above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. t meeting of the small business commission held on monday, september 10, 2018. order at 5: 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 per speaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. speakers are requested but not required to state their names. completion

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voice your opinions about the policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters it starts here. >> clerk: item 1. call to order and roll call. caul caul. you have a quorum. item 2. allows members of the public to comments on matters in the jurisdiction but not on today's calendar and suggest new items for the consideration. >> do we have any general members of the public that would

like to make comments on items not on today's agenda. seeing none public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: nexitem 3. [. [reading] ing item 3] >> good evening, sfgovtv i have a powerpoint presentation. before you today are five applications for businesses to be included on the legacy

business registry. the applications were reviewed by me for completion and submitted to planning department staff on august 8 for review. the historic preservation commission heard the applications on september 5, and made positive recommendations to the small business commission. for the applicants you have been provided a staff report, draft resolution, and a planning report. there are copies on the table for the government. please note that the additions from the planning department were excluded from the hcv documents. let me go back. they were exclude excluded by the planning department staff so not included here. item three is chloe's café, a business that opened in 1927 on

church street. they serve breakfast and lunch from 8. 8-3 every day and food is fresh and not frozen or canned. staff members make the tablecloths which had to the homey add moss fear. homey atmosphere. item 3b. [. [reading] ing item 3b b] they were established in 1984. they have franchise shops will not be included on the legacy business registry. item 3c. this is a full service grocery

store. [ reading item 3c c] they won a significant legal battle against the corporate whole foods. item 3d is marina super market, a full service grocery store found as circa1924, offered prepared meals and local delivery service. they have extensive line of local and imported cheeses and spirits. three generation of the family

have worked at the marina supermarket through the store's history. business is on chestnut and scott street in the marina district. item 3e is pier 39 limited partnership operated since 1931. it is a 45 acre complex with 200,000 square feet of restaurant and converted space. this completely circles the peer from the entrance around to the back. it was developed by warren simmons and one of the city's most visited attractions. all five businesses received a positive recommendation from the

historic preservation commission. after reviewing these applications and the recommendations from hpc staff find the businesses met the three criteria for listing on the legacy business registry. excuse my powerpoint presentation, there are five draft resolutions, one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. note a motion should be in favor of the resolutions. please pay close attention to the core physical features or traditions that define the business. once approved by the sbc, the businesses must maintain these physical featureses o feature or traditions to remain. for chloe's café it's restaurant, for ftc skateboarding it's skateboarding store, for the super market it's

super market score and for -- it's operation pier 39. this concludes my presentation, i am happy to answer any questions and there are business representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the presentations. >> any questions before public comment? okay, let's open it up for public comment. do we have any people who want to speak on behalf of any of the legacy businesses? come on up, this is your chance to talk. come on, this is the best part of our meeting. you have three minutes for your public comment. >> my grandfather started in the 20's. he worked for his older brother in italy before world war i.

his brother had -- shops in san francisco. we were here for 40 years and then my dad went to work -- and he was a butcher there are for 30 years. then the time came he was going to retire and he said do you want to be a butcher? he said you can do something better probably. john wanted to sell the grocery store and he approached us and said why don't you tak take over the store. indiscernible.

one of the owners had a heart attack. when we took over there were six groceries stores and we are the only one left. are there any questions? >> thirty more years. >> that is what we are planning. my nephew is interested. thank you. >> congratulations, next speaker please. see how fun this is? come on. [laughter] >> good evening erin jackson and i helped pre mayor the application for the haye and fillmore whole foods. the grocery store is so important in the neighborhood

because there is nothing around where you can find fresh produce and bulk foods. it's nice because without them there is really nothing in the neighborhood besides burgers and other restaurants, but the most important thing about this particular whole foods, the original whole foods, and the contrast between the -- whole foods is that 365 days a year, you can go to hay and filmore whole foods and you can always find a ripe o of avocado. that's one thing i love about them. they always have ripe avocados and they are always open until late and you can get good produce and healthy options there. as i was preparing the application for them, it was

really interesting to hear the history of the neighborhood and how dramatically it's changed and how the whole foods has been threa there for four years and remained a constant good influence in the neighborhood back when the neighborhood was filled with drug dealers and other nefarious activities they were there and always open, and now it is a pillar of the neighborhood. i am happy to speak on their behalf and happy to prepare their application. >> how did you happen to get involved with preparing their application? >> i did cafe international two years ago, and she let them know i did that. i have been in there many times, and i don't think they knew i was actually i was a lawyer because i was in my nonlawyer

costume. when zaar is like you should have aaron do the application, he is a lawyer. >> thank you for that. >> i am honored. thank you. >> awesome. >> i just love hearing these stories. i am sue with pier 39. i have prepare add few words, but if i am too long you can gong me. commissioners thing you for considering pier 39 application to become a legacy business. it is the most visited attraction, we are situatio situated on historic waterfront. with our restaurants and

attractions, we draw over 15 million guests, locally, nationally, and internationally a year. pier 39 currently holds a 66 year ground lease with the port of san francisco. the partnership acquired the property from the original developer in 1981. over the last 37 year years, pier partnership has 89 full-time staff and pays 25 million in rent and taxes each year. after acquiring the property, the partnership made it a priority to continue to attract new and exciting restaurants, retail, and attraction tenants, which over time transformed pier

39 into the major attraction that we are today. we are proud of the iconic destination we have become, but we realize our work is never done. we are committed to continuing to improve pier 39 in the next years, both from a physical structure, and with our unique tenant mix. it is our goal to keep pier 39 the number one attraction in san francisco. again, i thank you for considering our application. >> awesome. next speaker please. >> even disneyland has to take itself over all the time. [laughter] >> do we have anymore speakers? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any comments? commissioner ortiz. >> i used to love when people

used to come and visit san francisco because i knew i got to go to pier 39 and annoy my parents and play video games, i loved it. so that is for anybody watching you should go visit even if you are local, pier 39 is our disneyland, please go. many moons ago we used to park our cars in the parking lot, you guys have fresh avocado and marina meats too on the corner, and your team and staff are amazing and you are an anchor at the neighborhood over there. i am appreciated and excited to see you here. >> i want to say thank you to

everyone. i am third generation to my family's deli and feeling the pressure a little bit. my uncle was one of the first vendors, and he is still there, so it's part of my family history, and i love to see it, thank you for being here. >> commissione even i go back to the candy baron once in a while for a candy fix. i love that feature of pier 39. i want to thank all five of you for going through a fairly arduous process to fill out the application, but a very rewarding one for all the businesses that do it because we spend so little time reflecting on our history as business owners and we don't think about the future enough either, but

going through the archives and pulling out the old photographs and refamiliarizing ourselves with our history and the generations that have come before us. thank you all for doing it and hopefully it will bring just rewards. >> any other commissioner comments? i just want to say congratulations to all five and i want to give a special shout-out to kent at ftc skateboarding because not only have you been there since 1985 but you have really helped with the neighborhood and the neighborhood merchants and helping clean up. you were out there fighting. i remember a few years ago, you were out there with the mercha merchants and that's what it's about, so i want to give kent a special shout-out there at ftc

skateboarding, it's an awesome store. do we have a motion. >> i move to approve all five resolutions as presented. >> second. >> a motion by commissioner dwight seconded by commissioner toolyi. cooley. motion passes 6-0 with one absent. [applause] >> >> president adams: you have no obligation to stay for the rest of this.

>> board of supervisors 180757 health code, massage practitioner and business permits. this is a little long so please bear with me. amendments to revise massage practitioners -- by among other things number one, authorizing director of health to access local, state, and federal criminal history information of permit applicants and permit holders. number two, eliminating

temporary massage practitioner permits. three, clarifying the administrative process by which permit applicants and holders may appeal a decision to deny, suspend or revoke a permit. four, authorizing the director to deny a massage establishment permit to an ap an applicant who has been convicted of any offend relating to prostitution. five, massage standards relating to vermin, employee, locked doors and advertising. six, prohibiting a massage business from operating a massage school on the same premises and massage establishment. seven, inspection fee of -- per hour.

eight, updating administrative and permit penalties. nine, authorizing the im the imposition of a lien of property that has resited article 29 of the health code to collect unpaid penalties, costs, fines and attorney's fees. fees -- presenter is jennifer from the department of public health. >> good evening commissioners

thank you for having me. my name is jennifer, and i am the manager responsible for the massage program at the department of public health, environmental health branch. i am here to present the amendments to the existing san francisco health code, which was introduced by supervisor tang this year. i will ry try to summarize. we are cleaning up the language including the codes that no longer exist and adding standardized language for change of ownership when a business is sold whether it is a restaurant, bar, massage establishment we have the same standards.

it made it sound like permits could be transferred which is not the case and it was confused by the applicants. a background check is run by the san francisco police department currently and we have looked into running our own background check rather than having them go to a separate agency. our department is trying to help the applicant not bounce around to several agencies during the process and we need this language to move forward with background checks in the future. in terms of the application timeline. timeline.

>> if there was a desire to have more than two practitioners, we would ask the establishment to get a general establishment permit. the goal is not to have a sole practitioner operating as a general massage establishment. this is what we are finding during our inspections. there will be two to three practitioners there at a sole establishment permit that do not have permits at all. we want to eliminate that confusion. in addition, we needed to clarify the enforcement language and eliminate loopholes, which have allowed a legitimate massage establishment to continue operating in our city or able to move locations within other san francisco neighbourhoods to continue the same bad practices. there are instances where others

continue to refuse. therefore the enforcement by the city attorney language was added we continue to recognize that the massage practitioners may be victims and the ordinance places the burden for compliance and penalties for noncompliance on the business owner. we have partnered with the community health equity and promotions branch to develop a program for massage practitioners who have violated article 29, to connect them with assistance and resources to help them with housing, legal assistance, and possibly other jobs. many practitioners have gone through this program and we would like to see it continue to grow. i am here if you have any additional questions. thank you. >> president adams: any commission or questions? commissioner dooley?

>> commissioner dooley: there have been a number of people working with d.p.h. to shut down illegal operators. can you just give a little more detail as to how this piece of legislation would affect that? is not going to be bumped up? will it be allowed to have more illegal people? >> yeah, the goal of the legislation is to tighten the enforcement efforts. we have less legitimate massage businesses, we have removed permits from 15 businesses last year alone that were involved with illicit acts and lewd acts and improper business practices in san francisco. so this language is allowing them, one, not to be able to move locations, and able to --

be able to have permit denial more quickly, and then eliminating timeframe of when that violation would expire. for instance, if an inspector saw a lewd act occur, if we weren't able to get back to the facility or find another lewd act in 24 months, it would be like it never happened and we would start again. so this type of language will help us remove those bad practices and bad services in san francisco. >> commissioner dooley: i have one more question. what is the deal with the groceries and -- saying that the massage establishment can't have groceries that require cooking, and then i am just kind of wondering, because i know single

operators, massage operators do not have room for an employee area. they are the only employee. so i just kind of wondered what that was all about and why it is included. >> i am unsure. i know that in the code, we do require, we are requiring an employee area to be part of the massage establishment, and when we are doing our inspections, we would allow people to have food in the fridge as much as you and i are allowed to have food in our businesses. we have an employee refrigerator and you put your lunch there, your coffee maker, you know, a small shelf with day-to-day items, which is acceptable. i think what isn't acceptable is when we are seeing a full-blown kitchen and some other telling

signs that people are living there. >> will there be -- i'm just concerned about the soul practitioners. most of them are renting fairly small spaces. so this would be in a sense, do we have a square footage that the employee area has to be? it looks like they will have to move from their smaller spaces. >> we don't have any square footage requirement for the employees. >> president adams: any other questions? i just want to -- to me, this is a lot of cleanup from what we are seeing. a lot of this is long overdue. i want to thank you and supervisor tang for doing a lot of this cleanup here.

and we are mostly in line now with state guidelines. that is what a lot of this does. >> thank you. >> president adams: any other questions before we go to public comment? do we have any members -- commissioner zouzounis? >> commissioner zouzounis: it clarified a lot of questions. i can relay this to the supervisor as well, but what have the conversations being with existing establishments and their feedback, and specifically , around to watch what verses for massage staff agree. >> i haven't received any public comment for that specific area. i don't know if -- kate has not either. we have not heard that as a concern. >> ok. >> like i had said to, we don't

even have a location as far as i know. it is one address. i want to be clear on that. it would be at market street, 210, you would have only -- able to have the two practitioners. but if it is separate suites, that is different. >> that doesn't matter part-time or full-time employees? >> we permit by location. and a specifically a new location. you could have a whole new building if they were able to do massage by the zoning, or whatever and there was ten suites, that would be ten different permits and we would allow that. >> commissioner zouzounis: what is the difference between a soul versus a general establishment? >> a general is more than two practitioners. but they are in the same address >> commissioner zouzounis: and

different prices? >> the licenses, yes. it is. it is less expensive to be a sole practitioner. >> commissioner zouzounis: do you know the actual monetary difference offhand? >> is at least 300 or $400 less. i can say that. >> commissioner zouzounis: i have a few charts. >> ok thank you. i'm not going to include the application fee, by the annual fee, i mean i could tell you the application fee, but that fee for a massage establishment is $1,389. and for a solo massage establishment it is just under $700. >> thank you. >> commissioner zouzounis: and our office didn't receive any

particular feedback around the two and the four. >> thank you. >> in terms of retaining the four. >> president adams: do we have any members of the public would like to make comment on item number 4? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, do we have an action item? >> president adams: i moved to approve in support. >> commissioner zouzounis: seconded by commissioner dwight. we will do a roll call. [roll call]

>> the motion passes 6-0 with 1 out. >> president adams: thank you. thank you for your presentation. >> thank you. >> commissioner zouzounis: >> item five, board of supervisors file number 180, 806 flexible retail use. ordinance or remember didn't -- remanding the planning code to allow a full joke -- flexible multiuse retail and making it permitted in the district of four. affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act, making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code.

and making findings of public necessity, convenience and welfare, pursuant to planning code section 302. discussion and action item. the presenter his supervisor katy tang. member of the board of supervisors and lisa,. >> president adams: welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you so much for the previous action, as well as considering this one regarding flexible retail. this is really exciting for us because, as you have noticed first hand, how challenging it is to own and operate a business , especially a small one here in san francisco. we are definitely seeing more and more vacancies in the commercial corridors. i have made it a mission of mine , for many years to figure out how is it that we attract more businesses to our commercial corridors? the latest effort that i have before you is one regarding flexible retail and what we are trying to do through the legislation is create a new definition called flexible retail in the planning code. within that, it would allow for

-- this is currently a pilot only in district four. however, i would love to expand this citywide. it is pending conversations with my colleagues. within the flexible retail category, it could interchange uses between artist activities, limited restaurants, general retail sales and services, personal services, retail professional services and trade shops. so within those different categories, any business would be allowed to have a combination of any of those two and there are a lot of implementation details that we still need to work out with planning commissions in the planning department. i just want to give a heads up that we may be making amendments to it to clarify certain things. but the general concept is that within those different uses, that you would be able to, regardless of the square footage , be able to have those

two uses there. the idea also is that the planning department wouldn't be tracking if you were changing between -- let's say if you were a coffee shop and you had an art to use and it went away and you wanted to switch to a trade shop , we would allow that to happen on this legislation. but we need to clarify in our ordinance that there must be, at any given time, to have those uses that are specified under the flexible retail category. also, this legislation is actually very easy to work with a district like mine where all these uses are principally permitted. when i bring this conversation citywide, it will be more challenging because there might be some neighbourhoods where they perhaps don't principally permit some of these uses that are defined under this new flex retail legislation legislation. again, these are some of the kinks that we are still working out. we also would need to clarify

that the underlying zoning with in those that -- with the zoning must allow this particular use that is under the flex retail category. but really, the heart of the legislation is that, as long as the zoning allows for it, and hopefully your neighbourhood commercial district principally permits something, it should be very easy for you to have it to different activities on your space. this is important because studies are showing, and i think you can all understand as well, a lot of customers really want that experience when they go to a store. maybe they want to go and have a coffee while they are shopping for t-shirts. there are a lot of restrictions right now in terms of what you since you have on your space. but however, we also understand there might be some challenges here where may be a neighbourhood commercial district does not allow for --

or limited restaurant to use. and someone comes along and opens a limited restaurant coupled with an art to use. and then the art use goes away and it is company based and you are left with the limited restaurants. we really do need to make sure that we tighten up the code so that there aren't loopholes for certain types of neighbourhoods where uses are not allowed to. that is to say that we do feel it is important for us to allow more flexibility for retail and i'll be curious to hear your feedback as well in case we make any amendments, i'm sure we will , but if we make amendments, i would love to incorporate your thoughts. that, is that in a national pier to reiterate those uses within the flexible retail category, arts activities, restaurants, retail sales and services, personal services, retail professional services and trade show. i would be happy to answer any

questions you might have. >> president adams: i think this is fabulous. this is great. commissioner dwight? >> vice-president dwight: it is great. mixed use is a key part of experience which is where we all think it is going. i did have a specific question and you kind of answered it but i want to come back to it. i could see where opening a caée , you have to go -- it is like opening a restaurant. you have to go through a lot of stuff to open a café. but it seems like it would be -- i will open an art gallery so i put some drawings on my wall and i will start serving coffee with my art. and then i will take down the paintings because my art isn't that great but now i have a caée like you say, if it is complaint based and no one complains, then i fly under the radar screen. i may have surrounding cafés who went through all of the process to become cafés, they would probably complain, but if they didn't, i am in a grey zone. i am curious if that is part of

tightening things up. >> absolutely. i think two things where we would want to amend the legislation is one you may have -- you must have at least one of the two uses. you can't just be the coffee shop or a café. and secondly, the underlying zoning must allow this use. if they did not allow for a caée for whatever strange reason, then you cannot have that there. those two things should address that example that you raised. >> but does my café as an ancillary or part of the mixed-use, does it -- and i able to do that in search of circumvent the general process for opening a café? >> sorry. i should call george clarify that. you would still have to go through if there were a public health requirements. you still have to do all of that fire. those are still, in terms of life safety, all those would not be neglected. >> vice-president dwight: so it just allows you to do it?

>> yes so it allows you to do a combination. may be for six months out of the year you want to do one type of use but then you want to interchange. we wanted that flexibility and that -- in that sense of the word. we want you to be able to switch in between uses more freely. >> vice-president dwight: similar to my ability as a manufacturer to have a small retail store in my factory, which i do today? >> )-right-parenthesis i think there's a differentiation between pop up and flexible retail. i think the idea between the flexible retail is a longer-term situation versus a one day or one night pop up event. >> vice-president dwight: i think we are allowed to have x percent of our space dedicated to retail if we want to. so it is similar to this scree. >> similar. this is also different from the accessory use. you will have a certain percentage or square-foot of your existing retail that you can dedicate to accessory and this would be that there is no

requirement. >> vice-president dwight: the mix is up to you? >> yes. >> you can continue to ask questions but i also want to make sure that lisa -- because they worked with supervisor tang >> president adams: commissioner dooley? >> commissioner dooley: it is good legislation but i really do not believe that including limited restaurants is appropriate. it is not really a retail used, per se. i certainly know in my district, we have seen time and time again , someone buys a book store then they ask if they can have a little coffee. then they start selling food. than they claim that they are now a restaurant. then they want to get an alcohol permit. i would just like to see that. which i know happens a lot.

it wouldn't be endorsed by this. i think that limited restaurants , we certainly have so many that we don't want to feel a loophole like this that would allow a barbershop to become also a limited restaurant i think we have to be very sensitive to that. i think the other categories are very appropriate to be more than one thing. but i think that limited restaurants is a slippery slope. >> thank you for that comment. this is why i also started this legislation in district for only or having it apply only there peerk we actually have a realized example where a business does want to serve coffee with their retail component. it is something that is desired and needed out of district for. but i could see where you might have issues in district three. >> commissioner dooley: i would be curious because it is

always a question of enforcement >> yes. yes. much of this is complaint based. i completely understand. this is where i think it is really important that we have the underlying zoning match what they're they are proposing for flux retail as well as that you have to have two things within those categories at any given time. >> commissioner dooley: so that would still allow for someone who wants to do a limited restaurant and apply for that? >> if there was an ncd that did not allow for a limited restaurant, than they would not be allowed to do this. >> commissioner dooley: -- i was just wondering -- that would be another amendment that the district could have possible amendments to this legislation. >> possibly. it would be a nightmare for the planning department staff, but that is certainly a possibility.

>> president adams: commissioner zouzounis? >> commissioner zouzounis: to thank you for always being attentive to small business perspective. i think this is important. we are seeing a lot of traditional retail sales being limited or banned in the city. i would like to know how would, the support end of this that we are looking into training. there is definitely some restaurants, wherever they are convenience stores or whatnot that may not have the know-how or the resources or even the idea that this is happening. i am curious how on the ground it will be helpful. my second question is if the underlining zoning or the

principal use of the area allows for alcohol, is there a way to enable the business to serve alcohol in a flexible retail environment? >> i think that it raises a very interesting question. first of all, if you were to do more longer-term alcohol sales, you still have to go through adc and get your -- whether it is off shore licenses or whatnot. that will not change. the idea between -- behind the flex use category and which uses we put in there where the ones that seem to generate the least amount of controversy. for the most part, people like art and they like retail and so forth. we want to make sure that if there was going to be a lesser form of permitting, i think liquor licenses and all that will generate another set of

rules. they want the ability to weigh in. that is why we did not include anything about alcohol sales in there peerk that is why it is limited restaurant versus full restaurant. back to your first question about education and resources, i hope we'll be able to work with the office of small business to let businesses know about this legislation if it passes. >> commissioner zouzounis: that is helpful. may be you can kind of starts basic for me. if i have an example of a convenience store, for example, and they want to partner with t-shirt sales, are they able to still feel -- filled their existing products and partner with whoever is coming in for that flexible use? i'm referring to the fact that they sell alcohol. what they still be able to make those sales? it would not change their principle sales because there is

a flux retail? >> i don't believe so under this particular scenario because of the alcohol involved. i don't know if they qualify as just -- we have general retail sales here in services. i think that that really goes to -- it is a good question. i will make sure it is clear in our legislation. again, if there's anything that involves liquor or sales, that is something that was not intended to be part of the flex retail. >> commissioner zouzounis: thank you. >> president adams: commissioner ortiz? >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: i just want to thank you. this is the legislation here. this is what we need from our supervisors. creative thinking and being cognitive that it might not be cookie-cutter for every neighbourhood, but you are getting the idea sparking. we will miss you.

thank you. we appreciate this legislation. >> thank you. >> president adams: anymore commissioner comments? lisa, would you like to make a comment? you helped with this. >> thank you. i am fine with not making a long comment. i helped with our retail studies that we published earlier this year. at one of the outcomes of the study is where do we improve retail in this day and age? what are some ways you can streamline processes and also encourage them to be more viable this is one of the recommendations in our study. it really was this experience that consumers are seeking in brick and mortar. they are going online for surge in consumer goods that they don't need to have an experience around. but they still are thriving

commercial corridor is because people want to see each other, meet each other, they want to go into businesses that have an interesting experience that they can't get online. whether it is through exercising , personal services, or retail. a lot of retailers have been experimenting with it doing interesting weekly events to bring in more foot traffic, to build community and to bring in more foot traffic. hopefully we'll get to know this retailers and come back. they do like to have coffee or other types of amenities to provide that. right now it is very hard for businesses to change uses without taking a lot of time to go through a process of adding a second unit. this would really help businesses who want to be creative and who want to do different kinds of things at one time. there's multiple retailers who are already doing this.

accessory uses one way, but that limits the size to a smaller portion of the principal use. this would give businesses more flexibility to have different combinations and different sizes we are excited about this. we do hope other districts want to adopt it as well. and to your point, if there is underlying restrictions already in those commercial corridors of zoning, they would not be able to reuse those uses as part of this. that would protect some of your concerns. thank you for your consideration spee man -- >> president adams: . thank you. do we have any other commissioner comments? do we have any members of the public would like to make a comment on item number 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. i just want to reiterate what

the commissioner said. we are thinking outside the box. this is a kind of stuff we really need. we will miss you a lot. i really appreciate this because the world is changing and if you don't change with it, you will be left behind. i totally support that this type of legislation. this is for both four and 11? or just for? >> this is just for district four but i will be having more conversations with colleagues. we would love to have this coupled with our other legislation where you go for one pensively permitted use to another that you don't have to go through a change of use permits. these are things that will help bring more businesses to our corridors. absolutely. please lobby the other supervisors.

>> president adams: do we have any other commissioner comments? do we have a motion? >> i move we support the legislation as is given that it is a pilot in the supervisor's district. it will be a great way to figure out if there's any exceptions other districts would be interested in. >> president adams: do we have a second? >> i second. >> president adams: ok. we have a motion by commissioner dwight. [roll call] >> before, when i submit the commission's response, that i am submitting it so that we are not communicating, should another supervisorial district add on that what we are communicating is not discouraging, if they want to amend a legislation -- >> president adams: know but it is proposed specifically for district four. any subsequent lobbying that the

supervisor does or what we do on her behalf as distant to -- is different from this motion. >> president adams: roll call vote. [roll call] >> president adams: motion passes 6-0 with 1 absent. >> president adams: thank you very much. next item, please. >> item six is the director's report. update and report on the office of small business and the assistant centre. department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activity. discussion item. >> thank you. commissioners, i just want to give a brief update. a couple of meetings back, we talked about mayor breed's summit.

i have worked with o. oe wdc and combined some of the joint responses together and there's a few more modifications for review and then i will forward you that draft. >> we are having a presentation from d.p.h. they will be providing their proposed implementation plan for the flavoured tobacco ban. so how they will be community outreach and timelines and working with the businesses. we will also be receiving a presentation on map 2020. the mission plan that has been in the process for a couple of years. so finalizing legislation.

initially slated for this meeting was the apprenticeship program for cannabis businesses. so he has asked for that to be extended and we will hear that at the next meeting. brick will be providing a quarterly report for the legacy businesses and i have asked him to come and do an introduction as the new director of economic workforce development. we are three weeks out from the grant business assistance grant applications from that deadline. applications are coming in and then the logo, while we thought we might have a logo by this time,