i've always said the city of san francisco, our largest employer should sit there and take care of its own and not say do -- tell you not as i do. recently, i've -- okay. >> you've got 30 seconds. >> recently i went to a meeting at the mta, about 15 of us. they served us cookies and milk, so to speak, they all came out in styrofoam containers. here they're telling us, we can't sell them, we can't use them, but the city is using them. lastly, the puc tells us about toilets, with flappers, that just kills a businesslike mine. where do they buy them? never from san francisco businesses. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> anymore members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. i definitely have to agree with what the last speaker says.

we really have -- the city and county needs to look at its own business for procurement. then, another thing that the last couple of speakers said, you know, a lot of these retail laws, these neighborhood cu's, and this is just my opinion, 'cause i -- i dealt with a lot of these different neighborhood cu's and rules and regulations. you know, a lot of them came out and about in the 1980's, and things just get built and built and built and built on top of them. and some of them need to get cleaned up, you know, and i think a lot of neighborhoods -- i know in the castro at one point, we were looking at cleaning up our -- what we want as a cu, what we don't want. and that -- i'm trying to think of the gentleman at planning that started it and then passed

away. little things like that i think we need to look at. commissioners, anything else? no? well, joaquin and amy, i want to thank you very much. we can sit here and talk about this all night long. [applause]. >> i want to thank our -- our public, your comments. i thought they were great. you know, this is something we're all going to have to come together and talk about, because you know, retail is changing, as you see in your surveys. i thought your presentation was actually clent excellent, and i read the full presentation. i think we need to get in front of it, and i think what commissioner dwight said, take this to the individual neighborhoods. each neighborhood is different in this town. as you know with vested neighborhoods, everybody's different, everybody's unique. and when we look at neighborhood regulations, we've

got to look at this. and i do think there's a revamp. you know, when they talk about west portal with financial institutions. you know, at one point, there were 29 financial institutions on poes west portal. you're down to ix is. the wor -- down to six. thank you for a long presentation, but this is needed, and so thank you for an excellent presentation on this. thank you very, very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next item, please. >> item five, approval of meeting minutes, action item. in your packet are the draft regular meeting minutes from january 22nd, 2018, and february 26th, 2018. approval of the minutes can be done together or separately. >> okay. do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on the meeting minutes?

seeing none, commissioners, do we have a motion to approve them together? >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> any opposed? >> motion passes. >> unanimous -- >> 4-0. >> 4-0. >> okay. item six, director's report, update and report on the office of small business and the small business center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activity. discussion item. >> i have a short director's report for you tonight. just want to highlight some things that took place between meetings. i met with supervisor tang's office, the office of labor standards and enforcement, department of public health. they're developing their rules and regulations around the lactation in the workplace, and

so we had a preliminary -- a preliminary review, and they're going to be sending out an announcement in conjunction with our office soon on wanting businesses to provide input and feedback on the facq's. i think this particular meeting, it was a good thing for me to attend. it was a reminder to include a posting that goes up in the employee area. this is one that's not done with a posting, it's done by the employer providing the policy at the time of hire. so some of the items that we did discussion is that oesc provide sort of a guideline for businesses to implement this requirement because there are

existing employees that need to be -- that need to be informed, and particularly for businesses that don't have employee manuals. so this -- and because this law applies to every single employer who has one or more employees. it did -- so it did, you know, remind me that one of the things that i think we need to do as an office and once we start managing the content of -- for the business portal is we do need to upgrade the business portal's page on all of the employer laws and actually develop a handbook that we can take to meetings so that employers are really informed of the stay in the box, the lactation and all of

the different laws that have been passed over the years. last week, the chamber had their coming to city hall day, which i think was very well attended. mayor farrell met with several businesses, and i know commissioner to you tyou attended, and you can speak on either employers or business owners who may be feeling a little concerned because of the ice actions. so i do know that with -- when i talk about we, todd ruffo and the office of workforce development will be putting together some guidelines and information that's specifically targeted to businesses. we've been doing that more for individuals as a city, but we haven't been doing that for businesses.

and i think when small business week is coming up, we are going to be changing the awards ceremony to wednesday morning. there are more affiliate events that are taking place, and so to allow people to attend multiple affiliate events, especially the sponsors, we are going to be hosting the awards ceremony in the morning on wednesday, the 16th. so i'll send out a meeting invite in relationship to that. so that concludes my report unless you have any questions for me. >> any questions for the director? do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item seven, commissioner's reports. allows president, vice president, and commissioners to report on recent small business

activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> i just have one quick announcement. castro farmer's market starts on wednesday at 5:00. runs through thanksgiving. that's my baby over there, so i'm going to push it. >> i don't have anything this evening. >> the other commissioners? >> yeah. as the commissioner mepntioned i attended the civic affairs. i was really impressed with the additional resources that they've banded together in light of the federal environment right now. the arab american grocers have

been tuned in to the rapid response right now. one thing that i brought up was i requested from oewd and the mayor's office kind of a look at the sting operations and enforcement efforts in the next year, whether they're from the department of public health or state regulatory agencies as we've been advised through -- by immigration lawyers that federal collaboration with these types of agencies isn't unheard of, and there's a precedent for it. so even though we're in a sanctuary city, there's sfpd and fbi collaborations that are under an mou that may be reinstated, and those are targeted to a certain demographic and particularly the arab and muslim communities. the sector of the workforce

that those folks are in often interacts with a lot of those regulatory agencies, whether it's fbi. so we ask for a lot of transparency around those sting operations. i think that's all i have to report. >> okay. anybody else? do we have public comment on item number seven? seeing none, public comment is closed. item eight. >> item eight. new business. allows commissioners to introduce new business to the commission for future agendas. >> do we have any new business? commissioner zouzounis? >> i want to focus on getting a list of task businesses so i can better refer other people. and also, you know, following the conversation we had around commercial and retail, i'm curious if there's any numbers kind of circling back to the housing and density bill and the soft side acquisitions, if

there's any information we can receive around commercial protections with development -- housing development in general as i've seen, you know, commercial ground floor spaces being lost and i'm wondering if there's any numbers on that. >> okay. any other new business? we have public comment on new business. seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> sfgovtv, please show the office of small business line. >> so we begin each and end each small business meeting with a reminder that 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. so you know, visit us on-line or in person at the office of small business, and it's free of charge. so come check us out.

>> item nine, adjournment, action item. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> all in favor? meeting adjourned. thank you. >> meeting adjourned at 7:21 p.m.

>> when i open up the paper every day i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about the planet i want to leave for my children and other generation, i think of what contribution i can make on

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♪ >> >> my name is sofy constantineo and a documentary film maker and cinema togfer, producer and director. it is inevable you want your movie

to get out and realize yoi need to be a commune tee organizer to get people together to see the story you will tell [inaudible] pretty rich and interesting. in what we do as film makers is try to tell the best story possible so i think that is where i [inaudible] learn everything. lighting and cinematography. i got jobs of stage manger at some place and projectionist. i kind of mixed and matched as i went and kept refining i feel like it isn't just about making things that are beautiful and appealing and rich and [inaudible] the way that the films [inaudible] it has to tell a story. >> my name is sumell [inaudible] free lance multimedia produce. my project is [inaudible] mostly oof street photographry with a few

portraits. i'm going arounds san francisco and capturing the [inaudible] as we started to do this project i was reading about the decline of african american population in san francisco and i wondered where the remaining population was and what they were doing and how life was for them. >> i wasn't very inspired by school, i wasn't very inspired by continuing to read and write and go to class. i watched a lot of movies and saw a lot of [inaudible] i said that is what i want to do. i had this very feminist [inaudible] and i felt like there was not enough of a womans vision on the stuff that we see, the movies that we make and the beginning of the [inaudible] the way we look at women

and the roles women take in the stories being tolds. they felt [inaudible] they did want feel complex. i was like, i have a different frame i like to see the world shaped by. >> my grandsmother was a teacher and taught special education for 40 years in los angeles and when i was growing up she inspired me to record everything. we recorded our conversations, we recorded the [inaudible] we recorded everything to cassette players. learning multimedia skills, from the other crossover employment opportunities for young people. someone who grew up in la rks san francisco feels like a small town. i lived in western addition and i was looking for someone to cut my hair, i

found [inaudible] he seemed like a very interesting guy and grew up in the neighborhood and had a lot to say about something that was foreign to me. that local perspective and so important to me because i think as someone who isn't from here, knowing that history allows me to be more engaging in the community i live in and want the same for others. i want people to move into a new neighborhood to know who was there before and businesses and what cultural and [inaudible] shape what we see today. >> my guiding principles have been, if you stick to something long enough and know what it is and go for it you will get there. [inaudible] where i want to go, what i want to do and it is totally possible so, the impossible is you know, is not something to

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>> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are

children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that

is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of

having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits

and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy

being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business

owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good

for the community i wish to have more - >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the

kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot

and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them. >> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and

support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

>> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the

national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind

china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billion worth and that's made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. no matter where you view the line, you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. ♪ ♪ >> access edible food that we have throughout our lunch program in our center, i go ahead and collect it and i'll cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day i'll heat it and ready for delivery. it's really natural for me, i love it, i'm passionate about it and it's just been great.

i believe it's such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. no food should go wasted. there's someone who wants to eat, we have food, it's definitely hand in hand and it shouldn't be looked at as work or a task, we're feeding people and it really means so much to me. i come to work and they're like nora do you want this, do you want that? and it's so great and everyone is truly involved. every day, every night after every period of food, breakfast, lunch, dinner, i mean, people just throw it away. they don't even think twice about it and i think as a whole, as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. that's how it should be.

that's what food is about basically. >> an organization that meets is the san francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursday's. ♪ ♪ by the power ♪ of your name >> i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. >> i believe it's helpful to offer food to people because as you know, there's so much homelessness in san francisco and california and the united states. i really believe that food is

important as well as our faith. >> the san francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. the core of the ministry, a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year, so for 54 years we have never missed a night. i know it's difficult to believe maybe in the united states but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal they've had in two days. i really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean, we could be here and have church, but, you know, i don't know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here.

it's not solely the food, i tell you, believe me. they're extremely grateful. >> it's super awesome how welcoming they are. after one or two times they're like i recognize you. how are you doing, how is school? i have never been in the city, it's overwhelming. you get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. >> we never know what impact we're going to have on folks. if you just practice love and kindness, it's a labor of love and that's what the food recovery network is and this is a huge -- i believe they salvage our mission. >> to me the most important part

is it's about food waste and feeding people. the food recovery network national slogan is finding ways to feed people. it's property to bring the scientific and human element into the situatioit. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in san francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown

the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert i'm the fifth generation of candy in san francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it was the tradition and my family was the royal chef in the pot pals that's why we learned this stuff and moved from here to have dragon candy i want people to know that is art we will explain a walk and they can't walk in and out it is different techniques from stir frying to smoking to steaming and they do show of. >> beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest

they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all as a society we've basically

failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to

know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend

we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve

as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief

in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the

sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the

cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los

angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for