizabeth i'm jeff i'm bruce hi, i'm karin a full-time student addressed city college i've been a pole working for 10 years. >> for 13 years your 10 or the 9 or 10 years. >> those poll workers and thousands are an essential part of election day 31 they provide the safeguarding of democratic processed there's a feeling in the poll place you're a feeling of something that has a special place in the world the democratic process in the united states is model to the rest of the world. >> it's a relay sequence e sense you're part of that history and being able to keep that going and it is really does feel good. >> i feel overhead this is a

great civil dude and get a different idea. >> in my residential area i dale feel i'm transbay joint powers authority to the community as a wloel in the community community. >> so san francisco poll workers have a service based mission the first to protect the voter rights we make sure they understand the rights on the ballot and the right to an essential polling place and many languages around english. >> it's like someone that didn't know how to read i'm more happy to help you like i'll help you. >> the second part to serve the voters like workers and language they respect the voter and finally the last myths is

offsets the which i see to come to the polling place. >> this takes a lot of pole working for each election they higher 26 hundred pole workers to staff over 5 hundred polling places this chose 6 senate victories and thousand clerks and high school students. >> look at the address of our polling place on line or visit it a day beforehand. >> every pole worker has been trained the election department holds for one hundred hundred clads a month before the election they vary into one and a half to 3 hours and classes focus on the right to voters including language and other access right for voter and step up polling place and equipment and procedures for voting and

vote and mail. >> the election office is constantly streamlining the process so there the good of the training in order to tap into the continuing better process in their creating. >> pole workers learner about clothing procures like completing the posted ballets and transferring the memory packs and others materials for the traffic officers or deputy sheriff. >> i like how the training every year improves. >> so as the inspector the first is all introduce user to the collect and assign them their job cards. >> a polling place nodes someone to supervisor and that pole working is called an inspector and responsible for that four or five clerks they get hands on experience.

>> you're also going to be doing other things at 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock to the inspector needs to hang into this. >> the inspector makes sure that the polling is smooth and greets people in a way with respect to make sure they're going to the procedures so not only in the step of that but in the actual process during the day and the process of breaking the equipment down and tab latino making sure all the numbers gets to the sheriff's deputy and to the city and county. >> they're a key holder on election day they wear a i can rove that hat audience this is the voting machine. >> after the training inspections pickup bottles and other supplies their polling places need on election day.

>> this is for the briefing. >> inspectors are responsible for the chain of custody of ballot they sign for the battles and have you ever had your deposition taken transfer it to a deputy sheriff's at the end of the day. >> that's one of the things i thought attracted to this to learner about the voting process and knowing that at the end of all this we take great pains to make sure that the routes are secure and save and delivered back to the ballet department. >> their seals rewe having to put occupy the equipment and make sure that carry the key it secures the ballot machine so we have to be keen you know i'd say and areas open on dale what was going on election die when the voter voted if they messed up we've got to void that we have to keep track and get

for every step as well as the procedural exponent to transfer the battles at the end of the nicest to the sheriff's detective and the memory card and data make sure those don't get tampa everyday with. >> each inspectors manual excludes the cards that lifts different pole workers dudes. >> there's one person that sets up the booth and others that set up equipment and again, we follow it step by step. >> we willfully with such culture diversities san francisco has many languages spoken everyday to meet of diverse challenge the department of election assigned chinese pole workers spanish speakers to 2 hundred and 17 predicts and filipino to one hundred and

thirty predictability and vietnamese and japanese to 7 priblts and there's a lot of chinese speaking people so there's been at least 2 people on staff that speak chinese and really comes in handy. >> they choose that pen. >> i'd like to say that 70 percent of powell workers come back election after election that's inspiring they're returning. >> many people are glad to see us we know we're in the predict we are there in the election before. >> i know people expect to see me now it is a regular occurrence so oh, you're working this one yeah. >> there's a sense of trust they believe in us and they'll be protected.

>> working as a precinct worker learners about the process. >> once you see the process you gain a new respect so i'll encourage 80 anyone to get the experience. >> the department of elections needs new workers they're looking for new powell its go to sf election.org >> ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make san francisco the best place to work and will we bring

shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of what's next sf sprech of market street between 6th is having a cinderella movement with the office of economic workforce development is it's fairy godmother telegraph hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and better reason to stay office of economic workforce development work to support the economic vital of all of san francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus

resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as it's moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the affordable housing in general people want a safe and clean community they see did changed coming is excited for every. >> oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. >> when we were just getting started we were a new business people never saturday a small business owner and been in the

bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldn't have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. >> we have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of community back to the neighborhood. >> we wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture.

>> that sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change is inspiringing. >> we've created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. >> oewd is oak on aortas a driver for san francisco. >> we've got to 23ri7b9 market and sun setting piano and it was on the street we've seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now they're coming to us. >> today, we learned about the office of economic workforce development and it's effort to foster community and make the buyer market street corridor something that be proud of

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