small business commission. held on june 27, 2016. this meeting is called to order at 203 p.m. tonight meeting is

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at the office of small business. thank you. >> wonderful. item 1, roll call. : staeven adams, here. kathleen dooley is on her way. mark dwight, here. william ortiz-cartagena, here. commissioner tour-sarkissian is absent. commissioner zouzounis, here. you have quorum. item 2, presentation and discussion on sf biz connect. the presenter is susan ma of economic and workforce development. >> one of my favorite projects.

>> the mic isn't on. >> working now? >> yes. >> susan ma and manage the sf biz connect from office of economic and workforce development and just passed the one year anniversary so thought it appropriate to give a overview of what we have done and how it is going. i will tell how we started and what we have done and where we are going and how we actually started was here. conversationwise small business, talking to small business commission and it was really those conversations that we need a program like this to help business to business interactions in the city. the goals were to create opportunities for small business and encourage loickal spending

habits within the community. we launched small business week in 2015 and the first month we had 9 pledges and 90 small business listings. a think a lot of that had to do with our outreach and partner would chamber of commerce and they are invalable and tweent over 50 merchants associations and sent 40 news letters and hash tag biz connect. another piece the work is live evenlt. we hosted a couple so far, the first is called, events made easy and had over wn00 addendsys, 35 small business vendors. salty sweet is a ucis sess story are now served in coffee shops which is a wig win for them. [inaudible] never taste a

horrible cookie ever again so if you speak to her she will tell you that is the goal of the business. >> she makes great cookies. >> the next event we did is a small sf biz connect panel. we had large businesses talking about what they looked for in vendors, and then we had small business vendors talk how they got their foot in the door and that was a great educational experience. [inaudible] hard ware were introduced to air bnb. small business week this year is speed meeting with snacks where you have 3 minutes and ring a bell and go to another table and wanted everyone to meet everyone. [inaudible] placed order with some of the vendors they met with that event so we are excited because that was a quick turn around.

we have over40 pledge businesses and hope to increase that number but we are excited at the growth we had in the last year. we plan on having moreo vents, more pledges, more listings, more introductions because those have been very effective. our promotions we have posters and pens and sf biz connect t shirts and fliers and you are familiar with the resolution supervisor tang brought forward during small business week of this year. she is in support of sf biz connect. that was my recap of what happened in the year. we are all ears if you have sessions we can dobetter or events you would like to see but are really excited of year two and what else is to come. >> commissioner adams, and thank you very much for the pen and post

pad. you are doing a good job. i talk to a lot of businesses in the castro that are working on this and they have made connections with other businesses and doing business between each other. i know it is working out there, so i want to say thank you susan and good job. just keep doing it and keep pushing it. >> thank you very much. also locally made everyone. >> yes, i will tell you from my own experience as someone on the other side of the equation selling products to companies in san francisco. my business like many in san francisco frangly could get all the business they need if san francisco companies focused on buying from san francisco companies. my company makes bags and many corporations have bags for employees and etendees at events and

customers. chocolate and granola, anything that is packaged product or tasty treat that can be given as a gift to someone coming out of town to treely experience san francisco and enjoy something made here. there is just a huge amount of business and you guys are doing great work. ime rrp a big fan and supporter of this program and we just need to do more. i can tell you we are barely scratching the surface. 40 companies is just a mere drop in the ocean the number of companies that could be participating and the number of transactions that could be happening is ordered of magnitude greater than it is today. you got my support as a commissioner as well as someone who benefits from the program and i think it is really awesome. this is a great great project. alright. commissioners, any other comments? we'll open tupe public comment.

any members that would like to comment on the fabulous program, sf biz connect? seeing none, the item is closed. thank you susan very much for all your hard work. >> great job. >> next item, please. >> item number 3, presentation and discussion on transportation demands manage: discussion item. may i have your name? our presenter is wade ricklif. the planning department, correct? of the planning department. >> hello, good afternoon. wade [inaudible] department staff with me today is cory [inaudible] from planning department staff. i will present today on a multi-year multi-agency

effort called transportation sustainability program and if we can go to the slides, that would be helpful. this multi-agency effort is a collaboration between the planning department, the san francisco municipal transportation agency and county transportation authority. some of our colleagues that normally would be joining us are on vacation this week but happy to present for them. so, this program as i mentioned, is a multi-year effort with acknowledgment that existing residents and businesses have been doing their part to fund a transportation system where people have multiple options for moving around the city and making sure we need a vision for the city that fits with providing those options. the transportation sustainability program acknowledges that and tries to

say what can new development do to pay its fair share to contribute to the impacts it has on the transportation system. there are 3 parts to this program and we came to you last year i think cory was here last year to talk about the first part and that was a transportation sustainability fee that expanded the updated the amounts of the fee that applied to non residential development and expanded to fee to apply to residential development for it first time. this passed the board of spl visors in september. the second component we call align. this is about making sure what we analyze for environmental review which is what i do in the planning department reflects what we care about and that is safety and making sure there are multiple options to get around and that

occurred in march. the last component is what i'm here to talk about today and that's a shift component. this component is about providing multiple options for people to get around from new development. it is reducing impacts for new development on the transportation system and this would occur through a transportation demand management ordinance that would shift vehicle trips to sustainable modes of transportation. this proposal is through legislation that was initiated at the planning commission april 28 and we are here today to inform you of that proposal and then answer specific questions that you may have. the good thing is, here in san francisco we are not starting from scratch. we

had transportation demand management in the planning code for at least 30 years. however, there are certain things we can approve upon based on research we have done throughout the country that looks at actually having a comprehensive transportation demand management ordinance instead of the disparate measures throughout the code. it also talks about providing more flexibility and certainty into development review process than what happens sometimes on a ad hoc basis through the gement review process. it also through the best practice research we noticed a trend to have staff that insurance compliance on these measures. using that research and the challenges that we face as a city in addressing the impacts from new development in san

francisco, we tried troocraft a proposal that was san francisco specific and neighborhood specific and there are three main elements of the ordinance and i'll talk about the first two and cory will talk about the last component. in the first is a target aimed at reducing vehicle miles traveled. the overall premise is reduce vehicle miles traveled from new development that would otherwise occur. vehicle miles traveled is watt we use for environmental review. it talks about the amount and distance a project may cause people it drive. a higher amount of vehicle miles traveled indicates more environmental impacts. you have more energy impacts, more air pollution and more green house gas. lower vehicle miles traveled has less of all those things. the vehicle miles traveled based on having a

target that new development will have to meet. the target based on the number of parking spaces that would be provided on the site. more parking, higher target, less parking, less target. we did a lot of empireical research in san francisco the last two summers as well as there is more and more resurp in the transportation field talking about the more park ing provided on a site, the more vehicle miles traveled that will occur there. if you provide parking you need to do more things to insure vehicle miles traveled is reduced. and this ordinance would aploy apply to new development of 10 or more units excluded 100 percent affordable housing and new non residential hauser of 10,000 square feet or more and the proposal is change of use for

those same sizes. i want to make the point if that 10,000 square feet, so some planning code previsions kick in at 10,000 square feet and we were selective choosing that as the thresh old to start app lickability and we also acknowledge a lot of businesses smaller than that may not be able to do some of the things we are talking about in this ordinance which i'll explain in a minute, so we exclodeed those types of developments so it may not effect some of the businesses you all work on. so, a project has a target that it has to achieve. it has a number of points. how they get there is selecting from measures and some of these measures may not be able to be accommodated in a smaller than 10,000 square foot business so that is why we

selected that. there are 26 measures. each measure is assigned a point value from the low end of things, 1 point and showers and lockers for example is 1 point. that is something that triggers start at 10,000 square feet for non residential development and move on to things that have more effectiveness and reduce vehicle miles traveled more than shower squz lockers. things like public transit subsidies or the amount of parking you provide on site. less parking, more effective it is at reducing vehicle miles traveled. how this might play out, my colleague cory teague will give a example project. >> good afternoon. i before you last year for the transportation sustainability fee for two

meetings and appreciate your support of that program then. happy to be in front of you again today. so, wade talked about the background, the framework of the program and at the project level. we actually have the first step is developer or public can use a online tool that will have all the measures and they will be able to plug in the information about their project and determine what the target is and look that measure jz figure what works for their projects so they can do this work before they submit a development application and we have a preliminary version of the tool on the website for people use and become familiar with it. we will take up a made up example project to give a idea. usually we have a residential project that doesn't make a lot of sense here so we want to share a different example which

is 2,000 square foot in south park . they are providing 25 off street parking spaces. that results in a target of 14 points. you have to get enough point val ue to get at least 14 point. the code will require a certain amount och bike parking and require showers and lockers and get a point for each. that takes two point. they have to make up 12 points to make up the target. so, the next thing they ask is how many points can we get for parking supply. parking supply is really tied to your neighborhood context. the city is divided into individual transportation analysis zones, so each zone we have data regarding the parking rates both residential and non residential in those zones. if a project meets the same parking rate of the zone it is in,

then you get a point and then the more you are below that rate, the more points you can get up to total of 11 points. in this scenario, south park taz, the parking rate is 1.2 parking spaces per 1 thousand square feet of development. so, bike parking and showers and lockers they get 9 points for parking supply and so that gets up to 11 poits but still need 3 more points. so, at this point this is random, there are multiple measures they can pick to get the 3 points. in this scenario we chose

transportation marketing service which gives the 3 points they need. in this scenario, those measures would constitute the tdm plan. those are the measures required to put in place to reduz. if we change the project and provided 50 parking places that changes the target from 14 points to 16 points so they have to do more to meet the tdm requirements. in this scenario they do additional bike parking and meet the code requirement and go beyond that to get additional points there. their neighborhood parking is.3 so below the 1.2 in the neighborhood but not as much as before so only get 8 points instead of 9 and still to the taylored transpor tation marketing so use the parking

pricing measure to get the final two points. you can have two projects similar but because of how much parking they provide they may be required to do somewhat different tdm plans. once that that plan is proposed for the project, it moves forward in the review process and most would have to go before the planning commission for review. having a code complying tdm plan is a condition of approval for any planning commission review. and then the tdm plan has to be finalized before the building permit is issued. there is the documentation recorded on the property for future owners, home owners associations and so on to hear about what the measures are and what they are committed to do in the future. the next part comes after all the

tdm plan creation and project approval. this is about implementing the strategies they selected and this is where this program is different than others in the planning code. this program will have a very robust proactive monitoring and reporting program associated with it. we will have dedicated staff that will conduct this work. the first step is, preoccupancy monitoring, so some of the measures are capital. how many parking spaces you provide and bike spaces you provide. signage and othersism before the first certificate of occupancy could be issued the staff will go out and inspect the property and make sure those components have been provided per their plan. any operational requirements they have to provide documentation to that effect as well. they have to satisfy they meet

the tdm plan before the certificate of occupancy could be issued. the next phase would be ongoing compliance and that is where we have requirements for site inspections annually and monitoring and reporting. they center to report back to us showing they are continuing to implement the tdm plan as approved and any project that basically is in good stead for 5 years, would go to a less often inspection regime. this part the program is fairly different than what wedo from most other requirements in the planning code. with that, just to give you a idea where we have been and where we

are going, we have done a lot of outreach for this program. we had a open house for the publicm we have been to many community advisory committees and spoken to multiple boards and commissions. we did introduce the legislation at the planning commission april 28 and hopefully will move to had board of supervisors for review and hopefully final adoption. that concludes our presentation and happy to take any questions. >> have you had negative feedback in your outreach to this program? >> commissioner, negative is a interesting term. i would say we had constructive criticism about

certain elements of it. we had a lot of discussion about applicable and designed that to reflect the discussion. we had interesting feedback about specific measures and tried to refine the proposal on research to reflect that conversation but overall i would say the criticism that we had has tried to go towards the same goal of actually reducing vehicle miles traveled. people may have different opinions how to get there. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> just to follow up on that particular question that president dwight said, who are the groups that offered criticism? >> i would say everyone we have met with has had some sort of critique. we have been meeting with people over the last 6 to 8 months. most recently we

met with chamber of commerce last week. it may be more relevant to this setting. one the questions they had is change of use and applicable threshold and how we came up with 10,000 square feet and stuff like that. >> going to the concerns or questions i had, first i totally understand the need as a city that is evolving to use other modes of transportation. i live in visitation valley and born and raised in the city and never seen congestion within the city-i feel like we are in la now or something. i definitely support what the intent of this. my questions are, you brought up 100 percent affordable housing gets a by pass on this, but there are projects in certain neighborhoods where private developers are putting up to 40 to 50 percent affordable housing and how dus that look regarding the tdm process? is there exceptions or these are hard lines? >> right now is you would have

to be totally 100 percent affordable to not be subject to the program. >> i just recommend and it puts me at odds coming from the mission but comment that some projects might need a further consideration because 50 percent affordable housing on a private development, these are landmark things happening in the city currently, so i would just recommend to maybe take a second look at that. my second question would be, this is a process, this is black and white and mathematical formula that is kind of complicated but dont care because i'm sure developers have people on their team that can navigate through this but from a cultural lens and in the mission there is a project on 22 and mission, that is a new development. however, it will impact a older neighborhood and also a neighborhood that is having big big gentrification issues applying to residentially and small

businesses and sometimes what applies in a cookie cut fashion in some neighborhoods could be catastrophic. can you give me a example of considerations from a cultural lens especially things impacting a certain neighborhood, is there room to wiggle or is this program steadfast? >> it is intended to be [inaudible] if you meet your points you meet your point. there are measures within the menu that reflect the geo graphic differences throughout the city, so that one slide- >> i saw that with the highlight parking ratios. >> that is the best elevation. a project in the mission with not as much parking as other parts the city, the rate is lower in that neighborhood than others. there are other measures in the menu. there is a measure called,

healthy food retail in underserved areas, the idea is if you are providing a grocery store in a area that is under represented by healthy foods you are shortening trip distances for people so you get points for that sort of measure so that is another example. >> i see the process goes finally to city planning for final approval, correct? that process, is there room-i bow you said it is pretty steadfast, but from a cultural lens what works maybe in downtown or other neighborhood where you know, it does work, from a cultural perspective historical business and-is there room at the end of the day for some kind of- >> the intent of this is reduce v vehicle miles traveled. there are other policy considerations regarding cultural and business issues

that may effect this plan, but really no, the intent is not to take into account other sorts of [inaudible] >> just to reiterate and clarify, there is a lot of flexibility within the menu itself. there is a lot of room for individual projects to find the right measures that may work for that project in a specific location and specific context, so there is the opportunity for a lot of flexibility within each plan even for one individual project. there may be a lot of different measures they can choose. there is the ability to flex at the project level, there is no specific requirement other than the way it is bit into the measures like the neighborhoods parking rate or measure yoz cuonly use within a certain geography or a certain type of project. that is already in the

measures. there is the ability to be flexible within each project tdm plan. >> within thboundaries of the plan though? >> yeah >> commissioner dooley >> i had one question, which is, it there a part of the plan when a office is built and they comply with the tdm, but then their employees will not park on the street all day? is there any plans to discourage that kind of activity that will continue congestion in a different manner? >> yes, the planning commission and department only has the ability about what happens on the site. this is segmentation and bureachyeracy. we have been working with colleagues at mta and now they are going through a public outreach process to

revisit how they handle curb parking throughout the city and that is a comp hence chb look at curb allocation and how we handsal transportation from new development. >> so, will there be opportunities i assume for more public transportation? i'm thinking for example [inaudible] nob where there is inadequate parking and they are all parked on the streets. it is fairly poorly served by public transportation so will that be part of the plan to amp up public transportation in these area? >> yeah, i think-i f i take a step back, this is not going solve our transportation problems. the tdm ordinance by itself, the fee that we came to last year is supposed

to go towards improvements that invest in transit infrastructure, transit service frequency, providing better transit or bike connections throughout the city, so there are other planning processes going on to try to insure where new development occurs, there are multiple options for people to get aroun. this proposal is really about what is on site aminities can we provide to encourage that to occur. >> director [inaudible] >> for new development mixed use with residential and grounds floor commercial, can you maybe talk about how the developer will meet some of those compliance requirements or what might be required of them and if the ground floor commercial is

divided up smaller than 10,000 feet are they still required to-will the points still be assigned to them? >> i'll start with the latter question first. if the aggregate doesn't add tupe 10,000 or above they are subject to the commercial use so they have to add up above that. if let's say you are 200 residential units building and have 25,000 square feet of ground floor commercial, whatever it may be, then each use would be subject to a different target. so, the most common example we may see in this situation is essentially you have retail type use on the grounds floor that is 25,000 square feet and those are classified as land use category a that generate the most trips per parking space and then you have residential which is land

use category c. we didn't do examples like this, but essentially if you are 25,000 square feet of retail you are subject to bike parking and shower jz lockers like the example cory talked about and then we look at your parking supply and say new grand floor commercial in the city isn't building a lot of parking so probably get a lot of point for that. and then you would select from that menu to fill your other measures. just a example. does that answer your question? >> commissioners any other comments or questions? i have a couple comments. i have trouble with the notion that a project causes people to travel more miles. projects don't cause people to travel more miles recollect people need to travel and we have taken this punitive approach and the punitive approach is like anything if we reduce

supply we will throttle demand. if we tell people we don't want them to eat beef and take it off the market people don't eat more beef. people will travel less by autoable if you don't let them park so we are in the active crusade to [inaudible] i feel we do this disproportioninate in the city and that is there inadequate public transportation. it should start with project proximity to public transportation that runs at frequency to make it attractive practical and convenient. thing weez are not equally concerned with residential parking at this commission. small businesses rely on residents quality of life

and willingness to live in neighborhoods and ability for outsiders to come and participate in the economic vitality of the market place and local neighborhoods and time after time we hear business owners telling us parking restrictions in the neighborhoods prevent people from coming to their neighborhoods and cutting off from customers thahad for years. we heard here in the commission time and time again people coming and explaining how they won't go to neighborhoods in san francisco because they can't park. we are throttling our city with the crusade of park{not balancing that with improving the supply side oof public transportation and alternatives and we can't rely on walking and cycling as a huge part of this equation. we have to provide public transportation because as we get older, some won't be riding our bikes as much and if we

make this a city where fr young people who can ride bikes live rfx that is a interesting proposition and may include that in your planning because we valot of people that can't or don't want to ride their bikes on the streets of san francisco that are in a deplorable condition. it is dangerous even without automobiles threatening to ride on many streets t. is uncomfortable and dangerous. you know, i don't-from my perspective, i don't-i have some very serious concerns about this program and the reason i ask you about your outreach if you like to call it constructive criticism is because i can't fathom that you are not hearing in every venue that you go to talk about this whether it is in the neighborhood or residence or businesses downtown at city hall you are

not getting very serious concerns about the effect of this program on the quality of life have economic vitality of the city. the two first and formost principles of the transportation policy is insure the quality of life and economic vitality of the neighborhoods. steve from brownies hardware-you look that first page the transportation policy and see that is the policy. i don't see this getting at improving the quality of life or economic vitality of the neighborhoods, i think they go in the other direction. that is my observation as a residents and business owners in the san francisco and in dogpatch one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in san francisco,

it will suffer from the parking restraints inflicted by the mta. i live in a neighborhoods where the mta monopolizes 3 blocks of parking near the bus depot and mta workers idle their cars-talk about a environmental issue, they idle while they wait for the previous shift to vacate the parking places so they can then pull into what are public parking places so they have taken all the public parking around the bus depot off the market. the city of san francisco guards its own parking stock, the only other agency in the city of san francisco that has the right to build its own parking is uc and what does uc do? they build parking on their propertys. i live next to mission bay. uc built high

rise parking structures on that property. why? because they acknowledge the quality of life and ability to hire people for their hospital requires that they be able to ride in their own vehicles to a neighborhoods that is completely underserved by public transportation and park vehicles to care for people in their mission to provide health service. they acknowledged that they have a problem. it is called, parking and their solution is build parking and lots of it. our city's posture is outside of its own demesne and outside of uc is not address the demand issue, but to cyst masly remove parking from the stock by lof the measure jz under the guise of making intersections safer and all good things rsh but daylighting intersections, remove public parking, remove curb parking and reorganize bus stops, remove parking. the

moratorium on new build ing structures and encouraging old parking structures tourn down. outside of their own demesne and the domain not controlled by the planning department and mta, two domains where they acknowledge parking is a rerequirement and preserve it and build more, the rest of the public people who have visit here, people who work here and people who live here suffer disproportioninately from this crusade to eliminate parking and that is my observation as a residents and business owner in the city of san francisco. if i'm wrong people can correct me. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> like i said, that is exactly what i wanted to highlight president dwight is just the uninteneded consequences. i understand as a city we have to plan for the future because yes,

evaerch wale there will be a time where there will not be enough room to park all the vehicles as the city expands and population grows, i understand that, the problem is, it is at a expense of what makes cultures and cities great and that is why i give you the mission. 22 and mission, if there is a big development with mixed use and xhrjs on the bottom and the tdm is applied, people are still going to drive. people are still going to drive and since there is no additional parking technically added, what happens is the traditional-the old businesses already struggling that are regional business because san francisco is a the man hat thochb bay so people gentifyed out that visit the local shops have to compete with the new development because the parking is not in line. that is the concern, the unin10ed consequences of this. to highlight what president dwight says, unintentionally

you help gentrification because if we want people that ride bikes and healthy and young you don't want older people and people that are gentifyed out. i don't say you wake up this is master plot this, it is just unintended master consequences. we want the consideration because small business needs parking. people that have been pushed out have to drive in. if you kooshopping like my mom, she lives in pittsburghs and she won't take bart, she will drive and park in front of [inaudible], do all the shopping for a week and leave. she will not ride a bake here or take bart or catch a bus. it is the way it is. if you take away that populous from a local merchant that will anchor in our neighborhood that business is gone and the mission is another neighborhood. again, i understand that we have to plan for the future of our city, which won't

accept these [inaudible] there are things we can do like, maybe when we are doing developments, we can do parking that later on the future turned into xhrjs retail. it is the way we engineer the city, we need parking now but maybe in the future we don't and those parking structures can be converted to other things. residential. -now we need parking still. >> i own a car and take public transportation as much as possible but need a place to put my car when i'm not using it and want my car to visit my paints in heeldburg because my parents wone come here because they can't park. i'm not the only one. people won't come from the outside to visit friends and family if they can't park so we are cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world. there is a lot of

consequences unintended or not. commissioner adams. >> i want to state and agree with president dwight and commissioner ortiz-cartagena. it is cultural thing. we had this conversation yesterday in the mission and castro in my neighborhood it is a regional destination and planning has come to many of our meetings and mta has come to our meetings and told them we need parking. it is regional destination and people still drive here no matter what you put in. the under ground stuff after midnight where people want to come to my neighborhood after midnight. the businesserize starting to suffer and the consequences are being felt. we told you, please do not take parking out, please when you build a

building let them put parking when people visit and planning and mta says no and guess what? we have the buildings built and lose parking and business. in a nut shell, this is something you need tatake back to the planning and mta and say listen, we need to rethink because some of the small businesses are losing business. >> commissioner dooley >> i hate to be the pylon butd from north beach, telegraph hill embarcadero and everything high cocommissioners are saying is absolutely true of north beach. we are trembling in fear the changes proposed in the merchant corridor that will make it more impaunl to park. we have a reputation it is hard to park. our small businesses rely on-it is regional and get a lot of visitors. it is just

unrealistic this whole thing now. no more cars, everyone has to walk, everyone has to ride a bike. it is just not true and we are not saying everyone should buy 10 cars but to say people won't use cars especially because our transportation-of course i drove here, it would take a hour and a half at least to get from north beach to here. i don't have that kind of time and would say that is true of many people. they will just stop coming to our neighborhoods. i already see it, complaining and it is very hurtful to our business corridors if you guys want to put a big transit lane on columbus avenue, it is just unacceptable. you really need to understand that we live and work here and it is not a conceptual thing to us, it is our daily life. >> when i started my company 9 years ago, all my office employees

did live in san francisco and they got to work by various means many by bike. today most employees live outside the sit a because they can't afford to live and need to to get in the city. i start my day looking on my phone to see who told me they are late because they have public transportation problems or need a parking space. we have gone from 4 to 2 hour parking. my employees move their car not once a day but 3 time as day and they run the risk once they get in the car and out of the two hour spot they will not find another two hour spot or another spot period. i potentially lose my employee after 2 hours in the morning to the rest the day because they can't park legally and they risk getting a fine. i don't know what it is now. 65 to over

$100 which basically whipes out their earnings for the day. this is a problem for small business and already a problem for residents. i'll telling you, this is going to have a very dramatic effect and it is building to a crescendo in small business and residents and parking could be the straw that breaks the camels back in the city. commissioner yee, riley. >> one of your goals is to reduce vehicle mile traveled and one of your examples here, if a office building with 25 parking spaces is less points to meet. the building with 50 parking spaces is more points, but if if 25 less parking space you not really reducing the vehicle traveled miles. those 25 people will be traveling all over the place to look for a parking space. have you considered that?

>> so, commissioners, i appreciate the comments. this proposal is based on research that we had done as well as research throughout the country that demonstrates there is a a relationship between the number of parking spaces and vehicle miles traveled, so that is why in that example there is less vehicle miles traveled with less parking. >> i would think that is-- >> when you throttle supply, you decrease demand. that like a axiom. what happens is, the bulge comes out of quality of life and economic vitality so you decrease quality of life. you decrease economic vitality

until you get to a breaking point and now i would say sure, you take out more parking and will see less miles driven. if i can't afford to park my car, i have it get rid of my car so i will figure a way to not drive more miles. i want a place to park my car t is a convenience. i don't want permission to drive more. i want permission to park the vehicle i own so on sunday morning i go to sayway to get all the stuff i can't carry on my bike. totomy paper, paper towels, the stuff i don't want to put in my back pack or carry on the muni system because i can't physically. so, alright, i want to use my car once a month, twice a month to make my supply run. i don't use my car to go to work. i didn't use a car to come here today. i didn't have to wait for 30 minutes which is the average wait time

on t. so, by punitively removing parking of course you reduce average miles traveled because people can't have cars and i just think that is the wrong approach and think we should find a way to store cars. whether you repurpose it later i don't care. people criticize cars on emissions. we are on the virj of the age of the electric vehicle and also on the virj of the age of sem iatonmississippi vehicles which will make transportation more efficient. all the uber drivers, they are all coming outside of the city. you got all kinds of ironies going on and think we are working on the wrong part the problem. i think what we are working on is make ing the problem worse. you can point to all the studies you want that reducing

the number of parking places reduces miles traveled and will accept that as a axiom. to me, that isn't a statistical thing to bandy y about, that is what it is. less beef, more people eat chicken, it is the way it goes. obviously i think we have some as you may call them concerns about this program and yours isn't the only one. parking restrictions moratoriums on building and parking structures, all these things work together in our observation me beaning here 15 years and others born and raised, i have seen dramatic decline in

economic vitality and quality of life related to parking. if anyone has a example that is in the other direction, i welcome it, but don't think i heard any today. i would guess as a group we finds this to be-a further kind of decrease in quality of life and economic vitality for businesses we represents. i state that as a observation. >> commissioners, this is not agendized as a action item but can aggregate your comments and forward them to planning department. >> we know this is your job, but we are coming from neighborhoods and don't care where you are in the city, whether it is mission or castro or west portal, bayview, south of market, the

number one issue is not what we heard today, the number 1 issue with small businesses in all these areas is parking and the reason why you hear us today is because we go back to our neighborhoods after our meetings and they know we are listening to you and we get it from our constituents. they are like, they are taking this away, they are taking that away. you guys come out for public meetings at our neighborhoods. we tell you what we want, you guys say okay and you do the opposite. what president dwight says, we are coming to that point because start going into some neighborhoods now. i don't know if you live in the city or not, but guess what, you see vacancy squz a lot of it. the reason why you see vacancy is because a lot of these are regional destination neighborhoods and they are not getting the people to come and shop and spend money so they can afford to

stay in their businesses. they said, this is just part of your department and we know we have this plan in the city, which is a transit first. great, transit first. we have to address the other problem right now because if we don't, we will have a lot of problems in the little neighborhoods where tourist come and there will be no place for them to go. but, this is why you are hearing-you are not the only ones mptd last month they came and talked about parking permits. we will let everybody know and planning and mta we need to-somebody has to start listening to the small business owners or else there will not be small businesses left. >> this isn't personal. this is about this institutionalized situation we have here in the city that is frankly-is t is to the point

where the business community in particular and i think many residential organizations are exacerbated and we hear all about the outreach and wonder who you are talking to because you are not talk ing to us. either people are not speaking their minds because it is unpopular with people that are probike. i am probike and i take pub lb transportation. when i try to get a t on 6:30 when there is a giants game-you think they would have a lot of transportation and in the middle of rush hour and time interval goes from 5 minutes to 30 minutes at 6:30 in the evening in the midst of rush hour and

giants game. the t was a after thought fl mta to extend transportation to that neighborhoods. why would they need it? it is unconsenable and many people helping us run our business live in the eastern neighborhoods and to be subjected to that type of inadequate transportation is frankly a outrage and that is where we need attention. we don't need to take away peoples parking places in the eastern neighborhoods to solve our transportation problems, we need to address frequency of transportation. we also don't need to speed up transportation in san francisco. i don't want the buses going faster. they are blowing through lithes and stop signs and endanger in the lives. frequency first. not speed. not less parking.

frequency first of the public transportation we have and build more of it. add more trains and more tracks. i think if we could start having those presentations, that would be fantastic because all we are really hearing is about the management and the ever decreasing chipping away at what is still a vital transportation mode for this city and by the way, the entire country and world and that is automobile transportation. make it more efficient, i'm down with that. making it so it is convenient to park my vehicle and have other modes, i'm in favor of that. those are the things-those are the observations on the ground we have outside academic halls and transportation planning because i think they tend to miss what happens in real life in the neighborhoods to the business

and residents and visitors and employees that come from the outside of san francisco. >> thank you for your presentationism . i remember reading the documents there was a enforcement element of this in terms of increased presence from sfpd at intersection squz what not, is that related-i know it isn't related to this under the [inaudible] of mta, but in addition to that my question was, have you allowed for in law units to be converted in such we have people not using their garages as much for parking and the need for housing and my mom got 100 plus dollar ticket to park in our driveway yesterday so i know

was we live in a city you can't block a sidewalk but that is personal driveway so how are you comp sating with housing that takes away housing? >> i'll try to answer the first one. the enforcement question is more about enforcement in the public right of way at intersections. that type oof work isn't related to this program. this is just transportation demand management program for individual projects on private property, so we will have our own monitoring and reporting staff and there will be work done to make sure that projects are actually implementing the tdm plans the way they they said and if they don'ts it is standsered planning code enforcement there. the question about parking in driveways and so on is really more of a question for mta and their code and their practices.

i don'ts think we can address that here. it isn't something that is addressed in the tdm program that we have before you today. beyond that i say thank you. we hear your comments and will take them back to our colleagues. one thing i did want to point out is specific to this program-i understand there are a lot of comments on the parking policy overall in the city which touches a lot of different departments and issues, the tdm program will not prohibit from providing more parking spaces. the example with the office project, the ordinance will not say office project can not have the 50 parking spaces instead of 25, it will say if you have that many parking spaces, we really want people to use them less. we want people to drive less if they are parking more. the conversation president mentioned where you need your car for convenience and don'ts want to use it often but

need it sometimes, that is fine, but this ordinance would do is say if you dothat much parking you also need to do more tdm measure tooz make it easier for people who live and work there to use transit or a bike system and have the alternative means so if you have that many parking spaces you are not in a situation where maybe that is the only option for those residents or workers to use . there is nothing in the program that says a project can or can not provide a certain amount of parking and we are seeing a lot of projects especially xhrblsh projectss coming in very low parking amounts just based on the market. not based on what we are telling them and as lock as you stay within what is permitted in the code this ordinance will not prevent them providing that amount orparking, it just says if you provide that

much parking you need to offset with the other measures that help give residents or employees more access and more option tooz other modes so they are not completing every trip by car. you reduce the vmt from the project in some way so want to make that point about this program. >> what we are trying to say is-i work with developers. the way this is structured-i'm a developer i don't care what will cost less. it is more profitable to reduce amount of parking spaces in a project. that is what happens. the consequences are all the other things it triggers. the mission in our neighborhoods, things like that are fragile. i xoe you have done research across the country, this is

san francisco. what works in boston, that doesn't work for us. don't compare us to anybody else. what works there, you can't cookie cut a city that is unique that has the specific cultures. that is all we are saying and we understand you have to plan for the future. we totally get it. he rides his bike everywhere, but you can't do that at the expense of the citizens currentsly making the city vibrant. in the future maybe everybody rides bikes and there are hover board and we are all long dead and you are brilliant for getting rid of parking but now small businesses need parking mpt the way this is construed, it encourages developers to not think about parking because it is easier. the point system it makes it easier if you don't put that many parking because you don't have to meet the points. on the 25 project that gets rid of

4 or 3 points for not adding parking. >> the single most important offset is constructing and improving public transportation and developers do not contribute accept in a minor financial way. they don't buy buses or muni trains, so we left out of the equation the sickle moe pornts offset for parking which is improving public transportation and the only way they do that is with fees and that isn't enough to solve the problem. this is-we haven't tied the desired outcome to behavior the developer can exhibit other than cutting costfelt they won't say i'll buy a train or put in a rail line or put in a stop closer to my develop. if my develop is 300 yard or a mile from the nearest stop, it is what it is. they don't control

that and so um, i just think the notion of offsetting-the absurd thing is put in a infinite number of bike parking spots, it doesn't matter. that isn't a viable asset and result in the desired outcome. put in as many showers you want, hopefully it is a residents. for businesses, yeah, having a shower helps, but people just don't shower at work unless they work in a large company where they really have a locker room. i think that these offsets are not really going to have the desired effect. they look good on the point scale you constructed but all practical retalthy those are unused spaces and showers and people that bike will bike regardless and the people that want to be in cars will be increasingly

frustrated and choose not to work or live in the city. >> i think the situation trying to point out, it is already a parking crisis for business and residents. i know myself, that even though we have residential parking the number of people who drive to work in offices near us have completely taken over the residential parking to had point none of us can come home before 7 at night. i'm a florist and deliver flowers and can not come home because it is like 125 percent saturation over there. if you make this so that more things are being built with less parking, you know, you are just telling all the residents and businesses to leave. like mark was saying, like myself, i have to drive from my

job and the fact that i am now limited to having to figure out something to do until 7 o'clock at night so that some of those office workers will be gone, that is out of control. >> i was told i could have one parking permit for my own car at my business and up to 3 parking permits for 3 delivery vehicles. i don't need 3 delivery vehicles. do i have to be in charge dulling out the limited supply of permits and selecting the winners and losers. i tell my employees dopet complain, just don't drive but that is cold hearted too because some it is the only means to get to work and they have doctors appointments and children to pick up and all those things that sure, you can figure out a way. if tomorrow your car blew up and had to figure how to get to work you would get to work but may 3 hours late and

frazzleed when you get there so your quality of life declined, your economic viability declined because you won't keep the job long if you show up late 2 or 3 hours late for work. i tell my employees to get up 2 or 3 hours earlier. how do you respond to that? we get back to quality of life. now my day isn't a 8 hour working day, it is 13 hour working day because it takes two hours to get to and from work. it has to give somewhere. so, yes you are accomplishing your goal of reducing the number of vehicle miles but what doesn't show up on the stats and point scores is how upset people are because that is a unquantifyable negative effect. >> if i can just touch on one point. wade brought this up the tdm ordinance isn't design today be a grand

fix to the transportation problems in san francisco. if is a very focused program. [inaudible] more transportation improvements. we didn't include the slide but when we presented last year we had slide showing all the revenue generated by there tsf for the next 30 years is a small amont of the total projected revenue need to bring the transportation system where it needs to be and why we passed the transportation bonds and the city is doing other work outside of the this program on the revenue issue and money and funds needed to improve the transit system ovall because there is a understanding there is a entire program if we are going encourage people to drive less and luce oretd means more, we need to improve those means. i don't think that point is lost on us or colleagues at mta eve n if it

isn't part of this presentation. we hear you loud and clear and working oon that >> it is incredibly frustrating. i'm not a mean or cynical person by nature and it pains me to see this constant stream of well educated highly paid professionals come before us and tell us their solutions to problems which i think are making the situation work in the city. i don't like saying that. i love to have a per aid of people smart, well paid and educated people come in and tell me how they will solve the problem. when that turns that is great, but in the mean time we are just sitting here and exacerbated and it doesn't make us feel good to send you away saying that didn't go well. i know it doesn't feel great. the next stop, the bar. it is what it is in the city right now and so you know,

i'm telling you what i see, what i feel, what i experience in my daily life as a business owner and resident so i think we all have that shared experience. apologies for this not being a great experience, but maybe the message needs to get back the highers ups that you know what, not everyone is nodding their heads saying this is awesome, because it isn't. without any further comments we open up for public comment. any members that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, this item is now closed. thank you, i do appreciate you coming out to tell us about the program. >> thank you for listening to us. >> that is part of the dialogue, we are on pub lb record. many things that hap in in the public are not on

record so it is our unfortunate task to do this even though i'm sure there are a lot of people watching thinking this guy is antitransportation. that is not true. next item. >> alright. item 4, approval of theregular meeting minutes. we are going to call several meeting minutes at the same time but any of these may be singled out for seperal consideration by a member of the commission or a member of public. >> unless there are members of our commission or member thofz public that want to specifically review any of these specific items, then we can take them as a group and approve them. >> i will read out all of them that we are considering. >> i like to for the record say thank you for getting the last couple meetings on todays agenda.

>> june 13, 2016, may 9, 2016, december 8, 2014, november 10, 2014. october 27, 2014. october 6, 2014. september, 8, 2014. august, 25, 2014 and july 28, 2014. >> what were you doing on july 28? >> i was here. i make a motion to approve all the minutes. >> are there memberoffs the public that would like any of the minutes dwelt with as individual items? seeing none if any commissioners would like these as a individual item we entertain a motion to approve them in mass. >> i make a motion to approve all the

meetings minutes that we just heard. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> that motion is approved unanimously. >> fantastic, that is part of a load off. >> to 6 to 0 with one absent >> i did read these, i don't know how you did this but on the older ones you did very very well on those. >> thank you. some of these were drafted previously. thank you. item number 5, [laughter]. update on legacy business program. this is discussion item and the presenter is regina dick-endrizzi executive director of aufs of small business >> before you is a the list last meeting i provided you with a

list of the businesses who submitted applications nominated and submitted applications and a list of businesses that had been nommated but waiting on applications. before you are the list of businesses that have submitted applications and i wanted to provide you with a update that have been officially forwarded to historical preservation commission which they will hear i don't know the exact number but will hear some on the july 20th meeting which means those applications will soon be coming to you so once i know specifically which ones wilg be on their agenda i can provide you with that information. if you take a look at the first column in yellow, those were the ones forwarded. >> these are for historical-

>> for the registry. >> welcome to have discussion but i want to review the business eligibility criteria again so that it is a business that has been in san francisco for 30 years or more, a nominator can nominate a business under 30 years if there is some extraordinary circumstances . the business has contributed to the neighborhoods history and/or yoitd of a particular neighborhoods or community and the business committed to maintaining the physical features or tradition that define the business and culinary craft and art forms. i think going with what the commission stated in the past that they really want businesses to be able to tell their story, and also not to have it

be ownerous, just to keep in mind that that is the instructions geing out to businesses as hay draft their narrative and so for you, you will be-you are now a adjudicatedantty around this one particular issue in terms of making that final determination, so it will be to you to you know, when you are adjudicating the application whether the business met that standard, some provide more information and some provide less in terms of the quantity and volume of information. i want to provide you the opportunity before we start really getting into the official arena of reviewing these on the official record. if there is

information that we as staff want to-if you want a particular cover sheet, some items of consideration to identify around the criteria. >> will the first time-i just want to get the process down once it goes through approval with correct application and going to historic group do we hear it as a group here? >> how it will work is historical-once the application is forwarded to historical preservation they will provide comments and those comments are for your consideration in addition to the application. then when each applicant it will have a formal hearing before you, so the applicant comes before you and tell their story and their interest being on the

registry. so, and then from there you make the determination. each applicant will do their presentation. >> who determines if the application is complete from a procedural standspoint? >> that is office of small business. >> [inaudible] >> what is the historical preservation commission-what is their role in terms-what is their role? if the application is filled out to the satisfaction of office of small business, what is the interim step? >> so, first i want to say that for staff until we get more specific direction, my review at this particular point of the historical narrative is just insureing there is some component of each of these points addressed in the narrative. i'm not

evaluating the written document. um, so, the historical preservation commission will be providing some context. they have a committee that looks at cultural assets and components to the city so their feedback as i understand will focus predominantly around item 2 which is business contribution tooz the history and identity of a particular neighborhood. there may be other components they add if there are few businesses that are also located in historic buildings. they might comment on its historic nature to the development of a neighborhood or a person of significance, something along that lines. so, they are looking at its relationship to the history of the

city and will provide you with comments. >> if a business meets the criteria of being 30 years-30 or more years, then i mean, it would be perhaps interesting to see a case where the hpc ruled that they didn't somehow meet the qualification of being a legacy business because that is purely subjective they didn't contribute sufficiently. i see where there will be some discussion between 20 and 30 years. if i read this properly, there is a hard cut off at 20 years so we won't look at a company that is around for 18 years and try to finagle that. it is really dealing with the gap, 20 to 30 years where i suspect more dialogue will be had. i guess

you only-in that gap you either want really intently to be on the registry for pr reasons or pass that bar so you can move to the next level if you intend ed to apply for the legacy business funds because you cannot-funds are not available to any business that does not first go through this getting on the registry, is that correct? >> correct. you have tabe on the registry. i think some of the uniques things-where maybe there may be more a lens on the historical narrative is there our businesses that have been in existence more than 30 years, but the current owner and this is businesses that are not going for exception but the current owner is less than 20 years, but the business has

been in existence. where there will be more criteria for what i will be looking at is insureing they articulate the section 3 to insure that they have retained the core element of the business when they purchased it that is creating the legacy business component of it. so, you know, it might be somebody purchases a hardware store and own it less than 30 years, but they retained as a hardware store and same name and maybe same location. so, that owner will just need to-that current owner will need to make sure their narrative talks about-- >> [inaudible] >> we could apply on all kinds

of conditions. i think that what is important for any viewers to understand is that this is the registry and the registry and the fund are two entirely separate matters to move on to the application for the legacy business fund requires that you first pass the legacy business registry qualifications and are admitted to the registry. that is what we are discussing here, not anything to do with the legacy business fund. correct? >> right. >> so, the timeline, the fiscal year, does that mean it is coming up june 30th? >> in terms of the number of nominations per year? >> yes. will people not be able to submit after a certain time? >> it means the count starts in terms of the number of nominations

per year, it is 300 per year so the count starts again july 1. >> [inaudible] that is where i got my bathroom set >> i'm looking forward to the first cohort and this is work in progress so will refine our process. interesting to see what happens at hpc and we'll deal with it when it gets to us >> the last thing to communicate to you is that some of the businesses we have been in communication with that are nominated and because the registry is very new and we haven't yet built the branding and identity and that is we have the fundsing in the current budget -july 1 budget cycle so will engage on that. i'm looking forward to really building the brand and identity

value of the registry so that because there are plenty of businesses that don't -that are legacy business that don't need to engage in any financial assistance and but are still sort of not-we need to help build that value identity to get them on to the registry. >> i always contended the registry is potentially a tremendous promotional vehicle for these businesses and can't promote a empty list so the sooner we get businesses on the list and real marquee brand whether anchor brewing or other wellknown companies that will give mojoe to the list and look forward promoting it as well. >> levi. >> if no other comments we open to public comment. any members of the public that would like to comment on

this item? seeing none, this item is closed. next, please. >> item number 7, the directors report. sorry, item 6, general public comment. >> here we open to public comment for anything that was not on our agenda today, correct? >> yes, the comment can comment on matter within the jurisdiction or not on todays calendar and/or suggest agenda items for future consideration. >> any members like to comment not on our agenda or suggest items for the future? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> alright. item 7, directors report. this is update and report on office of small business and the small business assistance center. update on

department programs, announcement from the mayors policy matters update on leacy business program. small business activities. discussion item. >> commissioners, today we have -i like to invite katie shurping. katie is the small business accelerator program manager and if you recall the mayor approved in the budget to a position to help restaurants accelerate the process through the licensing and permitting process that came out of the work of jane gong and business portal team. katie is in her third week and wanted to make sure you had a chance

to meet her. >> good afternoon commissioners. thank you so much for having me today. my name is katie shurping, the new small business acceleration team program manager. i'm very excited to get the program going today. by way of introduction, i come from a urban planning backfwround and have a master in urban planning and focused on design and development. i have career work in public sector economic development world but spent the last few years as planning and development consultant for developers helping go through the permitting process primarily in the east bay. mainly from a planning lens, but included a number of small businesses including restaurant businesses so think it is great opportunity to use that skill set and focus and really use it on behalf of city of san francisco and our

small businesses. regina mentioned the program developed based on the controllers report and one the recommendations that came out of that report is a case manager, a key person who could be the point person to small restaurant businesses would help address the number of issues they identified. things like, focus on customer service, focus on turn arounds times for permitting and improving the interdepartmental collaboration. the focus on restaurants is giving the complexity in permits restaurant businesses so the idea, if we can successfully facilitate simplification for small business owners we may be able to scale that for other small businesses. so, we are in very early steps still launching the program so some of the next steps include meeting

with team members in different departments and work wg private sector stakeholder jz think about other small business programs that are already happening in the city and how we can work together most effectively. so, i welcome you to reach out to me in the future with comments or questions or suggestions you may have. i will be coming back before you in the future as we launch the program to keep you updated. thank you very much. >> great. welcome. >> if you have any questions for katie you are welcome to ask. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. >> katie is a hybrid between office of economic and workforce development and our office and right now katie and i have worked together because we do more of a new business permitting and licensing advisement. it is a joint program between oewd and our

office. e eventual wale katie will spend some time at department of building inspection and the space we will be getting at 1650 mission street between planning and dbi on the ground floor katie will be located there so it is a perfect place to meet with new restaurants and then being able to engage with those two entities. >> is she on your pay roll or [inaudible] >> oewd's. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. >> thank you katie. and then did want to let you know the legacy business program manager we have been connecting interviews and will be concluding those very shortly. want to thank commissioner ortiz-cartagena for his time and yee riley volunteering

and making yourself available but we are now going conclude that process, so i will hopefully be able to inform you soon of who the new program manager will be. um, and then lastly, the crv redemption issue, thank you commissioner zouzounis being tasked as a business representative but also commission representative along with our office and gorge reaves. the letter the commission drafted to support the legislation attached through the budget in hoping to be able to give the city of san francisco the authority to come up with a creative means to minimize our small businesses from having to do redemption did not pass

through, so we are not able to do that. we are work wg department of environment on next steps and because the state is now going and doing sting operations in some the small businesses have already felt it. the stakeholder meetings we will be conducting is to do two fold, work to find a interim solution and gather the support to create a long term solution. so, both commissioner zouzounis and i will be able to report more later as those elements get developed. and if you do know of any businesses having issues, and any businesses out there and from merchant areas having issues, please have them contact our office, the office

of small business and we'll direct you to kevin drew with department of environment who is the best person to advise how to facilitate handling the requirement. >> i have a quick question on budget. >> budget is good. >> good, okay. >> move to the next item? any public comment on the directors report? seeing none, move to the next item. item 8. >> item 8, commissioners reports, this allows the prez dchbt, vice president and commissioners to report on recent small business activities and make announcements och interest to the small business community. >> i'll start. i attended the lgbtq business sal darety avent last tuesday in soldairy with miami, all the local chamber of commerces were represented and a lot of business leaders

were there so it was a good event. it was at linked in. they offered their new lobby and celebrated the opening of equator coffee. lgbtq owned the business and the first business of its type to win the national small business of the year just this year. >> [inaudible] >> cofouner and ceo. that is it for me. >> vice president. >> i manched with the mayor yesterday in the pride praid. there was a write up in hud line magazine about neighborhood farmers and markets and my castro-mid-week castro market i started 7 years ago is one of the most success and there was a big write up so

will forward that. >> me too, because on your success we are trying to get one in our neighborhood. >> she talked to the same people i did. >> too late this year but will work to get it going. >> they told me they talked to north beach and very excited. >> we talked to [inaudible] and they are not rolling anymore now but the other two organizations that do them in the city [inaudible] >> we like the size of yours. >> you have a good [inaudible] >> so, that is it for me. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> i have 3 items. first, i want to recognize the efforts of mission economic development agency regarding the fire on 29 and mission and have information how to help residents and small businesses. first, the mission tenants fire fund has been revamped and it is able-you are able to

donate on line on meta.org and 100 percent of the funds go straight to the and tenants effected mpt the mission bruno association started a fund on their website that helps directly the business squz there were 8 businesses effected in the fire and 75 employees displaced of work. meta will offer workshops to get through the process and get them hired and all the things to facilitate the workforce displaced. there is a event on the 30 at el[inaudible] from 8 p.m. to fwevl pmp. the door clarj is 10 dollar and from 8 to 12 anything we have a corporate donor that will match every dollar match that goes to 29 and mission. that is june 30. >> that is thursday. >> thursday, yes. there are other people and countsless people in the neighborhood that rallyed together to

try to alleviate the pain suffered to the businesses and tenants. too many to mention but thank you you all. >> i want to give a shout out to good fricken chicken. during the fire they said not only did they feed all the fireman and paramedics and the police but also fed a lot of the people who lost their homes and he didn't have to-do that and he did and i give a shout out for that and give a shut out to the front porch because 10 percent of proceeds are going to help the residents. thank you for bringing that up, that is awesome. >> my next item is last monday at mission cultural center-this is update to had mission transit. the community organized by david campos and director edriscon and we heard various

stands on the issue from transit riders and businesses and residents and it was a very heated and emotional gathering, but i really feel there may be progress attributed to that. a lot of the people opposed the rail lines and right turns have faith in sfmta and none agree with what they did, they do feel people working on the project they do want to help so we are waiting to see what outcomes happen attributed to that. lastly, like regina missioned, the last two weeks we interviewed candidate. i want to comp lment regina because every candidate is amazing. to narrow it down is really impressive and impressive people. it is a

hard process because there is talent out there. >> we only hire the best. >> the best. >> of the best and we interview rigorously. >> thank you regina for those efforts. >> thank you. >> the bruno fire-the community is rallying down there and think that is awesome >> i forgot about the bruno fire. businesses have a a potential to receive 10 k in grants and 3 of the businesses would have been legacy businesses, taco loco [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> in addition to the work meta is doing, meta is helping gather the economic data so we can our department

emergency management will communicate with the governor to have that area declared a disaster to access sba funding. >> any other commissioner reports? alright. so, any public comment on this item? seeing none, next please. >> item number 9, new business. this allows commissioners to introduce new agenda #50i89ms for future consideration by the commission. discussion item. >> commissioners, any suggestions for new business? i will just note in the chronicle today, there was announcement of the multimedia agency effort to elevate discussion of homelessness in san francisco. i think we should keep an eye on that. it has a huge effect on the residents and small

businesses so clearly i have to applaud chuck nebious for all his coverage and relentlessly staying on the issue. i know a number of business leaders have complimented him and encourage him to keep reporting on it and it has become so critical all the news agencies banded together to try and elevate the dialogue and they are not claiming they will solve the problem, but we definitely need a much broader dialogue how to address the issue because what we have been doing so far isn't yielding the results we want. keep that on the radar screen for the future for potential business here. anything else? alright, seeing no other recommendations, anyone from the public want to comment on the lack of new business? seeing none we move to the final item and that is adjournment.

>> okay, item number 10, do we have a -we need to see our slide, please. >> say my parting words before we adjourn officially. that would be, our custom to begin and end each meeting the aufts of small business is the only place to start your new business in srf and the best place to get answers about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop when you have any questions about what to do next. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> thank you. alright, do we have a motion to adjourn? >> so move. >> i second. >> all in nairfb? favor? >> aye. >> alright, meeting adjourned at 357.

[meeting adjourned]

as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how

would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over

teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style

of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our

choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the

cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a

kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i