potential carcino. that teflon was phased out. the industry say make them shorter. they are not banned. they work well. they are more mobile in food intake and the soil and plants and they are as likely to be as carcinogenic and toxic. a number of studies have come out. they are used on 40% of food wear, the fiber products to help impart water and degrees resistance. there are a lot of products that do not have them. we have been talking with industry for some time. there is an effort to move to and scale up alternatives. going through the third-party

certification we can ensure that. that includes next year a test for fluoride compounds. another piece was the idea every usable cups. we have the event in the city that end up producing a lot of litter and disposable cups. we have seen practices by certain vendors where they are able to provide a reusable cup option. we want to encourage that. we are starting with a 10% goal. we work closely with events in the city and ways of providing information or training them. this is another opportunity to lead and reduce the disposable cup waste. this can involve a variety of options of providing reusable cups. it can be a return system or

selling cups. another thing that this ordinance does is gives us the ability to set post consumer content. some companies like starbucks, which is the biggest coffee company, they have been using 10% recyclables for their cups. not everybody can. we want to do more research around what the market can provide to help move that. that is why it gives us the option for the future. we want to basically have a better picture of trends before we include it. if there is a lot of news around the plastics problem and a lot of businesses stepping up to the

plate to reduce the use of plastics and straws, particularly, bon appetite, that does a lot of institution at food service has announced they will stop using the plastic straws. the foundation here today have worked with a good number of restaurants. i have a list of over 80 they identified that have stopped using plastic straws. a lot of them have gone to request as well. we are seeing other cities adopting policies like this from malibu to alameda, they banned plastic straws. we are not the first in this case. we are joining the wave to take action to reduce the huge tsunami of plastics out there.

probably one of the biggest questions you may have is around cost. the dig savings, potential savings is when you go on request there is a big drop. we have heard from businesses that are seeing savings in the 50 -- reduction of use of straws of 50 to 90 plus%. if you go to plastic to paper straws. paper straws are more expensive. there is quite a range out there. i see them from half a a cent. the good news. the amount a typical food establishment spends on straws is less than 1% of their operating cost. if this portion increases but with it going on request it looks like that is going to

offset that cost increase in many if not most cases. if you have a 50% reduction in use and you are paying 30 to 50% more, 50/50 is a wash. here is an example of outer lands that found a 90% reduction in their use of straws by going on request. it was a net savings for them. another example of a bar that used a lot of straws and plastic straws and picks. they switched to paper and wood. one of the things a lot of places found was because of the plastic straws and picks that often had food on them, they

couldn't compost the food. they weren't going to separate it. it was all going to the trash. by switching to wood and paper they were able to reduce their trash service. they are actually saving $900 a month, $10,000 each year. it was an impressive case study. one of the questions is what about inventory? we have had experience over the last decade or more with having helped ban styrofoam, changing plastic bags to recycled paper and compostable plastic and ruiusable. in cases of four different ordinances we have dealt with inventory issues case-by-case. we visit the business and they say i have the inventory i

bought before it was announced or before the outreach. we can look at that to say, okay, how much more time do you need? this is three or four weeks. we will come back in a month or so. we allow people to go through the inventory they have had. we don't want people to continue to buy products like this, but if they had existing inventory. the other concern is there was media attention. you may have heard all of these people switching to paper. there is a huge demand on paper straws. can the market meet that. we have somebody selling paper straws to address that. if there is an issue to get something, a backlog supply we to take into accounted. our interest is to help people provide providing education and flexibility. a good faith effort, we have no

interest in penalizing with fines. we want people to implement the ordinance with a good faith effort. there are many alteratives out there. we are likely to see with banning the styrofoam, we saw a lot of companies into the marketplace to provide alternatives. we expect this also to happen with straws. there are at least half a dozen different companies out there that are distributing in the bay area, and we expect that to increase a lot as well. outreach education. we have a long history of doing extensive outreach education through a variety of sectors to the business community and the

public. we will make sure we reach everybody that is affected, everybody would get a maling. the mailed letter would go to all affected parties, and with that letter there will be a fact sheet. we produce fact sheets, provide information on vendor and product lists, we create signage, faq. we reach everybody by mail then as many in person. we go through the corridors door-to-door. there is outreach in education to consumers. we know it is not -- a business doesn't want to be the only one telling the customers the new rule. there is a lot of work to be done through the media, social media, and we work through various organizations, and we make sure to provide stores real

clear signs that say the city is requires this, not just me as a restaurant saying i don't want to give you a plastic straw. the city says plastic free only on request. we take that to make it clear. wwe have a variety of posters to be posted. to summarize, these are the effective dates. two phases. first is just over a year from now july 1, 2019 is when the plastic free straws and accessories to be rechoired. those food wear accessories plus napkins and condiments and cutlery on request at that time. food wear pp i certified. in january 2020 we add reusable cups in outdoor events. that season is in full swing

july 1st. not to have it in midstream to give them more time to ramp-up a program. there is also the florinnated compounded in effect by january 2020. everything resetter fid by then as -- re-certified as flo fluore free. i want to close by saying we really appreciate how so many businesses in san francisco and the bay area really help understand the issues and they have helped lead the fact that we have 80 plus restaurants that are already gone straw free in san francisco. there are examples of other

businesses through rethink disposable with clean water action where they have worked to switch to reusables. by doing so they found they have been able to save money on even just the labor of handing everything out, going on request saves that. big reduction in use by going on request. they are shipping the cost for disposal service. it is part of being a good community player. sustainability message. the guy that are straw dependent. it is an example of using the paper straws. i will stop blackering and blab.

>> do you have any questions? >> before you start questions i want to see if you want us to go through the amendments to cover the questions. i printed them out if you want to share with the commission. three brief amendments one was mentioned or two. one is clarifying the compostable plastic straws would not be allowed under the ordinance. the second. this is potential. we have to have some conversations with delivery company us picking up food to businesses and bringing them to homes but adding within definition of food vendor or food delivery services and contractors and vendors. they would provide an option for customers to request food ware

accessory esat check out to say i would like utensils or napkins. changing the date to january 1 of 2020. when it is not in the event season. section that we would change that says the food vendor changed to producer. it is clear individual food vendors are not responsible but the event producer is responsible for the 10% requirement. >> thank you. jack, thanks for a great job. great to hear it. i am a bar restaurant owner in

san francisco. my main concern is the available of the products and the cost. that is what i am looking at. i use thousands of plastic cups each week along with straws, toothpicks. my question is the availability of the products and the cost. that is what i'm looking at. >> as i said, the research we have done so far the cost range varies quite a bit. some folks are buying from buy right. we had close to the cost of plastic straws. some companies make a super premium decorative colorful striped straw that are more expensive. the key is switching to on request. that is where we see for the

businesses there is not a net cost increase because the reduction in use will exceed th increased cost. if it doesn't, then i think the cost is how much do you spend on plastic straws, stirrer sticks as a percent of your operating cost? how does it add up on the bottom line? that is why i think. some places said stop using straws period. on request is a key piece to it. in terms of inventory, we have seen industry moving to reach the increased demand. there is a backlog in delivery. here is a letter from so and so the backlog. we can't help you find something that can deliver an acceptable

alternative, you need that time. >> thank you for your presentations. i am curious if you have talked directly to a list of stephen tors or a -- stephe city vendor. city departments mandate everything compostable and you are not allowed to charge for it. other vendors we charge 25-cents for napkins, cups, plates. the city departments do not allow you to invoice that. people that are vendors with the city are losing the money while they are pending five times more. plastic forks $9 for a thousand.

over 40 for compostable. there are huge expenses for stephen tors. if you are going to have an overhead you need to take that into consideration. the city should amend the rule of charges for that. there needs to be more chai clay for zero waste. that is on the books. if you cater for city hall, you have to pack out the trash with you. that is zero waste. you have to pack it out. people are caught off guard with that. if this is going to be an additional requirement for city events, there needs to be clarity on whose responsibility it is for what. i did have another question. i will come back to it.

>> thank you for your comments. i think you make very astute points if we make those requirements. we will look into that and provide some response to regimena. >> a lot of what i am reading implies that there is staff on hand for these vendors, too. a lot of time the vendors are dropping off things and leaving. they are knothey are not staffe. don't assume all vendors will have staff on hand. >> any other comments before we go to open public comment? any members of the public that i would like to speak on item 4? come on up.

>> i am eva, a volunteer. i lead a campaign called rise above plastics. i have been volunteering for about six years. we are highly in support of this and excited to see it happening. we have been doing outreach with bars and restaurants for four years asking to switch to paper straws on request and have had a lot of success. we want to celebrate this move and to help it be as easy as possible for bars and restaurants. using the restaurants we worked with. we have more than 80 people willing to talk to a bar or restaurant making the switch to talk about how it can be easily accessible.

we have bars with no straws, we have creative solutions. with sf environment we will be extremely available to do outreach in the city. we classically just do beach cleanouts. that is the top 10 list on the beach. recently we branched out to inner city cleanup and the first neighborhood cleanup on june 2 in north beach. this is a carbon copy what we would find on the beach. we find on it the city streets as well. all of the items we find on the beach are also on the city streets. obviously, almost all of what we are finding is single use to go

ware. mostly plastic. we are going to recreate this neighborhood by neighborhood and offering that information saying this is not only coastal this. is inner city affecting your business. if it is ugly and you see the trash. this legislation will provide support to businesses as well as the community to get streets clean. it all goes to the beach. we look forward to the day when we don't find the plastic straw on the beach. it looks like a year until that happen as. >> next speaker, please. >> i am the policy director for upstream. i moved to upstream about a year ago. prior too that i was the california director of clean

water action where i started the program that jack mentioned. we found reduced the single use packaging businesses save money. every food business saves money this. is a good thing for business. often businesses don't really understand how much money they are spending, all these little single use items. upstream supports this policy. it is a good first step to reduce the food and beverage packagings which has so many environmental impacts. much like eva's stats we found in you a survey in 2011 the food and beverage packaging is 67% of the litter on the street es. seven of th the 7 of the top 10

items picked up each year. a huge impact associated with extraction of natural gas, greenhouse gas emissions from the products and paper products also have a significant greenhouse gas food print resulting in cutting down more trees. while we support drilling the plastics. we think the higher goal is drill down on single use food and beverage packaging. this moves in that direction because of the ask first policy. it doesn't just switch. it reduces how much food and beverage packaging is used. the 10% reusable cups is a source reduction measure. it doesn't change the material it reduces how much we are

consuming. that is all good. a very important additional reason to support this policy is the ban on chloride substances in compostable food wear. this is a toxic class of clinicals. thethey can represent up to 80%f the weight of the package. we encourage moving the policy forward and encouraged the city to look further to reducing cups and food containers and associated food wear items that we see out in the ocean and on our streets. thank you. >> any other speakers? come on up?

>> i am with an organization called lonely whale. we began two and-a-half years ago our founder is adrian who is an actor. we had straw less ocean. we analyzed media over three years running the campaign. there ask extreme interest in reducing the straws in cities nationally. no one had organized the effort. we went to the city of seattle and rap the campaign -- ran the campaign to remove 2.3 million pieces of plastic by working with over 150 venues, including the airport, space needle, and it was so popular in the city that the city of seattle

approached our team. we created a culture. we asked that they announce the single use plastic straw ban at our press conference. it was really fin and really effective we see this trend all over the world from london to new york where they had a hearing last week. they are pushing that in new york city to chicago, new mexico, oakland, san francisco. this city is the first to push the effort.

-- being looked at, being proposed, etc. right now, other than the city. so it's unique in that. and i think there's a real leadership position that can be taken to that effect, if you decide to put yourself there. thank you. >> president adams: thank you. any other members of the public. >> my name is jamie and i've

worked with two dozen restaurants within the city and so many is very important to me. to get surf rider and get things checked off. we initially bought some paper because there was a promotion to see how it's went. we just eliminated straws entirely. we don't have them at all. we have a diverse clientele, people from all over the world, businessmen from across the street. there's been zero pushback. when you have a customer ask, you say, it goes into the bay. we have the advantage of there being a bay right there. financially, it's been fantastic and supported with zero

pushback. i have a bar as well and they use all metal. they find it sexier. they don't like paper, don't want plastic. very successful. there's some theft because they really like them and they disappear. so it may be good to have them for sale. another restaurant of mine uses paper. and between the three of them, it's a bar, high-end mexican restaurant, and right on the water, there's been zero pushback, no issues, and it's moving everybody away from having a straw. our tenders tells me there are two reasons. one, women like them with red wine because they don't want to get their teeth -- it seems odd, but a bartender told me that. and then the other one was having something for handicapped

people. i have a friend who is a quadriplegic and she has to have a straw. most people with disabilities have a tendency to bring their own straws. i can just say it's been a financial savings and widely accepted by the public. >> president adams: great. thank you. any other members of the public? >> hello. i'm jamie lions. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. i'm a small business owner here. i own a company called ecopliant products. i wanted to have a quick comment with inventory and price. the business i started about a year ago was to solve this exact problem, as someone who cared about the environment and participated in beach cleanups and talking to restaurants. i realized it was hard for them to get aardvark straws, which is really the brand that people

know, in terms of quality and durability in paper straws. so we created a company to hold inventory. we bought inventory to prepare for the demand and to be able to provide locally at a cost that's affordable to the restaurants, bars, clubs, hospitals in the area. so we've been operating for about a year. i have inventory. i offer free, next-day delivery to restaurants, bars, clubs, in the area and our price is about 50% cheaper than what it would be if you bought directly from the manufacturer. so i think there will be a lot more of me of and why think that inventory will be prohibitive. i think the market and demand will create business opportunities for others and there will be more of month -- manufacturers and distributors to allow this to happen. >> president adams: great. thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment

supervisor closed. commissi commissioner dwight? >> vice-president dwight: eliminate straws altogether? is that going to work for you? >> commissioner corvi: i hope so. [laughter] >> president adams: is that it? >> vice-president dwight: yes. >> commissioner yee riley: thank you for changing the food vendor to producer. that makes sense. the 10% requirement of re-usable cups and -- is that enough, 10%? if i have 100 people, only to have 10 re-usable cups? and then how do you determine the attendance of an event? is it the honor system or how are you going to enforce your -- you know, this law? >> hi, everyone. i'm alexa kelty, department of

the environment. i work with jack and ashley at the department. the events -- we'll work closely with the permitting agents, so department and rec park and sfmta, they manage the permitting process for events. on that permit, they will say how many attendees they estimate. so we'll be basing their goal, their 10% goal, on that attendance number. does that answer your question? >> commissioner yee riley: yes. >> the street closure, i was using sfmta. it used to be sfdpt. yeah, that one as well. so we'll work closely with all of the permitting and port property to make sure that that language is in the people -- permitting process. >> president adams: commissioner ortiz?

>> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: thank you, everybody, for your presentation and your time today. i have more of a curiosity question. there are fast food chains that brand their straws as part of the way they drink their beverage or set their beverage apart. have you gotten any pushback from them? >> president adams: she's public. you can't. >> great question. i personally have not. we've been watching out to smaller businesses. one thing i can say is that one of the things that people bring up is a cold beverage, a lot of people drink their iced coffee or other cold beverages with a straw and starbucks is starting to use a strawless lid now. it looks like a hot coffee lid but it's clear and has the same opening and so i think like what everybody is talking about is the market will respond to this

and that's the lid that could be used at a mcdonald's or burger king pretty easily, or they could switch over to the paper straw version. want to add anything? >> president adams: any other commissioner comments? i will chime in then. i like this ordinance. i think it's already happening. wherever you go, you are seeing paper straws. i know when i was in the south bay, there was a couple of places down there that have gotten rid of them altogether. i'm in seattle once a month. i see the big change up there. and even with starbucks up there, they have changed. this goes along with the plastic bag ban and everything else. and this is what we need to do to change the environment. so i remember when the plastic bag ban came and everybody was freaking out about it.

now everybody has -- we have bags in the trunks of our car. >> not me. >> president adams: yeah, you have rickshaw bags. the public just gets used to it. as far as cost, i appreciate what you said. i was concerned about buyers and how you feel because you deal with it. i would not mind adding the city stuff when we do our motion. do we have a motion? >> move to support this legislation as presented. >> second. >> is it motion with an amendment that the city consider allowing city vendors to apply the cost of complying with this

law to its invoice to the city? >> yes. i will take that amendment to my -- >> president adams: yes. that's a good one. okay. so we have a motion by commissioner dwight. seconded by commissioner yee-riley. we'll do roll call. [roll call] >> president adams: motion passes 6-0 with one absent. >> thank you. very very much. >> b.o.s. file 180320, catering as accessory use in neighborhood commercial districts. ordinance amending the planning code to allow catering as an accessory use to limited

restaurants in commercial districts under certain conditions. >> i will be doing the presentation. commissioner safai's aide was going to be here and can't now. i will walk you through. catering as an accessory in commercial districts right now is not permitted. it's not permitted in neighborhood commercial districts unless the catering use provides products for retail sale in the same location where the caterer is using -- or is in use of -- is using, excuse me, the place to make their product. this amendment would permit

catering to limited restaurants only and limited restaurants are one of the definitions that there are type 20 liquor license, which is only offsale beer and wine in neighborhood commercial districts. the catering use does not operate more than 70% of the total time permitted for the limited restaurant in terms of total time committed. the caterer is not -- does not serve directly from the lot to the clients and is not allowed to require retail items at the catering site, the restaurant where they do catering. so what they're saying is they do not want the caterer to be

doing deliveries from that site or to have uber eats come up and pick up food. so it's truly just -- they're making their product, their food at that site. they can take it offsite if they're doing an event, but not meant to do takeout/delivery type of catering. so, again, just to be very clear, the catering can only -- as an accessory use, can be done at a limited restaurant for 75% of the time that it is in operation. when the business is closed, there's no accessory use catering taking place. supervisor safai chose to limit it to limited restaurants to ensure that the regular

restaurants maintain their activated use as a regular restaurant. and this was a recommendation in the retail study list of recommendations. the planning commission heard this last week and their recommendation was to allow this city-wide. part of the reason -- to go back -- one of the reasons for the requirement for limited restaurants in neighborhood commercial use is only allowing for 70% of time and not operational hours was to reduce the amount of noise in the evenings. so while the planning commission did not opine on this, it may be something that the planning commission was to apply it

citywide. there are uses in c3 areas where you really don't have where there would be noise. could a caterer operate in the off-hours at that location? that is something that the commission may want to consider. it's fairly simple. it's not as expansive as the discussion that the commission had during cannabis, not that it would be specific for cannabis, but the need for figuring out how to open up the restaurant environment and the kitchens for needed commercial space. so this is one step being taken in that direction. so i'm happy to take any

questions. >> vice-president dwight: educate me here. this is a distinction between limited restaurant and full restaurant? >> limited restaurant, and i have the definition right after your tab, so limited restaurant, i mean, it offers -- the distinction between a limited restaurant is that it either does not have beer and wine or it has as type 20 license. a restaurant that has any other type of alcohol is considered a restaurant under the planning. so we no longer usefu full serve restaurant. most of the definition is around liquor license. >> vice-president dwight: so limited restaurants are open fewer hours than those with full liquor license? >> typically and typically more

daytime hours. >> vice-president dwight: and so the idea is to use the expensive asset, building out a kitchen, to allow additional use of that asset? >> uh-huh. >> vice-president dwight: okay. >> president adams: any other questions? does this affect you? you guys do catering. >> yeah, i mean -- i mean, keeping in mind, brick and mortars are still paying more, but this is a need as we're moving into the era of not having brick and mortars. >> president adams: exactly. i get it. since we have no questions, let's open it up for public comment. do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? or any other questions? >> move to support the

legislation. >> second. >> motion by commissioner dwight, seconded by corvi. [roll call] motion passes 6-0, with one absent. >> president adams: great. next item, please. >> 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. >> commissioners, i have a fairly short report today but i did want to let you know that the commission secretary position, i sent an email, has been posted. so we have another two weeks

while that posting is open. so please share it. the budget reserve that i mentioned at the last meeting, we've got through the process and that budget reserved for historic preservation fund. there was $281,000 sitting in reserve that was released and we're able to use that to fund the rest of the rent stabilization grants being processed through this year. and that went very smoothly. and then i do want to just take a moment to talk about the hearing that the commission had at the end of may regarding the pet store formula retail at 4049 24th street at that location. there's been some discussion around -- and we had this back in 2009 and 2010 that the -- if

the commission's ability to weigh in and make a recommendation to the planning commission is legitimate when the project sponsor is not there to present and so just want to remind the commission that, yes, the commission does not have to hear from the project sponsor. we're not -- you're not adjudicating and weighing in on that particular project in the manner in which the commission is. the small businesses that were concerned about the impact of a formula retail entity, it was their responsibility to -- they were scheduled to present to you. it was their responsibility to present to you a compelling argument for you to take action on any set of recommendation.

and they decided that they would not take action to support. i just want to make sure that -- there's been quite a bit of discussion after the scenes after the planning commission vote, which voted not to grant the conditional use for that project site. that, yes, the commission's action was completely appropriate. so you were there to hear from the small businesses. they -- you chose that they made a compelling case and took your action. and i made it very clear to the planning commission when i presented the commission's response that it's rare and exceptional that i'm before them on the commission taking action on very specific projects. it's not something that the commission does and takes it very seriously.

and the times i've been before them have been around pet stores and so there's this tfor -- historic in that pet stores are small and an important entity to preserve. i presented but the small businesses did a very good job and really presented and were well-choreographed on different items and elements to prove their case. if you have any questions about that, i'm happy to take them and i just wanted you, in case there were questions and comments from behi behind the scenes that -- that

the commission's action was completely appropriate. and then today there was a press conference in chinatown with the chinese consolidated benevolent association, six families, with director huey, going to be doing around the accessible business entrance program, so it was to invite the predominantly chinese press to get the word out about a workshop that we'll conduct on july 16 in chinatown and thank you, commissioner yee riley, for attending and speaking at the press conference. so those are the key items that i have and am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> vice-president dwight: i just want to say that i attended the hearing for the c.u. and want to commend director for making her

remarks at the commission hearing. the two commissioners mentioned while they were deliberating their decision that both our hearing of that and our decision on that matter and the director's presentation both made an impact on their decision process. so sometimes we make a difference. >> president adams: we are the office of small business. any other questions for the director? seeing none, open it up for public comment. do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on the director's office? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> excuse me, president. i realized there was one other item. i know we have a long list of new business items. so this week i am preparing that list and the timeline. so i just wanted to respond to that so i will get that out to you by the end of the week.

>> president adams: thank you. next item, please. >> item 7, commissioners' 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. >> president adams: only thing i have is that i did attend the council of district merchants dinner at the olympic club. that's all i have. >> commissioner yee riley: i also want to mention i attended a press conference this morning with director. and it -- the department head of d.p.i. was there and he's bilingual, so it was really good that he gives information in both languages, english and chinese. and the six company, the directors, a lot of them were mono language.

so it's helpful. i was there to explain the events and answer questions about the a.d.a. and a.b.e. so it's important for some of the merchants and business owners to attend a workshop. so far, only 7 or 8 people are signed up. we need to have a lot of information. so we're pushing for it and make sure that more business owners and property owners attend. it would prevent them from getting into all kinds of troubles. >> president adams: it was smart going through the six companies. >> commissioner zouzounis: i

thought the speakers and lineup and to hear about a lot of the collaborations between merchants and schools and work force development that doesn't get a lot of credit, whether it's collaborations with i.c.a. and internship programs, that was great. i also attended the african-american chamber of commerce event. it was a great event. i'm also continuing to field calls after the passage of prop e and i'm looking to hear back from the department of public health and the city on a more precise timeline, whether it's inmr implementing a ban on flavored

tobacco or not. and people are freaking out. >> i attended the healthy spot c.u. meeting as an observer, just to observe. i was curious to see what the commission was going to do and how they were going to make them decision. i was very impressed with the mobilization of the merchants and citizens and the residents in noe valley in opposition. it was an interesting process to watch play out and see if it had influence on the commissioners and i think that it did. i don't know where -- i can't know which way they were leaning before they came into the room, but it was very clear that they were taken aback by the number of people that were there for public comment. a lot of people made public comment. it's in the record how many. it must have been 30, 40 people doing public comment. and it was actually even the

public comment was well orchestrated. people did not dwell on exactedly the same issue. theres with a range of issues. so it seemed that they will been well organized. even had t-shirts printed up that said deny on it so it was clear who was in opposition. it was an interesting exercise of democracy here in our city. >> president adams: come to my neighborhood. it's like that. [laughter] it's a monthly occurrence. >> and as we told people that came here to testify, the two legacy businesses that we inducted most recently, that it makes a difference to show up.

those people here. we impacted the decision process by the actions that we took and the message that we delivered at the hearing. it can be done, and when we are passionate about the issue ourselves as commissioners and

passionate as business owners and neighbors and residents, we can affect change. a lot of times people feel like their vote doesn't count and they are part of the anonymous crowd. it is not so. we have more impact, i think, than going to the polls. you take very specific action on very specific issues and you can affect people's decision process, those wh are the gatekeepers if they are the decision makers or mayor. >> any other commissioner reports? seeing none. do we have public comment on commissioner reports? seeing none. public comment is closed. next item. >> item 8 new business. new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. discussion item. >> commissioner.

i have been engaging the mission regarding the bus line. i have copied the director and president adam os it. i have asked and they have agreed to come to the presentation and how they could do the mitigation regarding the impact on small businesses. >> do they have to do it on the 16th? >> obviously, they saw what happened on the mission corridor, and, unfortunately, we are trying to mitigate that. they knew this going on that 25% of total sales was going to be affected. there is a 25% decline in the corridor. foot traffic has declined considerably as well so they are trying to do better outreach, but this is an opportunity to give them feedback, you know, see what we can do. >> i know we are going to have department of pc