squs s fgovtv staff viewed on s f guv tv 2. members please take the opportunity to silence the phones. public comment is limit today 3 minutes per speaker unless establish bide the officer the meeting. speakers are requested but not require today staitd names. completion of speaker card will help insure spell ogf names in the wrilten record. please place speaker card to the basket. speak er cads cards are called in the order they are placed in the basket. there is a sign in sheet at sth table. can you please show our slide. >> greetings. it is oour custom to begin and each small business commission meeting with reminder the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answer stooz your questions about doing business in san francisco. it office of small should be your first stop with

a question what to do next. you can find online or in person at city hall. all services are free of charge. public forum to voice concerns bepolicies that effect small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters start here, at the office of small business. thank you. >> okay, iletm 1, call to order and roll call. adams, here. dooley, here. dwight, here. ortiz-cartagena is absent. paul tour-sarkissian, here. irene yee, riley, here. miriam zouzounis, here. you have quorum. >> alright. >> item number 2, general public comment. allows members to comment on matters within the small business commission jurisdiction not not on todays calendar and suggest new item frz future consideration. discussion item. >> we have any members of the

public that would like to comment? >> i would. this is my first time doing this so excuse me if i get nervous. >> no worries. >> thank you commissioners for taking the time to listen this afternoon. brian hibs, the owner of comics experience own two small book stores ensan francisco which i hopeened in 1989 so all most a legacy business about not quite. run agsmall business in san francisco is a really incredibly difficult between the rapidly increasing rents and sky high minimum wage so small retailer is frustrated by fees that place a burden on entrepreneurs. in particular rks , i would like the commission to take a look otautomating point of sale registration and inspection ordinance which i believes traps small business in a shake down that can't address the

problem. the ordinance states it unlawful under california business code section-to charge at the time of sale a price more than the price sthof advertising posted. this seems rational and a goal every small business owner shares. if you rip off the customers will cease pootoo be your customers. insure the advertising charge is the correct price for the caw modty. however, department of weights and measure conducts inspections by coming into stores taking 10 random items and testing those. i have 10 thousand sku's in the cystism so this method seems unlikely to find errors. the majority of my sales come from books. the cover price the bookicize printed as the bar code so it is

not able to ring up the wrong price. i have been ringing up my customers in my store 24 years now and have a system coming occupy on 10 years now. ringing up a customer as a cash register is much less accurate than using a bar code scanner. if we try toinsure the posted price oaf a commodity is the correct price it seems the city should be encouraging the adoption of point of sale systems rather than discouraging by charging annual fees. i think the feeerize high and boarder on extortion. the basic cost to do business is $75 however a license is $89, nearly 20 percent more. this is not enforced remotely like a uniform nature. a sig kunt portion of the retailer

are aware they are supposed to have a licegence the city puts unfair burden on some retailers and not other. the state level [inaudible] it appeared the intent is regulate the slave terminals that take [inaudible] chain businesses. it stikes the easiest fix is exempt all businesses not chained businesses as the city defines in the requirement. two years ago the commission listened to testimony from department of public squlelth that said the city spnt more than $200 thousand more than it has taken in trying to inspect hundreds of small business but a phenomenal waste for taxpayer dollars that cant fight what i think is a imaginary problem. i respect adding consideration of the ordinance to the agenda. >> appreciate you coming out and making that plea. thank you. any other members of the

public that would like to comment at this time on anything not on todays agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. by the way, that is precisely what this meeting is all about so thank you very much. i appreciate you coming out, taking the time from your business to come out in the middle of the day when you can be ringing up customers enyour store we'll take it under advise: >> item 3, presentation and discussion regarding healthy retail sf study. informational presentation regarding the healthy retail sf program created in 2013 to incent vise small business owners to sell fresh produce and healthy foods particularly in underserved neighborhood s. the presenter is >> orge rivas and susana

hennessy. >> thank you. we have a powerpoint. >> s frks fgovtv can you loud the powerpoint? >> i'm with investing neighborhoods within owd and will present on healthy retail sf. >> susana hen 11ry can department of public health. thank you, commissioners. >> so, we have a quick outline of todays presentationment we cht to present on a report relaced late last year on all healthy retail sf is doing. we want to give background information and what the program is about before we get to the evaluation and outcome of the program. the goal of the program is introduce healthy iletms into corner

stores and grocery stores and neighborhoods that are considered food swamps across the city more so thinking about the omi, bayview and tenderloin. >> food deserts, i think. >> food deserts is one but also food swamps. food is available, >> it is appropriate for the wealther. >> food deserts is a technical term used in the public health community around areas where there is a lack of food period and food swamps are places what is food available but not they not be the right type of food and may not be affordable. >> thank you. >> did i explain that right? >> that was excellent. >> the way we try to do this is to focus our objectives around three main areas. economic development, public health, and community strengthening. through public health we want to increase healthy product jz

reduce unhealthy influence. economic objectives we want to make sure the bottom line of the business is working and increasing so making sure they are sustainability. increasing workforce training programs as well. for community strength ening we want to focus making sure the residents know their business owners and for the businesses to feel cup committed and proud of the neighborhood they are in. just really quickly, history. actually this is not a current phenomenon, it has been around for a while in san francisco. this started at a grass roots level about 10 years ago with community coalitions who raised the concern to the city. public squlelth other agencies have been working closely with these coalitions to bring food to some of these neighborhood jz more particularly the tenderloin and bayview. and with the leadership of supervisor mar, 2013 he introduced legislation that

created this program. basically it is healthy retailer food incentive program housed at owd. the mayor at that time allocated $6,000 in the budget to our office to run this program. only $60,000 to run this program. so, think about the framework and how the program is implemented. we look at the objectivesism again, we have the community engagement piece which is very important, the business operation piece and the physical environment piece. those are the three legoffs our approach in this particular program and think with this we developed a model that is reb lickable in other places and people are looking into this model to see if it works. by people i mean other cities. just quickly, it is partnership between the population health division at public health and our office at owd. the

legislation health created call for the creation of a advisory committee that is again guided by various expercents which your fellow commissioner zouzounis sits on as well and owd and dph staff and the three major areas are if physical environment with [inaudible] associates, for the business operation is sbc led my [inaudible] sap which is a lead consultant with angle car doza's team and jessica [inaudible] who lead the community engagement. just a list of the advisory members. there are a wide range of experts from the planning department, public health, hsa and so forth. and also [inaudible] from sandra furors office. the first call from

the legislation was to create a resource center for small businesses who wanted to convert their stores into healthy retailers so we created a centralized resourcesenter for them to go and learn about our program and learn about the resources available for them to convert the stores. there are links to the business portal that you are very aware of. and also serves as a way to share information with counterparts in cities across the country learning about this type of work. so, the 5 main components of the strategy for implementation is start with outreach. make sure business owners know the program exists to them so held community meetings for them to learn about the program, but also one on one referrals and by word of mouth, people refers businesses to us so create a list of businesses interested in the program. and then based on the list we nar eit down based on our resource squz then assess the business owner. again,

assess on the physical environment, the business operation and their community engagement pieces. and from what we learned then we create a individual develop plan and this vej development blan plan is outline for the actionoffs the business owner and city needs to take to make sure they move toward becoming a healthy retailer. we outline step by states the budget for the items. from there for example the business operation piece is a list of things we work on and look at. if they need access to capital we refer to the partners that provide loans, merchandise training we set up for those including business planning and so forth. i'll pass it over to susana to talk about the physical changes. >> great. i will continue talking about the implementation of this

individualized development plan and so, as far as improving the physical environment, the first thing we do is work with city associate squz they go into the store and essentially measure the store and then do a post schematic, . what is critical is the introduction of more sufficient shelving. no merchandise is taking out of the store. instead of having two walls committed perhaps there is one and a half or one and a quarter. that frees up the front the store for inintroduction of new produce bens for dry produce and stand alone refrigeration unit. the city associates has been in business 30 or 40 years doing store redesign and layout so look at issues like safety and other items thip store. and

then on a particular day, the whole team comes together and resets the store. one thing i want to mention is the community engagement piece is run primarily by the coalitions, but they have teams of food guardians in the bayview and food justice leaders in the tenderloin who are residents from the community trained in the issues deeply involved in all aspects of the program. on the reset day we assemdleble at the door and take out the wooden shelving that are less efficient and reassimble the new met low shelving, place that in the store and remerchandise the same store. we put the produce bins and refrigeration unit in the store so that pretty much happens in within day per the schematic. we work with graphic designers who do price sign frj the stores that you can see here as well as with nutritionists who

come up with wobblers they are called. they are signed that hang off the shelves and wobble when you walk past. we thought that we should share preand post photo's of a couple stores we worked with. this is daldas in theteneder loin. it was traditionally a liquor store. on the left there are a lot of tobacco and soda signs and in the window there was a lot of alcohol in the front of the store and lot of packaged foods and after many alcohol and tobacco signs at childrens eye levels have been replaced with nutrition signs. the store owners are 100 percent behind this. instead of whaul there is a lot of water products at the front of the store and have healthy shelving with healthy snacks and fridge bin jz refrigerated units so

when people come in the store they see that. this is friendly market and used to be called frndly liquor in bayview hunters point and they changed the name. you see similar changes. the store is well laid out and produce and more efficient murchen dizeing of the product. this is midcity in the tenderloin. the picture on the left is a lot of alcohol advertising and there is wine, bananas alcohol wine and beer next to each other. they have a new fridge unit and committed their on resources to upgrade the fridge unit, it is beautiful and a large unit. they have a brand new healthy food section and dry produce section as well. so, here is some of the food guardians and food justice leaders i spoke about who are really the bridge between the store and the community. some of the store owners are also pictureed here

and i will tell you a little about what they do undur the implementation piece. they work with a number of agencies to essentially let people know these changes happened to the store, so you can make all the changes but if the community doesn't know how do they know to shop there? they do cooking demo squz taste testings and tours of the store and how to shop healthy on a budget with limited resources. we also work with eat sf, which is the demand side of the equation where the supply side. eat sf actually provides vouchers for produce that are distributed in our stores and other stores, so for example you can see in the first year, they redeemed all most 6,000 vouchers at $5 each at the stores so demd and supply side. we are really about shifting the business model in the store squz shifting also in the community.

then each new store that is reset is launched. there is a large community garthering and games and the young girls are showing off the bags here and there is a lot of media attention as well. and then finally to sustain the new practices everything in the individualized development plan that was a commitment by the store as far as stockic healthy foods and a number of variety of fruits and vegetables is placed on a report card and once a mupth the food advocates go back to the store, rate the store in how well they are doing and sit down and meet with the store owners and talk about how to improve, how do we problem solve, how does the program serve you better. so, we want to end with jorge and i sharing initial evaluation and outcomes and numbers, we have numbers for you. by measuring

success again we are talking about public health, we are talking economic development and we are talking about community strengthening, so we want to look all three of those pieces. is the community benefiting. are more healthy products sold and is this good for small independent family run businesses. the way we look at community is our advocates go into the stores before the store is reset, do customer surveys to see what type of vegetables does the community want stocked at the store. where do people cook. on the right in theteneder loin a large number people cook in their rooms so that informs the cooking demoes we do, so it has to be appropriate. once the store is reset the business operation consultants go in the store and do secret shopper survey jz see how it is going. this is also about workforce

development. as mentioned, there a number of food guardians and food justice leaders trained and skilled doing all aspectoffs this work. there were 8 so far that are trained in the tenderloin and 5 in the bayview huntersion point, all people from the community representing diversity and diversity of language. and then there is engagement and media work being done so there is 14 press events conducted across the city. cnn, the examiner and chronicle, a variety of news agencies have covered this work and then there is a tremendous amount of community engagement at community fairs celebrating healthy retail stores during sunday streets, whatever opportunity arises. and then i want to mention this lastly and will talk about the numbers. one the advocates have been doing the last 3 year is going

to all the stores in the tenderloin and bayview and assessing their level of healthyness and then they produce the shopping guides they are distributed back to all the store squz also to the community and they outline for each store healthys the stores are doing so the storeerize all congratulated. what we noticed is over three years sthra ripple effect of all the activities in the stores, not just the stores with the cadillac treatment as we call it. if you look here from 2013 to 2015, the number of stores in both those neighborhoods that have gotten high healthy ratings, 4 and 3 stars increased over time while the number of stores getting lowereratings are decreasing so store owners are talking to each other and interested in the work and talking a lot to the food guardians and food justice leaders. i'll turn it back over tojorge and he will get down to some of the

numbers. >> the next piece is highlight the accomplishments with the outcomes we learned so far. just to summarize, we touched 9 stores in a deep way so there cadillac version where where he we have the food resident leaders and associates and [inaudible] and public health and our office working together to touch and hand hold the business owner through the process. we have done 9. in addition to other referrals and light touch or soft touch referral tooz businesses and working with them one on one with [inaudible] or others. these are the businesses that participated in the program and most are thib are in the tenderloin and bayview and omi. the way we track our data is using pos system. we help some business owners purchase at a pos equipment. we don't pay for the monthly fee or

maintenance but we provide recommend aigdss of what they should do in the idp and one is purchase a bos system or a tracking mechanism that is consistent so we can help track the data and sales of their store. and these are the items we actually asked them to input in the pos, water healthy items including tobacco and alcohol because you want to track the shift in unhealthy influence and we also track the number of iletms pieces or units sold so total increase so the change in each category and total sales. that is also collected on a monthly basis from the consultants in partnership with our food leaders. some things we notice is it is working, the program is having small impacts in these businesses. we are

seeing there is over 11,000 new products of healthy produce or vojeitables sold total because of this program. per month. so that is what we know. that is a average about scene00 units per store participating in the program and think that is a huge accomplishment so know people are eating healthier or at least buying them so it shows there is a need for this particular product. and then we ask the merchants, are you satisfied with the program and our expertise and assistance and this is a picture of our first merchant. we brought all the march unt who are participating together and they had good input. the overall comment we heard is they are very satisfied with what they see in the program. not just qualitatively how they feel but notice the bottom line is increasing. this is pretty high. i think you as business

owners know 25 percent increase in saleicize a pretty dramatic increase. . that is what we are recording and some cases more. we also some may not have reported the full numbers at the beginning but are couching that there is a 25 percent increase or shift in the overall sales which a80s to $5 thousand a month in sale squz that is a pretty substantial change that we noticed. to that, i also want to point out the ripple effect that i susana mentioned. we know their are talking to each other so because of the shift in the business model they share with other business owners and know this may be working. to summarize, we have done 9 stores in addition to other referrals. the neighborhood and merchants seem to be satisfied. the leadership skill building not

of the food leaders but also the businesses themselves. the business ownererize developing new skills by participating in the program how to operate a pos and understand the business model and how it is shifting and average of 11,000 more units sold per month and change of the bottom line, about $5 thousand more per school. with that, we will open to questions. it is a small about mighty program and one of the many programs run out of the office. it a marriage between owd and dpw dph to work together. >> can i also introduce jessica estroda. she over sees all the community engagement activities with the coalition. >> great. thank you very much. >> i would like to congratulate you for your presentation, this is a wonderful program for such

a small budge t and i like your presentation but would like specific questions and maybe we can summarize the steps as to getting to the program. first question, you said 9 businesses out of how many potential businesses are in the program? we are talking about the food swamp areas, correct? this program is specifically geared toward these areas so business from another neighborhood could not come and knock on your door, is that? yes or no? >> to answer your first question, it depends on the neighborhood. in the tenderloin there are 70 liquor stores are assess and corner stores, so out of the stores we are taken in 5. there may be a potential if you will but from the economic standpoint is where do you meet that breaking

point. if we work with all 70 the market will be saturated with produce. thinking from the supply- >> you are saying there are so many businesses you can convert in a specific area and beyond that the conversion may have negative effect, 25 percent you are experiencing will go- >> right, i t is a good question for us to consider how many-what is a good number of stores to do in each of the communities and i think i can say there is still more of a need in the tenderloin for sure but i think i ask when is the threshold met chblt to answer your question about the outreach and when do we say no to neighborhoods, the full makeover is for these particular neighborhoods as och now. we have worked with other brzs ichb the hate ight hate and [inaudible] connect with

them and talk to them refer them to services to transfer their business model and shift the business model but we wont provide all the additional financial support to make the transitions happen. >> so they can contact you because they may be listening but they may not get the full gamut of services you provide, is that it? >> exactly. >> what i want to do quickly if i may go over the steps because you gave them in detail just sum up a synapsis if i am a small liquor business in the tenderloin what should i do first? should i contact you to start the process? how does it work? let's go one step a at time. >> the first step is you contact [inaudible] listed on the flier or contact each one of us here in the room. >> because i heard about you through the community outreach

through these train people who knock on doors to invite people to come in. >> there is a one page interest form. we would ask you to complete that and that comes back to the team. >> so, if you are contacted and say you are interested, here is the form, complete it. then our [inaudible] who is our main person will follow up and ask more detailed questions. then if we think they are ready then we will put them in a queue. when we are ready and have a budget to add more stores then weal 'll say all the stores have shown interest, let's have a informational with them. we'll have a meeting and at that time see who is willing-now that they learned more about the details are their committed to the model because it requires them to shift the business model. we dont ask them to stop selling liquor or tobacco but to allow

for more space to introduce healthy products. i think that is one thing i think we want to make sure they are aware there is commitments on their part. >> they have to sign a commitment sheet to commit to the program? >> they sign the individual development plan committing to the steps because they are the lead implementer of the steps. they sign the interest form and informational and then they are assess if they make it to the program they assess. when they rusessed by the three consultants we say we say you are in are in the program, this is your individual development plan, do you agree to it? if no, what do you not like and what makeatize better and try to make sure it works for all the consultants and the business owner and we all agree that is the plan for the first year and then we come and do the remodel. we collected data from the assessment and

continue collecting data. year two comes- >> before you go to year two, the remodel you talked about moving things around, shelfing and who pays for that, is that part of the program? >> in the individual development plan we outline costs and the costs depending on what they are most incentives come from the office. owd will pay the equipment, design and [inaudible] and community engagement piece is secured by the coalition on the ground or partnership with dph on grants is separate from what our office gets but the office is the manager the clinical expertise so we fund that and the equipment needed around that. >> equipment that is the display shelving. >> and refrigeration units and the signage and other thinks too.

>> is this a grant? >> it is a all fundsed through the program, but the coalitions have been operating on grants with assistance from dph, department of pubhook health so we are-trying to break down the silo squz bunding incentives and bring together city resource squz other resources to make it happen. you were on second year. >> in order to receive all the resources they have to fulfill additional steps. >> commitment to the program and to follow through with the program. we are year two, >> at that time there is a round so we say let's do an assessment then and how are you performing and provide incentive to continue implementing the program and it is usually a small incentive around signage or additional marketing or things of that sort. >> my final question because i don't want to hog the floor, you said that depends on the

financing that you have available for you to accommodate these potential businesses that would qualify to come to the program and may i ask what is your threshold today? how many businesses can you absorb in terms of funding? >> that is great question and think it shifted since 2013. i think the costs in the city have gone up so at the last planning meetings the eperts recommended two business a year with $60,000. initially we did about 4 and that only includes the assistance around the business operation and design, not the equipment piece to cover those. >> just in addition to that, the estimates are the existing funding levels we could do two new stores per year and maintain 7 of the existing stores because they continue over a three year period where we provide technical assistance, additional incentives every year, bringing them to meetings and thijs like

that and eeventual wale we had our first store graduate out and another this year so maintaining a set of stores each year with the existing budget. there are other things like delivery plans like how to come up with a delivery program for produce that help the stores. these are small business owners that have to travel to get healthy product so there are things we are working on to try it to add additional incent vs. >> i think as you probably notice, having product with a shelf life forever is different than a life time of a weak or less so the capacity needs to happen and it is very different and think some of the business owners welcome that change so we need to make sure they have the tools and resources to shift that model and have the capacity to maintain it, which i think is a hard piece and i think a year and year half or

three years a way to hand them off and say you got this. >> thank you for your presentation. thank you for your responses and you commitment. >> thank you. >> commissioner adams. >> i want to thank you, this is a excellent program and think you have done a great job. this is awesome. you said a couple things that triggered my mind. first off, it is bringing healthy food at affordable costz to these neighborhoods. i have seen a couple stores you transformed. i saw one in the bayview which was like night and day. i forgot the name but you walked in and it had nothing but cigarettes and it is gone now. >> kennedy? >> palou's. i just think what you did there is great. how many stores right now-you have the 9 stores, how many stores are you working on now

currently? in the program. that are transformed. >> of the 9 stores the one just graduated so that is 8 stores we are maintaining through the three year process and two stores that we identified for this next fiscal year as new stores coming on. >> that's what i wanted to know. on the stores that have graduated, how are their profitabilitys and how is their business, is the business going up or down? i was interested in your tracking so you guys do track. >> yes. >> what did you find out in your tracking? >> the first thing we do is make sure the store owners understand that whatever they hand over to us as far as their printout said from the cash registers or pos is confudential so we make sure that is promise is kept and then we track on a monthly basis and collect their data and track it on a excel

spreadsheet and come up with pivot table squz have seen in all stores the proodeuce is increasing like the store that just graduated went from selling no produce to selling 16 iletms or pieces-number of timegs you hit the cash register for produce. that can be carats or a pound of something or whatever. we see that type of thing in all the stores. some stores carry produce and that increased. tobacco and alcohol will take longer, that is longer process. a number of stores-the hypothesis as stores shift the business model i stock healthy foods especially like packaged salad and things, that is profitable and in some cases more profitable than alcohol and tobacco then they demand less on those type of products which is what many store owners would like to do anyway. that is what we are finding.

>> that is good to know. that's it, but great program. congratulations, good job and keep it up because we need this in these neighborhoods. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you so much for your presentation. um, i have a question arounds your partnerships with department of environment and um, what you might forsee in the future with that. it is my mdsing there are some existing limitations with addressing the need of energy up grades and know the limitations are out of your hands and come from the state mostly, but it has been limited to lighting upgrades and small refrigeration and anything that bigger in terms of refrigeration that will make a impact in regards to energy savings usually has to include a owners expense to that. i know you offer loan

recommendations and the such but my question is, do you forsee any change in incentives or subsidies for larger energy upgrades in regards to refrigeration and equipment in particular with upcoming department of environment programming? >> so, i think as i mentioned earlier we try to package resources from the city from different agency squz i think one thing we do is partner with department of environment because they have small business program around energy savings. as of now the only partnership is around the audit jz will be conducted around energy savings. the one thing is how to build in the recommendation for that equipment into our idp. let's say department of environment recommends certain equipment, if we incorporate into the individual development plan for each of the businesses can we cover those costs as part of the program. i think we are exploring that andope toon it. we are asking all the

businesses to go through the audit and based on the findings we will explore that further and help the small business owner purchase the right equipment that meets the doe requirements if you will and also our objectives a a healthy retail sf program. >> the butteee of dph being married to oewd in this program, is that they are connected to so many other departments that provides different incentives for small business we wouldn't be familiar with. as incentives come along and you connected us with department of environment about this issue and hopefully over time as they begin these programs we already certified certain stores are motivated and making these changes they will be able to avail themselves of these new types of refrigeration units and energy efficient programs and things like that so really good work on that one. >> one more thing i wanted to

say is please look at healthy retail sf.org website. everything we talked about, description of there program, preand post of the stores involved, news coverage, all of that and as jorge mentioned the services available and bundled is on the website. >> just one quick question just to get a idea of demand. how many stores do you have currently that applied? i know you said you are going to do two. curious how many may be waiting for their turn? >> that is a good question because we have a ongoing list. the last time in the tenderloin i think we had 25 interested. just in the tenderloin alone who showed interest and show up to the informationals about 10, 15 which means they are committed to moving forward. i know there is a interest in addition to those in the program. >> is that interest due i mean

sort of law unintended consequences. clearly there are opportunities to upgrade your store, so to what extent is-is there interest there that is more slanted towards i will get a upgrade to st. store, increase and already carry produce but will carry more but i will get new fridge and signage? >> i think there is but i think that is why the informationals are important because you explain the other commitments that come up with as involving your community and being aware and providing the appropriate products and if they feel like it works for their model, that's-and it is always not necessarily that they need a fridge unit. that is one thing that potentially they need based on the [inaudible] city associates or expercents, they make recommendations of what is needed to increase the

footprint and healthy products. >> of the 9 stores in the program there was a continuum of capital investment some already had the equipment they need and others did not? what is the range of intrestment? >> the range of investment is 15 to $20 thousand plus 15-about $35 thousand of investment including staffing of leaders and equipment and consultant. in term thofz equipment around the capital is around 15 to $20 thousand made depending on the store. also one thing we didn't capture is some of the businesses are putting some of their own capital into the program. for example, one och the tendser loin markets we made a

recommendation for a product and they went and bought a larger product. we like to see that happen. they secure their financing for the product. >> the piece jorge talked about at the begin ogthf process where we do the assessment of the store after they complete the interest form, we do a business operation assessment and physical layout assess like is the store a good fit for the program and the community engagement assessment where we trooto figure how committed the store is to making the changes and there are criteria we do to assess that. we spend a lot of time trying to find the stores that are the best fit in the program. >> commissioner yee, riley. >> you mentioned the tenderloin district, are you also looking at all the communities such as chinatown and missionary? >> that is a great question.

we got inquiries from the mission and chinatown and some of district 2 and sun set and showing interest in the program and think now it is about resources. not only financial resources but also the leadership on the ground, meaning do we have organizations like the tenderloin healthy cornerstore coalition interested in this work and providing the support. as you mentioned the model of the program is requires strong leadership on the ground so someone that works closely with the business owners and resident to let them know the store exists but yes, there is interest from other communities in the program. >> i have just a follow up question coming back to the 25 businesses. these businesses have been qualified and in the tenderloin in the list of potential recipients and participants to the program, is that it? they have been

selected- >> they have not been selected, no. >> coming back and i'll close my-you said at the been ginning you have a maximum you would consider converting in a community before-no? >> i don't have a maximum, i think it is a ongoing conversation of the threshold. >> we don't know yet. >> we don't know and need a expert to inform us. >> we are pretty sure we are no where near that yet. >> you can absorb 25, correct? >> uh-huh >> for that you need money, correct? okay. [laughter]. >> any other questions, commissioners? we will open to public comment. any members the public that could like to comment on the item? thank you very much, seeing none public comment is closed. thank you very much for your presentation. appreciate it. good luck for the future. next item, please. >> item number 4, update on

legacy business program. discussion and possible action to review the legacy business program staff report for november and december 2016, presentation of the proposed grant awards for the business assistance grant. discussion and possible action item. presenter richard kurylo, legacy business program manager, office of small business. >> good afternoon president dwight, commissioners mptd richard kurylo, legacy business program manager. i have a update for november and december 2016. i have a poweropinion presentation today. i included statistics,

major accomplishments, press and major upcoming activities. i distributed a november and december staff report and there are copies on the table for memberoffs the audience. in november we received 4 legacy nominations. two applications and $250 in application fees which are $50 per applicant. hisphoric preservation commission reviewed 28 application squz the small business commission reviewed 22 applications. 22 businesses on the legacy business registry. in december we received 10 legacy nominations, 4 applications and $350 in application fees. the historic preservation commission reviewed 3 applications and small business commission reviewed 15 application squz listed all 15 businesses on the legacy business registry. from

the programs beginning through the end of december there were 129 nominations, 87 applications and $4100 in application fees. 67 reviewed by inhistoric preservation commission and 64 businesses listed on the registry. major plxments in november included adding 22 businesses to the registry, submitting 3 application tooz historic preservation for review, issuing the business assist ance grant application and instructions, continued drafted the rent stabilization document squz continued contract negotiation with working solutions for legacy business program check printing services. major plxments in december included: adding 15 businesses to the legacy business registry, submitting 3 applications to the historic preservation commission, receiving 51 business

assistance grant applications, reviewing the grants applications received, setting occupy legacy businesses with city and county of san francisco, continuing drafting the rent stabilization grant and continuing contract negotiations with working solutions. press in late october and november consisted two articles about effort in seattle to create a legacy business program similar to san francisco as well as coverage of new legacy businesses. press in december consisted of a article about the stud bar, article about seattle legacy business experts and 3 articles about zeitgeist which is a legacy business and the efforts to protect the outdoor beer garden from a shadow from it proposed building across the street. the three are included because they make mention of

zeitgeist as a legacy business. major upcoming activities for january and beyond including presented three legacy businesses to the small business commission which we did january 9, paying grants to approved applicants. proneting rent stabilization grant to you today. submitting the rent stabilization grant to the board of supervisors for their review. issuing the ronet stabilization grant and receiving applications. finalizing the contract with working solution jz issue request for proposal for logy and brandsing. please note there are no applications for the legacy business registry before you today because the meeting of historic preservation commission about 2 and a half weeks ago was canceled because of new year and there a slow down because of thanksgiving and holidays so

will pick up again in about a month or so. for the business assistance grant, i'll review the applications stats and intendsed use of funds. >> actually before we go there, are there any questions about the legacy business registry? i have a couple. so, i notice just the year highlights, 129 nominations. are those nominations by supervisor? >> supervisors and the mayor. >> and the mayor. okay. interesting. so there are not only nominations hrf i guess everyone has to be nominated one way or another? >> that's correct. >> 42 of these didn't move on to the application process, about 30 percent, particular reason for that? >> some are nominated and not aware of the program so have to inform them about the program. not all of them that provided

applications have nominations. sometimes we receive applications without a nomination so some the numbers are off there as well. and there are some nominations that we received and applications and prnlly in the process reviewing those, so they haven't come to you or historic preservation yet either. >> between 20 and 25 percent don't pass to the historic preservation commission so of 87, 67 passed to historic preservation. are those stim in process? >> there are only three nominees that dropped out. i think two business that wnt out of business and one that decided to remove from the process. >> in the backlog now, do we

have how many roughly? >> going through the process that is submit today the historic preservation commission? >> yes, >> 4 or 5 of those in the process. my next submission date is monday, i'm trying to get 5 for that one and they'll pick up again because the holidays. >> just quick question. out of those who are not in the program and nominated, are they all qualified or are they some that were nominated but could not qualify? >> there is a possibility some nominated are not qualified because we do our best to receive nominations that are qualified. the nominators are aware of the qualifications, but once we start reviewing them sometimes we discover they are not qualified. >> come somecan be in the gray zone which is the not 30 years

but- >> some of these 45 may not be qualified? >> yes, that is correct. >> i want to put that in a category. >> that is correct. >> i know that like [inaudible] they were on market street but they moved to oakland so don't think they would qualify. >> flax has a store in the up arounds the water. they moved the headquarters but have a store- >> fort mason. >> really? >> they opened the store in fort mason because sfai is mubing to fort mason so the hope is there will be- >> they are opening a campus there. >> i think the original if i'm not mistaken, the original legislation included them being headquartered in the city. >> so headquarters isn't a requirement? >> they have >> to have a presence. i got a application and they

don't have a presence in the city. there is allowed to be a two year gap so i'm working with them. >> i won't look frg specifics just general. sorry to interrupt. we can move to the next part. >> the business assistant grant. we received 64 legacies were eligible to apply. we received 51 applications by the december 15th deadlines and all 5 wn were on time. 446 applications are finalized and 5 are in progress. the 5 in progress are generally because we requested verify caishz of their full time equivalent employees andvent yet received appropriate verification. there were a total of 803 full time equivalent employees or

fte ranging from 1 to 100 with 100 the maximum allowedthism average is 15.75 fte and median was 8. the grants totaled 4100 $414500. -note these numbers may change depending on the final outcome of the 5 applications in progress. proposed use of the grants funds included ada improvements, archiveing, associated memberships, equipment and technology, facade improvement, human resources, inventory, marketing promotion, rent and tenant improvements. i have here on the slide different percentages of each of those. the office

of small business would like to begin processing grants tothe 46 applicant who's applications are complete followed by the 5 applicants when their applications are completed. grants will be awarded to businesses as they get set up as vepders with the city and county of san francisco. this item is listed on the agenda as discussion and possible action item and action by the commission is optional. that concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions. >> commissioners, any questions before i ask mine. ? >> this business is on the business portal? >> you have copyies and we have copies here and i can add it to the agenda for the meeting. we can add it to had website if you like. >> the legacy business program, is it on the business portal?

>> the information is all on our website. >> our website, not the business portal? >> not the business portal, just our website, the small business commission website. office of small business website. >> the line item rent, does that-those are rent stabilization grants? >> no, those proposing to use the grant for rent would use it for rent increased they received for the continuation of their business. >> alright, so this is separate from a negotiation with a landlord for rent stabilization so this is my rent has gone up and apply on the fte base frs the amount of money i can and use it for rent? >> that's correct. >> alright. alright. and so

if we were to simply grant these fund, that would be $400 thousand out of the available budget, is that correct? the available budget is what? >> $1 million. >> $1 million. >> the business assist ance grants are $400 thousand so right on the money. >> $1 million per year? >> 1 $1 million per year for- >> it is annual basis so renews. >> we have a million for fiscal year 17/18 and that includes both grants in there. >> a number of these are --probably half is one time sorts of things, equipment,

technology, facade improvements, i don't know what human resources refers to. rent was be a reoccurring annual request whether granted or not would be determined. actually, soerant is just basically 25 percent of the total, so three quarters of it is potentially one time expenditures so we can have a new crop of requests and we could accommodate a new crop of requests for the $300 thousand the next time around. this is the first time, right? and the opportunity is great, but we have to be careful we don't like, the first time we give the money we shut down for future grants because it becomes a reoccurring request. >> it was very open so did want say they are to use it for rent

increases they can just use for rent. some did they rent was increased and some just saiderant. represent. >> let's make it clear this is a yearly application, so in order to benefit from the next fiscal years budget, they have in a timely fashion make a application, the application has to be approved by- >> the applications are due by september 30, 2017 and we can accept them from july 1 through september 30. it is based on the fte as of june 30, 2017. >> it can be the same amount or lower amount t is dependent on your assessment in 20-next application. >> it depends on the number of fte's that were employed as of june 30. >> june 30 >> 2017. >> it goes from june 2016 to

>> july 1, 2016 to june 30-basically you take all the employees june 302017 and look at the average tweakly hours between july 1, 20s 16 and june 1, 2017. it got complicated but i created a spreadsheet sthai can plug the numbers in. some provided the yearly hours the employee worked and number of week squz that was easy. some did mujt to month. >> it is 500 hours of ftes is what it is. there is 4 rents requests here. >> the renewal application when you follow up the application u whatever you call it, the next years application is that pretty much the same as the content or you focus on the-you

are not taking the basic information that was provided. >> is t is very similar. basically the changes we are making with all due respect about 95 percent of them made errors on the emissions, some of that was my fault because the way it is worlded or just because of the way the spreadsheet was so basically what we are doing for the next one is make improvements so the errors won't occur and think it will be a lot smoother for next year, but those are the only changes that will be to correct the errors people made. >> thank you. >> on each of these we look at them individually? we approve these, correct? >> i think you asked to take a look at the list but it is my understanding is that it doesn't need to have you look at all of them. they are all

available if you like to see them. we have the applications. the fte spreadsheet, their fte verification and some ofthem optionally provided with verification of what they use the funds for so that is all available if you like to see that. we didn't want to burden you with reviewing all the applications. >> they have to qualify if they meet the qualification requirements and it would become a computation exercise as to how many employees they have multiplied by 500, is that pretty much-you check the information provided earlier and you add on-multiply 500 by a number of full time employees? >> that is correct. they provide verification and we were very strict in terms of verification they provided and made sure we checked the numbers so they matched evenly.

>> i have a question about saying all these are granted in front of us this year, then it seemed i recall that the next year these same folks have a priority to apply again or they are back on a even basis with everyone else? >> for this particular grant they are on a eechben basis. for the rent stabilization there is a priority. >> we talked about kind of the objective here and that is really helping legacy businesses be sustainable businesses, right? and that we have a fiduciary responsibility as stewards of taxpayer dollars to make sure we dont put good money after bad and not investing our grant toog a business which is on its way-on deaths door and this will not

help them. i think that it is impractical to think that we would review in detail all these 5 1 applications. that being said, i would suggest to the commissioners, my fellow commissioners that this is not the day to approve these in mass. we are allowed to allow the office to make its recommendation to us and to either give a blanket approval or not approve certain selectively for whatever reason. i think it would be worthwhile to have a conversation about there may be specific ones commissioners may know about and more generally maybe look at some of the applications, maybe richard could recommend a few applications that are particularly interesting or are typical so we see what is the

typical application look like in each area. i'm keen to know we have pot of money and peep apply for it, how are people looking at this and potentially you know, because we are only going find out through experience, what are the consequences and unintended consequences of having a birch of money oto to give away so let's get a idea what type of response did we stimulate here. a quarter the requests are rent. that's a expense item. everybodys got that so sure, great i got x number of fte if i get $500 to offset great. that isn't a huge amount of money but not out of my pocket. i'm interested people making

intestament-capital investments that may springboard them to a different place. tenant improvements is one, equipment and technology is interesting and interetc.ed to know did you see compelling cases where someone said if i invest in this, this will take my business to a new place? that's my curiosity. >> i have a question about that. to talk about our role in this process. one is, you said that there is no kind of entitlement to the funds each year you have to reapply. just specific questions is that first come first serve next year? how does it work? >> we have to get them at the same time butt by september 30 and revee them all. ewoo have to know the total fte's before

we do the grant amountism in this case we have a 5, but the 5 are not going change the fte count very much. normally we should have all of them in so we know the total fte and know the total allocation. >> you wait to the closing date to collect all your applications. >> that is correct. >> the second is you know what your budget is and you know what the qualification requirements are. it should be legacy business, correct? when they come to the program they have access to these funds. other than knowing the number of fte's, what i would like to know just a reminder and since we have this our attorney here tonight, what are the discretion that you are exercising that would otherwise be our discretion in denying or otherwise granting diminishing or increasing and so i would

like to know if it is mechanical process where you get the qualification and you cut the check, or you gonna have in addition say maybe you qualify but will not give it to you because you don't use it pr the right reason. >> each is the maximum request, that is my initial observationismarve wn asked for fte times 500 which is the maximum. the only limitation is if you are over scribed which you are not, you are on budget as you anticipated that 40 percent $40 percent the million goes towards this versus 60 percent towardserant stabilization which we'll get to in a few minutes. and it kind of begs a interesting question, you give out the first grants and people go right on, there is $500 per fte. >> it is important because we want to reserve discretion but

i would like to know if there is room for discretion and to discuss that. we have a qualification process and we have let's say applicants more than we can afford, correct? so we are going give them on a perada basis or say you don't get it, you get it and get involved in that. >> to answer your question, it is more mechanical so if they meet all the things in the grant, the regulations and they show the proper fte verification they can get the grant. and number two, it is por ada. >> so there is no-just as a follow up. my understanding is i would like our attorney to confirm that, there isn't a room to say okay, we don't like your allocation. if they qualify and then we have togive

it to them if we can afford it, otherwise we give a percentage, is that correct? >> that is my understanding too commissioner. the two places where the commission could exercise significant control over this process are-first at the threshold stage where a business is applying for legacy business status, my understanding is that the commission has significant discretion to make or not make three findings that are necessary to qualify a business to be a legacy business. once a business is a legacy business, once you made those find squgz the business is on the legacy business registry, once a legacy business applies for one of these business assistance grants then the second thing that you can do to

sort of channel this process or exercise control over this process is not on a case by case basis but in general you can make regulations and you have pretty broad authority under the ordinance here of prop j to impose a wide range of additional requirements on what these grants can be used for or how people-what people or what legacy businesses need to do to qualify for it grants. it is my understanding that the commission could for example pass a regulation requiring that these grants not be used for rent and used for capital improvements. moving past that regulation stage, once a legacy business is

passed those two choke points, once it on the registry and once it is complying with whatever sort of general regulations are out there, then my understanding is that the office of small business shall give that business a grant. it is a very mu calicle process. >> that is a good clarification. what that means is let's take a example, we are on budget here and quee have not passed any regulations to date which precludeically knae of these requests because we rely on richard to have vetted them and have no reason to believe that vetting process is anything but perfect right now and so we grant these let's say. snow all of a sudden we are sitting here next year and $8,000 worth of request squz richard deemed all them to be qualified. we haven't passed

any regulations precluding any form-same set of requirements, rent, whatever is on the list is still approved. we are then obligated because they pass the first two hurtles to distribute the funds- >> one hurtle because we don't have regs. >> that is true but in the absence of regs they have gotten-they met the regs that exist, which are pretty wide open now. regardless, and so now those are $800 thousand in qualified requests, we are obligated to give them and to give them on a pro rata basis if our budget is still $400 thousand so everyone gets half of the requestsment we say selectively you get 100 and you get 25 and you get 30 percent so good. takes the burden off

us. actually today there is very little discretion to say that we see something here that suggests we pass a regulation for the next round because we won't get through a reg yelltory and sit on these so long to put us through a reg ulatory process so in the original contemplation the legislation these are all legitimate requests if ween it over the next year decide that didn't see like a good idea or there was a unintended consequences we didn't anticipate we could pass regulations to tweak this butprintly relying on richard and office of small business to have vetted them they are through the hurtle and gates and so we actually don't. i will retract my previous statement. it is probably in our best interest in facilitating the process to take action today because we

are not going to reject any of them so should facilitate them. >> mr. president i submit to you before we consider regs which i think we may have to because you pointed out the benefits of regs, we should give ourselves time to run the program, to find out the needs of the program and draft the regs accordingly. it looks like to me based on the attorneys response it is pretty mechanical and this commission will not be able to exercise any discretion, therefore, it may end up delegating and should delegate to the office of small business to properly and accurately run the program. >> and we have already effectively done that already. what is interesting is that

good on you for getting through the door first. this is the easy year. everyone of these will get approved. >> only the first year. >> the first year and so then it will be sort of a as we come around to the-well, it is interesting. the first two years because we wont really know the results until the end of the first year and may or may not learn anything the first year. it will be okay, what happened? it is the first 12 months recap and again we'll be leer a year from now and won't have runway to change unless something really weird happens. if something is really out of wake wack we can act quickly where the city attorney for a reg. the likelihood is this will signal for the next round, you better get your application in for legacy business because there is free money here, right? but,

the catch 22 is it will be over scribed and so the free money per fte head will go down. interesting. and then also the amount-the allocation, this 40 percent allocation if for some reason rent stabilization didn't live up to the 60 percent allocation maybe more money would come to this side. i suggest rent stabilization is probably over scribed so then the question we will have are should we allocating $400 thousand to this side or be more like $200 because the real-most impact is on rent stabilization. i don't know, just saying. we might decide to reallocate this budget from its 40/60 to some other allocation or decide rent stabilization doesn't help

anybody and buy more toward these. >> i would like a clarification from our attorney. can we freely allocate budgets mubling moving one year from the other? >> [inaudible] >> i don't know if woo can, i want clarification. >> i'm not sure. my understanding is what is the ordinance does is it creates two separate accounts. >> okay. >> the legacy business rent stabilization account and legacy business assistance account so the fact there are two separate accounts is in the ordinance. i'm not sure who determines and when what kind of appropriation is made to each account. >> richard do you know what the allocation is? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> i know that is a challenge because it is one pool of money in the budget and to separate that out we had to try to estimate how many businesses would be in the business asisance grant and how many

landlords would apply for the rent stabilization grant. >> it is by chance that we landed on budget here? >> good estimates. >> it is possible that from a legal perspective the answer to this could vary from year to year dependent how the board of supervisors. it sounds to me like the board of supervisors this year made a single million allocation to either or both account unless the commission and office of small business-lots of discretion how they allocate it between the accounts, you can imagine the board taking a different approach in different years. >> that makes sense because it is a annual allocation process the board of supervisors as well is it not? there is a baseline there for a certain amount of time and we wrote in i think we could ask for additional funds if we felt it was necessary and we can do

that whether we ask for it or not, it is just a ask. >> is this a action item? >> it is. possibly action. >> possible action and the possible action is a motion to approve these as recommended by the office staff with our without exception. if anybody were to point out a exception here i think that that would be somewhat-that would seem a little bit subjective at this point especially since we are on budget. >> i don't know how we can, if i may-set exceptions if the office of small business vetted approved and qualified these businesses, i don't know how individually as commissioners and ied like to know if there is, we can set exceptions.

>> unless any one individual here had knowledge that was not for some reason available to the office staff because of for example, our profession. if we happen to be in the business of vetting other applications by these for financial consideration then we could conceivebly know something. you could as a attorney be in the midst of-this is violation perhaps of your clieant privilege but i know this company is on the virj of bankruptcy. >> i don't know if that is at this late hour a ground for me to chime in and say this should not qualify. >> maybe not. >> i dont know. i don't want to go into complicated legal scenarios. >> i suggest this is all or nothing proposition. >> can i make a motion then?

>> now, we have to have public comment. any other commissioners? >> taking into consideration our parameters of discretion and once these businesses have already passed um, being on the registry, but it concerns me that the biggest fte number of employees are from non-profits and i don't know if a need basis if that would qualify them for this grant amount should we have knowledge of upcoming grants they might be also receiving and how that might impact you know, like maybe their need. >> we had lengthy discussions on even the appropriateness of including non-profits and it was pointed out non-profits are specifically included. >> i know that is the in the

legislation but trying to understand- >> i think that also is ovstepping our bounds to look into the business development opportunity that any of these organizations have. to your point-i just don't think that one, we are not doing the research and say what grants do you have in the wings because they may or may not get them and so we would be making a determination on information that is not for sure. we have to put probabilities on the possibility they get a loan or grant. any one of these organizations could be in the midst of a loan application or financing that would mitigate need for this so don't think it would be- >> we did ask a question on the grant as to what other business stabilization gants they are receiving so some businesses did respond to that and will continue to ask that question. >> okay, that was one of the-

>> so we get a sense who might get grants. >> that's useful. >> bl president when we get to the point where we are drafting regs, we ought to take into account a lot of elements with the help of the city attorney and come up with guidelines and maybe that would mitigate some of these differences in amounts. >> i think this is where richards expertise will come. nobody knows more about these applications than richard at this point so relying on him to kind of look at some of the common modes here and make recommendations to us going forward here is what i have seen, here are things that you may or my not want to consider as potential impetus for additional regs so i think we will ask you for that. >> we can do that.

>> so, before we open up for public comment, this is a potential action item. my recommendation or observation is that this is a all or nothing sort of vote today if we choose to vote and so with that preamble i open up to public comment now. if there are member thofz public that would like to comment on the itoom please come up and say your piece. >> i hadn't planned on coming up and saying anything but this is a fascinating conversation because in three years i'll be up for this. i say when you think about reduing the regs you make a minimum a business gets. so every business gets at least $500 and the more employees that maybe your scales from that point because concern as a small business is if i am a person with one employee on the list and do all this work to fill out a grant and it is prorated to 10

percent and haven't made minimum wage for filling out the grant and think that is inappropriatefelt >> that is a fantastic observation and appreciate that. richard is here to hear that. any other comments from the public? seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners any further discussion or motion? >> move to approve. >> move to approve all of these grants as presented by office of small business staff. okay. >> second. >> we have a motion by commissioner yee riley and second by commissioner dooley. alright we will do roll call vote. >> yes. >> richard, is there a problem? >> 5 still in process would this motion take those into account that when we finalize those the amounts may be different than provided today?

>> could we say they would get pursuant >> student the amount they qualify for? >> that would be great. >> what is still to be done with these 5? >> fte verification. >> so, if we can amend the motion that subject to fte verification of the 5 that are in process that these too will be approved if the numbers are verified or they will be modified per the aquil fte which is likely to be plus or minus 1 or 2, right? >> yep, thank you. >> so, if commissioner yee riley would like that amendment. >> yes, so amended. >> i will just read this motion back. so, commissioner yee riley made a motion to approve all the grants as presented by staff with the exception of the 5 pending and those would be

approved conditional upon fte verification or revised if such verification suggests a different amounts. >> right. >> okay. perfect. >> seconded my commissioner dooley. >> alright. commissioner adams. yes. doola, yes. dwight, yes. ortiz-cartagena, absent. commissioner tour-sarkissian, yes. commissioner yee, riley, yes. commissioner zouzounis, yes. that motion is approved 6-0 with one absent. >> congratulation commissioners you just gave away 400, 500. richard thank you for your hard work getting here. this is no small task to vet all these applications so thank you and sure that you'll get 51 letters

of appreciation . if you don't, well, they better not come back next year. awesome, thank you. alright. we are on to the next item. >> iletm number 5, review of legacy business rent stabilization grant program final rules and regulations, and application. discussion and possible action item. our presenter is again, richard kurylo legacy business program manager office of small business. >> thank you. richard kurylo legies business program manager. again, i have a powerpoint presentation because i like them a lot. anything to take the camera off me makes me happy. item 5 is review oof the rent stabilization grant final rules and reg ulations and application. you have opkies copies the document and there are copies on the table for members the audience.

matthew lee is here from the city attorneys office to help answer questions. a big thank you to mr. lee and regina dicken dreezy and tour-sarkissian for their exceptional work on rules and regulations for the grant. >> so, are we going to do highlights, yes? >> yes. i will go over very quickly and then we can talk about details. in 2 d,-number 2 in the rules and regulations is general qualifications for landlords. landlords can not owe to the city, must be registered with the business of tax collector, landlords can not be subject of investigation or enforcement action by it office of labor standards enforcement. 2 d, not related by ownership directly or

indirectly to legacy business. this is defined through 6 point developed by the sit aattorneysophilus. happy to go overthem in detail or come back to them after the presentation. >> i think the key here was defining immediate family relationship. >> that is correct and also ownership by the business of the landord. >> city attorney fees confident and office feels confident we vagood definition of both those things? >> city attorney did a great job dming up with these points. vore confident with it. >> okay. >> number 3, indicated three categories of ineligible landlords. a, the landlord may not be a development agency, commission or entity of the city. b, the landlord may not be any other local state or federal government or related

entity and c, the landlord may not have entered into lease agreement with the legacy business that previously owned the property that is subject of the lease agreement. >> no sale lease backs. >> lease back arrangement. >> very good. >> number 4, covers qualified landlords. when a new landlord assumes the obligation of a lease that qualified the new landlord is eligible to be a qualified landlord if the lease terms and conditions are not negotiated and landlord satisfies all other requirements. you won't see that in the application but you will see that in the next application because there is a initial application and there is one that is a follow up and you will see it in the follow up application. number 5, the conditions per lease. 5 a is regarding options to renew. any number of yearss a leg as

business has the option to renew the lease should count towards the lease providing the option to renew is at the businesses discretion. 5 b, lease must be signed before the lapd lord apply frz the grant. 5 c covers disclosure to all legies business that the city does not guarantee it fumly funds the rent stable zainization grant. 5 d covers special contingency provision in the lease and this we spent a lot of time on. per the legislation there may be a provision in the lease make thg lease or any portion there of contingent upon the landlord receive agerant stabilization grant however thrks contingency is void if doesn't get a grant because owes in money to the city or does something to disqualify. also the landlord may provide a option to pay the landlord amont equal to the grant and finally thrks landlord must provide the

business with 120 days noting of intept tent to exercise the contingency provision. 5 e covers additional application certification and numbers 6-8 cover authorize use the funds. confudenchtality. regarding authorized use the fund the grant is awarded directly to the landlord. the landlord and business may agree to use the grant to offset the rent or for any other purpose and this is consistent with proposition j per the city attorneys office. >> alright. so again this is a fund and it has a budget this year of whatever is left over from what we just granted, so $599 thousand. and if we

receive applications next year for a million worth of rent stabilization grants and they all qualify, will we have to give them all-because it is annual renewal process. funded first. >> yes. >> to their previous funding level? >> um, you take the ones from the prior year and- >> roll them forward. >> they get first priority of the funds and it is pro rata it is for those. if there is enough money for those than i believe you pay those and pro rata- >> i think if i may and i can be corrected. first scenario, you have enough to pay everybody so you pay them all. >> that's correct. >> second scenario you have no new applications but less

money, then you prorate. same people who qualified but you don't have the same budget, so if you have same amount of money and so you have to accommodate the first in fully before you think about the new crop. >> understood. >> and for the new crop, new graduates so to speak, then you have to either prorate. in other words, the first year are going to be in the program fully as long as you have the money for them if the budget is cut then you prorate. if there are new people you have to accommodate them. >> you prorate the incremental funds >> this is in the legislation. >> that is all most exactly

right commissioner. so, it is exactly right that if you have enough money to pay all applicants who receive the grant in the prior year then first you fully fund those prir applicants. if you dont have enough money to fully fund those prior applicants it is exactly right that you prorate based on the square footage of each business. the only thing that is slightly different is, so suppose you fully fund all of your prior year applicants and now you can fund new applicants but you don't have enough money to fully fund everyone who would apply-who make a new application during that coming fiscal year, my understanding is that you take them first come first serve so you fully fund the first applicants to the excitants you

can and if you run out of money the second gets no money. >> new applicants on first come first serve. >> it is different approach for the business side of things. it is waiting for the deadline and then prorating, however, for the rent stabilization it is still a time-there is a time element, if you come first you get served first. >> exactly right. >> this will be on the website and will say applications can come in whereas the business grant come in at the same time. >> great. >> if we have money left over, then can we rom it over to the next year? >> i believe so. >> okay. >> or could we allocate it if we were over scribed in the other fund could we allocate to

that in a given year? >> that's a good question. >> the idea being that we should spend all of available money on a annual basis. >> our attorney said if it is not specified by the board-but if it is we can't. if it is not maybe we can. >> and if we haven't contemplated that we should. >> i think the answer would depend on whatever the conditions are of the boards appropriation for the year so we should look at those. >> that is snng to look into not for any further discussion, but in the event that we don't use all the rents stabilization money in a given year do we bank it or do we reallocate it to the extent that the business assistance grants are over subscribed and allocate it

there. what discretion do we have to do those things? >> there is a lot of thoughts but know the first year it will not be a issue but we have given it a lot of thought. >> okay. good. >> i will skip to the powerpoint presentation. there is a last page, 9-13 cover receipt affgrant payment, verification of information, sanctions for willful and material misrepresentation, appeal and change s to the regulations. movering to the application, the application is included for review. it covers all of the applicable items from the rules and regulation. i do want to point out we decided to request the applicants business account number so that is a proposed change to the application, so something we want to have-

>> business account number? >> it is a business account number- >> registration number. >> it is help sfl to look up the businesses. >> you have to be a registered business but that is nice check and balance. >> i got it quickly from the city website but it is nicer if they just provide it to us. potential motions. regarding potential motion or motions. i want to go over. item 5 is listed on discussion and possible action. intent of item 5 is approve the documents within any applicable modifications noted in the motions. intent of item 6 not to jump ahead but to compare is adopt a resolution regarding the rules and regulations on the application. so, you as i understand it may make one or two motions covering both of the documents together or the two documents separately. and for the motion regarding the application remember to include

the modification which is the addition of the business account number. >> okay, item 5 is review the legacy business rent stabilization grant program final rule jz regs and applications. those documents we just reviewed. so we have done that. there was no action required on item 5. item 6 is adopting said rules, regulations and application. ; correct? >> it is a resolution. >> but it also says grant application. okay, yes. >> in the application and the regs be voted on in one resolution? >> one resolution yes, but for item 5 which is this item you can do one motion or two separate motions. >> we should have called them together. >> we'll do it separately.

>> item 5 is just approving them. >> approving the document. >> item 6 is resolution . two different things. >> that's correct. >> first we have public comment. any other comments among us? any members the public that would like to comment on this item? you are in learning mode today, you sure you don't have nothing to say? you got three minutes come up. >> you gave great advice on the last one. >> the one thing i'll say here is my major concern with the way this is going down and you may run out of money and i know that as a small business i have been talk toog tie meeu landlord and try to get the 10 year laes for me. if she is going fiend out that she may or may not get that money depending on when she got in line, that makes this whole thing a lot less attractive and much less likely you get those 10 year long leases. i think

it is something you need to think about that at least the rent stabilization part of this need to-i don't know the process is but i assume you go to the board of supervisor jz say to them, this is a pool of money that would be increasing over the year jz it is not something you can-they can do it if they want to cut it, but it won't do the thing we are trying to do here, which is keep long term businesses in san francisco over the long run. that would be my one comment on this is this makes me very nervous in terms of only the first people in, the people who just happened to turn 30 or over this year and if you turn 30 next year you may not get anything. i don't think that is what the people voted for or thought they were voting for. >> good comment. thank you very much. any other member that would like to comment on the item? seeing none public comment is closed. do we have motion to approve the rules,

regs and application? >> i motion to approve the rules, regs and application. >> as presented >> as presented. >> second? >> second. >> okay. motion to approve the rules and regulations as presented. the rules and regulations for the rent stabilization grant program as presented. and the second is by commissioner kathleen dooley. okay. >> question, could we include in the motion-you doing rules regulations and app. could we include the addition of business account number. >> including the business account number. >> the motion is approve them with the amendment of adding the business account number on to the application. yes? >> correct. >> okay. roll call vote. adams, yes. dooley, yes. dwight, yes. ortiz-cartagena

is absent. sorry about that. commissioner tour-sarkissian, yes. yee, riley, yes. zouzounis, yes. the motion is approved unanimously 6-o# one absent. >> on to item 6 which is resolution to accept the rules, regulations and application as presented today. do you have comments? >> i koonot have a powerpoint presentation for this either. hala lieuia. commissioners any discussion before i open for public comment? no. any member thofz public that would like to comment on adoption of this as a resolution? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners do we have discussion or motion to accept rules regulations and application with the amendment to the application as previously noted in item fivel. >> i move. >> yee riley. >> second.

>> commissioner dooley, second. alright. commissioner adams, yes. dooley, esi. dwight yes. ortiz-cartagena, absent cht tour-sarkissian, yes. yee riley, yes. zouzounis, yes. the motion is approved unanimously 6 to 08, 1 absent. >> fantastic. alright. progress. next item, please. >> it is election day at the small business commission. >> must be why we had such a great turn out today. [laughter] >> to start off i am going to read the procedures from the rules of order. i have also brought copies for all of you in case you would like to have them in front of you. okay.

here we go. i should probably read this into the record. should i read the procedures first so the agenda order makes more sense? >> whatever the ajendsa order is. >> okay. i will read the procedures first and the commission shall vote to elect commissioner president and vice president under separate items. for each office the commission secretary calls for nominations. nominations require a second. nominees are provided a opportunity to make a statement. after nominee statements other commissioners will be provided a chance to comment. following nominee and commission statement the commission secretary will open public comment. commissioners shall vote in

favor of one nomnay for each office during each round of voting. a commissioner initial vote in faiv of a candidate shall be recorded and may not be revoked or changed. the first nominee to receive 4 votes during a round of voting shall be deemed elected. if no nominee receives 4 votes the process will be repeated. if no nominee receives 4 votes in favor after not less than 4 rounds may continue the election to the next regular meet frg the office of or offices for which inconclusive election is held. so-- >> okay. >> iletm 7, election of officers. small business commission president. in accordance are rules of order article 2 section 3 election must occur at the regular meeting of commission in january each year. that should

say the second regular meeting in january. the president serves a term of one year and elected upon a vote of the commission. this is a action item. okay, so i would like to open it up for nominations, please. for the president. >> okay. >> i like to nominate president mark dwight for another term. >> okay. >> it has to be seconded? >> yes, a second is required. >> i second. >> okay. any other nomination frz the office of president? >> i like to nominate stephen adams. >> is there a second? alright.

without a second that nomination cannot be considered. any other nomination frz the office of president? okay. then nominations are closed, so we have one nominee that may be considered because of the second. nominees are provided a opportunity to make a statement, so commissioner dwight, would you like to make a statement? >> i would be honored to continue as president. >> alright. commissioners would you like to have discussion on this nomination? >> i just like to say um, that president dwight has taken this commission to a level the next level that what it was intended to be and we are taking it foothe next level and with his leadership, we are there and it is all of us on this dies if

you have been on a while, kathleen and irene has, we are lot more respected i think than we were 10 years ago because we are more active and we do more and a lot has to do with not only all our leaderships but it is the leadership mark pushes us in thinking differently so i appreciate that. >> thank you. >> commissioner comments? okay, i like to open it up for public comment please. any members of the public that would like to comment? public comment is closed. i will now conduct a roll call vote on the nomination. commissioner adams, yes. commissioner dooley, yes. commissioner dwight, yes. commissioner

ortiz-cartagena is absent. commissioner tour-sarkissian, yes. commissioner yee riley, yes. commissioner zouzounis, yes. 6-0 with one absent commissioner dwight will serve in the coming year. >> thank you very much. appreciate your support. next item. >> we will do the whole thing again for vice president. so, but first i should read this into the record. item number 8, election och officers. small business commission vise president. in accordance with rules of order article 2 section 3 election of vice president occur in january each year. the vice president serves a term of one year and elected upon a vote of the commission. action item. okay, i would like to open up for nominations for vice president. >> i nominate steve adams. >> commissioner yee riley

nominated steve adams. is there a second? >> i second. >> commissioner tour-sarkissian seconded. any other nominations for office of the vice president? alright. seeing none, nominations are closed. so we have one nominee who is seconded and commissioner adams would you like to make a statement? >> i would be honored to serve as your vice president for one more year. >> commissioners would you like to comment? or have discussion? >> i would like to say, commend commissioner adams for his long standing commitment to this commission. it is work and people don't really think about what it takes for all of us to come to these meetings,

participate and to be as engaged in the public in particular as commissioner adams is. he goes to lots of events, he is very engaged. i am always amazed by how many people he knows out and about and especially as we had our legacy businesses not sure there is one he didn't know personally so great to have people on the commission who know the business owners and know the districts the way that commissioner adams does so i think-and it makes him an effective leader here on the commission. >> i personally admire commissioner adams for involvement in the san francisco community. every time i come i learn from him, the information he gives about the neighborhoods and meetings he attend, so i think he plays a essential role on this commission and i would like to

see him as the vice president of this commission. >> thank you. >> i like to add that in addition to his commitment and long standing of serving on the commission, he is out there everywhere. everybody knows him and he knows everybody and i think only absent once all these years. >> only once. >> congraltulations. >> probably in hawaii. >> i was. >> i just want to say after the conclusion of my first year on the commission, i want to say thanks vice president adam frz showing me the ropes in the beginning and i'll extend that to president twite, i learned lot from you guys so thank you. >> any other commissioner comments? alright, i would like to epien open up to

public comment. any members of the public who would like to comment for steve adams for vise president? seeing none public comment is closed. i will conduct another role call vote for the nomination. adams, yes. dwight, yes. sorry, commissioner dooley, yes. dwight, yes. ortiz-cartagena is absent. commissioner tour-sarkissian, yes. yee riley, yes. zouzounis, yes. by vote of 6-0 with one absent stephen adams is aprointed to vice president. >> congratulations. [applause] >> next item. >> moving to item number 9, approval of meeting minutes and this is the january 9, 2017 draft regular meeting minutes and action item, and motion? >> motion to approve. >> commissioner adams motions. >> i second.

>> we may need public comment first. first off, any commissioners have comments about the minutes as presented? any members of the public like to comment on item number 9 approval of our meeting minutes from last session january 9? seeing none public comment is closed. motion? >> i motion. >> approve the minutes as presented. >> i second. >> thank you, mr. president for catching that. we have a motion by commissioner adams and second by commissioner yee riley. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? that motion passes 6-01 absent. #50i89m 10, commissioner report. allows president rks vice president and commissioner and commissioner tooz

>> i don't have any knowledge to report other than beer week in dogpatch. we have 3 brewers doing a collaboration brew so that is exciting t. is a big deal for the city to host beer week and just as a side note, if you are familiar with a brewery that does a beer called plenty the younger or something like that in sonoma i think it is, that single thing and the event every year to go and try that beer has brought i think well overa million in additional revenue that community. the opportunity for these sort of experienceal events whether it be arounds food which by the way it is rist restaurants week get a deal on a meal at participating restaurant the ggra sponsors,

but likewise beer week and other things are the modern day attractions to our neighborhoods and can have very significant impacts on local revenue and therefore success of our small businesses as well as implication for tax revenue and things like that. anyway- >> i will go. >> you heard it here, beer week is coming up. i think the more of the things we can support and promote, the better because it is kind of the one thing that really adds vitality not only to our neighborhoods but the specific industries >> the small craft breweries are small businesses. >> absolutely. that's all i got. commissioners any other- >> i am now representing the castro merchants on the council of district merchants. i went to my first meeting last week

and president dwight was there and i had never been to one of those and what a eye opener. >> i'm representing the new dogpatch business association at council district merchants, so commissioner adams and i are two new seats at the table for cdma. and i will say that cdma, i have said has the potential to really be the chamber of comperse for small business in san francisco. i have been on the board of the chamber of commerce on and off for the laest 10 year jz i took a break to found sf made be its chairman for two years but after concluding i went back to chamber of commerce. cameber of commerce has done great thing tooz support small business but the chamber of commerce is not the home of small business in san francisco and cdma is a billbit of a

misnomer because it says merchants but it represents all small business in san francisco and especially as-we are getting more and more small businesses as we know a uber driver is a small business. a individual consultant is a small business and this gig economy is actually causing a explosion in small businesses as they must be registered with the city and so i think that the cdma as the sort of place where merchants and now more small businesses come to talk about doing business in san francisco, that the cdma has to the opportunity to take a leadership role for small business in general so i think commissioner adams and i both acknowledge that opportunity for cdma and are there at the table to try to move cdma to the next level and next generation in support of all small businesses in san

francisco. any other commissioner updates? >> i attended the district 3 mta summit and then i was followed up with that and now part of the mta working group which will meet monthly. >> good. >> fantastic. >> outreach and all the things that need to be addressed. >> lack there of. any other commissioner reports? alright. we have public comment on the commissioner reports as presented this evening? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> iletm 11, new business allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration. >> i would like to based on our public comment earlier today i would like to recommend the office staff to do a little research for us about this

ordinance. the ordinance for point of sale registration and inspection. first off, to determine how much of it is san francisco specific and to what degree is this also a california state and/or federal regulation, i don't know the answer, i just put it out there. sometimes we are simply acting in response to state and federal regulations, so it would be nice to know to what extent that is the case. if be are on our own on this one, i think it would be worthwhile to consider whether this regulation is a sustainable regulation, whether it is something that we should take as a action to find a sponsor at the board of supervisor s to perhaps change it in a way that is more favorable to smalt business in san francisco. >> i would agree with that one. >> okay, do we-the other new

business item i proposed last time and want to keep on the radar screen is a presentation about the small business registration for non-profits of all kinds because i suspect there is knowledge that we should get out to the public about how to register your non-profit in the city of san francisco including business associations, neighborhood associations and non-profits in general. >> we were going to talk about too and want to stay on top of this, kathleen you brought about planning come in and talking about the changes in the neighborhoods regarding formula retail. >> the first hearing is the third of next month. i try today contact the merchant associations and contacted council district merchants about it, so you know, there

are major problems with it, but >> yes, that came up at the council district merchant meeting, your presentation and steve cornell said we need to do something and agree. i think they are way moving way too quick on this. >> i suggest the merchant association stand up and say slow down on this because there are problems that will have a substantial impact on >> the neighborhood corridors, yes. >> and spent many many many many months going over this with the planning department and at this point i'm-their attitude is he who has gone to them and complained will have a adjustment only for their mcd, so- >> case by case basis. the squeaky wheel gets the grease. >> yeah. the mcd i tend to

represent we were able to get a lot of things straightened out. nobody one stepped up to say they had new problems. >> richard was clueless at castro merchants on this. >> it is a big deal. >> i agree, so- >> there is a lot of loop holes and they are unintentional loop holes but when you remove a entire section of the planning code and replace it without looking at how therefore the references and other parts the planning code relate to what you are removing versus what you are adding >> right, >> there are big differences and those kind of things can cause unintended consequences and i clearly see them coming our way. i don't really know what to do at- >> maybe at the next meeting get someone from planning to come and talk to us about this.

>> their position is their minor and there is no need to go over it. >> would it be a benefit to publish the changes that you were able to lobby for in your mcd to the other merchant- >> i did send that out via council district merchants. >> minimally they can lobby for the changes you got. >> they should. in the north beach mcd we asked and received additional food category which i think is one everyone should have now, which is you know, the special food manufacturer that has retail. that should not be considered a limited restaurant. that would have a lower bar in a good way, which would be that type of business is generally very welcome. >> absolutely.

>> and so we insisted having that added to the north beach. >> will that include businesses like confection tion makers and >> absolutely. we should make because we have them in my district. >> this would just be to fill a hole that we have right now and in my opinion it is increasing area of small business folks that bake the gred bread, sell whole sale and have a counter and sell retail. >> case in point, neighbor bake house in my neighborhood, a huge success started out whole sale{abandoned whole sale because they retail business is so strong and anyone, myself included as a manufacturer prefers direct to consumer retail because you don't go through a middle man to sell whole sale so that is proof positive a business we think

of as a whole sale business becomes retail is far more sustainable. the number of employees they hire, they have out grown their space and become a institution in the neighborhood in 3 ourfore short years and should encourage those type of businesses. >> i would argue that it is a lower impact business than lumping everything in the world under limited restaurants. >> i agree. >> absolutely. >> completely agree. >> i would like to request the commission just to send a letter to planning and say, these are the issues, i outlined them and can send them to you. there is also problematic things with formula retail, which is article 7 has a big list of what is considered formula retail and then that's is erased and the new change has half of what was

under there. once again, we re quested can you add the previous on to it, they are not like they have become suddenly non formula retail possible businesses. that's again something that is unintended consequences of not-they added- >> that very list is a-minded numerous times on the basis of hard work to get it amended and this whole sale revised it as part of a general revision seems like rewriting law without go through the proper channels. >> may i suggest commissioner dooleys comments be put in writing and sent to us so we can efficiently communicated. >> let's get those comments and maybe have staff prepare a letter to be approved by us

pending our review of those changes, but i think delivering a letter from the commission from the small business commission to the planning commission alerting them of our concerns in these very specific areas including but not limited to the following list. >> it is a 350 page document. i myself have looked all through 350 pages numerous times but i have to admit there are some things in different mcd's that i am might not catch and that is why i have been trying to urge the mcd to take a look. look at yours and see if there is something there. this is the time to do it. happy to snd that. >> thank you, please do. alright. great. >> the guidance is prepare a or

schedule a presentation from the planning department at the next meeting subject to their availability as well as start preparing a letter from staff on the basis of commissioner dooley's notes. >> i say we need to send a letter prior to the first hearing at the planning commission which will be february 3. >> and so just to get the process down, they will have a hearing, that hearing is that a hearing to approve it in its entirety or the first hear toog hear what people have to say about it? don't know. >> i'm not sure. the thing is these types of things are so-it is very easy and i have seen this before in other issues where the person comes up from the staff and says it is nothing. >> february 3? >> that thursday. >> maybe this is call to cdma

to get represented from each district. >> you were at the- >> i just want to chime in here for a second. all you are doing now my understanding is you are putting new business on the agenda for a future meeting of the small business commission. >> we can't take action on anything. >> right. >> i'm not- >> can we ask the office of small business to give us materials for the next meeting to make decisions, correct? >> that is- >> we are not taking action, we are asking the tools to make a decision at the next meeting. >> that sound right to me. >> great. and maybe just simply making a observation that concerned parties would be advised to show up at the planning commission meeting not knowing whether the outcome of

that meeting is to accept these new rules and regs as written or whether there is discussion still to be had. >> as far as i understand it, you are-any member the commission could also attend as a member of the public and give public comment. >> we have presence of two neighborhood associations here on the panel. >> if you are done with the new business i like to- >> please. >> about the cannabis policies in the city and county of san francisco. january 11 we got from the office of small business and specific a number of documents including but not limited to the state regulation task force report and just to sum up-we had prior to that a

presentation from two prominent experts in our state, mr. cur shid and tumar who made presentation and got a summary the notes which was [inaudible] work and i appreciated that. it looks like 2017 will be the launching year for setting these rules in our county and it seems appropriate-a lot of agencies will be involved and regs will come out and it will effect small business and i find it appropriate mr. president that the office of small business be involved in that process and specifically also the commission in a sense we should have-be involved in the process because these regs will effect small business come 2018, so i strongly recommend to my fellow commissioners that

we invite the office of small business to bring us experts. people working on these regs so we can bring our contributions to the shaping of these regs. >> we also have someone sitting on that task force from the office of small business. i think we do or at least regina- >> i have to report to you that- >> there is no one from the office sitting. there is a representative a small business owner and there is a person representing business interest but we dopet have staff on there. >> so no staff. >> i was surprised and maybe that is another issue beyond my new business discussion that the office of small business

nor the commission is represented on the task force. the task force is behind this and need only 3 hours a mupth. what i'm talking about is to be aprized of the shaping and isn't that a unusual opportunity for our commission to be part of that. >> okay. >> so my proposal for small business is first that the commission be involved in the shaping of these and then that we have regularly experts who would kind of aprize us of what is going on in the city so we can chime in and give our contribution. >> okay. i would propose that those presentations be well thought out in advance and very specific in their analysis and recommendation to us. and not

a general overview of the situation. okay. any other-so, we should get ahead of this cannabis legislation as it effects the city and our small business for sure. alright. any other new business suggestions? alrightfelt any public comment on our new business discussion? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have-on to item 12. >> item number 12. before we do item number 12 s frks fgovtv could you show our slide? >> as is our custom we end the meeting each small business commission meelting weminder the office of small business is

the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop quh you vaquestion about what to do next. you can find us online or in person at city hall best of all all services are free of charge. the small business commission is the forum to voice opinion squz concerns about policies that efecktd the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> okay, item 12 is adjournment. action item. all in favor. >> there is a motion. motion to adjourn. >> i move. >> did we do public comment on- >> we did public comment on- >> sorry, on the new business. okay. the motion is from

commissioner yee riley to adjourn the meeting. second. >> i second. >> commissioner adams. all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? meeting is adjourned at 432 p.m. >> alright. fantastic. [meeting adjourned] >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient

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>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority for the this is the regular meeting for today tuesday, january 24, 2017, i'm the chair of the authority aaron peskin our clerk is mr. steve stamos call the roll. >> roll call commissioner breed commissioner cohen commissioner farrell