have new partnerships with the business communities to look at the overall health of san franciscans. that concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions? >> thank you. commissioner tour >> i have to thank you for your presentation. it is a complicated field and you made it quite clear and thank you for the 101 presentation. >> thank you >> this discussion was for the city option only? >> that is correct, >> it doesn't increase the contribution-it is readjusting the budge squt redirecting your efforts in managing. >> that is right >> the employee wellness fund is also limit ed to the city option >> what i didn't say is that we are planning to convene a group to look at what the employee wellness fund would look like. we wanted to address the a

ffordability of helt insurance and know employee wellness is another component we want today address so we plan to convene a group in 2016 that will determine the parameters of the program. now we think it is probably employers who contribute to the city option, what they reinburse for and the elg lt requirements and how much they are eligible for reinbursement for, those are to be discussed in the work group. >> commissioners any other comments or question? >> thank you for this. it helped me wrap my head around it a lot better and i think you did a very good job in your presentation today . >> commissioner yee, riley, >> employers still have the option to contribute to the other options? >> yes, there was a change in

federal law that made one of the options-change one of the options. helths reinbursement accounts is a option available under prior to the emp limitation of affordable care act and after implementation it didn't meet affordable care act standards so the way to contribute to reinbursement account is for things like dental and vision and not heth care. that is still available and employers can comply that way but we see increase of compliance through city option. employers find it easier to contribute to city option given the new rules under the helt care silty ordinance >> any other comments. thank you very much. we'll open to public comment. seeing none public comment is closed. thank you very much >> thank you. >> thank you colleen.

>> item 7 is discussion of update on state paid sick leave regulations, >> commissioner wanted to let you know, so the letter that you approved to be submitted to [inaudible] is submitted and we are waiting for a response, but in the inrim the state passed changes to the law so thought we should take the opportunity to make sure that is highlighted. so, the eligibility requirement slightly change. i think the individual was somewhat eligible from day one, but now has to-there is a 30 day or more to be entitled to be paid their sick leave. other highlights, i won't read through everything but other

highlights that are important to note is that there was a requirement where if the employee was-the employee left work and came back within 12 months especially for seasonal works that may be a case and it required the employer to reinstate the paid sick leave owe adthe time the employee left and this is removing that requirement. it also has more clarity on exempt employees and change tooz the pay stub notification in that the employer no longer has to write out the amount the individual used but what is in their accrued or their bank as per the state law. and then the

other element is there is something about dealing with the accrual method. the second item allows employers option for accrual and so we will take a look at this-we haven't had the opportunity to take a look at this closely as it relates to the interpretation we had done previous. how that effects the 48 hour accrual if business goes by the straight

accrual methwud the state. we will get back to you on that. so, i know the commission wanted a more charted out and so we are irk wg on that but wanted to wait and see what-we knew there were changes happening at the state level and didn't anticipate for them to take place so quickly so we'll have that for you no later than the next meeting but hopefully sooner. i just wanted to bring that to your attention and we are waiting on [inaudible] for their response. >> it is interesting with that is san francisco we have our paid sick ordinance and everyone in the city knows how that works and everything. i hear outside of san francisco, a lot of small businesses have no idea this law is in effect. i was amazed talking to people

in san mateo and sant aclara county, they had no idea and go on line and check and are like, oh my god. in a company like mine where i have employees in san francisco and outside san francisco and la and other states, we have 4 different paid leave policies dependent on which city you work in. >> i think it does highlight the fact that the california employers association who helps decipher this and there are non profit entity, one thing they said is generally not until a employer gets to have 50 or more employees do they start to seek-they may bring in in house to help sort of manage all the

employer rules and regulations, but generally seeking 3rd party assistance, businesses between 25-and 50 may start seeking 3rd party assistance. there are a number of businesses so for a non profit entity like california employers association which you can become a member, a lot of small businesses are not away a entity like them is there for as a resource for hr service s and help interpret the law. i think this speaks to the difficulty and speaks to why we need specific direction from [inaudible] for our smaller businesses. >> all right. thank you for that. any public comment on

this item? no. stephen? okay. seeing none, we'll move to the next item >> item 8, discussion and action on legacy business action and project plan >> commissioners i'm requesting that we continue this to the next commission meeting. there were items around non profits that i needed to get clarity on and so do not get that in time, so we'll continue this to the next meeting. >> i'll make the motion to continue to the next meeting >> second. >> second that >> all in favor. >> aye. it is continued. >> we need to call for public comment before we motion that? >> any public comment? seeing

none public comment is closed. >> i motion we continue to the next meeting >> i second that. all in favor. >> item 8 is-sorry 9, directors report >> so commissioners, 2 things i would like to highlight is on 716, the last commission meeting i said is coming up is the quarterly meeting the mayor has with small business leaders and want to thank commissioners and dwight and yee riley for attending and please add anything at this moment or during the commissioner reports. so a couple things i pulled out from the mayors budget, the 6.7 million that have been in his-that were highlighted in the press release as part of the budget that came from topics discussed at this meeting. one is construction mitigation fund,

so in that will be primarily targeted i think to polk street, but to work to provide some mitigation efforts. it isn't necessarily direct reimbursement to businesses but to do marketing promotion and better coordination of city agency working with the businesses to help mitigate the impacts for the work that is being done. there is continued investment with the business portal, so that we are going to work to bring more permitting on line, working towards the e signatures, working towards credit cards being taken for all permits. those are some focuses being worked on but continued to-on line business-new business registration. and then there

is the small business accelerator team and in that is actually going to-is funded a full time position to be a case manager for restaurants to help restaurants as that is the most complicated kind of permitting licensing business entity for small businesses to get through the city so there will be a case manager probably will not start until the beginning of 2016 who will be there to work with all restaurants and help navigate them through the getting their business open, navigating with the different city agencies. i think this is a very critical and important position and from that the acceleration team does consist

of liaisons from department of building inspection rks planning, dpi [inaudible] work force development, our office so that we get together and take a look at issues, needs what is transpired and have it as a learning process that we can carry forward and apply to all businesses that have to get their permits or get their business open. another is the bilocal initiative and commissioner dwight is also attending these meetings. so we will be working with other business organizations, the hotel council the golden gate rest jaunt business association, the couns

oldistrict merchants, sf travel, sf chamber, to take a look at developing a partnership by local initiative. we'll still retain the mayors shop z dine in sf loma is a organization but to develop a comprehensive bilocal b to c or b to e, which is business to employer. the biz connect will stay in tact as it is and continue to be worked on in partnership with the chamber to develop and expand on, but this is expanding on the traditional bilocal initiative and concept. commissioner dwight, is there anything you would like to add to that? >> no i think it is just we are

really trying to keep sf biz connect on point as a business to business arrangement because there are a lot of other stuff that goes on for the other modes of local punching, >> some of the idea is develop tool kits and messages businesses can take and adopt with customers or employees. are there sort of marketing tag lines so we all are utilizing if we are really talking a bilocal message to employees or consumers that if we work to have a consistent messaging tag line way to communicate it which each entity or organization doing it then it has a larger ripple effect and a larger voice and so--so, there are 2 meetings and