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charge the public official public forum to voices our be concerns about policies that effect the connective vitality of small businesses in san francisco if you need assistance with small business matters start here at the office of the small business commission thank you >> item one. >> wait, wait i have something to say first we missed an important event be last week we are that not together a heartfelt happy birthday to our policy analysis minica. >> oh, thank you, thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> precede. >> thank you okay number one, and roll call. commissioner vice president adams commissioner dooley is not arrived commissioner president dwight
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commissioner ortiz-cartagena is absent commissioner tour-sarkissian commissioner yee-riley has not arrived commissioner zouzounis present. >> mr. president, we have quorum. >> all right. let's get started. >> or the two general public comment but not on today's calendar and suggest necessary agendas for the commission's future consideration. commission's future consideration. (discussion item.) and members of the public that would like to comment on nothing not on today's agenda seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 3 discussion and possible action to make remedies on the board of supervisors file no. reorganization technical and other amendments other amendments. ordinance amending other planning code sections
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reorganize article 7 and to update, correct, clarify, and simplify code language in other planning code sections requiring taraval, and judah neighborhood commercial districts (ncds) enacting permanent controls at this time large scale urban agriculture business hours fro 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., and the demolition or merge of units on the the north beach ncd; preserve the small storefronts, street frontage and prohibit vehicular access on certain streets with the vehicular access on certain streets with the manufacturing
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and amending the eating and drinking controls our presenter is aaron starr manager, legislative affairs, planning department. and this is a discussion item item. >> hi welcome. >> again my name is starr manager, legislative affairs, planning department. good afternoon, commissioners the item before you is phase two and phase three of planning code organization that that focuses an article 7 like to begin by explaining why the department started the process that is a large and complicated document some of the complexities we having a daytime city and reflects the aspirations and the city's neighborhood and have the identity for the land use controls, however, there is a level of complexity in the code that is urban necessary the code is added to over the years without thought for
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reorganization or over lapsing controls so it is not 0 easy to find the controls and some of the controls are lost because of complaekt that makes that difficult for planners to do their job and for the members of the public individuals this will illustrate the city's 1948 planning code 27 pages 4 of the text of the planning code and the other 23 include the land use maps you can look at it as a historical document next, we have the planning code from 1978 this cod is quite a bit long-range and complicated 200 and 17 pages and then have today's planning code with the 3 volumes over 13 hundred pages the code has grown
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significantly not only in size but complexity in recent years normally i bring the code but not going back to the office this is a picture prior to the project 4 places in the code you can find 4 definitions in article 2 and 83 was to promulgate the chariots in article 2 and article 7 and similar but difficult tables in article 8 after is process will be one set of definitions given the number of definitions from 15 to one and 16 there will be standardized ways of informational organization and all will be gone awhile maintaining the legislative aide recollections for i like to say preserving the necessary code
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how do does the code maintain the basic structure until second year 86 and article 7 is prior to many the standards were in article 1 and two is the control for organizing tabs tables that have the definition we had one dozen district and fewer regulations, however, the code has a complaekt with suspending added to the code for used in the commercial districts trying to bring the order to the code the city has article 7 this created general as well as individual commercial districts and deleted some of the special use districts added a new set of articles a new way of organizing the information known as is zoning control and article 8 adam definition and also similar
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but different tables article 2 is the same 3 definitions in way ways of conveying the controls from the planning code initiated in 2013 to restructure the planning code to be easier to understand and use the accomplished by the standard disz and he zoning format to help to achieve that is divided two phase three. >> fetish one article 2 is the mixed use and pdr and zoning map as far the consolidated definitions have been successful 3 streets it is overall helping this helps phase two and focuses an article 7 of the planning code that governs the eastern neighborhoods commercial strict that phase three will focus an
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article 8 that covers chinatown and south of market since is definition have been consolidated in section 1012 under the main component to reenforcement the tables to mimic in article 2 and consolidated the definitions in article two as part of definition in 790 will be deleted in section one one 02 are providing contribution for this phase even though next one of the biggest challenges will be regulated certain challenges to how to say regulated is removal of groupings in section 790 made up of individual uses i'll go into this later in the definition the ordinance eliminates 415
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that cover the mixed use except one diverse those controls are the same in section 306 that covers the cu and others entitlements for the rest of the city a lot of envocation between the sections the one is a 20 day 90s for the commercial and mixed use district and other zoning district are only 10 days this ordinance makes the 20 day notice standard throughout the nose it takes out the food existence with the redundancycy and the definition to better describe how their regulate in the planning code these will have been requested and commissioner tang and
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supervisor peskin with the outer sunset with the conditional use for the personal services on the second floor and reconstitutes the cu for the mcds in the outer part supervisor peskin has requested to the north beach mcd for land and storefronts consolidation and prohibits the access in green street and prohibit a loss of twmz on the uttering floors about the agricultural for twenty-four hour businesses and restable for restaurants and removes the section from movie theatres add specialist i'm sorry food definitions for the north beach sud and requires the cu and requires the eating and drinking for the 2011 ordinance and
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finally supervisor peskin asked the mcd momentum to allow the restaurants and require conditional use authorization for the bars the next few shades will show how it works under phase with the 8 categories agricultural and automotive and entertainment and be parts and recreation owe institutional and residential, sales and service and utilities and infrastructure each of the using includes a list under that category example agricultural is defined as a category that includes the neighborhood argue and identified the uses in the use definition for example, the jewelry store is retail stores
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advisory board injury 124e identify the category in the first part and this is how that will work in the chart as you can see rather than listing all the two industry uses we have the use category and this is not permitted saying that for the institutional we list 8 individual use but the use for the controls for the other of this helps to cut down on the length of the chart and also allows for every use to be accounted for in the control table
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it depends on the supervisor wanting to make changes i reject but they complicate the issue just to really restructure the planning code so it is consistent but i made the offer and holding to it okay i'm good with that thank you >> so the supervisors you support was the proxy for the district. >> yeah. in the supervisors supported it when we introduced an ordinance we assumed they've done the public outreach for the changes. >> commissioner yee-riley yes, thank you for the presentation and also you mentioned you sent out thousands of invitations and had 3 meetings people showed up unfortunately in the very many that's i put the sign up on the - plus not a very engaging
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topic nobody wants to take the planning code organization but we did we are continuing the outreach and trying to reach out to bay area and looking at organizations to make sure they teach them and if they have concerns we're also meeting with the council the thought merchant our each continues not a sexy topic frankly. >> the ones you met with what are the reactions. >> i think that some of of them were fine when they were mr. pacheco the proposal they were comfort with that and liked the idea that consolidating easier to use some groups are very weary of changes reacted
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negatively and spent a lot of time responding to letters and e-mails when they bring up an issue i'll counter that with how it is working that's why that southern is negated i would able to win over a lot of people but i i'm willing to meet and talk with people about them. >> do you think that all of the changes may not have a lot of impact for the existing businesses. >> i certainly hope not we're keeping controls the same for example, we're pulling out uses from the other rare sales and services category they'll be permitted before the way they were previously a neighbor can come in and go to the supervisor and change that that allows that to heap for more fine-grain
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controllers from the commercial districts but as it effects the existing businesses it may help future businesses i hope the code will be clear and easier to understand so a small business owner what get information from planning staff. >> so mostly impacts the new businesses coming in. >> yes. >> thank you commissioner dooley. >> i've spent a lot of time with you aaron starr and got things done in north beach my question do you feel that consistency should take precedence over the needs of mcd. >> so i think that we are preserving a lot of the uniqueness so like i said the definitions were really predator indicated an article 7 and it
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preserves the controls in the neighborhood district so the specific controls were decides on by the community and makes each neighborhood unique are being preserved i don't think that is a trade off between consistency and between specializetion or zoning controls i guess you're not squaring won over the other. >> they use - >> well, i found that - >> (inaudible). >> not necessarily positive changes and each will district i mean, i reality appreciate that aaron took the time with us to
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acid for many, many hours to make sure that to continue to preserve what is a special district but you know, i was surprised that even though districts did not spend the time for example, we got put in our part of code a new definition about commercial manufacturing so we can allow for example, a regional aspect to come in as a different category and thought that the districts would have would have been interested so. >> right. >> it depends on the district. >> but as aaron pointed out the objectives i i remember he opened pandora's box but put pandora is back in the box but to simply reorganize things you
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were asking for a new definition than that was sort of beyond the scope of this project the call not to have everybody rush to the go table had can i jam but rather i'll reorganize things and under the new reorganization if you want to plug thing into the mcd great we have a cleaner framework. >> yes. and no, because some of the things that have been perhaps inadvertently deleted are not positively things and once appreciate that aaron recognizes these and these are things that are include for everyone so that, you know, that was a very interesting exercise for us and i'm not faulting aaron i'm surprised that the
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sdpikts didn't spend the time reviewing it is not boring it was fruitful i will urge other districts to have i wish they'd done the same. >> so aaron during our organizing and sorting things out the implication some mistakes or oversights and this effort this particular group underwent basically said hey go things fell through the cracks a let's fix that. >> that's why we have the introduction period and then the adoption of the planning code we pistol the information and receive effecting so countless hours of the north beach but were spent a lot of time responding for the coalition for the neighborhood concerns and
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they will say have issues with certain is changes made that i changed based on that so part of the progress and i found though i was surprised the translation of the charts i've not had a lot of comment on that the system to accurately translate the current definitions and i haven't received much criticism or feedback on that i think i maintain the existing controls with commissioner dooley is referring to has to do with with the sections of the code that are amend and having - because we changed the grouping we had to change and list those so learning curb i think i have you know internally been looking at this as well i'll say that north beach is a unique district in
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san francisco a very complex controls and they're there to preserve the north beach unique character and it has an sud that is with the commercial district they're basically two zoning districts for the planning corrode k34r5ib8g9d district that's one reason i didn't reach out to them in the proper like over a year ago. >> as normally the case far more interest in what you've done than what you're going to do once you have done what you're going to do what kind of process some other district came forward and says oh, i see what you do and there are things missed. >> we i'm sorry we did article 2 we knew there will be errors i set up a expedite we had another
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ordinance to adopt to correct the errors sow the exception their licking be a secondary action. >> yeah. i'll even file with yes, a clean up after this >> i think that is just you know as there's the cause-and-effect you will probably is this will cause people to wake up and say wait. >> yeah. is also hospitals people what is kind of controls the neighborhood in the commercial districts including in the chart are included and a lot of things are spelled out more clearly and people didn't know things were spelled ousted clearly but can go back and change things. >> commissioner zouzounis.
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>> thank you for your presentation i hoping you can walk me through the language i'm not familiar with that. >> i'll be happy to. >> just to follow up on the question so formula retail i don't understand that referred to ownership structure than new. >> correct. >> so we consider formula retail a huge characteristic you have a bank that is formula retail or a restaurant that is formula retail or have a clothing store formula retail we have a code that independence what groups of retail uses formula retail and not all are formula retail but pretty much all of them now are we included the banks and some other ones recently. >> and so secondly i'm trying to look at the names of the file
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number included in the packet that is referencing something in the code has to do with with the grocery specialist designation and i'm just trying to understand everything that is pertaining to that sector the liquor store and i wanted to know if something that for a grocery speciality is inside or outside what that use. >> speciality grocery will no longer allow the seating to help to distinguish between limited restaurants. >> that's new. >> inside and outside we don't dictate seating outside but i mean on the sidewalk so the dpw handles that. >> probably not we get a
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referral but, yeah i'm sorry we - specialities grocery will no longer be available to have. >> nancy and others have concerns there was no significant differentiation between a limited and grocery so out of conversations with the zoning administrator the way we made more depiction is seating at the speciality grocery that will not be limited to restaurant use so full foods a speciality. >> no a grocery store. >> and some distinction. >> not to during this trial into the specifics that is interesting. >> i'm trying to understand if
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there was a change to the space in which an off sale or rather they have tip 20 or 21 off sale with the license basin in which the floor occupies 15 percent of floor area is that something that is. >> no it is not located in the accessory use maybe putting that in the existence but the actual keej has not changed. >> okay and what triggers a cu. >> so in a use is - you look at the use controls of the zoning control an mp it is principally permitted it requires a constructive and mp not permitted you're basically going to the chart and it
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requires a cu. >> do you have a visual of that postcard. >> not the full chart but watching basically what that looks like the institutional uses all of those require conditional use on the first story and second floor and third floor the first column ask the first floor and the second floor and third floor above in the neighborhood we're regulated by story and not just by parcel. >> so do you have these charts for every. >> all 39 neighborhood commercial. >> so we don't pairs through them the call to action to all
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of you out there you viewers the call to action is check the chart you're concerned about that impacts you and so quickly and thoroughly so they can relate changes to you before the legislation is finalized or to alert you after this if any clean up is necessary. >> that's on the website; right? >> yeah. i - i mean you can contact me an aa r o n at sfgovtv.org. >> okay. >> those charts are available and anyone what request them. >> the link to the ordinance. >> okay. you commissioner
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tour-sarkissian. >> a quick follow-up for the existing businesses will not have to deal with the cu. >> if their use requires cu and they want to expand they'll have to get a cu that's the way it is now this won't change any of that i'm not making something the ones that i spend out specifically not changing from conditional to the permit if it is a cu you'll work and potentially expand it. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> thank you. i have for the purpose questions just to exhausted the questions about the specialities and going over the changes and for the benefit of those listening the minor
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amounts of food only site if you buy food in a grocery store more can you set the premiums it that what the end result is that inception requirement was not there so we've added a requirement. >> you're correct yeah, but the specialty grocery is for like a chose shop or like one of the small type of things. >> like a chose shop or having another like a speciality meats shop or something that he specialize in one product. >> they can prepare minor amounts of food. >> so if the chose shop wants to make cheese sandwiches or meat sandwiches can you be prepared and offsite to be
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eaten. >> well, i guess you no seating but can stand and eat the sandwich. >> but full grocery stores is different that was a definition added a while ago. >> all right. that's definition the changes proposed. >> yeah. >> kind of to clarify and a lot of minor questions you bear with me, i'm united health care workers using arcade are they considered. >> the amazement game arcades were when people were concerned kids would skip schools that was prohibited throughout the city the still do that now on their
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own. >> (laughter). >> so when we started the project in 2013 none was open in the gay market we were going to wrap that into the entertainment and we did that under phase one and since that time the proliferation of businesses that want to open up arcades and supervisors are being amending the code to allow that to happen in other words, the preserve the process we put it back in the code and now regulating it as violated uses and not general. >> i'm informed there was a discussion of cu requirement citywide that will be. >> nothing that i know of that - >> okay. >> then there's no cu process for arcades.
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>> it depends on the district. >> not citywide. >> they prohibited them citywide but since 2013 upper market and haight and the zoning district have been amended to allow the games. >> it was discussed in let about the possibility of making mainstreams to the code and tweaking it so the question will it be more difficult in the future as a mathematics of the comparison as what it is in the future of making changes and in a neighborhood district you know neighborhood commercial district that is making it kind of difficult. >> i don't know - well the process like the planning commission with the cu and goes to the board of supervisors to. >> what other steps what i'm
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maybe for the purpose of calculation those changes will be done requirements 2, 3, 4 neighborhoods changes more difficult to get there. >> no introduce as the planning commission to initiate their ordinance by drafting it or they can petition their supervisor to introduce to change it what it does break down did uses that used to be grouped together like the institutional uses and the it allows for more fine-grained zoning controls it didn't do anything to how easy to change the code. >> we like do it thirty times a year. >> (laughter). that's clear puts some people's
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minds at ease and another specific question about the mobile food operators is that going to be decreasing or increasing the ability to place mobile food up by the property >> that shouldn't change what we did so when we did the article to the phase one we created a separate use in the code after looking at the use more carefully we decided not a use in dpw but their use we see how the regulations is in the code and basically on the street dpw we don't have anything to say about that private property it is like a restaurant that's how that is regulated or a temporary use and then it talks about how it is regulated by
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that that wouldn't make that easier. >> it wouldn't change. >> my finally question the bakery for manufacturing will be a different than neighborhood or you have standards. >> right now a bakery is considered a limit restaurant that is allowed to happen and allowed to produce and sell food on site and be a bakery north beach has concern about their long term bakerries that have a connection to the italian past heritage being switched to a coffee shop and not a bakery no more so supervisor peskin office created a definition for the speciality food manufacturing to help protect those uses in north beach specifically because we didn't want to introduce new use
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citywide and not you know require doing outreach and sort of talking to the neighborhood groups we put it there special use district north beach has north beach and north beach sud so only applies to the north beach sud. >> so potentially if required. >> at this point we'll have to add it as a use in the code and add it to all neighborhood districts and so phenomenonly this speciality for all neighborhood is that what you're saying and a neighborhood will require would be possible to do it that's my question. >> we'll have to set up an sud. >> no, but right now the use is permitted in every neighborhood commercial district
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my understanding correct me if i am wrong the reason they wanted it in north beach to protect the long-standing businesses in north beach a particular need for that district but. >> let me clarify when supervisor scott wiener chained the planning code for restaurants. >> uh-huh. >> what happens was everything that was only restaurant or limited restaurant unfortunately what heaped that included therefore every bakery with limited restaurant and everything was a limited ice cream trucks was a limited truck we experienced that someone ought to say a candy shop and became a restaurant they just said we're a limited restaurant so we were concerned of preserving additional businesses and making that easier for them
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or a new one to make that easier for them come into the district not be considered a restaurant. >> well to be clear limited restaurant are permitted throughout the city and now the specialty informed manufacturing requires a cu so i'm not sure it makes that easier but makes a distinction between the two and it prevents the business from turning into a restaurant that way. >> the distinction didn't exist. >> only in the north beach sud. >> it could be added to other neighborhoods. >> it would take another ordinance and could be added to the code. >> that's part of changes we're tubbing. >> the department went through a large exercise the consolidating the eating be institutions in 2011 but really
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created some large rules on how we regulated restaurants like you can serve ice cream in a cup but a toaster you can have a heating port we tried to solve for the small businesses can adoptive their plans and respond to the market and needs without having enforcement staff saying you need to unplug our toaster and take it out of building i'm not exaggerating our team did that or that ice cream has to be served in a cup but not a cone that's the noah valley ordinance called for and rather not go back that way. >> okay. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> commissioners any other questions. >> all right. >> when do you expect this to be voted on. >> on a 30 day hold at the end of the month and have to
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schedule it. >> so if anyone has any suggestions or changes they want to request they should get to you quickly. >> yes. yes. >> great we'll open up for public comment and thank you very much for your presentation. >> any public comment on item this item come forward come on down. >> i think n >> with the mayor every quarter and he since this mayor has been in office and one of the main things that comes out every single time we want to be at the table with all, all this stuff comes up we're not at the table over one thousand people were appreciative invited open
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this and the legislative representative from the council of district merchant was not noticed and a representative from polk street never got nodding noticed and as this is what san francisco is all about. network not noticed i go to every chamber of commerce the policy meeting and never came up this is legislations or this is stuff if effects business i will assume we should be at the table whether it is bad a like it or not the way we heard about it from commissioner dooley that heard there a supervisor i don't think that is a good way to run an proclamation i've been on the planning commission hey any legislation over the last 28 years i don't know nothing about it so that was on a thirty day hold you mentioned at the
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council of merchant the director of planning department asking to come to our meeting what back when never got a returned answer about that we made a phone call and set up a meeting that for this coming meeting at the end but here we are standing like a bunch of '98 sayers and nobody came and talked to us or any other business group we had to go forward thank you. >> any other members of the public that wants to comment seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners any other comments you know i'll say that just in general and i've participate in the mayors meeting and 3r5e7bd at the council of district
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merchant and other ventures perhaps a failure to communicate we need to better process for outreach and whether that is having the right kind of e-mail or call list or whatever i don't know what that process is probably a discussions for some other time to figure out how the agencies within the city government communicate with the representatives of the neighborhood organizations so there is a line of communication clearly i will say in this particular case there's a been a good faith effort even if there is a disconnect so nothing in this process to me looks like no one is trying to rush something through without telling anybody supervisor scott weiner those are ships pga in
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the negligent r night didn't make a less of a problem but not looking at for blame but looking for a way to improve communications procedurally so let's work on that together a topic of the mayors meeting and c m a so we're all the organizations roll up so we can figure out how to make that communication better with all the agencies so this is discussion possibly action item anyone wants to call an action no. >> okay so. >> take no action until we hear if other groups. >> okay cool. >> all right. so aaron can you i'm sorry remind us of timing at the board of supervisors
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>> i mean when it is planning to go to land use. >> i'll assume early to mid-april. >> okay. >> okay. well i'll see you at the meeting thank you thank you for your time for walking us through the presentation next item, please. >> item number 4, approval of the minutes action item and this is the february 27, 2017, draft regular meeting of minutes. >> any discussion members of the public of public want to
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comment seeing none, public comment is closed. i move we approval of the minutes four monday february 27th >> second. >> okay motion by comrades and by commissioner >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? okay. that that item passes with zero with on absent next item, please. >> item 5 director's report update on the small business commission and assistant center and policy and announcements from the mayor and regarding this is what san francisco is all about. activity discussion item. >> commissioners, i have a report and then in addition minica did you want to walk you through on mini can see timeline to start off i provided a list
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of new business items we had to assist a scheduling to deal with some of the staffing our staffing and ability to schedule these and do the necessary up front work to be able to get you the information time to review it for the meeting so i'll just continue to have the new business items on the director's report until we get through that the legacy business so our legacy business assistants grant were appreciative continuing to issue them we have a yofrt of businesses that con succeeded their vendor getting their vendor id and so as soon as we have that we're issuing the grantz they're out the door and then all businesses that are on the registry have received
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the letter informing them of the rent stabilization grant they can't apply they're the ones that burglary initiate the conversation with the property owner that that grant is available and then for all the property owners who have reached out to the office interested in the rent stabilization grant richard has contacted them and sent them the application so i know that we'll probably get a few couple of applications in the coming weeks and as their were property owners that were very angrily awaiting for the grant program to be finalized next we've had several piece of legislation introduced or referred to our office last week one being worked out covering the workplace and
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on-street parking loading requirements dealing with bicycle chop shops on the right away expect those so be scheduled in the next one or two malia cohen's and then we do have in the dockets legislation hates been received we're waiting for the legislative sponsor to schedule it and last week, we also had the hearing yu78d on the styling for the restaurant permitting process and a department on the accelerator program katie prevalent several months back presenter that report along with the department good to hear that the departments are going to the it review progress to improve their process
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so i think you know the work that katie is doing has a positive resulted with the department looking at where they have opportunities to make improvements we'll work on getting you a summary and small business week is scheduled so for my 15 through the 20 we'll send out information the kickoff event is monday at the hilton this year the metron is under renovation and the board of supervisors scheduled on the reprogramming schedule for the 16 and we do think we'll have a small business awarded on the 18 not our traditional one day of conferences again, just due to
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space restrictions so the bulk of workplaces will be held and s b.a. but some of our conference highlights and i believe this is on tuesday at the potentially the nasaic training center so the working groups panel presentations that we've had high attendance focuses on that first half of the day and then i - the small business sidewalk sales we're looking to regrant that name month businesses don't engage in the sidewalk sales but grant it as to get out and shop you're neighborhood day i'm working with the council of the district merchant and mary ann to put together a program
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so and then i do one note for tints meeting we did sent out almost two weeks in advance an alert to the merchant associations to have a hearing and inviting them if they can't attend to have a hearing on the article 7 and if they can't attend to make sure they you know watch the television or reair it so just - >> well, hopefully. >> want to let you know while it was not months ago but again, it was an opportunity for the all the areas that are nominated ♪ fees to have an opportunity to come to the commission and be able to get more information and
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so just note that staff on our end and i made reports at several of the council district merchant meetings over a period of time that staff is working to make our efforts to make sure we are helping businesses to be early at the table >> do we very specific contacts that each of the noofgz on the work list and okay. >> you can lead a horse to water and minica why not go into the presentation of the documents for item number 5. >> so as promised i think two meetings ago developed a just a
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set of timelines so that you will begin to receive wherever materials we can send i've expressed interest to the legislation rather than after that is scheduled so we'll send that out to you earlier and then the context policy issues for the documents as well as quickly as possible but at least a month prior to the hearing whenever that is possible i excluded u included the document and the final agenda those are all windows so the blue shading representatives basically the window of time supposed to be official but those are the documents you'll receive first and this the timeframe you can expect that the last thing you might get the legislative
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background and we'll seek the sponsors and do the research and the final agenda we'll be sending out no matter than wednesday. >> yep looks good. >> nice start thank you. >> that that concluded my report. unless questions. >> commissioners questions. >> okay do we have any members of the public that wants to seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 6 commissioners reports allows the president and department to report on the activity and this is a discussion item and well, my report so short i attended the first meeting about small business week i'm chief executive officer from the chamber of commerce and so we're making progress you've heard in the are director's report and
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then he attend a the c n a for the dog patch business association so i will be at the next meeting and hear more about the legislation we heard about so that concluded my report. >> no one else. >> yep i'm on the cd m a council representing castro street merchants. >> commissioner dooley i'm continuing to attend mostly meeting with the mta representing neighborhood commercial that districts and i think we're it's really a positive situation i think that we're bringing up a lot of issues seems to be quite a bit of agreement on what issues we need to be honing in on and
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continue to meet monthly for at least another 6 months and then we'll push back to maybe every other month but i think that is a good forum for neighborhoods needs and comments. >> good anyone else do we have any members of the public that wanted to seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item no. 7 new business allows the commissioners to introduce future considerations discussion item. >> commissioners any new items you'd like to prop. >> thank you for the director for the cigarette litter abatement thank you. >> any other comments my members of the public that wants to comment seeing none,
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