we're advising them to read the product label, to contact their supplier and order products that are labelled unflavored or unsweetened. and then when the volunteers come out, as well as city department staff, we're planning on two phases of face-to-face contact with each retailer. to show us what product that you're specifically asking about, so we're able to bring it back to the office and do research. finally, our advice, err on the side of caution. if the vendor doesn't know and the health department doesn't know then the retailer can choose not to sell the product. we are also encouraging our retailers to stay up to date with the latest information. that's why reading their mailers and we're sending out e-mail to frequently check environmental health website and contact san francisco 311. there is very -- two very, very

important partnership was the city departments, office of economic workforce development, to make sure we're engaging our retailers and getting feedback. and then 311. so those two agencies are really beneficial in helping us to make sure that information is readily available and accessible to the retailer. also want to add that we're going to host listening sessions. i'll end this about the listening session. so, here's the project plan. so again, it's with partnership of the economic workforce development. we have been developing educational materials. we're hosting listening sessions. and we're conducting two phases of site visit. the first phase is an education and outreach to ensure that the retailers have received our fact sheet poster. and that fact sheet poster is given in the preferred language. and the second round of visit is

through the health department staff conducting compliance checks. the listening session and site visits are allowed for retailers to provide us what the barriers and challengers are making sure that all the flavored tobacco product is off of the shelf. we're expecting to visit our retailers throughout the rest of this year. additionally, department staff, we're amending our current rules and regulations. currently they talk about density and we're going to amend that to include the flavored tobacco ban and improve our explanation about density and become transparent about the whole tobacco licensing process. the final point i would like to make, it's dynamic. if we find we need to add more time based on the feedback we're getting from retailers, we'll

extend out our project plan timeline. so i would like to conclude with just providing some more information about the listening sessions, because we just finalized the dates and i would like to publicly share the date. the listening session is to allowed the department of public health and the department of workforce development to hear from the retailers about challenges and concerns they have that can improve their experience as being our customers. so we have four listening sessions scheduled. wednesday -- i have the dates here. so the listening sessions,

wednesday september 26. monday october 1, from 6-8 at the st. mary's rec center, this is on murray and justin. we have one thursday, october 4, 6-8 which is the southeast community center in the pitcher community room at 1800 oakdale and then tuesday, october 9 from 6-8. that's at the san francisco public library, 30 polk street. that concludes my presentation. we have managers from both departments here and we're all here to answer any questions you have about the rollout of the flavored tobacco products. thank you. >> commissioner riley: thank you for your presentation. how many of this businesses --

how many businesses in san francisco will have to comply? >> all 800 retailers that have tobacco permits. >> 800? >> yes. smaller than i thought, >> to be frank, this is campaign material. we're past this point. we need to know specifically how retailers are going to be dealing with this. we need to have type of mitigation plan. and i haven't seen any of that. i would like to see how many meetings you have planned total. how many you've had already. centralized feedback. i know i was part of one small meeting. i don't think the best idea is

to kind of like divide them all up without us being able to hear each other's feedback. i think we need to have centralization of the feedback and shared feedback. i think the mitigation conversation, i'd love to include owd in that. and there is specific ideas, i know we've thrown out. i would love to start getting to the action part of it and the mitigation piece if that's part of the conversation. >> thank you. part of the listening session is so we can hear recommendation was the actual retailers. i know in the past, usually city departments will provide recommendations or implement solutions and the department of

public health along with oewd want to hear from retailers. when we com pile the information, that will be made accessible to everyone. it will be posted on the website. we have right now over 500 e-mail addresses, so we will also send out information by e-mail to the retailers, so we are planning to be extremely transparent about the comments, suggestions, and concerns as well as getting feedback from the department leadership on the things we can perhaps implement at the department level. >> do we have any enforcement taking place now, since this takes effect on july 20. >> no enforcement will be in effect until we have final rules and regulations. what we're doing now is outreach, education. and then we'll do compliance

checks, which will have notice of correction, but no penalty attached to receiving the notice. >> what about who -- there are a few of those in the city, those are small businesses? >> the hookah places, if they're smoking tobacco products indoor, that's a violation of the smoking ordinance. if they're smoking steaming stone products, that's not a tobacco product. if they're not smoking a tobacco product, the hookah places are not under the ordinance. they don't have a tobacco permit and they're not regulated by this ordinance. >> president adams: ok. any other questions before we go to public comment? >> i would like to pose a couple to oewd and dp together. a lot of the conversation we had, at least in the caucus that i was part of with dph, was your

staff, your limited, the ordinance is law, how do we mandate other departments to come to the table to be able to help with this mitigation process? so that's kind of the first big question that i would pose to oewd. >> good afternoon. i think one of the first things we're doing is bringing the item to the commission. in the past we implement ordinances without going through the channels, but in this case it's been adopted by the city or the voters of san francisco. we're talking to different bodies that may be impacted. we want to hear how to do your jobs better. in terms of engaging other departments, we can listen to ideas, if you have other ideas how to engage with departments or other city agencies that should be involved. our office got involved under

the direction of late mayor lee, who wanted to see our office working closely with dph and rolling out -- not just the enforcement, but developing incentives. i think we want to hear what merchants have to say before we develop the incentives that the city can offer and implement. >> which form would you like that? i know we've had several different meetings which businesses -- i think we as a commission want to move towards somewhat of a report, but i think this could be part of the brainstorming. i know when supervisor tang came and reported on the flexible detail, the good news is that only tobacco stores can be under that. how do we connect businesses to more opportunities where they can like, you know, add a different type of retail element to their businesses? how do we increase that technical support? how do we implement a serious

fee mitigation effort? this is something that is in dph and oewd's means. if we provide you certain fees that we want to look into and you provide the data, how do we then make that a proposal that some 0 -- we shouldn't be paying the same amount of fees with reduction of inventory and that sort of thing. so i think we need to have a serious fee mitigation effort on dph distributed fees. i think we need to talk about flexible retail, bring the office of cannabis into this and talk about how to have accessory use and small business pathway for these types of businesses that are already used to regulatory structure. i know that with enforcement, this is a sensitive issue. there has been two sting operations on my family's business within three months.

we're -- for alcohol. so i'm curious, i brought this up several times. for immigrant owned small businesses, we need to be talking about other enforcement bodies. because nonstop enforcement is a scary thing if there is not clarity in it. and i want to make sure that's going to be increased enforcement efforts with this, that you're talking to other enforcement bodies, having some kind of coordination and acknowledgment of that. so those different bodies i think need to be part of this conversation. and i think if we can inquire into a process similar to the alcohol license buyback, how that works, and how that could be applied to tobacco licenses, since some businesses are completely devalued because of this law. so it's essentially an entire government taking of a business.

so how does that -- how is oewd looking at that type of response? >> so thank you for the diversifi feedback. we'll take them back to see what the solution is through the process. there are changes you proposed for us to look at. i direct you to look at the right venue. i don't know if it's working with regina and our office to talk about the policy change we need to have, and do a deeper do i have, especially if it's a free structure -- fee structure. it sounds like it goes beyond the scope of this particular effort. but thank you fort feedback and we have to do further exploring with what is in the purview of this particular effort. but if there are other efforts, we're happy to take a look at them, too and put them to the appropriate venues. >> we have to be creative. we can't just be focused on this

one effort because it's part of context. >> i work for a lot of small businesses and i think i've been exposed to the hardships and i completely understand the difficulty in working with the city bureaucracies. i think there is a lot there that we can take a look at. i think with your feedback this is a good start for this particular effort and helps the other efforts that the city can take on. >> president adams: director. >> thank you, through the president. to provide context, taking a look at the timeline, staying with the effective date of january. so we're in the budget year. so it will be important to hear from oewd what they're able to do in the budget year, but also to, as we are communicating with businesses that are affected by

this, that helping get to a list of the mitigation is going to be critical not to go beyond that in making that determination, because some things need to be proposed for the next budget cycle, we'll have to have that determined shortly after the january implementation time. just to put that into context as well. >> i've talked to several small businesses and from the city, we voted, we didn't want flavored tobacco, that's fine. but it's kind of like eminent domain. if this happens, we should be buying back the tobacco at what certain stores and locations have different revenue than other stores. just to mention that the buyback license shouldn't be one fits all, because that's not how it should be. we could see devise that, figure

that out. we as citizens don't want this, that's fine, but small businesses, they project their business, they signed leases and never knew this was coming onboard. so i strongly support buying back the tobacco licenses. >> any other commissioner comments? >> just let the record show that gentrification displacement is a public issue. these are people that live in the city, they hire local. this is not mutually exclusive from the well-being of the public. >> president adams: ok. any other commissioner comments? do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on the item? seeing none, public comment is

closed. this is an information or action item. do we want to take any action? i would like for us, i don't know how the proposal would go, but to move toward a resolution or a dialogue with the departments that moves to proposal. >> we can move forward with the proposal at the later meeting, but if the commission wants to take action to provide direction, both department of public health, agendaize it as an action item in case there was a something that the commission wanted to do. we can do a resolution to follow up on any action you might want to talk today. but if there is action to say, we think this needs to be part of the mitigation plan, is to

buy back the tobacco licenses, then the commission is welcome to make -- to take an official action in making that recommendation because of how it's agendaized. >> president adams: and also working with other departments, i like the idea of working with the office of cannabis. because a lot of those -- especially the smoke shop owners, they wanted to get into that business and they're told they can't. and i think that's a mitigation. if you're not going to be able to sell flavored tobacco, you know, cannabis is legal now in the city. and they should have first rights of selling cannabis. so i totally agree with that one. >> unless that's out of alignment with california state law. >> i think state law would require you get rid of that license first, so it's the order of the operations. how can they get rid of the -- >> when you're told you can't

sell tobacco products anymore, you turn in that license and get another. >> right. >> i have a suggestion. they work with other departments in the mitigation process, and also work with the stakeholders on mitigation. >> i would recommend that the mitigation piece is part of this project plan, which it's not at this point. so i will recommend action item. and the details of which can be discussed between the departments and our office. >> between oewd and the

department of public health? yeah. >> if there are self-things in addition -- specific things you want to put in the mitigation plan, that is the time to make it clear what those specifics are. >> i can reiterate. i think the tax and treasurer office and the fee justice program should be part of this mitigation plan. the dpw, letter of abatement fee, which right now is collected on cigarette butts and is more than gross receipt taxes, i think dpd deemed approved. it's the same business model that is being targeted. i think there needs to be reassessment of industry fees on convenience stores in general as part of the mitigation. office of cannabis at the table with accessory use. and small business pathway for

businesses that are willing to get rid of their tobacco license and maybe return for an entry way into a pathway. i think talking with the new flexible retail legislation and how that pairs with technical support for small businesses, giving them a very specific pathway. i think taking a look at alcohol license buyback model and how we could interrogate that as an example for a tobacco license buyback. and then in the listening session, asking these questions specifically. how much do you value this license? i think tailoring the listening section to actionable items and not just flowery feedback. people were hungry for the action items and not just how do

you feel. so i think gearing the listening sessions toward those mitigation questions, and hopefully giving us a date of when you think you can get centralized feedback and maybe one big meeting after all the small ones, so that the different stakeholders can talk to each other, too. >> motion? >> they wanted me to specify. >> so we have that list. does the commission need to be repeat the list what commissioner zouzounis has provided? >> president adams: yes. >> taking a look at the alcohol license as a buyback is a mitigation measure. taking a look at cannabis as an accessory use. looking at the flexible use retail model.

complete assessment of all the industry fees. there may be others not listed here. the deemed approved use. the cigarette litter abatement fee. and then also a -- also to work with other departments on the mitigation and some of this might be included with those assessments on the industry fees. and then to get a concrete list of mitigation options together as quickly as possible and with a deadline, some date soon, to be able to present to the businesses. did i capture that? >> as part of the listening session, yeah, that's perfect. >> i would second that. we have a motion by commissioner

zouzounis, seconded by commissioner adams. roll call. motion passes 7-0. thank you very much for your presentation. item 6. quarterly report for the legacy business pentagon for april through june 2018. discussion and possible actiontime. presenter is richard kurylo, legacy business program manager.

good afternoon, president adams, commissioners, office of small business staff, richard kurylo. sfgovtv, i have a power point presentation. i am presenting the quarterly report for the legacy program from june 2018, including statistics and nominations received. business types. business assistant services. business assistance grant. rent stabilization grant. major accomplishments. major upcoming activities. press and twitter. there are copies of the report in your binders and copies on the table for members of the audience. in april through june, we received 12 legacy nominations. 10 applications and $400 in fees. the historic preservation

commission reviewed five applications and the small business reviewed six and listed all six on the legacy registry. since the program began, there have been 219 nominations, 165 applications, and $7,650 in application fees received. 136 applications were reviewed by the historic preservation commission and 135 listed on the ledge industry. -- registry. nominations received in october -- i'm sorry -- april through june were for fireside camera, california wine merchant. v.i.p. grooming. pier 39 limited partnership. scoma restaurant. great wall hardware. new world market.

alfred's steakhouse. >> did we approve alfred steakhouse? no, i think they're closed. >> that's one of my favorite places. had >> i've been thinking about it for two months, so -- >> i'm monitoring regularly, looks like it's closed for a couple of months now. >> president adams: they have new ownership? >> they're doing renovation. i'm monitoring it weekly and as soon as it's open, i'll get it through the pipeline. for the businesses listed on the registry, 80.7% of them were for profit businesses versus nonprofit organizations. this represented a slight decrease of .8% from the previous quarterly report. for the city as a whole, it's estimated that 94.3 percent of

the establishments are for profit businesses and 9.5% are nonprofit organizations. for business assistance services, the legacy program has provided technical assistance to 49 unduplicated clients. and 233 hours of consulting this fiscal year. since the program launched, the legacy business program has served 88 unique clients and has provided nearly 740 hours of consulting. the office of small business is conducting outreach to city departments, commission, committees and task forces to encourage them to patronize legacy businesses to the greatest extent possible. greatest extent possible.

>> there was full-time equivalent employees per applicant and a average payment of just over $8600. total grant payments were slightly over $625,000. for fiscal year, '18-'19 there

will be 148 eligible legacy businesses that could apply for the grant. which is due october 1st, a week from today. april through june we paid six grants for landlords of legacy businesses. the average square footage was 2500 square feet. the average grant because about $11,400. major accomplishments from april through june included translating the legacy business program resources handbook into chinese, spanish and tagalog and creating an reapplication process for the rent stabilization grant. we had nine tweets on twitter and posted nine entries on

facebook about the legacy business program and legacy businesses. we finalized rules and regulations for the legacy business registry. we created a document called "becoming employee owned" in partnership with the democracy of work institute, small business tool kit to introduce legacy businesses to the succession and of transitioning to employee ownership. we issued the legacy business program inyou'll report from fiscal year '17-'18. entered for the fiscal year '18-'19 in four languaging and partnered with the office of contact administration to conduct outreach to city departments to encourage them to patronize legacy businesses. major upcoming activities for july and beyond, finalizing the logo with contractor creative group. working with osaki on marketing and branding including brand

identity, collateral and public relations and website improvements. receiving the viewing and processing business assistant grant applications for fiscal year '18-'19. creating a tool kit on how to do business with the city and creating a tool kit for legacy businesses on purchasing commercial property. investigating, providing incentives to legacy businesses to purchase the buildings from which they operate as a viable strategy for securing business and policies to measure and analyze the business assistance grant and rent stabilization grant and develop protocols to address demand for the grants. there have been numerous press articles about legacy businesses between april and june,

including rebranding of the san francisco wholesale produce market. red and white fleet operating eco friendly ferries. the 100th anniversary of saint francis fountain and the 50th anniversary of specks. general articles, like the city limiting restaurants and preserving industrial space in the mission and the approval of the cultural district in soma. they mention the legacy business program so they are included. there was an article in the "san francisco chronicle" about the perseverance of the legacy restaurants. 10 legacy businesses were named in the best of san francisco 2018sf weekly and two jack knicks place in an article about the fill more. they covered eddy's cafe, v.i.p. grooming and red and white. it was pressed about the latino cultural district and there was

an article on the miami herald about lincoln road and miami beach, which mentioned the legacy business program here in san francisco. >> good job. >> the office of small business did nine tweets about the legacy business program between april and june. there were four in april, three in may, and two in june, all here for you to review if you wish. and that concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> good job, rick. i mean you have really been the face of this program and the press on it. i mean we got to thank hood too. when we have legacy visits, they are on top of that and that gets picked up by the chronicle, by the business times, by the examiner and a lot of other publications. >> about a year ago, we started doing press released.

we had a little bit more staff. we did press releases after each meeting, where legacy businesses are added to the registry. so we'll have one going out this week. that's been really helpful in getting more articles about the legacy business. >> any other comments? >> thank you, as always. >> any members of the public who would like to make comment on legacy businesses, quarterly report? seeing none. public comment is closed. again, rick, you have done an amazing, fantastic job with this program and put a face on it. really brought it to -- i mean a lot of people talk about now. i mean, business owners are -- i go in the businesses. i went into izzi's last february and the guy remembered me from the meeting. he said it was one of his

proudest moments when the commission did that. i thought that was really cool. >> thank you. >> next item, please. >> clerk: next item, directors' report. update and report on the office of small business and the small business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. discussion items. >> good afternoon, commissioners. so, with the accessible business entrance, there was a merchant walk last week with director hughie and supervisor stephanie on union street. to do one merchant walk in each of the districts. again, just while the small business is not responsible but just to do some outreach in case

there are questions or they do -- they've gotten -- there are questions about the program. see if they've had discussion with their property owners. just to let them know in face, especially for those that might have a step and may need to do remediation, they may see their property owners sending people out to do measurements and things of that sort. i've provided you with an update on the number of checklists that have been submitted. it slowed down a bit. we've only seen a checklist in 300 since the end of july. i do anticipate that come the end of december, we'll see a mass amount of checklists coming in from category one and two because that deadline is januar. and in terms of our office, the

focus of our office, so, i don't know if the commission recalls but you did approve a resolution to include accessibility, work under the pace program -- under the a.b.e. program to include it in the pace financing program. when supervisor tang was passing through the legislation to create this ordinance. we have discovered that it takes a little bit more work to do than just passing the resolution to ensure that this is included in the pace programming. we're working with our city agencies, the department of environment, the office of resiliency and building inspection to do what we need to do to ensure that this program is under the pace financing. that's working with some of the

financing entities to headache it available. we're finalizing an a. b.c. property owners guide so just a more detailed guide to the property owner about their remirement and what we're looking for in concluding the design guidelines for from historic preservation and public works and in addition to some over lay of the legal implementations they need to be aware of especially they're going going to insist that they are the one to respond to the ordinance and the disability access fund budget. we're working to finalize that. we know we're having $300,000

we're collecting through the disability access fund. through the business registration. we have some of that funding for us to work with to help support small businesses. they are work to go best determine how we might administer those funds to support small businesses who are going to be required to comply with this ordinance. it's not something that we're going to want to actively advertise, because we real dewant to -- we don't want to send a message to the property owners that they have an out by having their business comply with the ordinance. our first step is we've engage with asian neighborhood design to work with small businesses that are category one to provide funding to help them fill out the checklist and get the checklist submitted. so that is the first step of what we're working on.

ace said, when we have the budget finalized, we will make a presentation in terms of how we're choosing to allocate that funding. then moving on to the legacy business, so rick mentioned we're going to be having a presentation on the logo and beginning of the marketing and branding program and that you will receive on october 22nd so that is scheduled to provide that presentation to you. i wanted to extend my appreciation to commissioner dwight and dooley for their engagement with this. it was longer than we anticipated. i think we have a pretty good product. so, i really want to extend my appreciation for their expertise, as i think both are very designed and visually oriented individuals and so we have really helped with that

we're coming to the end of the business assistance grant application deadline. we've extended it to a sunday october 13th. i anticipate probably the october 22nd meeting, depending upon the calender, will be bringing before you what we're going to need to address is the one million dollar, how we're going to deal with the allocation between the business assistance grant and rent stabilization grant. we will not be looking at just this coming year but doing some five-year projection. i think the rent stabilization grant is proving to be very successful and important and so for this coming year, and projecting out what that demand may be, just to make sure that you are aware and to help you make some decisions to provide us with guidelines on how we

allocate that funding for the grant. and then two other things i want to highlight is mack aneer design is celebrating its 70th anniversary next week. we will be getting an announcement out to you on that. i think ria sent out information to you about docks clocks got their signs. that specifically was, not just necessarily work from our office, but collective work with supervisor ronin to ensure that sign got. >> we got a shout out in that article. >> yes. it's specifically because of the legacy business program. >> absolutely. >> so i see departments are verd

of this program. departments are willing to do a little extra to help move things through and make things easier for our legacy businesses. for upcoming legislation, so, supervisor safai, we were going to hear hi his legislation. next monday we are having our commission meeting because the october 8th meeting is canceled because of the holiday. you should have have that in your calender. october 22nd, so introduce last tuesday are some new revisions to the cannabis businesses. i have not had an opportunity to really look at it and guy jest it but nicole wheaton is schedule for october 22nd to make a presentation to you this was legislation introduced by

the mayor and supervisor mandelman and cohen. those are upcoming legislation. two pieces of state legislation that i want to make you aware of is the governor signed into law last week senate bill 946 which is safe sidewalk vending and this was really to ensure that there's state wide there's a decriminalization of sidewalks. ice was using this as an opportunity. so, there's been mission information in the local media. there's been some information put out in the local media that is causing confusion around whether our regulations stay in place. it's being interpreted that there are no permits required and you won't be criminalized

for vending on the sidewalk. the regulation law allows a local municipality to developer hitting regulations and so just we are emphasizing that we have for vending on the sidewalks still stays in place. what we'll have to change, because our street permit they're under the police code so anything right now under the police code has infractions or miss da meaner as their penalties or fines. that will need to change as a result of this law. we've alerted the mayor's office and senator wiener amended the

state's policy for lactation accommodation. i haven't had a chance to do an overview of our local lactation policies in relationship to this. i do think he did a very close model so hopefully, usually he is detailed on these things so hopefully there's no particular conflict with our local and state regulation. lastly, or not lastly, november 12th, i did not plan that november 12th, which is the first november -- the second monday of november is a scheduled holiday for the city. veteran's day is on sunday. so the building will be closed. i will be sending, after the meeting is closed, an e-mail to

you to poll how many might be able to do a meeting on monday november 1st, 2:00 p.m. this room is available, i've booked it. if we can do quorum, we'll probably need to meeting for legislative reasons. so i'll be reaching out to you. if you can just take a look at those dates and let me know no later than wednesday morning. and then, we've concluded interviews. thank you commissioners lee riley and ortiz for being part the interviews. i'm working with the human resource. we've narrowed down the candidate selection. i'll keep you apprised of it. i hope to soon make an offer within the next week. and then, we have our classes in

case you run into individuals that want a good small business 101 class that martha provides. she holds it at the s.b.a. and i want to thank supervisor ortiz for in inviting our office to table, i forget the exact term -- i think it's the women's building for women who are transitioning out of jail. so to let them know about our resources and starting their own businesses and suppose sort there fog them. that concludes my report. >> do we have any commissioner comments? commissioner ortiz. >> is it all possible regarding sb946, when we know or contact

the local establishment i know the answer from o.e.w. she has a good relationship. that could get problematic? >> i was out thursday and friday so i asked oewd and the mayor's press office. i think they're working on a statement. we just need to make sure that what we're saying is legal low correct anlegallycorrect and ned through the multiple regulatory agencies and the city attorney' office. the plan is to get something out in the media so there is no confusion. >> ok. >> any other questions for the director? do we have any members of the public who would like to make public comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. any other commissioner comments? seeing none. next item, please. >> >> clerk: president and vice

president and commissioners to report on recent small business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the small business community. discussion items. >> i don't have anything to report. >> any other commissioner? >> yes, actually today is the moon festival. moon autumn festival as well. last weekend was the street fair and the parade. >> we sponsored that. >> organized by -- i was invited to the kickoff as well as the parade and walked with mayor breed and david chu and some of the officials. it was really well attended. thousands of people showed up for the parade and for the street fair. it was a very good day for the small business in chinatown and

it was organized by the chinatown merchants association. >> any other commissioner comments? do we have public comments on commissioner comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. new business. do we have any new business to discuss? do we have public comment on new business? seeing none. public comment is closed. >> sfgovtv, show the office of small business slide. >> ok, so 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 san francisco small business commission is the official public forum to voice your

opinions and concerns about policies that effect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> item 10 adjournment. action item. >> we have a second. >> i second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> aye. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> manufacturing in cities

creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow.

for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help

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, broadening that