. >> i am not partial towards union, i am partial towards making good small business decisions, and not allowing small -- microsmall business to make it their business sense that they want to scale to be union is not right.

it creates an undue burden on getting paid in 30 days. you guys are all business owners. you know what it means to make your contributions to your pension fund, to your health and welfare fund. most of us pay on a quarterly basis because we're small businesses. the unions require that payment in 30 days, irrespective of when the city's paid you. the union is barking down your back because you haven't paid for the union dues. when you're small and trying to grow your business, that's not the kind of pressure you need, and to be able to scale your business and say yes, this makes good business sense, let's go ahead and become collective bargaining. and the other thing, and to your pointition commissioner, when you -- point,

commissioner, you have to remember, when you join a union, it takes five years or 60 consecutive monthly contributions to be vested. and if you don't get vested, all those pension contributions go away, and you'll never see them, and you'll never benefit from those benefit plans because you never got vested. so if you do a one year city plan, that one year of contributions goes to the union. you never see them. i think that's diametrically wrong, and i think the city shouldn't organize or the union. the union can organize themselves. thank you. >> okay. thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is jim lau. i'm representing bay area light works. i'm happy to be part of the

l.b.e. program, i think for, like, ten years now. i think it really helped my business grow, and i think this p.l.a. adoption would be really bad. i can't imagine what it would do to many businesses, including my own, so -- >> okay. great. thank you. next speaker, please. >> clerk: charles jones is next on the list, but is that susan smith? >> did you get the other ones in the bucket? >> clerk: yep. >> excuse me for one minute. i'm fine. i've been in business for ten years.

i've only had one contract. still got the contract down at the bank of america. i don't even know what it is, a 401-k. i used to be able to save money -- it used to be 120 days before i got paid, so i had to do all the work, i had to do all the paperwork. this is just hard. i'm from the bayview. i've watched my community suffer, literally suffer. when my little kids look at me, they say he's got his own business, they've got a real glimmer of hope. they're like, you've got money. man, i don't have no money. i still have to pay taxes, i have to pay workmen's comp, i have to pay liability insurance. i don't even know what this p.l.a. thing is, but i'm dead in the water. i'm dead. i'm really just -- it's like i

thought i got over the hurdle to now where i have my construction license. i started my janitorial, and i've got a d-38. it's like i'm on this journey here, and i know i've got obstacles. it's like the process of doing business. but this, i'm done. i'm 52 years old. what am i going to do? there's nothing for me to do, man. nothing. so by listening to you guys reply to how you all reply, you all just gave me a glimmer of hope, and i want to thank you all for that. thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: next on the list is susan smith, followed by nicole -- looks like goatring, and robert stewart. >> before i get started, i'd kind of like to tell you my experience with trying to bid on public works. i'm a woman business. i've been 15 years in business.

i'm a mechanical contractor. i have been going around, fighting project labor agreements for a while, just trying to figure out why we can't get on jobs. there used to be a lot of the contractors show up at outreach, a lot of them. get certified, get through all the hoops and not be able to do it because of the building trades. they're very powerful, they will not compromise. the mayor of san jose tried to do a fair p.l.a., and they would not accept it and said they'd do ballot measures against private work, and he had to cave. the school boards are caving, everyone is caving, because if they don't, they're being threatened by these building trades. it's wrong. the reason they're doing it, they're raking a lot of money off of these p.l.a.'s.

they're taking a lot of money out of prevailing wage and other things that they get money off of. i pay -- when i do a public works job, and i pay prevailing wage, all that money goes to the employee. the wage theft is being done by the union contractors who have to give that money over to the building trades. it's -- sorry. every month, my crews work on approximately 20 restaurants in various stages of construction. i help build approximately 20 projects in san francisco. approximately 90% of my work is in san francisco. i have completed projects up to $1 million, which is nothing. that's just as a direct with the owner, $1 million. half of my money is for equipment. i have very experienced employees, and i have a great safety record. core workforce requirement are

a major reason why a nonunion business, especially a small business cannot successfully bid on a p.l.a. this ordinance allows only two of my own core workforce -- section 4 states that all labor except at least two core workforce shall be hired from the union hiring hall. that means i can only put two of my own employees on this job. how am i going to do that? the only reason the building trades allow two is to allow me to bid at all. it is a small business -- if a small business bids on this without understanding that they're going to be put out of business because you cannot step onto a job site with all these employees that you have never worked with and be successful. the building trades are exempt to this core hiring requirement. it says -- sorry. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> good evening, members of the small business commission, my name is nicole goatring. i'm a member of a state and federally approved apprenticeship program, and we have members here in san francisco. our concern with the project labor agreement is that under this project labor agreement, those -- those residents aren't even going to be able to work here, and our apprentices as well who live in the city are going to be excluded from this agreement because of where it's written, the language in section 5, says only apprentices from joint apprenticeship programs can work on these projects. well, that excludes apprentices from workshop programs.

even if you have one to five to ten to 20 apprentices that are in those local programs, they are now excluded from being able to work here and from being able to get their opportunity to be a future l.b.e. and what have you and move up through the ladders. our members are of all sizes, small, medium and large size general contractors and subcontractors, so we would suggest that all core employees or all residents of san francisco should be able to -- or should be exempt from the p.l.a. so they would be able to work on these projects. there are some other cities that have p.l.a. policies in place, and their bids are coming in at all kinds of 50 to 60% over engineers' estimates. they're getting hardly any bids. they're having to throw out the bids. it's just not -- it's not a good business model for the city. what -- there was a question about why they're being used and what about the threshold?

well, what they're being used as is they're a marketing tool by the building and construction trades to lock up the construction market. so currently, today, you have union and nonunion contractors, general and subs who do work side by side on jobs all the time without any issues, and i would recommend that the city does not legislate this. let the companies as was mentioned earlier, get to the point where they decide that they want to do this, that that's the best way for the companies -- or the workers themselves to choose. the workers right now are choosing not to be union, and they're the ones to be able to choose whether or not they want to do that at that time. thank you. >> great. thank you for your time. next speaker, please. >> clerk: robert stewart, followed by hermann lee. >> my name is robert stewart. i'm a superintendent with helix electric. the speaker before me already began to talk about section 4, which is the two core workers

and the rest of the workers would have to be union workers, so i'm not going to go over that again, but i'm just going to give you an example just how disastrous that would be. if i had ten workers on a project, eight workers would be guys that are out in front of my jobs picketing, striking, the same guys who flatten our tires, scratch up our trucks. those would be the exact same people coming in, and i would have to depend on that. how smoothly would that go, honestly? that would be financial suicide for any company. imagine how that would actually go -- as well as for the customer. that would be a wreck. so i would ask you to take that into consideration because from where i am out at ground zero at the job sites, i'm just saying, honestly, it wouldn't work. we'd be dead in the water

quickly. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> clerk: hermann lee, followed by jim lazarus. >> good evening. my name is hermann lee. i'm an electrician at bay area light works. i've been there for over ten years now. born and raised in san francisco, visitacion valley area. i don't want to join a union. i don't want to be forced to join a union. i don't want to join a union. i like having my wages go to myself or my wife and kid. i don't want to have to pay dues to the union, have a portion of the check go to the union for dues and have multiple bosses. i just like being nonunion. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. we have supported in the past project labor agreements.

we've endorsed them when they've come before the board of supervisors for approval when they meet the test of the boston harbor case from the u.s. supreme court which said major projects that are time sensitive that meet the federal requirement can have a union bid. boston harbor gig, airport terminals, clearly the type of programs multimillion dollar or billion-dollar programs that project labor agreements were designed to serve, and to serve the public interest. what we have here is an obvious conflict between serving the interests of small business and local hire and the unionization of all city contracts. i think what this commission

should ask for is certified l.b.e.'s in san francisco should be fall under a p.l.a. ordinance. that is in direct conflict with the goals of the city since dianne feinstein was mayor to foster local minority and women-owned businesses. you don't have to be antiunion to get to that position, you have to be proemployment, prosmall business to get to that position. so i urge this commission to make it clear to the board of supervisors, one, that somehow, something fell through the cracks, and this legislation a year ago didn't come here. and secondly, that the city's primary goal in this case should be the protection of small business while at the same time requiring large contract p.l.a.s, no doubt about that. but if you're bitting with a job -- bidding with a job with a local small business, that should take preference because that's a priority goal for the people of san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> next, gwen kaplan followed by baird fong. >> thank you, commissioners. ace mailing was founded in 1978 by my mother and i, and we were in the first group in 1984 to be certified a woman owned business. i just want to say to commissioner ortiz, i agree with every sipping will thing you said. you did encapsulate everything i wanted to say. it's very hard to imagine as a past president for eight years of the small business commission here that this has not been brought before us until now, so i agree with

everyone who is very upset and concerned about that, and i want to say that being an l.b.e. was very important to our business. we were a w.b.e., and a couple of years after we had won a small contract from the city, dianne feinstein about present -- did present us with the woman entrepreneur of the year award. so it makes sense for a small business to be able to do business for the sense, so i would like to thank you, commissioner ortiz, and thank you, commissioner dwight, for saying how could this happen to be at this point without having had the small business commission voice for us. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> clerk: next is baird fong, followed by maria brenis, and

that's the last speaker cards i have. >> okay. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is baird fong. i'm a san francisco native. third generation, actually. my great grandpa served as a servant for a home in pacific heights. my grandpa had a laundromat on divisadero, and my father did restaurant work all his life, and we all know the kind of hours and days they had to work. but i had the privilege of getting an education and joining the human rights commission back in 1983 and serving as a public servant to help on the 12-d ordinance to help define what are the problems here in city contracting, to define programs that we could implement in the city to help correct past discrimination. and through -- as miss

summers-choi stated, through each ordinance, i had the privilege of working through those and getting input. gwen might have been one of the compliance officers who did the site visit to confirm. we got a local business here that's really here in san francisco and helping employ and provide economic circle to the community. well, over the years, you know, about five years ago, i was part of the c.m.d., and last year, i retired, so i'm speaking as a person of experience, not as an official worker with c.m.d., but also, over the years, we also certified so many firms, that the first language of their owners may not be english, and many of them employ -- many san franciscans, their first language at home is not english, and many of them actually all want to reside and

stay here in san francisco, and their kids go to school here. so it is so important that we make sure that we don't put up another barrier like we used to have that helps with -- would prevent our minorities and women owners and workers from growing and developing here in san francisco. so i wanted to just restate -- restate the points that we want to make that this is not a project. why is it ad infinitum? to me, it's like creating a broken ladder, a ladder that has two prongs and no more rungs on the rest of the steps so. i hope that you will help us, to put in a strong recommendation that would have this l.b.e. exemption to make sure this is retained.

thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening. i'm maria renas. i'm part owner -- my husband and i are the owner of renas construction and electric, inc; and we were certified in 2006. we work with the city for 12 years now. we work with d.p.h., and muni, and we work as a general contractor for small business -- for small contracts and as subcontractors for big contracts. the 1 million is not even within our reach. [inaudible] >> -- so if you could help us

get an exemption as an l.b.e., we are a minority small business enterprise. and also, with a -- and for our performance, i am proud to say that we have never caused of city any stoppage of work, and we always complete the work on time. so their statement of the stoppage and preventing any delay, this is not our record, so please help us. >> thank you. anymore members of the public? >> good evening, steven cornell. i'm here representing the polk district merchants. i just want to reemphasize what i heard up there from a couple of other speakers. i think it's ridiculous, if any legislation is for small

business, this is it, and it hasn't been referred to the small business commission, it is an insult to the small business commission. as gwen said, we are all past presidents of this commission, and this is what we were built for, to review small business legislation. that is something that should be added to all the other arguments about this tonight. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> scott howbe. i don't want to repeat what's been said, but i want to make it clear, the commission was not created legislatively, the commission was created by the voters of san francisco. and when the voters passed this measure, it was to hear lemgs lati -- legislation and to hear things that help small businesses. that was the reason it was created, and to help the voters. >> thank you. any other speakers of the

public? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank everyone that came out and spoke today. i very, very personally, and i know everybody else on this commission feels the same way, appreciates your comments. i just want to say thank you for coming today and speaking on this item. okay. commissioners? commissioner dwight? >> vice president dwight: yeah. for those who came up to speak, i know it can be hard to get up and speak in public. some of you had written prepared comments and didn't get a chance to get through them. by all means, submit those to us because they will become part of our record. whether you speak here or whether you write to us, that all becomes part of the record, and we are able to use that on your behalf as we express our objection as a commission. you know, i think as a small business owner myself, i have bragging rights to the customers that i work for. and l.b.e.'s have bragging

rights to one of the biggest customers that they have, and it's the city and county of san francisco. why would you go through the pain and effort of becoming a certified business to be able to work on those projects if you didn't want to serve your city and have the bragging rights for doing so. to rip that rug out from under people that have worked so hard for so many years, some of you decades of work on behalf of the city, is just a travesty, so we'll see what we can do to try and prevent that from happening. i think, personally, that we should be advocating for an unqualified exemption for l.b.e.'s. >> i would agree. would anybody like to make a motion for that? >> vice president dwight: i move -- >> go ahead. >> vice president dwight: i move we recommend an unqualified exemption for l.b.e.s. >> second. >> clerk: does that include

micro-l.b.e.'s? >> yes. >> yes. >> all l.b.e.s. >> clerk: okay. and second was -- >> commissioner dooley. >> okay. we have a motion by commissioner dwight, seconded by commissioner dooley. are you ready for a vote? okay. roll call. commissioner adams? >> vice president adams: yes. >> clerk: commissioner -- one moment. corby? >> president adams -- i am requesting -- >> this is the vote. >> oh, yes. >> clerk: commissioner dooley? >> yes sk. >> clerk: commissioner zouzounis is absent, the motion passes with one absent. >> we will make sure this gets before the commissions. this is very unfair to you, and i just wanted to say kma commissioner -- what

commissioner dwight says, you are the backbone of this city and what makes this city run, okay? and to me, to have -- this is a slap in the face, and we need to do everything we can to protect you and your businesses and your livelihoods. so again, i want to thank everybody for coming out tonight and speaking your mind. if you have comments that you did not get to say here up front, please give them to rick here, and they'll be part of the record. so thank you very much. [applause] >> next item, please. >> clerk: item five, approval of meeting minutes, action item. in your packet are the draft regular meeting minutes from september 11, 2017. >> all right. now, this is -- >> go ahead. >> president adam, i am requesting recusal from voting on the september 11, 2017 meeting minutes as i was not on the commission at the time of the meeting.

>> okay. public comment on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion, voice motion to recuse commissioner corby. >> we have a first and a second. >> okay. so is there a motion? >> i motion it first. >> i second. >> all in favor? >> okay. motion passes, 5-0. that was motioned by commissioner adams and seconded by commissioner yee riley. okay. so the minutes from september 11. okay. and so now -- >> now, the remainder -- >> now, we can do the minutes. >> well, we have public comment. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on the september 11 minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? >> wait. >> okay. >> i just want to say for the

september 11 meeting minutes, that my last name is consistently misspelled. just a small thing, but -- >> we will -- so make a note to that, motion to approve with the correction of commissioner dooley's spelling of her last name. >> thank you. >> move to approve the minutes with the correct spelling of commissioner dooley's name. >> so moved by commissioner dwight, seconded by commissioner yee riley? all approved? all opposed? so the motion passes, 5-0. >> all right. >> next item, please. >> item six, director's report, update on the office of small business and the small business assistance center, commission activity, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion items. >> so commissioners, the

director's report is under item number six in your binder. so a report out from the accessible business entrance. so we're now getting biweekly reports from the department of building inspection just giving us updates on how many of the check lists -- so there's the check list that the proper owner needs to submit to d.b.i. to say that -- to classify them which category they fall in. so we should definitely be seeing, obviously, an increase in categories -- as exempt category and category one, those are the ones that are due january 1, 2019. and then, category three is july 2019. and category four is, i think, january 2020. so i'll just periodically reporting those just so you have an idea. at the office, we are beginning to see an increase in calls from small businesses who are also the owners of their

property, so just feeling a little more comfortable talking to our office to really kind of understand sort of how they need to navigate this regulation and what supports are out there for them. so we've been having conversations with them. and then, we are also getting calls from businesses who the property owner is saying you need to do this, you need to deal with it. and i would say 95% of these businesses are on month to month -- they're month to month. so they feel -- they're very concerned if they give any push back then they may lose the opportunity to stay in their space. so we're working on that. we're working with those businesses. and then, sb 1397 in 2017 increased that we used to collect $1 fee to apply to disability and disability

access fund. it now increased it to $4. 90% of that $4 now stays within the local municipality. before it was only 75%. so we are first required to make sure that the funding goes to city departments who need to have employees go through training and certification for becoming a certified access specialist. and so we have started working with the mayor's office on disability, public works, the mayor's office of housing and historic preservation is interested having a couple staff go through the training but not the certification. d.b.i. has declined using the funds, saying that they have enough funds to cover their certification and training. so then, the next step is for rhea and i are now beginning to work on how we will programatically utilize those funds.

we anticipate we will see, we will know exactly how much funds were collected at the end of august, maybe a little bit sooner from the controller's office because the vast majority of the business registration collection and the collection of this funding happens at the end of may, right? business registration's due at the end of may. so we'll know that probably beginning of august. we anticipate somewhere around $250,000 for us to work with. so there is still interest -- funding for the subsidized cast, we'll be looking at how much of this will be utilized to continue the c.a.s. inspection, and how much will be used for businesses who are put in the position where the owner does not want to be put

in the position of upgrading the entryway to help those businesses. legacy business, tomorrow is our meeting with the osaki creative group, and hopefully, we will be finalizing our logo for the legacy business program. and we are accepting applications for the business assistance grant through september 30 of this year. legislatively, i want to provide some updates. so there were some cannabis ordinances that were put through because of the nature of the timing and needing to get them through, and the timing of our meetings, we were not able to hear them, but i just wanted to make sure that you were aware of them. so there was an ordinance that allowed a waiver and refund of investigation fees imposed by the building code for persons -- or businesses or persons that were registered with the office of cannabis.

this waiver fund does expire at the end of this year. also, there was an ordinance with the -- we know about the labor peace agreements. we had discussed that, and that passed by the board of supervisors. and then, there was an ordinance amending the health code to allow the director of the public health, excuse me, to extend, and the director, office of cannabis, to extend the 90-day period to allow a 90-day extension because they were having problems ensuring that inspections were happening in a period of time. and so not to penalize the business, it offered the health department and the office of cannabis just to do a 90-day extension on the permit application. and then, there was a charter amendment that was introduced, again, to create a cannabis

commission. this was heard at the ruled committee on 6-20, and it's being continued to the call of the chair, which means at this point that that particular thing is not going to be moving forward whatsoever. i do want -- and that was introduced by supervisor fewer's office. so we will see if she decides to move forward anything. again, this is her second time for introducing legislation to create a cannabis commission. and then, still, to be scheduled is the cannabis retail and medical cannabis dispensaries in chinatown, basically, to ban those in chinatown. as this week at the budget and finance committee, there's several initiative ordinances that, again, timing wise, have to get through the process if they are going to be on the november 6 ballot. so there's a -- one hotel tax

allocations allowing for a portion of the hotel tax revenue for arts and cultural purposes and to remove obsolete provisions. and then, there's a second initiative ordinance with the business and tax regulation, so it's a gross receipt tax on transportation network company services. so creating a specific classification, private transit vehicle services and autonomous vehicle passenger services, so creating a specific classification for that. and then, another initiative ordinance, adding a gross receipts tax on cannabis. so again, a specific classification for gross receipts for those entities. at the next meeting, we'll have a presentation from the sfmta on the geary b.r.t.

they're wrapping up their outreach, so -- and are planning to start that project soon. and then, tentative, supervisor safai has introduced legislation to deal with the large apartment buildings and refuge where apparent -- i mean, i know this from a friend of mine who was an apartment manager. the challenges that they are having in that the garbage is not being sorted well between the black, blue, and green bins, things are getting mixed up, and so it's actually costing recology a great deal of many to -- it's -- money to -- it's either contaminates garbage, the compost is

contaminated or recycling, so it's li it's legislation that's going to address that. and then i wanted to make sure we had a new list of the business itemed that have come up at the commission, but i haven't had a chance to really work on them. so an update on the equity program for cannabis businesses, where are we on that and the permitting process? we've already talked about the construction mitigation, so i'm working with jorge rivas to prepare a presentation for the commission. commercial ownership for o.s.b. to develop a program informing businesses of commercial ownership and emphasis on storefronts. this is actually on our to-do, for the legacy business for this calendar year, and there's active interest for a couple of the supervisors to really have the department develop a

program and a set of recommendations. so -- and then, the planning -- public works, the d.p.w. fee, soft stories on the tier four properties, and then, tobacco, the implementation of the ban on flavored tobacco, and then, a review of all regulations regarding tobacco. so that's what i have on the new business list for the department to do. i'll discuss it in more detail with the president and the vice president sort of in terms of prioritizing -- prioritizing this with the fact that there's just me at this particular point in time dealing with the policy stuff. that said, moving on in regards to it just being me, the posting for the secretary position concluded on july 3, so the next step is for me to get a list of the applicants

from the department of human resources. i'm hoping to get that this week, and then, from there, i'll be able to go through them and make a selection for whom to interview. i have the list of our ongoing workshops that martha does. and then, just providing you with a list of the back meeting minutes. so what my goal is for the commission meeting minutes that commissioner corby wasn't part of is to do them in one meeting so that he doesn't have to continue to ask for recusal one meeting at a time, so that's my goal on that. so that is my director's report, and if you -- i'm happy to take any questions. >> do you have any questions? >> i just wonder, where are we with the determination of we're planning for for formula retail on-line? i think it's a very important

thing to discuss because it's already stampeding forward of large companies. even amazon, people like this aren't opening brick and mortar, and we need to have a determination whether there will be, under the formula retail -- >> that's correct. so at this point, my -- the request, in terms of how it needs to be formulated is the draft -- i have not been able to submit it to the planning department just in terms of band width, just in terms of the amount of work that's been on my plate. so i am nearly done in completing the request. it's -- i want to make sure that i'm getting all elements addressed and in one letter so that there's not a lot of back and forth with it. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> do we have any members of the public who'd like to make comment on the director's report. seeing none, public comment is

closed. anymore questions for the director? seeing none, next item, please. >> clerk: item seven, commissioner's reports. allows president, vice president and commissioners to report on recent small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. discussion item. >> yeah, the only thing i have to say is i'll be representing small business this saturday with the mayor's new transition team, so i'll -- anybody has any small business, i've already been in contact with scott and paul on items that they want me to bring up. if anybody else has any items, feel free to let me know before saturday. commissioner ortiz? >> just want to thank supervisor ronen. we met last week with several businesses in the mission. we met at regalito restaurant,

and it was a nice change because it was just introductions, and also to inform businesses that they have support, that they have a voice, especially for those that english is not their first language. so it was just a different kind of pace, hey, you have a small business commissioner here to help, you have an organization that can help, and you have a direct line to your supervisor. i want to thank the supervisor. >> great. thank you. commissioner dooley? >> we just recently worked together with all the neighborhood associations to update a north beach vacancy report which showed a pretty big uptick in vacancies, so that information will be an article in hoodline soon, because i do feel that many of the reasons for having vacancies are going to be seen as citywide. >> yeah. >> so we just wanted to get it out there, put it down, and,

you know, put it in a -- >> and put it citywide, too, with their -- >> they will. they will, because it's pretty interesting to see. there's just so many problems in all of our neighborhoods right now. you know, construction problems, digging up the streets. there's just so many reasons right now that -- retrofits. when you go through, and you see the list, you go well, of course. >> good. i'm glad they're doing that. any other commissioner comments? do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on commissioner comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. new business. does anybody have any new business? >> i do. >> would you like me to read it? >> commissioner dooley? >> yeah. i was just recently contacted by art agnos about an issue he was interested in seeing if

we'd like to address, which was there was an article about how the owners of la taqueria had to pay $500,000 on labor fines, and if there is something on a yearly basis that we can do to remind these folks that don't always seem to be aware of these regulations, be it a seminar, be it a mailer, to do something to try to ward off this type of situation in the future. >> going to note that for future business. that's a good one. i saw that article. >> yep. >> okay. any other new business? any members of the public that would like to recommend new business? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> clerk: sfgovtv, please show the office of small business slide. >> and again, it is our custom to begin and end each

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 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 your small business matters, start here at the office of small business. next item, please. >> clerk: item nine, adjournment, action item. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? we're adjourned. >> motion passes 6-0, with one absent. meeting is adjourned at 7:18 p.m.

roth. hasti >> clerk: okay. good evening, and welcome to the -- [ gavel ]. >> clerk: it's fine. i'm sorry. i'm jumping the gun here. good evening and welcome to the july 11 -- well, i think gary, you said they're ready, right? yeah, they're ready. good evening, for the third time and welcome to the july 11, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of apaelz. board president frank fung will be the presiding officer tonight. to my left is deputy city attorney brad rossy who will provide the board with