community. >> mm-hmm, yes. yes. and the city departments are key helping this. o.e.w.d. and m.o.h.c.d. have been critical in all of the cultural districts that have been created in making sure that there's a lot of really good community engagement that includes stakeholders in it a way that represents the neighborhood and not only a small group of individuals. >> thank you. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you so much for your presentation, carolina. this is exciting and i'm glad that we're becoming part of the conversation as it's growing into a more comprehensive program. i do have a couple questions around the cultural history, housing, and economic sustainability strategy and those reports and what usually triggers those and what they specifically contain, and i

know me and you ahave talked about what this will contain for retaining small businesses in these districts, so yeah. my questions center around what kind of tools would actually be able to help, you know, the economic sustainability of these cultural districts. >> yes, that's wonderful. thank you, and precisely that report, what it hopes to do -- is to ininvite input and assessments by the author of the legislation right, so let's say hillary in district nine, defining which departments should be weighing in through that report about let's say calle 24 cultural district. through that series of reports, what we want to hear is what are the current recommendations, using the

current law, using the current departments we have in each department to see what's actually going to work in this area for that district. and so in that way we're going to be able to use maybe laws that apply, let's say in north beach. that could be replicated in the mission to be able to help small businesses remain, right? or let's say it's the arts commission actually doing a really great work with mural making in the mission and being able to translate that to district three in chinatown, right? so we want to be able to have more intentional collaborations through that report in getting recommendations from the different city departments as to how to best leverage our city resources and policies so that it can -- so that we can actually help small businesses. the other piece is we want to make a lot of connections, especially with the legacy

business program and try to be creative in what our new legislations and protections that we can create? for example, we're already kind of experimenting with that on mission street around having special provisions for, like, areas where we have legacy businesses, right? if they are -- like, for example, we have current income controls that if you displace a small business that is a legacy business, you won't be able to get another business in that is not a legacy business for about three years, right, and we're trying to figure out if that can disincentivize property owners, for example, from displacing small business owners that have been there for a long time. they want to be experimental and creative, and in that way, we want to continue working with you, the small business office to figure out what else can we do to ensure this

remains and potentially grows over time. >> commissioner cartagena ortiz? >> carolina, i want to thank you. i know the mission is like a big center for displacement, but the more tools you have in the bucket, the better your chances of fighting displacement. so i appreciate this. thank you. >> i'm going to say a couple few words here. first off, i've got to thank you, and i love this legislation. and the way -- and i want to thank supervisor ronen, and the way you guys did it. you reached out to oewd, the office of small business, the mayor's office. i've been following this since the beginning, and it's the

collaboration of everybody coming in to do this. and it's really exciting because in my district, we're goingto have an lgbt district that we're working on in the castro. miriam -- ted's is really big in the leather district, and a new leather district south of market, and i just -- i learned the history of ted's market, and it was so touching. and they played a big part of the south of market culture, and what's happening now in the bayview with the african american district. so this crosses all over everything, and it's wonderful. and what you said earlier is ideas that may work in the mission can maybe work in the co castro or maybe work south of market or in chinatown. to answer your question, irene,

about the districts. it wouldn't cross its boundaries, so for chinatown, it would probably be historic chinatown, which would be kearny and, what, powell? you know, but it would have to come from -- from the community, like, where those boundaries are set. >> so it won't cross districts? >> you mean, supervisor districts? oh, it can cross supervisor districts. >> okay. >> it -- some district -- you know, the districts are the districts, but geographically, i think there's parts of the mission that go in, you know, to district 8 and district 9 are all mixed up, you know, you know? so yeah, it could cross supervisor districts. >> that's what i want to know. >> yeah, so it can definitely cross districts, and this ledge

latiledge -- legislation, i like it because it gives it the teeth. if you have your people in your neighborhood that want to start this, there's now a guideline and a template to do that. and i think it's done wonders for the mission. i think you're starting to see more and more businesses retain there, which is awesome. that's one of the thing i want to work on in the castro where we have lgbt businesses that i don't know are going to be around in five years, and this is going to help it. same thing in chinatown and south of market and some of these other neighborhoods. i can't really tell you how much this excites me and what a great job. and thank hillary ronen for, you know, using all the city resources and bringing everybody together with this one. commissioner dooley? >> i was going to say it's a great move on your part. i'm from north beach, so we

have been in the policy of using zoning and planning to try to preserve the ambiance and history of the neighborhood. this is pretty inspiring. i'm going to bring it back to my neighborhood and see if we would like to join in. we're one of the original cultural areas, so thank you so much for putting it in a codified manner. >> any other questions before we go to public comment? >> can i add something? >> yeah, commissioner zouzounis? >> something that has been brought up with other bodies, there's also culturally specific sectors of the workforce, right, and i would love to see some kind of language in there, whether it's, you know, restaurants, you know, nail salons, corner stores, wherever we see certain

cultures, demographics, historically working in, i would love to see some language that points to certain sectors of the economy that if they were displaced or if legislation went after this one particular sector that that would be impairing, you know, that community. inability of >> that's great. thank you. we would love to meet with any of you, all of you through regina or directly in whatever ways and discuss the policies and guidelines for implementation to make sure that we are keeping all of these factors into the conversation. thank you. >> any other questions before public comment? okay. do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 4? >> good evening, brian chu, director of community development for the mayor's office of housing and community development. just wanted to add my support

for this legislation and to say that as we've been working together with supervisor ronen's office it's been -- it's a great opportunity for us to be able to work for collaboratively with the office of economic and workforce development with the small business commission, the arts commission, planning, dpw, and there's so many departments that kind of affect these districts, it's sometimes confusing for us to figure out who we should invite to the table. and if it's confusing for us, i think it's going to be confusing for the typical average person to figure out how to contact to work together. that's going to be one of the difficult pieces of this legislation. it forces the city to work together in a collaborative way, and sometimes we need that push to make sure we're all playing well together, so we're very excited about this opportunity, and we look forward to working with your

office as well as these other offices to put this whole exciting program together. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. any other commissioner questions? this is a discussion item, not an action item. commissioner dwight? >> actually, commissioner zouzounis brings up an interesting point. this is defining a geographical district as sort of a hub of activity and cultural identity, and yet, there may be cultural -- there may be things of cultural identity that actually span the entire city, whether because it was something that happened to serve the city geographically and is will have disbursed because of that or because there's been a diaspora of cultural identity in the city because it's been unable to maintain a physical location that defines it, so it's at

least an intellectual exercise to go through. is there a notion of a cultural district that is county wide that should be identified as one, a legacy worth preserving in some form or fashion. >> for future discussion, i'd presume. >> okay. any other questions? thank you very much, and great job. this is something very good, so thank you. >> yeah. great. >> okay. next item, please. >> clerk: item 5, approval of meeting minutes, action item. in your packet are the draft regular meeting minutes from april 9, 2018. -- i'm sorry, april 23, 2018. >> i need to ask for your recusal. >> okay. we need to take a vote on this. first off, do we have any members of the public to make a

comment on commissioner matthew corvey's recusal? >> and commissioners, just -- sorry, a little coaching here, but recusal because you were not present at the meeting. >> we cannot vote on it. >> so you can't vote on it, just for the record. >> do we have any members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to accept matthew's recusal? >> i move. >> second. >> okay. moved by commissioner yee riley, seconded by commissioner dwight. all in favor? all opposed? motion passes, 7-0, with -- 6-0. 6-0. so now, we'll go onto the minutes. >> okay.

any comments on the minutes? do we have any public comment on the minutes for april 23, 2018? seeing none, public comment is closed. roll call. >> i move to approve as submitted. >> i second. >> clerk: okay. we have a motion in support of the minutes by commissioner dwight, seconded by commissioner yee riley. roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: motion passes, 6-0. >> great. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: item 6, director's report. update and report on the office of small business and the small business assistance center. department programs, policy, and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion item. >> good evening, commissioners.

i want to start off the director's report by welcoming matthew corvey and have him take a moment to introduce himself to you, and then, after that, i think it would be great for each of you to give a brief introduction about yourself to matthew during the director's report, and then once that's done i'll continue on with my regular report, so turn it over. >> thank you. thank you, regina. my name is matt corvey. i'm a native san franciscan. i graduated from st. ignatius. 43 year member of the olympic club and currently play on the basketball leagues out there. i started my first small business when i was in my 20's, which was a lighting company that basically sold lighting and maintenance supplies to big manufacturing companies. from there, i went into the bar and restaurant business in my

30's. i started bartending in 1992, and then opened my first restaurant-bar and night club in 1997, and i have owned seven in total. currently, i own may's oyster house, which is on polk, and the blue light cafe on union street. i not only do the ordering and inventory and book events, but i also bar tend there every night, so i -- i take full advantage of, you know, the restaurant-bar and night club business. i also raised all the money to start each one of these businesses. and why i wanted to be a commissioner, first of all, i'm so excited. this is so exciting to be up here so be a part of this ---to be a part of this team. i also wanted to be on the small business commission to be of service to my city, of course, and support our mission to retain and attract small businesses back to san francisco.

and most importantly, i look forward to utilizing my small business management experience to provide a voice to our local neighborhood businesses. so i -- i can't tell you -- i can't thank you guys for being here and allowing me to be here, and i'm really looking forward to getting started, so thank you guys. >> welcome. >> so commissioner adams, why don't we just sort of go down through the roll call line and have each commissioner. >> start out with commissioner dooley? >> hi. kathleen dooley, 33 years owner of columbine design floral. i have also over the years spent a lot of time working with small business groups, trying to help them survive in this really tough climate. i am currently now also involved and am employed in the cannabis industry, which has just opened up so much education to me and so much

information, and i'm very excited to be part of that community now also, and i guess that would be it. >> thank you. steve adams. i started sterling bank and trust in san francisco in 1994. i got into small businesses and advocate for small businesses when i joined the castro merchant in 1997. i've been on their board, and i just recently came off their board. i was on their board for 20 years, from 1998 till 2018, and i served as president for seven years, so i know what it's like to fight neighborhood battles and businesses and retain culture identity when you have gentrification change, and that's what got me really

passionate about small business, not only in the castro, but now it's all over the city, and i really, really like it. i like fighting a good fight for small business. >> i'm mark dwight. i am born and raised in silicon valley. i moved to san francisco 15 years ago to run a small business called timbuk two, a bag company, which took me in a dramatically different direction from my corporate career 20 years prior. i bought and sold it in 2006 to a private equity firm, they promptly fired me, so i decided to start my own company called rickshaw bag company. we're based in the dogpatch. i'm the founder of dogpatch business association, newly formed in our fast growing

dogpatch neighborhood, so welcome to the commission. glad to have you. >> irene yee riley, and i'm a retired banker. i worked my 35 years with bank of america, and i was branch manager for many different communities, the richmond district, chinatown, and town area and all that, so i -- town down area, and all that, so i deal with a lot of small business owners. i understand their challenges and what their needs are. when i retired, the mayor asked me to serve on the small business commission, and i gladly accept, so here i am, and welcome. >> thank you. >> hi. my name's miriam zouzounis. i'm third generation in my family small business, which thank you for the shout out, commissioner, president. so yeah, my family's business is not too far from city hall. we're a corner store and deli, and we're also a member of the

arab american grocer association which represents 400 similar types of businesses in the city, so i try to advocate for those harder to reach immigrant businesses that are often scapegoated in the city, and i'm also smart of the small business merchant association. >> all right. >> my name is william cartagena ortiz. i own a consulting firm and i'm a pretty big advocate in the mission. i was formerly a chair in the mission economic development agency. now i'm the head of their 504(c) 4, one of the nonprofits in the neighborhood. >> excellent. >> i've got to check my notes. i took my notes. >> so thank you, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner corvey. so i want to start off just to give a quick rundown. the -- this week, i'm going

before the budget and finance committee meeting on friday. we had as part of our million-dollar allocation, there were some funds that were put in reserve in 2016, and technically, those probably should have been allocated in this last -- the 16-17 budget, but it didn't, so they helped offset the -- the reserve helped offset the moneys that were brought in to make the total 1 million for our historic preservation. so we do have to go before the budget and finance committee to get their reserves for lease. simply put we have rent stablization grant applications that are either been awarded, pipeline and are up for renewal, so there are three grants that we awarded in the last fiscal year that are up for renewal, and so we really need to see funds to ensure

that we can fulfill our commitment to fund these grants. so what's in reserve is 281,000, so i'm just letting you know that we'll be going before the budget and finance committee meeting to get that money released. and i've -- there's a little flow chart here -- or -- not a flow chart, excuse me. that's the correct term, but revenue and expense kind of chart that outlines how the moneys are allocated. for the accessible business entrance, i've provided a list of outreach events that we are engaged with either individually with our office or with the other city agencies for the accessible business entryway programs. this coming wednesday, the 13th is the big earthquake safety area across the street at big

graham auditorium. we've done outreach to the property owners to let them know there's information to get information on the accessible business entrance program, and we will be conducting another workshop midday on the accessible business entrance program. we're just -- dbi wanted to add that to the big earthquake safety fair, so again, it's just another way to reach out to property owners. also, we do -- we are planning a workshop in chinatown at the request of the chinatown property owners. that is scheduled for june 27 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., but again, to get the information out to the property owners, we are going to do a press conference on monday, the 25th, at 11:00 a.m., and if you're interested in attending, let me

know and i'll provide you that information so -- so -- and i think all the outreach and education that we have been doing from all of the city agencies involved, it's really getting out there. we -- so we have definitely noticed a reduction in calls coming into the office in terms of explaining how does this work, who needs to comply, is it the business, is it the property owner, and what are the steps in the process that need to be gone through to do it. so that's good. the lacktation in the workplace, oewd had a hearing on that last friday, and that's close, so they'll be finalizing and issuing their guidelines for businesses to -- the guidelines for the requirements for -- for businesses to comply with providing lactation in the

workplace, and remember, this is for any business that has one employee or more. in regards to the elections, proposition p -- again, just to reiterate, the election has not been certified, but what i'm indicating is probably for some of the propositions, probably the percentages may be off, but sort of a -- a good indicator as to how they'll fall within the yes or no. so proposition b which prohibits any appointed commissioner from running for office while they sit as a commissioner, that has passed, 70%, so that is a voter regulated mandate that does asks each commissioner who might want to run for office. proposition c, i put yes, but that's actually not correct.

so proposition c and d were propositions that were increasing the commercial gross receipts tax on commercial office rents. so -- but i believe proposition c needs to pass with 50 plus one, so it's not quite there yet. proposition d, and that one, just as an f.y.i., if it did pass, it's intended to fund early child care education. 1% is charged -- >> that's c? >> that's c. >> yes. >> that's c, is to fund early child care education. and so 1% would be added to commercial properties that lease two warehouse or p.d.r. spaces, and then 3.5% to any

combined group -- any other commercial space, you might as well just say. and this would go -- if it does pass, then it does go into effect on january 1, 2019. there is a small business exemption, and that small business exemption is for any business that is -- does not have to pay the gross receipts tax, so any business that is under $1 million in gross receipts. and then, the lessor of a residential real estate is a small business enterprise if they have fewer than four units in an individual building. proposition d, again, is another commercial -- applied commercial -- increasing the gross receipts tax on commercial rents. this was to fund housing and homeless services. it did have stronger small

business exemptions, and that right now is trending no at %. proposition e, which was a referendum on the ordinance that was passed by the board of supervisors prohibiting tobacco retailers from selling flafrded tobacco products -- plafred tobac tobacco products, so that passed yes, 66%. so with that vote, this does mean that the ordinance will be enacted. i did check with dph. nothing can be done right now until the board of supervisors ratifies the vote, and then, once it's ratified, then, it has ten days that it will go into effect. so dph has communicated to me

that they will begin soon. i don't know exactly when, but soon. stakeholder outreach for businesses as they work on the implementation for implementing this ordinance and banning flavored tobacco, so i would imagine, commissioner zouzounis, for the arab american grocers, that they would be reaching out to you soon. >> well, they did reach out to us, but they did not give me that specific information about ten days after it's ratified, which that's a pretty short timeline. do we have an idea of when it's scheduled for the board? >> we don't. >> midjuly. >> yeah. i think that they're looking at -- yeah, midjuly. >> i'm just saying. >> midjuly for ratifying the vote, early to mid july.

then, legislation and policy wise, so at our next meeting, the commission is going to hear two supervisor tang's legislation. the first is a food service waste reduction legislation. i will send you links to both of these tomorrow. it's -- the first one is dealing with single use plastics and disposable cups, napkins, details. using somewhat the concept of the -- what we've done with plastic bags to reduce this waste. and then, also, districts -- supervisor tang and supervisor safai are doing a two year

pilot program to remove the 312 notice for change of use in certain types of change use, and they want to see -- to help stream line the process so to help bring more businesses out into their neighborhood commercial districts, so it's a two-year pilot process to help stream line the process at planning. the supervisor -- sheehy's legislation, which i had hoped that the commission would have been able to hear at their last meeting, but he moved it more quickly than would have allowed for the commission to hear it, but it did pass, 11-0, requiring cannabis business to engage in labor peace agreements or have been a union before they are able to get their certificate to operate. so -- and again, you know, this

is an unusual precedent and somewhat of a concern. while the state in our initial legislation said you as a business and one of your conditions that you get your certificate to operate is you will engage in a labor peace agreement, but that was after that you needed to do it. so -- but the one thing i think that may need some attention -- and while this will apply to very few businesses, but if we're mandating a labor peace agreement before you get your certificate to operate, then are we saying we do not want any employee owned, worker owned businesses such as other avenues or rainbow grocery or those types of business structures do not need to engage in a labor peace

agreement? their structure is sort of actually doing what labor unions are trying to do in a business by having more employee input on the governance. so it was not anything that would -- i had a sense that there was band width to deal with at the local level, but it would be also something that would need to be discussed at the state level. so -- but that did pass, and it did pass 11-0. >> can i just make a few comments on that? >> yes. >> this has been a subject of concern among the cannabis club employees, and a concern about what the cost would be if they are needing to be part of a union, and so that's been kind of been something that people are a little distressed about? and a lot othe cannabis

clubs, we feel that the employers are super fair and have never had any problems. so just want to throw that out there, that isn't just, like, a slam budunk of the employees. the employees are going to want to see what they're going to get compared to what they already have. >> well, not unlike the local hiring ordinance. here we have a nascient industry that we're trying to promote and incubate in san francisco because we think it'll be a great benefit to our city, and here we are applying unprecedented restrictions to them. never mind what's being done at the state level, but we've piled on a number of restrictions and extra requirements and x at thats that will make it even more difficult for those businesses to operate in our county. frankly, i'm not convinced that some of these things would

actually standup to a legal challenge, especially the local hiring ordinance, as i said before, you know. it's one thing if the city wants to have both of these requirements, actually, for city contracts where they are spending public money. but when you then turnaround and apply and want to put those same restrictions on private enterprise, where those businesses are funded by private funds, i don't think that that's actually probably legal, and i think that, you know, we'd have to ask our city attorney to take up the cause. but we are the advocates for small business, and we are the legislative advocates for small business. so if we need to do that, we will need to do that. >> not sure what the equity hiring. it's not so easy to find people that fit those very narrow requirements, especially in a business that actually requires quite a bit of education and

responsibility from its employees? so, you know, that just means that a lot of qualified people will not be able to work in this industry. i know myself, i was literally the last employee before this came into effect, and now, it's just such a narrow thing. and you know, some of the requirements are already in -- need to be thrown out, like showing that you are arrested for cannabis, and the city is going to seal those records very soon. so that's just a lot of limitations. i had even brought up other deprived or whatever you want to call it, people that might qualify. say seniors, you know, who have a lot of sales experience, perhaps have cannabis experience, and why wouldn't they be someone that would be

considered as another minority. >> maybe we can circle around back to this on new business. >> yes. commissioner zouzounis? >> i was also going to comment, but i can leave it for the later conversation. >> okay. >> and then, i did -- i'm sorry, i forgot to put on, but supervisor fewer did reintroduce legislation for creating a cannabis commission. so i haven't looked at the details of that, and i'm going to work to try to get that scheduled before this body, as well. so -- and then, lastly, just workshops, other workshops that we want just to remind the commission or just to inform the commission that martha does classes at the s.b.a. monthly -- martha yanez, on starting a business 101, and she also has been once a quarter conduct the class in

spanish? and she also does the same workshop at the renaissance center. this wednesday is the sfcdma gala at the olympic club. and then, the asian american business mixer, which we traditionally hold during small business week, that is being scheduled for the -- this thursday. so -- and -- and then, i do want to do a shout out to our public library, the san francisco public library for being selected basically the public library of the year out of all the city libraries. so -- so congratulations to our library. >> an academy award for them. >> yeah, it is. >> okay. do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is

closed. any other commissioner comments for the director? seeing none, next item, please. >> clerk: item 7, 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'll be attending the council of district merchants dinner on wednesday night, and that's all i have. commissioner ortiz? >> last friday, i did a walk-through with several key stakeholders in the mission corridor from 14th street all the way to 25th, with director ed reiskin, hillary ronen's office, and several community stakeholders, and we visited several businesses that have been askd along the corridor in the system with high market rate developments.

for example, red's cafe, was paying 2500, recently had to renegotiate their lease, and bumped up to 6,000. we're having also speculators just land bank and have vacant properties along the corridor and not extend any of the local businesses and keep them on a month to month basis. so they're not allowed to reinvest in the community or their business because they're on a month to month. in addition, we highlighted with director reiskin the catastrophic decision to extend the bus lines. we -- we used to have 200 pedestrians per, i think five minutes. now it's down to 25 pedestrians, so it's really become just a highway from the excelsior to the financial district, and it's having a severe impact.

so i just wanted to highlight that because if it happens to a neighborhood like us, which the mission is the epicenter of displacement for small business, i think other neighborhoods around the city should really pay attention because there's projects that the sf mta might implement, or even as we ban together and stop developments in our neighborhood, they're going to go and develop elsewhere. we're working together with you will aof these key stakeholders in trying to stop the trauma because small businesses are getting displaced. and long businesses. in the mission district, it's 30, 40, 50 years. >> i'm seeing it on mission street. commissioner yee riley? >> yeah. just want to announce asian american business mixer is going to be on june 14 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and it's going to be concept one studio

by toto. the address is 190 king street, san francisco. all the business owners are invited. they can go out there and find out all the low cost resources in small business administration state and community organizations provide help to small businesses to start and grow, and they also have an opportunity to talk to government officials, community leaders, bankers and nonprofit lenders. it's organized by s.b.a., and office of small business and supported by some of the banks and nonprofits, as well, so everybody's welcome to attend. >> thank you. commissioner zouzounis? >> yes. a merchant organization that i'm part of was reached out to by sf d.p.h. regarding the

sugary beverage tax. this is an example of the order of operations by the city because right now, the tax has already come into play and the onus of explaining were beverages are more expensive has fallen upon the merchants. i think retroactively sf d.p.h. wants to connect to merchant groups to here from merchants. however, there's what i understand is $5 million from revenue from the tax that's meant to go to community organizations, and i think it would be great if our commission would prepare some merchant groups or prepare r.f.p.'s so we could get them into merchant organizations so we don't just have to do the outreach work for them, but we could maybe be working collaboratively and get some of that funding. >> great. commissioner doolley?

>> every couple of years, north beach does a vacancy study for our district. this year, i thought it was very interesting to see what we had come up with. i'm just going to give you a quick run by was i think it's going to be -- because i think it's going to be very similar in other neighborhoods. 2018, we had 10% of our commercial storefronts vacant. 38 vacancies. of those, 21% are from seismic upgrades, so those will be temporary. 25% have been vacant for more than three years. two property owners own 21% of the vacancies, and 13% have unauthorized uses, are either unopened but leased or are

leased but are being used for illegal uses. so that was just a quick rundown of where we are, and i think a lot of the neighborhoods are going to have very sick statistics. >> yep. thank you. commissioner dwight? >> i just wanted to say that i too am attending the c.d.a. event on wednesday. and if you want to attend, you can find tickets on sfcdma's websites. >> okay. do we have any public comment on commissioner's reports? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 8, new business. allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. discussion item. >> commissioner zouzounis? >> a couple of concerns. i'm really concerned, really, really, really concerned about the implementation period about the ban on flavored tobacco, and i want to know what avenues

we have if there's a way of pushing scheduling on the board of supervisors back. we need to be part of the merchant outreach strategy because it's not only going to include notification of a timeline, but we have businesses that are fully going to have to close down because of this law? and there's been no secession planning, no talk of buying back of tobacco license -- the city buy back of tobacco license, bankruptcy. there's serious issues that need to be looked at before -- in a very short timeline. we have inventory in a lot of these businesses that's going to take a least six months to be sold that would fall under this ban. these are items that have had taxes paid on them, so i think there's a legal issue there that needs to be addressed. i'm curious what types of reports we could ask to be

solicited. i know there was an economic impact report done when the ordinance was first drafted, however, that was just what the city -- on what city losses that would be affected. if there's something that oewd produces, that would be more -- an industry look at the fall out, i would like to learn kind of what kind of reports we could solicit on that. and so in addition to -- to that ban on flavored tobacco, i've also been in the board of appeals pretty frequently recently due to the article 19-h, which is another restriction on the tobacco license, which restricts sale or moving of a license, and we're having a lot of businesses that are -- because of those laws are trying to sell their business, and they can't sell their license with it, so there's a huge devaluing of a business because of this law.

there's businesses that are being evicted, losing their month to month lease and moving two doors down and can't take their license. so, i mean, i would like to -- to put that on the agenda. maybe we could talk about article 19-h and what amendments this body could propose to the supervisors or at least some feedback on those compounded tobacco laws. three, the environment code proposed by supervisor tang with the food waste, when we get to that, i guess i'll bring up the stuff, but i think city vendors -- my family's business, for example, is a city vendor. the city departments don't allow us to charge for these cups and, you know, supplies. i think that needs to change, especially 'cause costs are going to be going up six times with this move. i would also like to request that the city attorney's office comes and gives us a report on

kind of maybe general parameters of what the city's reach is into the private sector, but also the specific, i think -- some of the laws around the cannabis industry, i see ay attney report on ke to that. yeah. thank you. that's it. >> any other commissioner comments on new business? >> i have one -- one thing, if you will. at some point, i think we should have kind of a state of the cannabis industry report. don't know when that's going to be appropriate, but just put it on the agenda whether it's six months from now. i think we should check on where have we come since california passed its laws and since we kicked it off here 'cause their a number of open issues i think that would be good for us to review and check in with the businesses, the small businesses and see what they think the state of the union is for them. >> that's a good idea.

okay. do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on new business? seeing none, next item, please. >> clerk: okay. sfgovtv, please show the office of small business slide. >> it is 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. it's the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco, and the san francisco 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. if you need assistance with small business matters, it starts here at the office of small business. next item, please. >> clerk: item 9, adjournment, action item. >> can we have a motion to adjourn.

>> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? okay. meeting over. thank you. >> okay. motion passes, 6-0, and the meeting is adjourned at 7:05 p.m. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at.

my name is bobbie cochran. i've been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn't give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven't seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn't have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn't know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got -- was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to

demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn't have been brought back. we wouldn't have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had to hire a company and they came in and cleaned up all the walls. they didn't paint the whole apartment, they just cleaned up the mildew part, cleaned up and straighted it and primed it. that is impressive. i was a house painter. i used to go and paint other people's apartments and then come back home to mine and i would say why couldn't i live in a place like that. and now i do.

>> supervisor breed: good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, june 12, 2018. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call]