again, are we going to be around next year? to have this hearing, to have this commission and having people hear us is really great. it is really a positive step. i hope it turns into a trend. you need to use the smaller businesses to keep it going. as i said before, the other hearing that we had, two of the five people today i printed for them. it is a small businesses that keep me going and i hope we can keep it going. with help from richard, i am sure that we will and you, too. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i am the director of the lab. thanks for having us. this is really fun hearing all of the stories of the great old

businesses that we have auld kind of -- all kind of been visited or used or been part of. it is cool to see that inter meshing of the stories. to speak about the lab. we are internationally renowned, and yet we are also fully aware of our economic disadvantage in san francisco. we are one of last remaining alternative arts bases here. we are electrified bipolar rised cents. one current is serious about making the organization succeed. as a new model for funding artists. the other is less tied to systematic thinking. recently over 40,000 artists and volunteers have come together t ensure the lab's future in the city.

the 34 year existence has depended on the sense of family. the community ownership that blurs boundaries between work and place and exhaustion and exhilaration. the power of this collective effort continues to astound me. as one of the last remaining arts organizations left in san francisco. the aim is to provide artists and audiences with the time and space to experiment. our artists represent the depth and diversity of the dwindling works class. they make the city playful. they expand our perception with what is possible. we provide $25,000 per year and health benefits and financial and legal counseling. we want the artigses -- artists to be inspired. this is done where the lab is

housed. the san francisco labor temple. why the residents have sought advocacy, healthcare, fair wages and creative energy afforded by having leisure time. sadly, i could leave you today only to find out we have been evicted. our landlord is seeking to sell the labor temple to the highest bidder. our accessibility to bart and the quality of the program brings 10,000 to the lab. i hope we can continue to do that. thank you for your support. i appreciate it. . >> thank you very much. >> welcome. >> i will be short and sweet. i work at the law and stars. my parents own it. i want to thank you for having

this exist in the city. i have kind of grown up around the community my parents created. i have been able to see what a positive difference it has made to people's lives. my father immigrated here from ireland. for me i haven't been to ireland very much. the plough is where i can understand where he comes from and that is true from others who want to connect to irish culture or a different culture to hear the music and see what we have. as the next generation of the family business i hope to be able to turn that and keep that alive. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public? seeing up, public comment is closed. commissioners comments?

>> i will say a piece for slim's. they are not here. they is a historic family of our business. it is a venue i frequented and a lot of groups even international groups have played there. they are good at creating an audience for all sorts of people. i and honored to be present with you in this room. these narratives are amazing. i am proud to, you know, be a small business and family business warrior with you in the city. we have to tip the advocacy. thank you for putting in the work for the program in coming to the meeting today. >> other commissioners? two shout outs. one to slim's. i spent many nights there. and plough and stars.

i am irish. i took my parents there back in the late 1990s. my mother had a blast. i am honored that you guys are on the legacy business. this is really cool for our culture. thank you all for coming out today. we have busy lives. we have stuff going on in the middle of the day, yet you come out here at 2:00 in the afternoon to stand u up for your business. that is cool. thank you very much. commissioner dooley. >> we need to hear these stories. we need to have people out there hear them for you, and this is really what makes san francisco such an amazing place. we are out there fighting for you to keep small businesses alive. >> commissioner dwight. >> i want to thank you all

foregoing through this process despite the assistance of our head of the application process. i think it is very warding. i know several businesses that have gone through the process. we don't stop to think about the history because we are worried about our futures. it is a great exercise to pull that together. it is great for your family, both older people who may have forgotten and the new ones who never knew them. thank you for being here today. much appreciated. >> do we have a motion. >> move to approve all five businesses. >> second. >> motion by commissioner dwight, seconded by commissioner dooley. roll call. (roll call).

>> motion passes 6-0 with one absent. congratulations everybody. [applause.] >> we hope this gives you leverage in your next round of negotiations. >> i seem 4. quarterly report for the legacy business program for october through december 2017. discussion and possible action item. presenter is richard kurylo. >> you don't need to stay or you can it is through the rest of the meeting if you would like. >> the best part is already over. >> thank you very much, guys. thank you for taking time-out of your day to show up here. much appreciate it.

>> the item is closed. next item. >> good afternoon, president adams, commissioners and staff, richard kurylo. i am presenting the quarterly report for october through december 2017. including statistics, nominations received, business assistance services, business types, major accomplishments, business assistance grant. the major upcoming activities there. are copies in your bidders and on the table for members of the

audience. in october through december we received 12 legacy nominations. 17 applications and $750 in application fees which are $50 per applicant. the historic preservation commission reviewed 8 application. the small business commission reviewed 8 applications and listed all 8 businesses on the legacy business registry. since the program began there have been 20 200 nominations. $750 in applications received. 120 were review and 119 businesses were listed on the registry. nominations received in october through december were for legal referral panel.

babylon screen prints. motor lodge. eddie's cafe. little joe's pizza, mindful body. the bakery. pioneer and san francisco market corporation. many have been legacy businesses. >> i have a quick question. you go back to the last slide. some of these have not come up yet. they are still in process? >> in processor just been nominated and haven't provided us with an application. >> okay, thank you. >> sometimes the supervisors nominate the businesses and we reach out to see if they are interested in applying. >> thank you. >> for business assistance services the legacy provided technical assistance to 24

unduplicated clients, 110 hours of difficulties this fiscal year. since the program launched it has served 53 unique clients and provided 464 hours of consulting. legacy businesses have access to all training workshops offered through the san francisco small business development center or spdc at no cost. topics include marketing, financial management, quick books, access to capital and technology. spdc partnered with business blocks, a san francisco small business company to provide free seats in the main street marketing online course which has a retail value of $750. in this course the businesses learn marketing strategy, master on and offline marketing tactics to reach new customers and create a marketing plan for their specific needs.

for 119 legacy businesses on the registry as of december 31st, 81.5% were for profit businesses versus nonprofit organizations. this represented a slight increase of 1.7% from the previous report in august. for the city as a whole it is estimated 94.3% of the city's establishments are for profits. 97.4 are nonprofit. there were 20 applications to the fpc. it included all 20 on the registry. acknowledged the 100th business on the registry, submitted 12 business applications to the hpc, completed contract negotiations with the creative

group for marketing and branding. created a web page indicated which businesses are compliant with the city and county of san francisco. notified legacy businesses of the availability of the online marketing training course courtesy of the small business development center and began issuing regular press releases. for the accident assistance grant there was an application rate of 64.9% with 72 of 111 eligible businesses applying. we are finalizing the numbers. to date there are an average of 16.79ftes per applicants, average grant payment of 8 $600. total grant payments are to be over $623,000.

the top five proposed use of funds for the business assistance grant are 38.4% for improvements. 25.9% for rent. 12.9 for façade. 10.2% for marketing and promotion. 7.3% for equipment and technology. since the rent stabilization grant was issued one year ago, we have processed and paid 12 grants to landlords averaging one per month. the average square footage is over 3200 square feet, and the average grant is $14,771. there have been numerous press articles about legacy businesses since september. including sanchez as 100th

business and the passing of gus stan nuss who owned the produce. passing of steven par from odd ball films had several articles, and new legacy businesses including el rio, clips and tomasis all had press articles. they resulted from the press releases in november. press in december including closure of brainwash and passing of mayor lee and businesses added to the registry. lastly there was an article about d&a lounge added to the ledge see and dance brigade purchasing a new building for the new home. major up coming activities for

january include 10 applications to the spc from january through march. working with the creative group on marketing. completing payment of applications for fiscal year 17-18. creating online application for business grant for 18-19. finalizing rules for the legacy registry, creating an annual reapplication process for rent stabilization and annual report for 17-18. thank you. this concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, richard. thank you for everything that you have done with this program. when i see the numbers, it is amazing what you have done with this. i think it is very good. hats off to you.

any other commission have any questions? >> likewise. you are doing fantastic work. i think all of the applicants appreciate your assistance. >> we on the commission very much appreciate what you do for our office and for the legacy business. >> we will open it up for general public comment. any comment? seeing none public comment is closed. richard. what you have done with this program is taken it to the next level listening to the people come in here, we are making a big impact and difference in san francisco's small business, and you should be proud of yourself. thank you very much. >> thank you. next item, please.

>> item five. presentation on the out reach and education program to smalls businesses on the accessible business entrance program. the presenter is rh rhean auginaldo. welcome. >> i have a powerpoint presentation. >> it is so clear now. >> all right. good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to present to you today. my name is rhea august innal do, assistant case manager for the office of small business. in addition to staffing the business assistance counter, i help the office support business programs. i support rick with the legacy business program and the accessible business entrance program to create and implement outreach and education program.

the purpose of this presentation today is to give you a background, overview of what the program is, and our goals in terms of outreach in education for the program. please note our office is in the early stages of outreach for the program. we are still developing materials, we are still actively reach you go out to stakeholders, including business organizations. given the first date to compliance is may 23rd, 2018, we wanted to make sure you understand where things stand with the program and our goals going forward. a bit of background about the accessible business entrance program. ordinance 51-16 was develop in part from a white paper by the office of small business that was drafted september 23rds of 2013 about significant

accessibility issues faced by san francisco small businesses. the paper outlined recommendations at federal, state and local levels to advance accessibility and protect small businesses. supervisor pain worked with our office in partnership with the planning department, department of building inspection, san francisco public works and the mayor's office on disability to develop this legislation, and the mandatory disability access improvemenimprovements, the offe was introduced in july of 2015. passed by the board of supervisors, april 12, 2016. signed by may or ed leo april 22, 2016. >> what is the program? the accessible business entrance program is the official name of

the ram. it requires property owners and buildings with places of public accommodation to make primary entrances and entrance routes into the building accessible to people with disabilities. as a building code addition, the program is directed by the department of building inspection in consultation with the planning department for historic preservation, san francisco public works for sidewalk modifications, the access appeals commission for unreasonable hardship and technical and feasibility requests. the office of small business for outreach and education and resources to small businesses and the mayor's office on disability for experience in accessibility standards. compliance for the ordinance is required for places with public

accommodation. all buildings with public accommodation fall into one of four categories. ranging from fully accessible, to having major barriers to entree. i will in the next couple of slides go over in the compliance categories, steps and schedule. there are four exemptions to the programming. buildings built on or after 2002, owned by religious organizations and private clubs and buildings that do not have public accommodation. here is a list of the 12 categories in title three of the federal ada as places of public accommodation. it include restaurants, bars, retail stores, drycleaners, grocery stores, hotels, daycare

centers, gas stations and hair salons. for property owners who are unshower whether their -- unsure whether their business is a place of public accommodation the department of building inspection has a form and they can submit that form to dbi or call the department of justice hot line for assistance to derm whether or not their acciden --g is a place of public accommodation. property owners are responsible for completing the steps to achieve compliance. quickly. first derm eligibility, what that is to deter min if it is a place of public accommodation or meets one of the four

exemptions. if the building is exempt, no further action an required. not execs. -- exempt go to temperatur step. consult with a design professional. licensed architect or engineer to survey the entryway of the property. step three is to complete and submit department of building inspections category compliance checklist by the deadline that i will go over in the next slide. this compliance checklist must be filled out in consultation with a certified access specialist our design professional. four. in the third step for categories two, three, four. the design professional will propose barrier mediation if the

building is not category one, which is completely compliant. step four there is a two step process. step pour is to file the application for required building permits by the specific dead line and to obtain the building permits by a specific deadline. keep in mind accessibility is building code related so these building permit applications are forbearier removal, making sure the entryway is compliant and consulting with the appropriate agencies to ensure that the work that needs did you is in compliance with planning codes, historic preservation, public works, sidewalk modifications which is more information on that is on department of

building inspections website. important to note here, too, we do have a list of certified access specialists. in that step two, consulting with a certified access specialist there is a data base our office created as resource for profit owners looking for inspectors to serve san francisco. now here is the compliance schedule and categories. all buildings with places of public accommodation fall into one of four categories listed here. ranging from fully accessible to having major barriers to entree. quickly going over these. category one. compliance. no steps or barriers to the entryway. category two. no steps but minor barriers.

a minor barrier could include narrow doorways or door handles that require gripping our turning of the wrist. step three or category three, the entryway has one step. category four, then industry way has more than one step and other major barriers. based on which category compliance the the falls under, they with need to su submit the checklist by that date. those in compliance would have to submit the checklist by may 23, 2018 to the department of building inspection.

inspection. our objectives at the office of small business. given that the ordinance impacts a wide swap of small businesses. our aim is to provide obligations for compliance. i won't go over all of these. i want too highlight a few we are focused on. first, educating businesses and property owners about their obligations for compliance. educating business and property owners about legal and financial obligations that could be triggered in the leases by the accessible business entrance program. thithis is an important be given the interesting overlay with state and federal access quilt laws.

it is important to note the way the ordinance was written it is not meant to change the relationship between the tenant and property owner or affect any existing leases. our office wanted to get ahead of that to make sure we understand thelem implications and provide resources about the steps going forward. then the last one here that i will highlight provide access to legal prep sensation and assistance to business owners in need of that assistance. a bit more about our outreach materials as well as target audiences that we are looking to provide education to. we are working with the inter

agency group, department of building, planning, public works and the mayor's office on disability to host workshops to businesses and property owners. we have actively identified organizations and steak holders to present to. our office beyond the compliant steps and taking the lead more so on mapping the legal implications. around the overlay of the accessible business entrance program with state and federal accessibility laws. we will conduct outreach through e-mail blasts, both inhouse through our office and distributing information out to our partners, business organizations, chambers to share with their business members. we are also putting together

materials, informational handouts and handouts on the legal rights and responsibilities of property owner versus tenant. talking points how to communicate with the landlord around accessibility obligations and identifying leal and tax researches for businesses that could be available for them to cover this. to cover accessibility obligations. also listed are target audigen audigenss, organization -- audiences we are reaching out to. the merchants association, san francisco economic development, development, golden gate business association, golden gate

restaurant association and the san francisco chamber of commerce. so with that one last piece that i do want to bring up in regard to our outreach. we find that it is very important in the messaging of the ordinance and the director can expand upon this. it is important to message around the civil rights component of this ordinance. it is our intention to highlight that through the ordinance. the city is taking a stand ensuring the rights of those with disabilities are upheld. it is seen as compliance litigation. we aim to tie our messaging to making sure individuals with

disabilities that their civil rights are upheld. that will conclude my presentation. i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thanks for the presentation. question about the timeline when the outreach and all of that is going to start. what the timeline of outreach is going to start. >> our timeline we are now reaching out to business organizations. we are putting together materials and we are slated to do presentations mid-march, mid to end of march for the workshop. >>ra the certified professionals do they have to be privately higher or is the city supporting through those individuals as well? >> for the certified access

specialists if you are referring to that step two where the property owner needs to consult with the cast. that would be done between the property owner and the certified access specialists on their own. we do have at our office some guidance that we have put together, resources on how profit owners and businesses can identify a cast to work with. the certified access specialists arestert certified through the state. it is important to note our city has unique guidelines around the building code. when they are searching for and doing research to find an access specialist there is certain criteria they will look for. >> commissioner aretes. >> i wonder there will be any

increase in funds sabl availablo the program the city currently has. >> i will answer that question. we currently we do have -- there were some cash infusion to subsidize the inspections for small businesses. there is some of that funding left. we both oawd and i made the decision to retain that funding for small businesses so property owners would not be able to access that. property corners would not be able -- property owners with not be able to get the inspection. we will promote the property owner is responsible for the checklist and dealing with the remediation. there is the inside of the business that -- there are many

businesses that have not done the inspection to insure the inside of the business. meets accessibility standards. if not what do they need to do? welatin that to encourage the inspection for the inside of their business. does that make sense? >> that makes sense. most leases have anything with ada on the lease. is that correct? >> from the city's perspective, and this was the law was designed this way, under the federal law, both the property owner and the business has a legal obligation. with the ordinance designs with

dbi can only in terms of dealing with any building improvements. they can only work with the property owner. they can't work with the tent. they can only mandate it. we were going to help provide legal assistance. we do anticipate there will be property owners that say we want you to meet this obligation. there will be some probably legal assistance that small businesses need to have to meet this. again, because of that legal obligation of the property owner at the federal level, should they push on the responsibility to the temperaturenant. the ten -- tenant. the tenant may not be able to afford the level of degree of accessibility remediation as the property owner could. we want to make sure property

owners understand if they meet that direction what kind of position they could be putting themselves in as well. good again this is a self rights element. when our office came to understand the difficulty of navigating dbi, historic preservation and public works and remediating the entryways. it is a opening. we are not doing our best to uphold individual civil rights with individuals with disability civil rights and making the entryways accessible. i think we are a city that promotes and are proud of the self rights that we promote. the messaging that i am hoping that we as a city do is to our property owners.

we really want you to take pride in upholding the civil rights by you taking care of the entryway. this ordinance is designed to have the three departments work together. there will be times especially when we deal with the staff or properties that are on hills and things of that sort, it may take both public works and altering the entryway a bit so that it makes that collaboration easier for the property owner to engage with the three agencies. thank you. commissioner riley. >> why are the buildings built on 2002 or after except? >> my understanding is that the buildings that were built on or after 2002, the entryways are already in compliance. >> they had to meet the

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commercial rent increase. the other one is one that will be put on by the board of supervisors and that one is covering housing and homelessness in terms of the -- what the increase in gross revenue and that is projecting 1.7% gross receipt increase for commercial rent. again, that chart highlights what is subject to the commercial rent increase and what is exempt. so just want to highlight. that one does require a super majority. so -- and then at our next meeting, the march 12th meeting, you will be receiving presentation and i'll be sending materials out. they did analysis on commercial

rents and vacancies, so you will be receiving that presentation on march 12th. >> great thank you. >> that concludes my report unless you have questions. >> any commissioner questions? ok, seeing none. do we have public comment on item number 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'm only going to make a thing, item number 2, with these two taxes. i've never had as many small businesses concerned with this probably since i've lived here. a lot of them are saying, they're done. they can't afford it here anymore. so it will be really interesting to see what happens here. so, ok, any other questions? seeing none, next comment.

next item. >> commissioner's report, allows president, vice president and commissioners to report on recent small business activities and make announcements ta are of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> i have two things, i attended the nun awards on january 29th and i want to give a shoutout to daniel homesy for what he's done with the network. this year is probably the most diverse awards i've been to in their ten years. it wasn't just certain neighborhoods, he had representation from all over the city, so i want to say congratulations to daniel on that. and then my second item, we all have new boards in front of us today, folks. so it would help me out, please use your request to speak button

now, i know half of them didn't work, we were like, ahh, that would help me out a lot. that's all i have? any other comments? commissioner reilly? >> i just wanted to let you know i attended a walk in chinatown. the highlight of the walk was mayor farrell. we visited the golden gate cookie factory and the mayor make a message and special fortune cookie for his wife and wished a lot of happy lunar new year of the dog. i worked with the mayor and welcomed in the new year in the chinese new year parade on saturday. busy week. >> i attended our regular market business association meetings and our samba is going to be

joining with the south beach business association, and also i attended an event, cosponsored by the arab american grocer association around ice raids in a time when businesses are being visited by ice in the city. >> great. >> so your two local business groups are merging? >> south beach and south -- >> and what was the reason for doing that? >> south beach had some infrastructure issues and we just decided to merge forces. >> share expenses and what not? >> yes. >> do we have public comment on item number 7? seeing none, closed. >> item 8, news business, new

items for future consideration by the commission. >> i want to suggest we revisit an actually spend time researching the concept of helping small businesses purchase their store fronts. a number of business i know have done this and i feel like this is really the ultimate way to protect a small business from being evicted, is if they own their store front. some folks are doing it through a tic and i think with the crisis we're in right now, we really need to look at this seriously. >> i'm glad you brought that up, i agree with you 110%. this is probably before mark's time and yours, but we did this 6-7 years ago and we had success

with this. you're right, now the is the time, because some of the people we helped own their store front now and they're here and doing good. >> i know some would be happy to come and speak and telell us wh their process was and you know, go through the department and move something like this forward. >> excellent idea. >> is that program, the t.i.c. -- >> that's if you have a commercial building and apartment on top, the landlord wants, he could sell you the scare footage, so what you're renting he could buy the square footage. >> what is the other part, the small side acquisition? >> that's for residential. we have bought mixed use commercial, but it's primarily 4-6 unit apartment buildings to

keep rent protected people in their homes. >> is there a way to inquire about a program like that? >> i think we can -- i mean, rick and i have been discussing this in terms of looking at it as one of the components to develop with the legacy business program. so there is -- we can look at what programs there are for residential, where we do have a first-time homebuyer program, assistance with a loan with that. we have the small site acquisition. we can take a look at that and take a look at some of the programs that we currently have and draw parallels of what can work, might work, develop it slightly differently for commercial space. and we might still -- i think another thing on the agenda is also on that list, would be to sort of take a way to modify

back the legislation that prevents condos and allow commercial condoization. so that it's easier to get 504 loans. >> ok, any other new business items? do we have public comment on new business? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, number 9 adjournment. >> before that, please show the office of small business slide. and remember the office of small business should be your first stop when you have any questions about what to do next. you can find us online or in person here at city hall. best of all, all of the services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns

about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. please, we want to hear from you, come to our meetings. the 2nd and 4th monday of the month, we want to hear from you. if you need assistance with any small business manners, start here at the office of small business. >> item 9, adjournment. >> moved, seconded. >> all in favor, aye? meeting adjourned.

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