>> the challenges are in all of us but is also a challenge to our successors. my term as m.p.c. chair finishes up in eight months. i will be sad because i will not be coming to gigs like this. on the other hand, i will have more free time. remember the future. the future is below us. the present is above us. commute on. [applause] >> i will have to have some conversation with him about when this is all over. something is going on with him. [laughter] >> i must tell you that m.t.c., the metropolitan transportation commission, we have to

acknowledge how significant they really were and therefore we ask the vice chair to come over and say a few words as well. representing all the rest of the board members, other than those that jake spoke about. come on up and say some words. [applause] >> all right. thank you. >> this is my program. [laughter] >> this is your program, i'm sorry. he is such a busy mayor. he was doing a wedding ceremony at city hall. such a busy, busy man. thank you everyone for being here today. as a representative of the board of directors, it has been an honor to serve on the transbay joint powers authority. as you heard, i want to go back even further and say thank you to the dreamers. thank you to the dreamers. thank you to the people who had the vision of what could be and

where we are today is where -- what that dream was, for two years later. as you have heard, the salesforce transit centre is a major milestone but the hard work is not done yet. the next phase, bringing caltrain and high-speed rail to the salesforce center is critical to the region. today as we take time to celebrate, explore the transit centre, is a celebration time. but as we know on monday, we have to roll up our sleeves and get hard to work and bring the train to the train box two stories below us. my role today is to acknowledge, not only the thousand men and women that worked there, by the many partners that have been part of this vision and this dream. i will read a whole bunch of names, and at the very end we will give them a round of applause. our face two operators who will be here by the time your son is 16, before, caltrain and

high-speed rail, our contractors and designers, adams and associates architects, pwt landscape architecture, w. s. p. era, this is a funny language we speak. these days. turner, joint venture mcdonald, and gelati construction. give it up for some of our partners here player . [♪] >> again, thank you and congratulations to everyone that is part of the transbay salesforce center family. let's bring on the trains. thank you, everyone. [applause] >> ed ruskin mentioned a number of organizations on the transportation front -- from the transportation world that will find this center there home.

as of sunday, two and a half blocks up the new road, there will be the opening for the real anchor tenant coming from across the bridge. [laughter] >> that is a point of reference. [laughter] >> it is not just me. come across the willie brown bridge, will be something that says, a.c. transit. when i walked in here, i was accosted and stopped by a lot of bus drivers and some other people. all a.c. transit. this button i am wearing, it they consist -- they insisted i put it on.

therefore greg harper, as a member of that joint powers board, and as a person who does the things for a.c. transit, our tenant who will use the facility more than anybody else, because everybody that comes over here by a.c. transit will be put off the bus near second street, no matter where they're going. they will have to walk back down although shops and things. we'll be taking money out of the east bay forever. [laughter] [applause] >> you need an anchor tenant. i have to admit. the nice thing about this as you can almost open this up with a park. there won't be anything in it but this is beautiful on the park is beautiful. we are proud to be here. it is a wonderful time. it has been a long time coming. i have been on the board for

many years now. but this date wouldn't have been possible without the stewardship of our general manager and board president. they really -- [applause] >> they came into this and mayor breed said, you know, if you missed the bus because you are looking at the artwork, don't blame her. if you missed the bus because it left me to be early, blame them. [laughter] >> i would like to talk about something here that i really appreciate. it is hard to appreciate in this setting was such a huge, beautiful place. that is the temporary terminal that is going away. but it worked really, really well. and no writers had any problems with it. compliment after compliment would come and.

there which two people in particular i would like to recognize. anthony and robert, they worked for easy -- a.c. transit at the time. they designed that thing. and designed it very very well. and i would like to recognize -- there is a tremendous amount of effort that went in from a.c. transit employees of all sorts. over the years, -- raise your hands if you are from a.c. transit. see? it takes a lot. [applause] >> they really did a great job on all of this. i think i was here in 2001 when it started on the tjpa board. i would also like to recognize maria. when she came in, i don't know if it was the first thing she ever did, but i think he was one of the best.

she brought in a woman named nancy weyland as a financial consultant. sitting up there is a board member -- when you knew you didn't have any money to start with, and you wanted to hire the great architects in the great engineers and all that, but you needed something, she was great. and we really did benefit from that. she now runs transit and they are fortunate to have her pick another one i would like to recognize is ken who is our general counsel who put together the paperwork. there is a lot of it. and the organization joint power agency and how a.c. transit would work was in it. already, we have 13,000 east bay riders commuting to san francisco on a.c. transit. the difference this makes is that we are going to go from 13,000 a day and we have the capacity to do 24,000 riders per hour.

that is the future. [applause] >> if you do the meth on that, you wonder how it works out. one of the ways it works out is if there is a city across the bay called oakland, and it is growing like crazy too. there is going to be a lot of people who live within three or four blocks of here that will appreciate the fact that they can get on a whole lot of buses at their doorstep and go the other way. it is going to work. it really is going to work. i think that -- to give you some idea, a lot of our writer said they left their cars originally to get to transit and then they found that the transit was getting very, very crowded. bart, at first and now even our service. this center is so important in relieving that. and we, at a.c. transit intent to do our best to make sure that

is relieved. thank you, very much. [applause] >> just so you no kak somebody did succeed and there is a director, currently of this whole facility, and he is seated right down front. market, stand up. let the people see you. [applause] >> now i know why mr harper kept referencing the temporary facility. the rent over there is a lot cheaper. [laughter] >> you better up the fairest at a.c. transit. we are charging a lot more that now that we've got you real

close. there will now be a countdown. there will be a countdown now and mohammed nuru is going to take over, and i am sure glad that most of you tolerated my participation to the limited extent that i can. mohammed nuru! [applause] >> is so, market, would you come on up? we will go through a countdown. -- where is that little -- mayor breed and later pelosi, will you all come forward? and the rest of the team could come around. and so, both of you, after the countdown, you press the green button and what you will see is

our display boards that will actually show commuters exactly where their buses are and what time they are and how to connect around the city, but also to the east bay and every bus that is coming through here. are we ready? >> five, four, three, two, one. there we go! all right. [cheers and applause] >> ok. we have one more quick process. where we actually are going to do a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. hand this over. all right. here we go. the big scissors. yes. [♪] >> the small ones. there we go. will the board members come up? yes.

nadia, come on up. come on up, please. i will make this a little shorter. everybody ready? >> three, two, one. gay! congratulations -- yes! congratulations. we have tours of the centre. if we have not seen the park over the buses will be running through, stay behind and we have people who will take you around. enjoy. starting scent a, hundreds of buses will be coming here. enjoy. thank you, again. thank you. [♪]

>> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult

consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual growing of marijuana may become the biggest cash crop in the state and so you want that to be a legal tax paying cash crop, all the way down the line to a sales tax on the retail level. >> the california medical industry is a 3 billion-dollar

industry last year. anticipating that multiplier as 20, 30, 50 times in the consumer marketplace once adult use is really in place, you could go ahead and apply that multiplier to revenue. it will be huge. >> when that underground economy becomes part of the regular tax paying employment economy of the bay area, it not only has a direct impact, that money has a ripple impact through the economy as well. >> it is not just about retail. it is not just about the sensor. is about manufacturing pick a lot of innovative manufacturing is happening here in san francisco in addition to other parts of the state as well as the cultivation. we should be encouraging that. >> there is a vast array of jobs that are going to be available in the newly regulated cannabis industry. you can start at the top tier which a scientist working in testing labs. scientists working at extraction

companies. and you work towards agricultural jobs. you have ones that will require less education and you look towards cannabis retail and see traditional retail jobs and you see general management jobs. those things that are similar to working at a bar restaurant or working at a retail store. >> we are offering, essentially, high paid manufacturing jobs. typical starting wage of 18-$20 an hour, almost no barrier to entry, you do not need an education. >> that means that people who do not have college educations, working-class people, will have an opportunity to have a job at cultivating cannabis plants. there's a whole wide array of job opportunities from the seedling to the sale of the cannabis. [♪] >> last year, they said 26 million people came to san francisco. >> the tourism industry continues to be very robust here and the city and county of san

francisco is about a billion-dollar industry. >> if we use a conservative cannabis user adoption rate to 15% that means 4 million tourists want that means 4 million tourists want to purchase cannabis. and we need to be ready for th them. >> in 2015, as adult use legalization efforts gained momentum in california, the supervisors created the san francisco cannabis state legalization task force. this task force offered to research and advice to the supervisors, the mayor and other city departments. >> we knew that adult use legalization was coming to the ballot and stat that would bring with it a number of decisions that the city would have to make about zoning and regulation and so forth. and i decided at that time, at a know it was a great, that rather than have a fire drill after the ballot measure passes, as suspected it would, we should plan an event.

so i authored a task force to spend a year studying it and we made it a broad-based task force. >> we prepared ourselves by developing a health impact assessment and partnered that with key stakeholder discussions with washington, oregon, colorado, to really learn lessons from their experience rolling out both adult and medicinal cannabis. >> within days of the passing of the proposition, ed lee called on agencies to act decisively. >> he issued an executive order asking the department of public health, along with planning and other city departments to think through an internal working group around what we needed to do to consider writing this law. >> we collectively, i would say that was representatives from g.s.a., as well as the mayor's office, met with a lot of departments to talk through what prop 64 and the implementation of prop 64 it meant to them.

>> the mayor proposed an office of cannabis, a one-stop shop for permits allowing operators to grow and sell cannabis. >> he wanted a smart structure. he wanted a regulatory structure that ensured that kids didn't have access and community's were safe and that consumers were safe. and he wanted to ensure, more importantly, it was a regulatory structure that encouraged diversity and inclusivity. >> this is an office that will be solely charged with a duty of wanting not only the policies that we create, implementing and enforcing them, but also executing the licenses that are needed. we're talking about 20 different licenses that will put us into compliance with what is happening on the state level. >> this is a highly, highly regulated industry now, at this point. we have anywhere from 7-10 departments that will be working

with these industry participants as they go through the permitting process. that is a lot of work at a loss of coordination. we are creating a permitting process that is smart and is digital. it is much easier for the user and for community input, and is less mired in bureaucracy. >> for the first time ever in san francisco history, standalone licenses are available for all aspects of the nonretail side of the cannabis industry. now, a cultivator can go in to the department of building inspection and to the department of health and say, with this first registered and temporary license, and then what will eventually be a permanent license, this is the project, this is what i am going to do. >> very rarely in city government do we interact with industries that are asking to be regulated. these guys want to be regulated. they want to be compliant. they want to work with the city.

that is rare. >> san francisco has created a temporary licensing process so that the pre-existing operators here in san francisco can apply for a temporary state licensed. >> we have taken teams of up to 12 inspectors to inspect the facility twice a day. we have been doing that with the department of building inspection and the department of public health. and the fire department. >> it is really important for the industry to know that we are treating them like industry. like manufacturing. like coworkers pick so that is the way we are approaching this from a health and safety and a consumer protection network. this is just the way practice happens with restaurants or manufacturing facilities. >> because there are so many pieces of industry that people haven't even thought about. there are different permits for each piece. you have to set up a permitting system for growing, for

manufacturing, for testing. for delivery. for retail. you have to make sure that there is an appropriate health code. certainly the regulation of alcohol in terms of restaurants and retail it's probably a model for how this industry will be regulated as well, both on sale and consumption. >> it is completely uncharted territory. there is a blessing and a curse with that. it is exciting because we are on a new frontier, but it is very nerve-racking because there's a lot at stake. and quite frankly, being san francisco, being the state of california, people are looking to us. >> we hope that cannabis does become more of an accepted part of society in the same way that alcohol is, the same way coffee is. >> it is a very innovative fear, particularly around manufacturing. san francisco could be an epicenter. >> san francisco can be a leader here. a global leader in the cannabis

movement and set a bar just to other communities and cities and states and this nation how it is done. [♪] - >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique

characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one

of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them.

>> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that

that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san >> clerk: this is the regular meeting of the small business commission held on monday, august 13, 2018. the meeting is being called to order at 5:34 p.m. small business commission thanks media services and sfgovtv for televising the

meeting which can be viewed on sfgovtv 2 channel 78 or live streamed at sfgovtv.org. members of the public please take this moment to silence all phones and electronic devices. public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes perspeaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. speakers are requested but not required to state their names. completion of a speaker card, while optional will help ensure proper spelling of speakers' names in the meeting. please place speaker cards in the basket to the right of the lectern. additionally, there is a sign in sheet could ton the front t. >> good evening, and president adams absent. i am your master of ceremonies tonight. so welcome. it is our custom to begin and

end each small business commission meeting with a reminder that the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your stop when you need to know to find out what you need to do next. best of all, our services are free of charge. small business commission is your official forum to invoices your opinion about matters that affect small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> clerk: item one, call to order and roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: mr. vice president, you have a quorum. >> all right. your next item, please. >> clerk: item 2, general public comment. discussion item. allows members of the public to comment generally on matters that are within the small business commission kaerz jurisdiction and not on today's calendar and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. >> do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on something that is not on our agenda today. miss gwen kaplan, come on up. >> gwen cap lynn, north business district business association. so hello, commissioners, and i just wanted to thank you for serving and representing the small business community. it means a lot to everyone. the thing i want to talk about is the possibility of a small business summit or a small business conference, and i'm very much in favor of this.

as a matter of fact, the last small business conference that was held in san francisco, i was the president of the commission. and i have to say, it was a big success. it fit our agenda, it brought a lot of attention to our business, our problems, our challenges, and the things we can do particularly to get the attention of the department heads, and the mayor and the mayor's staff. so that is what i am here to talk about in public comments. >> okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> do we have any other members of the public that would like to comment about something that is not on today's agenda? welcome. >> well, i'm getting some smiles. that's a good start. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. i'm peter, king of masterpiece theater. and actually, i've stopped in to see an immigration meeting, but there's no one there. i thought well, it's all about

business, one level or another. and, you know, california, we're the most powerful state in the world. we're the most powerful state on the planet, and if we would just get the rainbow warriors and the rest of us with true hearts together, we'd be standing upon granite. and i was given a mission with a cosmic position in the celestial position to do the best i know how to bring people together for the most beautiful thing that ever will be, the most beautiful thing that ever we'll see, which is the 40-day freedom strike prophecy. and it's scheduled for this full moon. it's going to be our high noon. and it's a matter of people getting together to change the weather forever. they say israel's the promised land, but it's true, but it's not a spec of dust across the sea. it has another name, ariel,

which represents the world. california represents the world, and northern california is it. we are the heart and soul and center of the new promised land to be that must be opened up by the new 40 day strike prophecy. where we pay no mortgage, pay no rents, pay no more to the justice system. the government servants, they're not serving us, and it's time to know that we're all tired of being divided by cultures, by colors, by ethnicity, by causes. but the issue is all the same. we've been a nation serving two masters that maintain all disasters, which is why we knew see the third past with the iron rod of god with all these fires against the great state

of california. i am peter, and i'm here to say that the prophecy includes the 40 day strike which breaks free from the blood flow, which is the industry of oil, which is the industry of slaughter house, which will be kind forever from the whale to the mouse. and i can solve any problem, homelessness, jobs, anything. it's a piece of cake after this 40 day strike because one of the many things that'll happen is we will look each other in the eye after not paying anything, and we'll pay 25% of what our mortgages and rents were before, which just opened up 340,000 new jobs in california, because we can go to a 20 hour workweek. this is for all the immigrants, so we can change it for the better. i can say it because the authority is mine, and thank you for the authority of blessing me with your time. >> thank you very much.

do with we have any other members of the public that would like to comment on some things that are not on today's agenda. >> i am carlos gomez. i am here mostly to reinforce what he was talking about in reference to working with the small business summit. i think it's really important because the last one that we were able to work more together and represent and supporting more small businesses. so i just want to make sure we go on the same page and make sure we include that so we have better representation of the small business organizations. thank you. >> awesome. thank you. do we have any other members of the public that would like to comment on something that's not on our agenda today, either in prose or rhyme? >> i'm not that eloquent. steven cornell, counsel of merchants. i did also what carlos and gwen

would say. i was at that summit quite a few years ago. i thought it was quite good and i got a lot out of it, and i'd like to urge you to go forward with it. thank you. >> okay. thank you. do we have any other performers out there, any other member of the public that would like to comment or perform on something that is not on today's agenda. seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, item three. >> clerk: item three, approval of registry minutes and applications. the applicants are balboa cafe and. >> commissioner hayes-white: -- and hayes street grill. presenter is richard kurylo, legacy business manager. >> better be good. did you write a poem for us today? >> i am not doing poetry, nor

am i memorizing what i have in front of me. it's a canned presentation. good evening, richard kurylo, legacy program business manager. sfgovtv, i have a powerpoint presentation. before you today are two applications for your consideration for the businesses to be included on the legacy business registry. the applications were reviewed by me for completion and submitted to planning department staff on july 10 for their review. historic preservation commission heard the applications on august 1 and made positive recommendations to the small business commission. both applicants you have been provided a staff report, a draft resolution, the application, a case report from planning department staff, and a resolution from the historic preservation commission. there are copies on the table for the public. item 3-a is balance owe acafe.

the business is a restaurant -- balboa cafe. the business is a restaurant that opened in 1913 despite a sign above the door that says 193. originally a working man's saloon with a saw defendant floor serving sandwiches in the corner. it's been operating continuously for 105 years in the cow hollow neighborhood. the business has become more sophisticated over the years. in 1980, famous chef dangjerem tower came on for years helping to establish a proper bar menu. in 1986, gavin newsom's group being required the calf eye. the menuwas overhauled but still features the balboa burger. behind the mahogany bar, the

bartenders still mix the featured like manhattans and martinis but still feature classic cocktails. the second is hayes street grill. it was established in 1979 in hayes valley whi hayes valley while davies hall was under construction. the restaurant was successful from the beginning, serving both lunch and dinner to the performing arts and civic center communities. the business was founded on the principle of supporting local farmers, food producers and suppliers and presenting personal attention to its customers. in 1982, the grill expanded to the building next door. two of the founding parlt ners are still owners today, richard sander and patricia unterman

who continue to operate hayes industrial grill. both businesses received a positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. staff finds the businesses have met the three criteria to qualify for listing on the legacy business registry. there are two draft resolutions for consideration, one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. note that a motion in support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolutions. in the resolutions, please pay close attention to the core physical features or traditions that define the business. once approved by the small business commission, the businesses must maintain these physical features or traditions in order to remain on the legacy business registry. for balboa cafe, it's restaurant and bar, and for hayes street grill, it's restaurants. this concludes my presentation.

i'm happy to answer any questions. i believe -- i know there are business representatives in attendance, and they may wish to speak to you on behalf of their application. >> commissioners, any comments before we go to public comment? all right. do we have any members of the public that would like to comment or representatives from the businesses that would like to comment today? come on up. don't be shy. is that you, lance? i saw you in the picture there, and i -- you know, i -- it feels unusual to be on this side of the wooden bar from you. i have been to balboa cafe more times that i can even remember. no -- no comment, lance? nothing on behalf of balboa cafe? come tell us how long you've been there at least. you're not a legacy, but -- [inaudible] >> 20 years now at the balboa cafe, tending bar, and add it

is a unique privilege to watch the comings and goings of this f fabulous city. it's a fabulous institution and great place and plate stop in and have some burgers with us. >> you have a -- and please stop in and have some burgers with us. >> anyone else? seeing any further public comment, we'll turn it over to the commissioners. any public comment? >> through the vice president, just want to review the hayes street grill resolution. i think the physical features and traditions, we might have the wrong thing listed. so i just want to make note on the record to have it reflect what you presented.

>> we have a cut and paste error? core physical features for hayes street grill, there's a restaurant. that's what i have in the resolution. is that what you mean? >> the draft resolution -- i have physical features and traditions that define the business, and then it has a -- looks like a listing of magazines or press that they were featured in, unless i -- >> okay. wait a minute. >> sorry about that, rick, but i just want to make sure that we don't have to come back for -- >> oh, okay. yes. yeah, that is -- those are -- i did copy the wrong set. that's the publications that they were in, so i can replace

that with the bullet points from the h.p.c. >> okay. >> but the one right below that that says restaurant, that is correct. so we can note for the minutes. >> good catch. >> thanks for catching that. >> so just with the approval from the commission, just to note the amended -- or reflecting the correction for the resolution for hayes street grill. >> well, i will chime in on behalf of president adams. i know he was instrumental on getting balboa cafe involved in the process of becoming a legacy business and on the registry. he was unable to be here today, but i'm here he would be very profuse in his beiaccolades fo

the balboa cafe, in addition to the hayes street grill. these are great nutritions. any other comments? commissioner. >> i've been to both restaurants, and i like the food, and i like the service, so i might bump into you one of these days. >> some of the friendliest bartenders in town. all right. if there's no other comments, do i have a motion. >> i will move to approve both the balboa cafe and the hayes grill. >> i second. >> okay. we have a motion -- >> i can just make sure we reflect the motion correctly with the amendment. >> with the amendment. >> with amendment to the bullet points on the hayes street grill. >> motion by commissioner yee riley, seconded by commissioner corvi. we'll do a roll call. [roll call]

>> clerk: motion passes, 5-0, with two absent. >> awesome. [applause] >> thanks for coming out, lance. i don't go there on friday and saturday nights anymore, but if you're ever serving breakfast on sundays, that's when i go now with my wife. >> a lot's changed. >> yeah. all right. next item, please. >> clerk: item four, review and develop recommendations to the small business and jobs executive summary. small business and jobs executive summary was created from a july 14, 2018 policy summit held by mayor breed. the office of small business is to provide the mayor with a set of recommendations. discussion and possible action item. >> so commissioners, just to, again, give context and format, so the mayor held a policy

summit on many different topics, but one of them was small business and jobs. commissioner adams attended, and i also would like to just recognize sunshine powers -- sunshine, can you -- who is a hayes street merchant and also on the -- is it copresident of the hayes street -- vice president of the haight street merchants association. and sunshine or sunny presented on behalf of the business community to the mayor on sort of the final priority. so i just want to make sure that if there's any questions about the summit and what was discussed, you also have sunshine here to be able to ask questions to, as well. so the context that we have been given direction from the

mayor's office is -- and it wasn't individual tot office -- to the office of small business, but it was sent to the office of small business as well as other departments was to respond to the recommendations. so it is in essence, a majority of the response, if we were a regulatory agency, how would we address these concerns? but because we're not a regulatory agency, we don't necessarily oversee or regulate many of the issues that were identified from the small businesses -- or that core -- that section, then -- but are there things that we could do or very specific recommendations that we can make to the mayor to -- and/or help sort of set some recommended priorities of things to address?

so because the executive summary was what was sent out, it is to your prerogative as to whether or not -- and i've -- and for the public and for the commissioners, i've just -- i took a quick -- a quick attempt at sort of proposing ways in way the commission could set some recommendations. i hope -- i sent out the survey from this. from this is what got condensed into the executive summary, so hopefully, you took time to be able to read the summary to also sort of pull items that you think are priorities but i think, you know, mr. vice president, if the best way is to -- what i did was sort of take a -- try to divide it up between small business and jobs

and then -- small business and jobs. and then, what were the challenges, and then, a section on ideas and best practices. and so we could take it item by item? some of these items listed have some overlap as i see it, but as street improvement, maintenance, disruption, disrupting businesses, and then, also sfmta impacting access to neighborhood corridors. so a couple recommendations that i, you know, have made is small business commission can draft resolutions requesting the mayor or the board of supervisors or departments to take action, and so that's one particular action that the commission and the office can do? a recommendation is also for the mayor to issue some

executive directives. and so one -- an example of the fire item is requiring departments that are involved in infrastructure projects to include funding for construction mitigation in the project. also to include a directive to oewd and o.s.c. to develop some baseline in what should be involved in construction mitigation. also, staging and contractor parking is always a big topic, so directing departments to work with their contractors in minimizing the amount of staging and parking taking up on our neighborhood commercial corridors. and then, you know, sort of taking a look at what has

happened with central subway that if -- to bring in -- and this is an example. you're not obligated to adopt it. but if there is an error and a delay created as a result of a contractor's responsibility, that in the contract, there is a formula of which, then, they also need to pay into construction mitigation funds to help -- to help keep funding the mitigation efforts for those small businesses during the extended time frame that is to, umm, complete the construction project. also, taking a look at the small business round tables, their summary of priorities, the office of small business can develop some recommended set of procedures for early engagement for the mayor to include in its executive

directive and also to provide support for supervisors. and then, the last item under number one is small business commission can draft a resolution for presentation to the board of supervisors requiring that the county transportation authority staff to include -- excuse me, i didn't complete this -- in its budget construction mitigation funding. and the reason i have that in there is in support of supervisors is the governing body to the sfmta. if the mayor executed an executive directive as to whether the transportation authority's mandated to follow that executive directive or takes it as an optional, so just to ensure that there's -- we're dealing with it on both sides. so i -- so i -- i -- i guess we

can either go down bullet point by bullet point, and if there are ideas of which you think the office and the commission can take to deal with each item that's listed in the executive summary, we can do that. if you want to take public comment to hear some direction, we can do that, as well. >> yeah. i'll defer to the other commissioners. i don't know that it's necessary to go line item by line item if we just document ought to the public right now, assuming we have all reviewed this, and we might want to make some recommendations about the content of this document, and if it has also been read by the public, there might be someone in the public that wants to make a recommendations about it. but i'll defer to the other commissioners, if you want to start some discussion about it. >> recommend we open public comment.

>> all right. so why don't we open it up for public comment and we'll reserve our comments for after that. do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on this item? mr. cornell, welcome. >> thank you. >> steven cornell, counsel of district merchants. i would like to ask that you add a few things to this particular report that seems to be lacking. >> okay. >> about 1.5 years ago, maybe a little bit more, mayor lee caused a conference or all day workshop amongst business leaders in san francisco and we came up with priorities that small businesses want or need into the city, and i think we should incorporate some of those. a lot of those are incorporated in the summary that happened, but one of them that's significantly not there is a seat at the table is something

that we asked for for years that we're constantly not part of the whole city when it comes to legislation, any kind of requirement, a seat at the table would be something, and that is something that was universally adopted at that all-day meeting. the second thing is in our city charter, under transit first policy, the first part of it, it will read -- and i think it should be added to this, also, and it's always neglected. it says, to ensure quality of life and economic health in san francisco, the primary objective of the transportation system must be the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. and i think that whole concept should be pushed again. it is in our charter, and it should be part of this summary that's given to our new mayor.

thank you. >> thank you. do we have anyone else -- any other members of the public that would like to comment? mr. hague, welcome. >> scott hague, public merchants california. i would echo what mr. cornell said. number one issue, a seat at the table, and that has not changed. that's still a major issue, and i think the commission should ask the mayor to ask the departments and the supervisors to go to the small business commission and look at the input on things that they're putting forth that affect small business. and ideally, the input should be while the policy is being