finalize the logo for the small business program. the accessible business entrance program, i will be consistently putting in the director's report presentations that our office will be giving mostly to merchant and business associations. so we are -- we will be presenting tomorrow morning to the potrero hill dogpatch merchants' association, and then, the people of park side aside -- parkside and sunset on may 3rd, and then the outer sunset merchants on may 22nd. dbi is having a brown bag. these brown bags are target at thatted towards the design professional, the engineer, the architects, the cass and property owners, and that will be this friday. and just so that you're aware, we are getting a number of calls, so in the last couple of weeks, we've received 38 calls.

the majority are coming from property owners, which to me, that's a good sign that the property owners are responding to the mailing and are taking responsibility -- hopefully taking responsibility in -- in this ordinance. and three, and then, the final -- the final thing i wanted to say but is not in the report, when rhea sent out all the notifications to do the presentation, she included the talking points, and from that, the golden gate business association and the union square bid for their news letters pulled information from the information she provided to, again, sort of publicize the accessible business entrance program, so as much -- as much information as we can get out there is good. in regards to cannabis, today was the last day, and i had

forwarded to the commission last week to provide public comment on the equity incubator rulemaking, so the rule for equity incubators. there is a rule that i want to make that i've noticed in my neighborhood commercial district around the corner from myself is on 1600 haight street, it is a very large building. there's six -- there's six commercial spaces. it's on the north side of the street at clayton and haight. there are -- >> these faces, do they have -- [ inaudible ] >> r. dick-endrizzi: clayton and haight. >> okay. >> r. dick-endrizzi: so it's on the north side, so across from the pub. >> okay. >> r. dick-endrizzi: and out of the six commercial spaces,

two of them are occupied, four are vacant. this building has to undergo soft story for un, and permits have not been pulled. but two, it is in the one block on the north side of haight street that can have cannabis retail. so i just -- i think that it -- you know, we may be seeing some of these spaces being held off the market where cannabis, the limitations of cannabis retail can happen. so i just -- to me, that was an interesting sort of conversion with both soft story and where cannabis retail can be on haight street. small business week, the last week commissioner yee riley, you had asked for information. so president adams, i will also extend an opportunity to you, if you want to speak about

small business week this year. but to highlight, may 14th is opening our opening of small business week. we will have it at the metreon. we're back at the metreon, but we're changing the format. it will be a panel presentation will be the key feature of the evening. right now, we have lisa fetterman, the ceo and founder of nomoku. and then, sam mona -- mcgannan, founder of buy-rite.

and they are we are schroedingsolidifying our moderator. our opening night will no longer be a resource fair but will be an insuperioring evepi hearing from small business owners, medium size business owners who are inspirational and growing within the city. >> and we will have food, too, at this event. buy-rite is coming in, and they're bringing some other people that they know that are going to provide the catering for this. >> r. dick-endrizzi: and it is more limited, so there are -- it won't be as large of an audience as we've had in the past. then tuesday, we have our annual board of supervisors ceremony at 2:30, and the golden gate business association has their megamake

contact, the women mean business mixer. so in the evening will be affiliate events with tga, the women mean business mixer with the renaissance center, and the national association of business women owners. wednesday, we are doing the awards -- the small business awards in the morning, and we'll be doing a breakfast at the green room across the street. we decided to shift that to the morning because we're having more affiliate events, and so we thought it would be good to open up our evenings to allow for more of the affiliate events to take place. so we will be having the small business awards, and again, tentative, that would be where the mayor might present his awards. the sba awardee, and this year, pg&e has a green business award in partnership with department of environment. and then, the sfeda has their

award. then, in the evening we have the latino business mixer with meta and then tech after dark with the chamber at sf city and airbnb. on thursday, bay area bunk or brews, this is a vet organization, so it is veteran owned small business organizations with we work, will be having their event. the san francisco african american entrepreneurs mixer is happening at hazel's southern bar and kitchen, and this is hosted by main street launch, and hosted by the african american chamber and the bayview-hunters point entrepreneurship. and then saturday, we are having our shop and dine in the 49. and 15 of our merchant associations from signed up fore the sidewalk encroachment fee waiver. >> i think that's a record, too.

>> r. dick-endrizzi: it is. there may be more merchant areas participating in the shop and dine event that will be more than just the sidewalk sales, so -- >> for the fee waiver on that, that sounds like two years ago, there was legislation, we don't need to go through the fee waiver any more for this. >> this is for the awning and lighting. >> is that again for the month of may? >> r. dick-endrizzi: that is again for the month of may. and i have debated about doing a waiver because any yo if this year, we would be doing a saturday event. >> right. >> r. dick-endrizzi: so if that is something that's fairly consistent, then we'll write a legislation just to allow -- >> and do we have somebody that's going to sponsor that right now? >> r. dick-endrizzi: we don't. i'm finalizing the drafting,

and then we'll look -- we'll have somebody. so you'll have that legislation at your next meeting for you to review. and then, i've included the sponsorships. we are at budget, and we've met our budget, a little over our budget, just barely. but adam has done a good job again this year with bringing in our sponsors. so moving onto lemgislation, nw legislation that's introduced, i've printed out for you some copies for you to take home, to read. supervisor peskin has introduced cannabis retail, medical cannabis retail in chinatown, and that is to prohibit the cannabis retail and medical dispensaries in chinatown mixed use districts. supervisor safai has introduced legislation allowing catering as an accessory use in neighborhood commercial districts, so this would

allow -- open up more spaces where restaurants are dark in the morning during the day. they're only open for the evenings to be able to have their kitchens open for catering -- for caterers to use. >> and then, under the police code, required agreements tweens cannabis businesses and labor organizations. so if you recall, the initial legislation that was passed required a labor piece considering-let's see: i put this as the top piece of your legislation, but this proposed legislation -- so currently, all cannabis businesses must allow their employees to abide by a labor peace agreement.

they cannot prevent any unionizing. what there will be adding to the permit application is for applicants with ten or more more employees, each applicant must demonstrate either of the following, that they will abide by the terms of the labor peace agreement or that the applicant has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a bona fide labor organization. so that's a little unusual that we have -- we have put such kinds of stipulations into an application process for businesses, small businesses, so i wanted to bring that to your attention. and then -- so those will be -- i'll be working to schedule those within the next commission meeting or after.

and then, a few updates on items that you've heard. so the massage establishments on union street, allowing those as conditional use, that's still to be scheduled in committee. the jackson square uses -- restaurant and bar uses, that was passed by the board of supervisors on 3-6. and the health code banning of the animal furs and products, so it will amended in committee to ban manufacturing of animal fur products except for when the fur is sourced from used products. the sustainability clause that the commission recommended be added to the legislation did not make it in. and then, i wanted to follow up

with the legislation that you heard considering the criminal history of employment. this commission approved it. it did make a recommendation that if the penalties -- our penalties are less than the state fines and penalties, that should be adjusted. in review, the state doesn't have set penalties or fines. i guess if they do find that a business has erred, then, those fines or penalties are somehow configured based upon what the penalties and errors are. so the penalties -- the fines and penalties as proposed in the legislation stands. so that -- and then i've just listed a few things that we're going to be focusing on for the quarter with, again, hiring for the commission secretary, small

business week, working on soft story t.a., continued outreach for the accessible business entrance, and transitioning the business portal to osb and then relocating our office into room 140. >> that'll be good. have we posted for the position yet? >> r. dick-endrizzi: we will be posting, yes. >> okay. >> what does that mean, transition to osb to business portal? >> r. dick-endrizzi: so right now, the team that jane gang has 'emabled has been doing all the technical upgrades and has been managing the content. so if we needed any content changes, we've been working with that team to make it. you will be receiving a presentation soon from jason and the team. we are just about at the end of

completing i think over 100 forms. not all of them are applications but forms, so that they can be submitted on-line, as along with align payments for the portal. that will be the last sort of big project with the portal, and once that's completed, then carol will be managing the content -- will be taking over the content management of the business portal. >> it will be our job to maintain it? >> r. dick-endrizzi: mm-hmm. maintaining the content. if there's technical upgrades, then we would still work with the department of technology on that. >> okay. so that team's still a separate team; it's not part of osb. >> r. dick-endrizzi: right. they're a team that works specifically with osb and oewd on our projects. >> okay. >> commissioner zouzounis? >> commissioner zouzounis: thanks for those updates. can you clarify the lower polk

street alcohol restricted use district since i'm curious because we did run into an issue with the restricted use districts on third street where a business just moved down the street after they lost their lease. so is there a way that we can include, you know, relocation on the same corridor or something? >> r. dick-endrizzi: umm -- >> commissioner zouzounis: so they don't have to -- [ inaudible ] >> r. dick-endrizzi: i'm sorry. i glossed over that. i will -- it was reintroduced. it was heard at the planning commission. i know there was discussion allowing relocation within 18 months within the corridor. >> commissioner zouzounis: okay. that's good. >> r. dick-endrizzi: so i'll look for -- >> commissioner zouzounis: if that can be amended some way, i would like to. >> okay. any other commissioner questions before we go to public comment? okay. do we have any members of the public that would like to make

a comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is a discussion item. any other questions? and i'm really looking forward to small business week this year. it's -- a lot of change up, a lot of new things, but a lot more activities, so -- >> r. dick-endrizzi: and i'm sorry, and i did miss one thing about small business week, excuse me, president adams. we are doing the conference again, and the sba is -- as with last year, is running and managing the conference at their offices, so their workshops are happening all week. we're very excited about that, and it proved to be a good thing last year with -- we had good attendance with the workshops being at the sba office. >> maybe we can post that somewhere, too. 'cause they had classes, and we got some really good classes.

>> r. dick-endrizzi: so tomorrow i think we'll get the final at our meeting, and then, i can submit that -- a copy to the commission -- the list of workshops. and then, those are up on, i think the small business week website. >> great. thank you. >> and you said may 14 -- the evening of may 14 is the kickoff event. >> r. dick-endrizzi: yes. >> will you -- >> r. dick-endrizzi: we will not have a commission meeting, and we are -- i had sent out an e-mail. we will not be able to have a commission meeting. i was given the wrong information about the availability of this room or any of the other hearing rooms for monday, may 7th. so there is an alternate date that we're working with, and i'll have that for you tomorrow. >> i can do monday, may 7th. >> r. dick-endrizzi: unfortunately, there are no rooms available monday, may 7th.

so -- and then, there's the same thing for the week of may 28th, which is the fourth monday, but that is memorial day, so i will be sending out notification of alternative dates. >> okay. okay. any other questions for the commissioner -- i mean, for the director? seeing none, next item, please. >> clerk: item nine, 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. >> okay. i don't have anything to report as of today. any other commissioners have reports? >> likewise, nothing here. >> okay. any members of the public who would like to make a comment on item number nine? seeing none, public comment is closed. item ten, new business -- >> commissioner zouzounis: before we move on, i think --

[ inaudible ] >> oh, maryann. >> we did not adjourn yet. we have new business. >> mr. president, could we -- >> hang on. i know what to do. so item ten is new business, so if you'd like to -- we have a -- it's not -- it's -- so under new business, we'd like to talk about pop up on may 8th. >> we were seeing if we could make you wait the entire duration. >> good afternoon, commissioners. for the record my name is mary ann mazucco thompson with the office of workforce development, and may 8th, we will have a pop up, and it will

be our third pop up annually. last december, it was funded by square, so i'm going to let square make this presentation because i just want to say to everybody, if you have to pick a business partner to work with on any project, it's definitely square. they make our job so much easier. so i'm going to step aside and first, i'm going to introduce dan swislow who's with square, and then aaron archuleta. >> hi. >> dan swislow. i'm going to tell you a little about square and then aaron is going to tell you a little about the pop up. square is a san francisco founded business. we're on market street. our cofounders founded the company back in 2009. one of our cofounders was a

glass artists, and he tried to sell a piece, and he didn't sell the piece because he didn't take card readers. our two cofounders came up with a tech shop in the bay area, which was a maker's space, and built that proceed totype with the belief that people should have access to the financial services they need. the first user of the square reeder w reader was lily bell, an office in hart plaza. the premise has stayed the same. we started with card reader but offer small business loans. we offer software and data analytics, employee or payroll management, a number of different tools. in fact when we went public at the end of 2015, we brought sherry, the owner of lily bell the flower cart in new york to help us ring the opening bell

at the new york stock exchange. these businesses are the heart and soul of our businesses, which is why we're happy to partner with all of you on these businesses. >> and this was our second pop up together. it's been so much fun. it's the opportunity to have more than 40 businesses from every single supervisor's district who make themselves, their products, to come and sell and celebrate their work. we actually had close to 1 is 00 applicants. it's free to the businesses who participate, and we're on-site there as square, so if they would like support. the golden gate cookie company were there, and they had never taken credit cards before that date, and that day, they were able to. i am also a small business owner. i own a business out in bernal heights, and we've been

thoughtful in making sure that every district is represented and everyone has an opportunity regardless of what they're making and it's a really diverse make up. we would invite you all to come and shop. it's going to be a lot of fun. it's in may, may 8th, so that's in advance of all the graduations, mother's day, father's day and weddings. is so really capturing the opportunity to get those people through the door and celebrating san francisco. anything else, mary ann 1234. >> commissioner dwight will be there. we would encourage you all to come. square does a great job of -- they'll walking through the pop up and introduce you to the different makers, and they know all of them, and they can tell you a little bit about, like, how the businesses got started, so it would be great as a small business commission if you guys joined us, let us know, and they'll be happy to take you on a walk-through. we also want you to purchase things. >> what is the time on may 8th? >> it's 11:00 a.m. to 6:00

p.m., so come during your lunch hour, if you can. we'd be delighted to give you a tour. >> it's a tuesday. how are you guys promoting this. >> oh, all over. the chamber has been fully promoting, we've been fully promoting. we had great attendance for the holiday one. >> yeah. we do -- so we did an add buy, which is actually a partnership with abc 7. we do a whole buyout of their website and all of their social media. we've been promoting it on social media, the chamber has been promoting it. sf made -- by the way, this is going to be the signature event for sf made week, so a big partner of sf 345imade, but al they're doing a lot of the pushout. >> you have a legacy branding committee meeting that day, and i will be manning my booth.

fyi. >> i can't wait to see you. >> do you do any outreach or promotion in different languages, like chinese or spanish? >> the outreach is done in all four languages. we don't traditionally do an ad buy in the local newspapers. we don't see quite the same return on investment. the other nice thing is with hood line, we get a lot of data analytics back, and it drives a lot of track to the shop and dine in the 49 website. >> is there going to be anything by direct mail or e-mail? >> so a lot of e-mail, a lot of one-on-one outreach. >> merchant association? >> all the merchants' associations. i don't know if you're aware of this, but the city hall pop up, the first one last may was one of the first events here at

city hall in which the department of human resources actually sent out an e-mail to every city employee, encouraging them to attend. and then, secondary to that, we reached out to all the department heads who amplified it through their employees outreach. it's got a very robust outreach in terms of everyone we do outreach to has their own personal touch. >> anymore questions? and of course we've got to go to public comment. any member of the public who would like to make a comment on the pop up shop? seeing no comment, public comment is closed. i i went to an art walk -- that's where i met you taz at the art walk. i think i bought a shirt in that store. >> yeah, exactly. >> that was a good night.

there was a lot of people on a friday night, out in mission bernal. >> the neighborhood is very supportive. >> yes. >> yeah, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> you know, we like these neighborhood people getting involved. this is what it's all about. this is how i got my start, so -- >> yeah, exactly. it's important. >> good for you. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for presenting. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. any other new business? commissioner dooley? >> commissioner dooley: i would like to follow up on the public comments requesting clarification by the zoning ad stror regarding how internet companies should be regarded when they open brick and mortar locations. are they formula retail? is there a financial threshold where an internet company will be considered formula retail when opening brick and mortar. >> okay.

>> commissioner dooley: so that's my request, is that we ask for some clarification. >> that's a good one. okay. any other -- any other commissioner comments? we already did public comment, correct? >> mm-hmm. >> okay. okay. next item, please. >> clerk: sfgov tv, please show the office of small business slide. >> okay. our custom to begin and end each small business commission 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 here in san francisco. and again, if you want to voice your concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco, please let us know, and you know it all starts here at the office of small business. thank you. >> clerk: item 11,

adjournment, action item. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> motion. >> second. >> all in favor? >> okay. commission closed. motion passes, 5-0, one absent.

>> 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 the meeting will come to order. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 18th, 2018, special meeting oh of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i'm supervisor jeff sheehy. to my left is katherine

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