three until when? >> yes. >> i think someone has been reappointed. i didn't meet the residency requirement for seat three. i am applying for seat seven which does not require the residency. that is my understanding. >> next applicant. we will call you back up. >> good afternoon. my name is sandy black man executive director of children's counsel angi am pleased to be here today as nominee for reappointment to seat nine for the office of early care and education. the child care planning advisory council is state mandated local child care planning for san francisco. it has been a true honor to serve my city as the representative since inception

in 2015. i am in all of my roles committed to making quality child carrialty for all children in the city. it is at the heart of the system and important part of the city safety networking with government and community partners to support families and the child care providers and early educators they do penned on. the children's council helps understand the child care options and find child care. we help pay for care by connecting with state and local subsidies. we work to expand supply by helping those interested in opening the businesses and elevating skills through technical assistance and training and coaching. we are deeply engaged in advocacy to advance child care and early education policy and

funding. we serve 20,000 families and 2000 providers delivering services in many languages to meet the needs of the san francisco community. i am a 40 year resident of san francisco and raised three children here. i played leadership roles as a professional and volunteer. i have served as chair in 2015 and 2016. through my role as children council and cpac i develop developed the deep understanding of the system in the key challenges we are facing. the challenges are an ec work force in crisis due to low wages and the challenge that san francisco families have to afford cave so that parents can work and the children are prepared for school. i am thrilled about passage of

prop c. i have been works with the partners to identify the key questions to be considered in decides how the new funding should be deployed. it will play a major role in the consideration of questions and development of the prop c plan. i would welcome the opportunity to bring my expertise and experience to the discussions as a member of the keck. thank you for your consideration. >> public comment. any members of the public wish to comment please come forward. seeing none public comment is closed. supervisor yee. >> the last time we appointed somebody to the oece you was difficult also.

having so many good decisions to make or good possibilities. i don't know what it is, one of these days it will get easier. i know what is an easy one. i will nominate sandy black man to her seat. i am really attorney. both of you are -- sorry. cathy, autumn you and john. you both are great candidates. i hate to lose any of you in this processes spacely when we are coming into a crucial time for the office of the ece and

early education in general for san francisco. i would say crucial to probably as a model for the rest of the country in terms how we are going to implement our next stage. i really don't know what to do. you both are very qualified. i know that in looking at the diverse city issue, i would say that i would like to keep it as diverse as possible. that shouldn't be the only factor, but it is a factor for me. if i had somebody that was a male that was as equally

qualified, i would consider that. i don't think there is a male on there, is there? jerry. one male. i know how that feels. i am going to recommend that we appoint johanna to seat seven, and i say that with, you know, not comfortably. i think both of you are equally qualified. what i would like to see is to have the diversity in any of our bodies where there is commission or cac. i think i will go with that.

>> i tend to guy. i think both apcan'ts are very well qualified. i had the pleasure of working with johanna in the process and you supported supervisor yee on a program i understand from your public testimony now more than ever is near and dear to your heart, teen pregnancy training for those involved in the field of child care and potentially running a child care center. you are the embodiment of that. i think, autumn, you are the embodiment of the story you told. it is true what supervisor yee said. at the end of the day it is this particular commission. we have such well qualified, committed, hardworking, passionate people for children

which is deer to my heart -- dear to my heart. i know supervisor yee has dedicated his career to helping children and families, particularly children that can't speak for themselves, between the ages of 0 to 5, he has been a strong advocate for that. i defer to him in this instance. i appreciate everything that all of you have said about your experience. we have a wonderful opportunity and i think there will be another opportunity. ms. autumn how long have you served on the advisory committee. >> you have been on there three years. it is almost like it is so equal. it is a very tough decision. from the perspective of working with the program that is vul aniable and -- vulnerable and

knew i would lean towards ms. ketos as well. >> i want to say that the implementation of this prop c regardless of whether you or not i am hoping that ms. he autumn t you will continue to have that input in there. it is important what you represent also. i have never found that i had to have a title to bait in making something -- to participate in making something happen for young kids. i hope you will be able to continue your work in helping us improve the early education system in san francisco. >> supervisor stephanie. >> thank you.

this is the worst part of rules commit city with two -- committee would two qualified candidates. to echo the comments in terms of respecting the body of work that supervisor yee has done all of these years and not knowing either of you personally, i lean towards deferring to him, of course. i do you want to say i was moved by ms. autumn's story, and if i were a child i would want you to be my teacher. i want to find away for you to continue the serve in some capacity in the city. you have so much to offer. i would love to follow up with you and learn from your experience. at that point i would defer to supervisor yee's motion on this. >> i think you made your motion. i think we can do that without

objection. that included the residency waiver. you you thank you. you and thank you for your service. all of you. >> please call item 10. >> ordinance anding the administrative code to prioritize the pro questioning of 1 -- possessing of 100% of affordable housing projects, require to provide quarterly status reports. >> i think we have amy. are we going to start with the mayor office of housing or the supervisor's office?

do you want to start first? great, please come forward. >> if you can keep it brief as much as you can. >> keep it brief. >> good afternoon, supervisor ronen had to head off to another meeting. this meeting ran longer than we were expecting. >> the rules committee will be wrong. i want to inform the members of the board. >> i am here to speak on her behalf of the legislation she introduced to accelerate affordable housing development, and in april, supervisor roy nan held the hearing on the pipeline despite the projects in

predevelopment we weren't seeing great ground. we heard from city staff and nonprofit developers and projects were getting stalled with permits and approofal -- approvals behind other you projects. they can improve our internal processes. the city allocates millions of dollar to create this housing, but when the projects are moving forward through the city system they are thrown in a mix. the two sets of executive directors we focused on. one was in 2013 there was an executive directive to give priority to affordable housing. in 2017 a subsequent directive to streamline all large residential projects affordable or not diluting the intent of the previous directive.

the board has recently passed the former mayor's legislation to streamline. ocd is leading the construction cost containment discussions and implementation of the directive. this comments those by focusing on affordable housing specifically. what the legislation does is very straight forward and simple to direct five city departments to give absolute priorities to 100% affordable housing development, second, it requires each department to designate a person to shepard the projects through the process, to tract those and third to require the board receive a quarterly update. that allows the board to keep an eye on the projects and for the

public to inform if hold ups. we are asking the commitment the city is making in dollars is matched with the city priority in possessing. i am going to cut the rest of my talking points because i know you want to get on. >> thank you. you can stay there. the quarterly report is it come anything the form of memo? a written report? >> we didn't get -- we did specify the things to be included through ocd. >> i would say for the record i think it is important not to take away too much staff time from doing what you want. a simple clear property makes the -- report makes the most sense rather that in depth analysis to take up staff time. everything else i fully support. >> are we -- do we need comment from the departments?

>> several of the departments are here in order to answer any questions. we weren't asking any presentation. >> what departments are represented. >> ocd is a leadership role. >> who is here today? the mayor's office of housing, building inspection, planning, public works and fire and mod. there are five departments listed that are named in the legislation. those are the departments that such affordable housing and governed by the ad min code we left outperformed uc and mta. we are communicating with them to bring them in. >> what about pw? >> public works here, yes. >> there are amendments to be introduced and you have copies

of that. >> go through it. >> sure. they are technical. globally. >> i think you have to talk about them goalie. >> we are de wheating department of before public works. -- deleting department of before the public works. >> that is in the charter. you keep doing that. it is in the charter. >> the city attorney is here. >> go ahead. >> on page three we are inserting the word of. on page 4 line 23 it says department of office it should be or office. page 5 line 19. we are changing initial date

commencement date for reporting from july 15, which is past us which we have past to december 15th. one more. on page 6, line 8, the approval, permit. we replace that with any approval, permit. it explains what we are intending to do. >> you did it technically, not at the global level. >> the first is global that appears several places. >> any questions supervisor yee? >> no. >> supervisor stephanie? >> this is an important piece of legislation. it is something on all of our minds almost every district in the city has affordable housing in the pipeline. even if it didn't buy district it is something we are concerned about with the housing crisis. i think this is important.

>> a motion? >> i will make a motion to accept the amendments. >> public comment? >> motion and then public comment. >> i will make the motion to accept the amendments as outlined in the presentation. >> we will hold off on the motion. any members of the public wish to comment, please come forward? >> i see him in the second row. in cowen. >> good afternoon, supervisors. you excellent. you have been here all day. representatives of mission economic development agency and the neighborhood development were here earlier and had to leave. they apologize. to emphasize how important this piece of legislation is to the work we do. working with the city

departments how we make affordable housing real. we talk about it, make policy speeches. at the end of the day we have projects. getting them through the departments and making the systems standard is going to help a lot in all of those passing of the batons to get the projects to the finish line. we support this wholeheartedly. thank you very much. >> any other members of the public wish to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> the motion as proposed by supervisor yee without objection? >> i made amendments. >> that was your motion for amendments without objection. we did that. >> make a motion to send this item to committee as amended with recommendation to the full board. my comments, i wish we had done

this a long time ago. >> we can do that without objection. congratulations thank you all for sitting through and those that had to wait. this was a long day. i appreciate you coming. next item. >> item 11 amending the administrative code require disclosure in the healthcare trust fund board elections, set late filing fies and penalties and specify enforcement of disclosure requirements. >> comments by colleagues? we have sophia from president cohen's office. i know you wanted to say a few words. >> yes, thank you.

thank you for hearing this item today. legislation before you today is an update to the administrative code to align disclosure requirements, candidates for retirement board and healthcare trust fund board with those of other elections. these three boards have combined 8 position to govern the variety of interests from healthcare to be contribution rates to fossil fuels and pension investments. upcoming elections in the next two years include two set service boards seats, one retiree healthcare fund election in 2019, retirement seat in 2020, health service board election in may of 2020. with so much money at stake it is essential they be subject to

same disclosure requirements. this requires each interested third-party open a committee and file a form 10 intention statement, file a form 700, file semi-annual campaign funding reports and late contribution reports, submit campaign advertisements, include disclosures. this legislation introduces much needed transparency to the overlooked commissions and boards which have influence on the city operations. i have submitted the amendments highlighted on your copies specifying electronic filing, conduct code references any person seeking voter data should request that from the retirement

board. these are technical and not sub stan stiff. i am happy to answer questions. i hope you will support this with a positive recommendation. thank you. >> i am going to be supporting this, just curious why we are doing it. was there ever a problem with candidates going for these positions, spending a lot of money? i am not sure why. >> my understanding is what president cohen said at the time of introduction there was an election in the retirement board. i believe it was in late 2016, but i am not certain, in which a specific third-party,

independent expenditure you committee spent money to unseat one candidate and put in that. that is my understanding. you. >> we are reacting to something. okay. >> indeed. >> any public comment os this issue? come on up. >> thank you, members of the committee. i am patford with the ethics commission. they would be charge with administering the ordinance. we have been engaged to refine this and bring it into line with other city law that affects electoral campaigns. i will say this version especially too cleanup amendments are a big improvement over the first version there.

are a few other areas that still have a ways to go, in particular we are trying to get one dish closure to fit in the existing systems that would have to be made on paper filings. they are cost ineffective and not very good in providing information to the public because they are not machine readable. the public cannot search the data. it is an uploaded pdf the public has to look at. in terms of modern disclosure technology, it is not the best. ideally we would like to refine this to fit it into an existing disclosure. that would mean refining the campaign advertise meant to only apply to mass mailings. 200 or more similar pieces of mail. if that were refined in that way we would piggyback it to the existing mass mailing disclosure

that apply to all candidates. that would make sight there was very minimal cost burden. that would cost $60,000 to create the electronic version of the campaign addvertisement or paper filing which wouldn't create up front cost it would be staff burden and not as effective. i think we are on board with the spirit and general form and we support it. >> if this were an amendments to be made, where would it be made? you. >> what section or whatever? >> let me look real quick. >> i would like to have a reaction you you you t to the possibility. i saw you shaking your head.

can you explain it? >> respectfully, what we have understand i is that, and if i m not clear i would love to be corrected. my understanding if it were a request ever of the rechoiring f electronic filings. we believe they are important and not mandating everything in paper. the idea we would limit the disclosure to mass mailings and exclude things like phone calls, items like digital ads on facebook because the department of ethics has not yet set up the financial disclosure system for electronic filings seems to me and to the president to be kind of a slow reaction. i think we should incest in

making you are -- should inch vest that we require them and that brings transparency to the system. the time lapse between what we have now and should have in the future should not reflect what we do or do not mandate on disclosure. is that clear? my understanding what the specific amendments is that we identify campaign advertise men's for mass mailing. we feel strongly it should be broader. if there is a way to meet the needs for electronic versus paper filing without limiting to mass mailing, we are open. we do not want to reduce the disclosure to mass mailings. >> if i am following you, you

this legislation would actually lead a discussion, a bigger discussion. if right now for instance if i am running and i don't have to do the facebook or whatever you are talking about, we have to change it to make everybody do that then, right? right now you are suggesting it is filed for these positions? >> that is my understanding. i would defer to the city attorney and mr. ford. >> did you understand my question? >> you there is a number of different disclosures any

candidate in san francisco has to file with the ethics commission. campaign statements and copies of the advertisement. they are cent sent out and fileh the ethics commission in the existing law. if i understand what mr. ford referred to some are electronic and some are paper. this looks at the same advertise men's. you at the current time they can't be electronically filed. i hope to get these move anything that direction, but it sounds like it is a matter of time and resources question and implementation question. >> city attorney, are there other you candidates that are

required to disclose or file advertisements that are not mass mailings, to your knowledge? >> other third-parties are required to file things other than mass mailings including what we refer to as election communications, network communications and other third-party communications. what you mentioned robocall scripts, electronic ads, internet ads are filed with the ethics commission. >> her question was specifically do other candidates? specifically called out for retirement board, retiree healthcare trust fund board? >> we are not the first people to require this. >> when i run for office i have a list of requirements. what they are trying to do is

have the same list. are they going above and beyond what i i have to as a member of the boad of supervisors. if i go on social media, do a radio ad, don't i have to file with the ethics commission to have disclosures? >> i don't think it is the intents of the legislation to go above and beyond. >> i don't think she said that. they want the proposal for parity correct? >> correct. >> when you run for seat on the board of supervisors. the only time to file a copy of advertisement is mass mailing. you have to disclose expenditure us on campaign statements. >> it is when the actual copy. we give you a copy of the mailing. >> you have to do that within

five days. you within five days of themas failing you have to filed itemized disclosure and give us a copy. >> facebook or radio ad we don't have to disclose? >> no and this would go further. anytime they spend money on any campaign tiesment they have to file a copy within five days. >> that was not the intents what they were trying to do. neighbor it is -- maybe it is an interpretation? i heard it sounds like this is requiring these three bodies to do more than what we would have to as member of the board of supervisor when we run for office, is that true? >> in thatrup. there are other -- in that respect. it is give and take. there are matters where they have to do less. >> we are talking about

disclosures based on advertising, correct? based on electronic. >> whether or not you submit copies of the specific ad. >> what i her the ethics saying mass mailing, radio or social media we don't have to. >> right. i don't disagree with that. >> is that what you are trying to do? you want parity? where is that in this? >> 16.553-2 c on page 8 of the revised version. >> campaign advertisements at the bottom. >> what line? >> line you -- absence of a definition online 21. >> you want there to be campaign

advertise men's mass mailings? >> right. specifically this applies to mass mailings or defining campaign advertise meant to restrict it to that an lauren. >> would you be -- alone. >> would you be opposed to that amendment? >> i would not oppose if the ethics commission can -- the president believes as matter of policy this should be included. for this specific legislation. >> that is why i asked the question. i heard what you were trying to say. deputy city attorney, can we make that amendment? it looks like a clarifying amendment? >> it would not be substantive. at the direction of the committee i can shoot out language on that. >> we are open to that. >> that works. >> just for the record, i think

we are the ethics commission saying add clarity around what would actually fall under the definition of campaign advertisement. >> my suggestion on pages and line number in the original version in the meeting packet would be page 8 line 21. substituting mass mailings for campaign advertisements. you. >> that is now on 22. candidates that pay for campaign advertisements. >> in subsection c 1. mass mailings. >> instead of campaign adverti advertisement say mass mailings. >> right. >> where is the other place? >> i would suggest the second paragraph of the same subsection c 1 at th the top of page 9.

starting if advertisement is phone call. >> mass mailing. >> it would be inapplicable to mass mailing. >> you that would be it. >> we can forward to the full board? >> are you okay with that? >> that is perfect. >> anything else? any other question. >> that is all. thank you for your consideration. >> supervisor stephanie you have a lot to say about this? i am teasing you. i think a motion to accept the amendments as proposed regarding the word campaign advertisement as proposed by the deputy city attorney. get a motion to send to the full board with positive recommendation. so moved without objection. that item is ordered. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> great. we are adjourned.

>> this job, it's really not an i job. i wouldn't be able to do this

job without other people. i make sure that all the regulatory and nonregulatory samples get to access in a timely manner. we have groundwater samples, you name it, we have to sample it every day. i have ten technicians, very good team. we work together to attain this sampling. >> a sample is only as good as when you collect properly. if sample is not collect properly according to not the proper protocol, the sample could be biased, could be false positive or could be false negative. so all this to have good so you can manage the sample collectors, as well as the schedule, and she is pretty good, and she is very thorough. and so far, i think that she is performing a very good job.

>> this job is really not an i job. i wouldn't be able to do this job without my team. you can assign them any job, they can handle it, and again, without them, i wouldn't be here. i take pride, you know, for what i do. we are providing a very good water department. my name is roselle, and i have been working with the water >> all right, hi, everybody. [applause] wow, we have people here from all over the city. hi, my name is london breed, i'm the mayor of the city and county of san francisco and today i'm joined by the president of the board of supervisors and district 10 supervisor malia

cohen. this is her district. [applause] and the perfect place to make such an amazing announcement. we all here love san francisco. and many of the people behind me are folks that are part of communities from across the city. people who have taken their personal time to volunteer to make our city more beautiful. to provide feedback to the city and the county of san francisco about what we need to do to make our communities cleaner, to make them safer and to make them more vibrant. and part of the announcement today is that we are committed to making an additional investment of $725,000 to help in that effort. [applause] now i don't know about you but if one more person asks me for a

big belly trash can... [laughter]. today we're going to have big belly trash cans. [applause] we're going to have more pedestrian lighting. we're going to do more to make sure that we hire more formerly homeless individuals to help to clean up our streets and our communities. more fencing to protect certain areas. you know, part of the responsibility of making our city more vibrant is that we all have to roll up our sleeves and to take responsibility. and the city has to make the right investments so that we can get to a better place. it doesn't feel good to see the trash and all of the other things litter our streets. we want clean communities. we want safe communities. we want vibrant communities. isn't that right, mr. clean? [applause] [laughter]. so this investment is going to be something that we hope will

enhance the beauty of our city. downtown corridors in the mission, in the communities all over our city, right here and in the dog patch neighborhoods and the bay point hunter's point neighborhoods, where we can make a small investment that will have a significant impact. that's what today is all about, getting to a better place. during the campaign all i heard from people all over the city is, clean up the city, clean up the city. well, i'm not going to clean up the city by myself. [laughter] all of you are an important part of helping us to clean up this beautiful city. and so not only are gheing to go clean it up but we're going to keep it that way and make sure that we all play an important role in doing that. so i'm excited to be here today to talk about this investment and at this time i want to take this opportunity to introduce

your leader of this particular amazing district 10, president of the board of supervisors, malia cohen. >> thank you, thank you. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i've got to admit that now that london has become mayor now district 10 is so amazing and so wonderful. [laughter] to be fair when she was a supervisor of district 5 there was a rivalry between which district was the best. but now that she's the mayor of the entire city every district is the best. so i want to applaud mayor breed for that. thank you so much. i hope that you guys are excited to be here because, you know, i think that on a surface value -- a surface look, $725,000 may not sound like a lot of money. but to the fix-it team it actually doubles their budget and doubles the size of their budget. and just to give this team some context, it started two years ago when mayor lee was also walking around the city and just saw how filthy the city was.

and got together with the director of public works and they put their brains together and they came up with a fix-it team. and the fix-it team was on a shoestring budget, just enough to pay people to do the work. and i want at this point to acknowledge sandra who has been incredible. [applause] this is the woman, this is the go-to woman, that we all call when mohammed is not available and the second call is definitely to sandra. [applause] and as you can see from the neighborhood and the neighborhood response that this is an incredible, incredible asset to san francisco. so i want to say thank you very much, sandra. i love being the supervisor for district 10. it's one of the most dynamic districts and it's a place that i grew up in and a place that i call home and that my family calls home. so when i am walking the streets or riding on the bus or driving it does break my heart to see the trash and the litter. it breaks my heart to see young

generations just trashing soda cans -- you know that i hate soda -- you know that i have a thing against soda -- and paper bag chips, paper bags. and so i just wanted to recognize that these fat-belly cans, it will make a difference, madam mayor. thank you so much. and i want to close my remarks by saying that i served as the budget chair. and this was my second year of service and i had an opportunity to oversee an $11 billion budget. this particular year's budget crosses what is different. we passed a series of resolutions stating where our policy goals were going to be. so the purpose of that was to take out the politics that sometimes is in the budget but to stay more focused on the policy. this policy discussion without a doubt, the fix-it team priorities rose above every single policy that you heard, homelessness and clean streets.

so it's a great privilege to be here. you know what, it's another privilege to recognize our organizer by the name of bruce hewey, the dean of the dog patch. or the mayor of the dog patch. this is an absolute treasure to san francisco, he is my friend and my compadre and i'm happy to bring him up to say a few words. thank you, bruce. >> madam mayor, board president cohen, thank you so much for extending this opportunity to work with sandra and her team. she's made a dramatic impact over the past two years in dog patch. our population doubled like other parts of the city and this type of program is sorely needed. so thank you for this expansion of funding. [applause] >> you know, in addition to the big-belly trash cans and the fencing and the people that we're going to hire to help us to clean up the streets, we also are going to help to purchase

lots for many of the merchants, i have a number of complaints and i see karen slide here from union square where they've had a number of complaints. so this is an incredible opportunity. and, again, the goal is ultimately to keep our city safe and to keep our city clean. i want to also acknowledge and bring up the person who manages the fix-it and keeps it going and who focuses on communities all over san francisco. sandra, come on up. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. hi, i'm sandra, the director, and i wanted to thank mayor breed, president cohen, and bruce and especially behind me about 40 residents from 15 different neighborhoods across the city who i have worked with for the past two years. thank you, guys. and the city agencies who are here. we have public works we have the police department and p.u.c. and the department of public health

and the department of recreation and the department of homelessness. so we work to strategize and to get things done for the residents of the city and all of that takes a lot of teamwork. i'm really, really honored to be here both with mayor breed and president cohen today. i'm so grateful that mayor breed put trust in us and in the community and some of the concerns that the residents had. and she's provided funding so that we can do creative things, different things, things that will really impact neighbors. since fix-it started about two years ago we didn't know if we would be successful or what would happen or if the residents would catch on and like us or not but i'm super proud to say that to date we have met with 1300 residents in their neighborhoods. and we've started 3,800 fixes and completed 3,800 fixes across

the city in 29 different neighborhoods. [applause] i myself have facilitated with my team cathy and ronnie and lydia, so we have facilitated 55 community meetings and 55 walks in neighborhoods and we're just on the ground really listening. we're listening to our residents and finding out what they care most about and how we can help them. so i'm so thankful and i'm grateful for mayor breed, again, for her investment in things that we know are going to work. we have our downtown streets team coming to help the mission and we're going to put lights -- yeah... [applause] we're going to put lights all over san francisco and pedestrian lighting and solar lighting and we have funding for about 450 lights coming in so every neighborhood will be lit up so that the pedestrians feel safer walking on the sidewalks. we'll start with president cohen's district and work on hudson avenue.

but more details to come. so, anyway, i wanted to just say thank you all. great place to start, right. so we're excited and we're excited to fix more stuff and we're excited to get to work so, again, thank you all for coming and thank you all -- especially to my residents and the city agencies, we can't do it without any of you. our resident engagement is the most important part of the fix-it program so a big thank you to everybody and, of course, mayor breed for this very important, very needed investment in our city. so thank you all. [applause] and one more thing -- sorry -- we're going to end now but i wanted to just let you know that i started working in patrero a year ago and we put in staffing to help with the street cleanliness and we forgot to change around the trash cans so we got that fixed today. we have new trash cans, and we are going to have mayor breed help me to unveil one right here

on the stairs. so i will take her down there. thank you. [applause] and last but not least make sure that you call 311 because that data helps us to decide on places that we will invest in in this city. 31. you can also -- 311. you can also download the app. thank you. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... all right. woo! (♪) (♪) ) >> manufacturing in cities

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companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general

manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's

going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar

problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and

making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, the budget and finance sub-committee. today is july 26th. we're waiting for sfgov-tv to catch up. all right. we're back. budget and finance sub-committee, today is july 26th, i want to welcome you to our meeting. and i thank sfgov-tv, and jesse and samuel who are assisting with the broadcast and miss linda wong is our clerk. and i want to recognize my committee women, we've got