are a bad person if you are driving a vehicle and how dare you and blah blah blah. all these sorts of things. that is a big turnoff. i am a driver now. i have an injury that i got a few years ago and it prohibits me from enjoying bicycling in the way that i used to. so i am a driver. and one of the things is an issue of liability. these guys, people cannot bicycle, they can bang into your car, whatever, i certainly appreciate the concerns of being a driver. i don't want to run over anybody or hit anybody. i have insurance. you don't. if you -- if there is some schedule or injury or collision or something, unfortunately, i end up paying for it. so i would like to perhaps -- off-line address that in terms

of the gender inequity around that. we are talking about environmental concerns but i end up paying for that. the other piece of it in terms of women and particularly women of color, i really appreciate that you all took the time to assess this. i don't think it's that complicated. i don't know how many african-american women you will find in the south of market area let's just put it out there. i will say it. we aren't over there. or very few are. there may be some latinas, but i am pretty sure they scattered and not of a whole -- not a whole lot. i am interested why that particular -- i don't know why you're interested in that area. there are those cultural things that the commissioner had mentioned but all over the world , we are riding bicycles. we are riding bicycles in africa

and riding bicycles in south america and riding bicycles all over asia. women and men. i think that the culture of this white, aggressive, manual, this is our space, this entitlement, it is a big turn off. it is not just about working with the people that we want to include or want to have a jumping on the bicycles. let's work with these brothers too and say knock not get out. knock it off. so hopefully we will have an opportunity to change that culture. it is not just about training. we are working with drivers and how to be more bicyclist friendly and all those wonderful things. let's work with these guys too. i am about holding them accountable for their behaviour. i am not waiting on them to change their behaviour to be able to be a bicyclist. i will do what i want to do. at the same time, this is a huge turnoff. last but not least is the cost.

the cost of bicycling. we have the different options of being able to rent and all that and use a car and do all that stuff that people, if they do want to purchase their own bicycle, that is an expense. something that you will be using on a daily or very regular basis , there was storage but also being able to purchase something. a bicycle costs money. they cost -- if you want to get a decent bicycle, you are looking at at least $500. that is real money. and if somebody stole that, that money is gone. those are things that come to mind for me. and as an african-american woman , there are other issues you talk about in terms of just the immigration and workplaces. you can be able to -- after riding your bicycle to work, clean up and do those kinds of things. but we have a ways to go in

terms of -- there is real disparity there that i know that we are trying to do the right thing going forward, but at the same time, there are a number of points that might have been missed that i would like to explore a little bit. thank you, so much. >> commissioner harris? >> really briefly, i am echoing what she said to. more experimentation in the data , especially with industry. i think with soma, you talk about a lot of white guys and i am assuming a lot of them work intact. i don't know if you plan on talking about your experience, but she is intact and i am curious to know that especially when you're talking about shifting culture and including more women in culture, i'm really interested to know both

the intersection of geography in soma as well as industry. no pressure. [laughter] [laughter] >> i guess i check a lot of boxes. i am a woman of color and i live in san francisco and a work intact and i bike. so i agree. i would love more color on the segregation of the study and data that happens. >> into the mic, commissioner. >> oh. thank you. i think about for years is when i started biking more consistently and i really agree with the recommendations as far as having a partner or a buddy to help with the journey. here are the lights you need and the biking equipment. i think, you know, as any person , but especially a woman,

we multitask and we have multiple things to do. it takes a lot of planning to say ok, what is my schedule like for the day? i often get teased when people see my backpack because they asked me if i am going to go camping. but if -- it is all my equipment for the day. i have multiple outlets -- outfits and have laptops and everything else but i also do work at an office that has places for me to be able to store my bike securely and safely and to be able to change. i can change into more work appropriate attire if needed. and, you know, safety is absolutely key. i would love more infrastructure and bike lanes. back to that buddy system, it is not just the equipment. it is also, why are you going 16 th? you need to go down 17th. that is where the bike lane is. it is much safer. and knowing which routes are the best way to go is really important. i am also -- i would love to

explore regulation a bit more -- it is not just a car hitting you , now in it is cars going into the bike lanes. my husband got toward and that was -- i just had gotten off of a plane coming back from india and i was completely out of it. he is out of the house and i don't have a phone. the police are calling me saying that do you know this man? he is in the emergency room. and he has biked much more often than i have and is much more comfortable with it. i think it is something we have to continue to explore and work on. we are all really intelligent policymakers and know that there is no silver bullets. it will take a lot of different solutions to explore and that is something that i really believe, both these bodies can take up and do. as san francisco continues with

the congestion, what we are looking for is last mile solutions. i take a bus and i take bart as well. how do i get from point a to be when there is nothing else in between? i also have a car and i believe that on these critical issues when it comes to climate change, not everyone can do one thing. you have that in china where you have a lot of electric vehicles but the power grid that they are still running on is cold. how are we addressing these issues here? we have to look at it in multiple ways. i think partnering, safety, really building out that corporate structure and regulation is key. >> director rafael? >> one more thing. one of the questions we should

ask ourselves is we try to implement programs to help push more women into biking. we should always be asking if we feel safe putting our kid in that situation? i personally know a woman who bikes her three children to and from school every day on a bike. which i think it's crazy, but i give her all props for doing that. for me, that is a question i ask myself all the time if i'm walking to and from some place in the dark. to i feel ok if my kid is with me? if we ask ourselves that, we will put together a program that supports women and helps us get to the end goal of making sure that everyone is biking is safe. >> i just want to say wow and thank you. as you heard from us earlier, this is the first time we've talked about this report. it is fun to do it in this venue

with people we don't talk to all the time to get your reactions and what you pick up and what you call out and what your own personal experience is. this is something that speaks deeply -- deeply to our ethics here in san francisco. we also understand the city that we are in right now. whether it is congestion or dmc or angry white guys on bikes running stop signs. there is a lot hitting us. yes, we did select the south of market. it was very intentional. we understand that you are not going to have high proportions of people of color. there were other reasons to do the intercept. the data is very interesting and it acknowledges that. i think what you are responding to is there are interesting patterns. we need to dig a little deeper. there is more here to understand

what is going on in san francisco. there is also these dilemmas that you bring up where culturally, in home countries, bicycling was the way people got around. so what happened when we came to this country? why, historically was a bicycle ok and here it is not? there is a lot to uncover and a lot to unpack. i want to thank my colleagues for taking on this first step. we got a small grant from c-14 to ask these questions. they are very interested in other cities around the world to start asking similar questions if you are going to invest in activities as a city to combat climate change, how should you be thinking about that through a gender lens and asking about women, intersecting? i think this conversation shows how deep and rich that conversation can become when we open up the questions.

>> i just had a follow-up. i will say that i usually take bart every day within the city. what i noticed at night, and i feel for these women, most of them are service workers and immigrant women where english is not a primary language. they may not even speak english. i am fearful for them. i know, fairly recently, we had a meeting, i was at -- i have been asking for four years. can we have sfmta talk about safety issues? part of it, if you will work in the service industry where it is labour-intensive, you may not even have the energy to make to and from work. and the hours are in issue. when these women are getting off at midnight, there is no way they will bike in that direction once i get off of part, they are taking the bus to the excelsior, to the bayview, i would not be

biking at 12:30 am or one in the morning in that area. >> thank you. we are doing a time. i think we don't want to overstay our welcome. but if there are any other questions from commissioners, then i will open it up to public comment on the site and. -- open it up to public comment on this item. >> one of the bigger issues is also, you just mention something in terms of the cultural biking translating at the same time. one, biking has no shows -- social status. ok. there is no social capital in it and for a number of communities, women included, there is no social capital to be a bicyclist that is part of the american culture. what kind of car you drive, you know, all of those things. so there is no social capital. i think we need to look at that.

two, biking has become, with all due respect, something of a middle-class and upper-middle-class white privilege. it is a luxury. we need to change that. and along with that, is not that women of color are not at all concerned about climate change, we are all women. we pulled up half the sky. we are in tune with what's happening. but i think that looking at climate change and the contribution of bicyclists to alleviating the obstruction that we are seeing, i think is a really good start. that may not be the thing that grabs folks. so sometimes the message that we are using and the message that we abandoned that, because that is really the goal.

that is the mission. that is the purpose or one of them. but there are other things they are equated or that our attendant to the idea of bicycling that are a lot deeper. so i just wanted to say i think that that is part of the culture shift. there is no social capital. >> that second shower of the day how much extra water will you use? [laughter] >> i thought about that immediately. >> we will ask for public comment. >> so i am down on townsend street and seventh every single week, monday afternoon for a toastmasters meeting. and i spend some time running around doing things south of market. it is part of the global capital of tech.

we also know that only about 30% of people who work in tech companies are women. so i am just wondering about that particular choice of location because the demographic , just might work for us definition is only 30% women. i am wondering if there were other parts of the city where we could have studied that we may have gotten a quite different picture. i get out of my car and i'm walking along townsend and they will be a row of seven men and one woman walking to lunch. and that is the culture down there. i don't know if this is the forum to answer that question but that is bubbling up for me. >> great. thank you for that question about why we located the study in soma. there is a couple of reasons. one is we have a study already looking at biking health and the

benefits of biking in the soma neighborhood. we have a lot of really good data about bike lanes. the very important piece of this study that i don't think we really articulate for you is one of the things that it did is it demonstrated that in three days, with just a few graduate students within an emeritus professor and some of our environment staff, we collected a ton of information about who is biking. it had not been done before in san francisco. it was low cost and it was fun. people had a really good time doing surveys and the people who were intercepted for the surveys , more people stopped and said that they would answer the question then said they would not. so what we have done with this study is demonstrated that yes, we can do this. we did it in a place where we could marry it with other information that we had and we can easily, easily go out and do this again. we can find graduate students, we can mobilize our own folks,

which we brought with us because they speak other languages. we wanted to offer surveys in cantonese or hurt spanish and folks could not answer in english. and we could repeat this and other parts of the city. we now know that it is so critical to go out all day and to be there within those non commute hours where women are biking. it is our intention to motivate ourselves and motivate partners in transportation in the city and get some of the key community partners during the surveys. not only is it easy, it gets us rich information that we have never had access to before. so i would like to commit to you that we will repeat these studies. i can't quite do that. but i will be presenting this to our partners and to department staff and it is our intention to get more folks out there with more information on the streets. we do not need to just talk to people biking. want to talk to people who are we walking.

and just my last thing, these intercept surveys are so critical. in the early -- when we early said to the folks and the researchers, you cannot stand on the corner in san francisco and click your clicker and say, man, woman, wait, asian, black. that is not acceptable. we need to people to sell -- self identify. these surveys give us access to that information in such a meaningful and rich way and folks want to provide that information. we really appreciate all the comments and all the information we've got. there are some really interesting studies from c. 40 in transportation in mexico about how women on transit are treated and some of the strategies that they are using to overcome that and i ensure we will be happy to share that with you. there are more case studies coming out from around the world on women and climate challenges like this and i am sure you will all be interested. will provide those to you as they come out. >> will you look at the

questions? sometimes it is the questions posed that will determine your outcomes. >> absolutely. >> they are in the full study report. >> yes. we will make sure you have them. a lot of the demographics, as you are asking for it, they were doing things much more in detail >> thank you. any other comments? >> hi. i just wanted to say, for the question of why in the u.s. there are way less biking than in europe and in africa and asia , just because this country was completely built around the car. the invention of the car has created our entire city and our entire way of functioning is around the car. we need to somehow reconstruct that to give wait -- give way to the bike. we need to somehow give less room to cars in the streets so there will be less cars coming. we know that making larger lanes will just make them filled even

more. and there is an incredible amount of traffic already. we need to get the car out of the streets and that is when bags will be more accessible and a lot safer and women will come a lot more. another comment i had is i was in excelsior and there were no bike lanes there at all. so i don't feel comfortable biking. and we had one of those sunday closed streets. it was the last one of the season in the excelsior and it was the first time i saw bikes. they were everywhere. when you close the street to cars, bikes come. there were people that were pretty diverse and riding their bikes in the street. i think the solution is pretty clear. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> if there are no more comments from the public, then we will go to the next item. >> the next item is item six.

review and vote on approval of joint resolution regarding women and the environment. this is a discussion and action item. >> thank you. commissioners, i think that you have this resolution in your pocket which memorializes numbes attention to our joint areas of concern which are women and climate. i will open it up for commission comments. we need to keep it brief as a reminder. we don't want to overstay our welcome. i ask for your indulgence. i wanted to recognize the former police commission president who has joined us tonight. thank you for joining us. and i just want to thank the leadership of the department for putting a resolution together. i wholeheartedly approve. president? >> i couldn't agree more. i just want to say that what a historic meeting this is and thank you for being here.

we will open it up for conversation and discussion. commissioners? any comments before we take public comment. >> i have one and i echo commission or shorter's comments on women and water. i did not say anything about water here. is probably not as resolute -- prevalent except for the second shower of the day if you are biking. i had my 40th high school reunion over the weekend and one of my close friends is a hydrogeologist. we have talked about different women who have come up with ways of purification in countries where women have to spend half of their day getting water for the families. that is very much a feminist issue. we don't need to include it here but i thought i would bring it up in case the department of the environment wanted to bring up anything on water and we could work in tandem. >> yeah, i suggest a quick edit on the first page on line 17

that we change the worst department of two commission on. >> on 19 it does say the department. >> thank you. >> without objection? >> i don't know how to frame the other one. that's ok. [laughter] >> my only other concern was that in line at ten, we are saying reduce instances of an impact of domestic violence, sexual harassment and we say employment and workplace equity as if we want to reduce the instances of employment and the instance of workplace equity. it is not quite read correctly.

>> we should say improve. >> and improve workplace equity, employment and homelessness? i just think we have to reword that somehow. >> i guess my suggestion would be to change it to read resistances of an impact of domestic violence, sexual-harassment and homelessness and improve employment and workplace equity? >> how about workplace inequity? >> change it to inequity and do what with employment? >> leave out employment. i guess, if you are not employed , you cannot address the workplace. it would be employment and workplace inequity. >> reduce employment and workplace inequity. yeah. i think it would have to be online ten, it would be

harassment,, employment and workplace inequity, and homelessness. >> i move that we make those edits to the resolution. >> i second. >> do we have any objections? so moved. >> any other comments from commissioners? ok. seeing none, we will ask for public comment. is there any public comment on this resolution? >> into the mic, please. >> i'm not sure if this is about the commission. these should of course, effect. i have a letter from san

francisco on speaking on behalf of of san francisco. san francisco forest alliance is asking, once again, why does san francisco continue to expose women and children and other deadly herbicides? as you know, on august 10th 2018, in san francisco, a trial of dimensions -- the jury found monsanto guilty and ordered to pay 289.2 million in damages to the school district. the jury determines that the company knew about this and purposely deceived his partners. by now, roughly a thousand 700 plaintiffs have made claims in state courts across the country alleging the exposure of the herbicide led to various types of cancer.

as part of that, they remain in san francisco and still use this pesticide. and other widely herbicide in san francisco is -- pesticide -- it is 20 times as toxic and causes severe burns at relatively low levels of exposure. is a high priority for replacement at least since 2009. the forest alliance first started keeping track. it is used on grass, where children eat and sit. instead of committing to pesticide free parks, the department of the environment is meeting new herbicides to be used. which are not as widely used

they have not been determined to be -- san francisco forest alliance asks here for your attention once again. herbicide chemicals are more toxic and more dangerous and more mobile than their manufacturer disclosed. the danger from this -- [indiscernible] >> liver and kidney damage and other damages. there is no safe exposure of those chemicals. even low levels of exposure could be harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. in children, pregnant women, and the elderly. ok. >> thank you.

>> we asked -- we ask for those herbicides to be banned. >> thank you, very much. do we have any other members of the public who would like to comment at this time? ok. seeing none, public comment is closed. i believe that we need to have a motion to approve this resolution and a vote. do i have a motion to approve? thank you. do i have a second? we can take a vote of both commissions at the same time. >> i think we have to do it separately. >> got it. we will do the commission on the status of women first. >> and the resolution as amended >> the resolution as a mended. may i have a motion to approve the resolution as amended? thank you. do i have a second? do i have any objections seeing none, the motion to approve the resolution is approved. and for the commission on the environment, do i have a motion to approve the resolution as

amended? so moved. seconded? all in favor? any opposed? any objections? the motion carries. thank you. next item. >> the next item is item seven, general public comment. they may address the commission on matters within the commission 's jurisdiction and not on today possess agenda. >> is there any public comment on this sight and? welcome. >> that evening. i am the executive director of the friends of the commission on

the status of women. i would like to take this opportunity to thank the commission on the status of women for your support of the human rights of orient ceremony and luncheon that we had on september 20th. thank you two commission are shorter and commissioner harris who were on the host committee for the award ceremony. thank you to the vice president and the president for sponsoring a table. and thank you for driving attendance. thank you. i know you said hundreds of e-mail invitations throughout the city to drive attendance as well as to the department staff who volunteered for the day. that success translated to the highest attendance to date. and that means 430 more people

now know about our advocacy work to stop violence against women and human trafficking and promote gender equity. it is allowing the friends to fulfil our funding to the department and we are happy to announce that this year we will be granting the department $20,000. that is 25% more than what we have granted to them last year. and with continued success and advocacy for the friends, we hope to increase that funding throughout the year. in addition to -- thank you. i would like to point out that this month and early of november , is the city and county 's employee giving campaign happening. the friends is now part of the

americas giving campaign federation. that means we are listed in the city and county as a cherry that you all can donate -- charity as -- that you all could donate to. we do have an equal pay initiative in the city where we are aiming to confidently train women to successfully negotiate their own salaries and benefit packages. we have a workshop here tomorrow in the library from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm in the latino hispanic room. pick up a copy of the card. there is some in the back. there is a series of workshops that we are hosting throughout the year. thank you, so much. >> thank you. any other public comment? public comment is closed. it is now 6:30 pm and i believe in the interest of time, director raphael and the doctor

have agreed to table their reports. >> we will still take public comment on item a, the director 's report. >> public comment? >> the next item is item nine. adjournment. the time is 6:32 pm. >> thank you. [applause]

>> this is a regular meeting of the small business commission held on monday, october 22, 2018. the meeting is being called to order at 2:01 p.m. the small business commission thanks media services and sfgov tv for televising the meeting. members of the public, please take this opportunity to silence your phones and other electronic devices. public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes perspeaker unless eyes established by the presiding officer of the meeting. speaker are requested but not required to submit their names. please place speaker cards in

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businesses here in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, stall here with the office of small business. thank you. >> item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call] >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> great. thank you. next item, please. >> item 2, general public comment. allows members of the public to comment generally on matters that are within the small business commission's jurisdiction but not on today's calendar and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. discussion item. >> okay. do we have any members of the public that would like to make comments on items that are not on today's agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item three, recognition of

peter kane, owner of body clothing. discussion item. >> okay. thank you, and commissioners, this is one of the fun parts of our job. and today, we're here to honor peter kane, owner of body citizen clothing in the castro. and to me, this is a very special day 'cause when i first moved to the city, and i started getting involved in castro issues in the neighborhood, peter dragged me and got me on the board and was bantering me and pushing me. and we love peter. so i'll make this brief. on this monday, october 22, 2018, the small business

commission is honored to recognize peter kane for his 29 years of business. peter's clothing stores have served as anchor businesses in the castro. peter served on the board of merchants castro for over ten years that included several terms as board vice president. peter continued his leadership by helping -- by serving on the membership committee and year-end holiday committee where the castro is known for its inmay fui infamous christmas tree and other decorations. he has established body clothing as a fashion icon store in san francisco. and one of the things that i want to mention about this, too, is you know peter was the one that introduced children's clothing, women's clothing in the castro when there was no children's and women's clothing

stores in the castro. and by changing up, that's why peter's store's continuing to thrive. it is this reason and many more that the small business commission is proud to recognize peter kane for his contribution as a businessman to the vitality of san francisco and the castro neighborhood. and i also have another proclamation here from supervisor rafael mandelman who could not be here today, but the san francisco board of supervisors recognized peter kane for his decades of service to the community as a merchant in the castro district. his businesses were anchor retail institutions which added to the vibrancy of the neighborhood and still do. for his work, the board of supervisors extends its highest commendation and appreciation to peter kane of body and citizen clothing. so peter, on behalf of the san

francisco board of supervisors, and the san francisco small business commission, come on up here. [applause] >> i want to give you these commendations, and thank you for everything that you've done to myself, the neighborhood. we have dan bergerac, president of the castro -- neighborhood castro merchants. dan, do you want to say anything here? >> peter on behalf of the board of castro merchants and the over 320 members of board of castro merchants, thank you for all of the efforts on our behalf. thank you for providing wonderful stores for the castro community to enjoy, and thank you so much for all that you've done for the neighborhood. it's all appreciated, and it's all remembered. thank you.

[applause] >> well, thank you for the honor. it's very much appreciated, and i love the castro. i've been there for 35 years, actually, because i worked for somebody else before i opened my own store, and i've seen a lot of changes, but i think we're in a good place, and i want to say thank you.

[applause] >> and if you have not checked out, peter has the best window displays in the castro, next to cliff's. >> item 4 -- [inaudible] >> no? okay. okay. on item number 3, do we have any members of the public who would also like to make comment for peter kane? seeing none, public comment is closed on item number 3. next item, please. >> item 4, approval of registry

business applications and discussion. action item. >> good afternoon, president adams, commissioners, office of small business staff. richard kurylo, legacy program business manager. sfgov tv, i have a powerpoint presentation. before you today are three applications for your consideration for the businesses to be included on the legacy business registry. the applications were reviewed by me for completion, then submitted to the historic

preservation commission on september 19 for their review. the h.p.c. heard the applications on october 17 and made positive recommendations to the small business commission. for each applicant, the s.b.c. has been provided a staff report, a draft resolution, the application, a case report from planning department staff, and a resolution from the h.p.c. there are copies on the table for the public. item 4-a is balboa theater. the business is a neighborhood theater that opened in 1926 in the outer richmond district. it was originally called the new balboa in order to distinguish it from a theater with the same name in the district. in 1978, it was converted to a two screen theater. the current owners bought it in

2012. the theater shows a definition of first run films and classics. item 4-b is fireside camera. the business was founded as an independent proto store in the fireside district. in the 1970's, photography became more commonplace, so fireside studios added retail and changed the name to fireside camera. as a -- as retail became a larger part of the business, salespeople were hired, including jack shim in 1976, edwinly in 1978, and spencer in 1984. item 4-c is house of bagels.

the business opened in 1964 in the richmond district when there were no authentic bagels store in california. the recipe was brought here by sid nye chasey, a native new yorker. in addition to bagels, the bakery makes breads, cookie, and pastries. the curre all three businesses received a positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. after reviewing these applications and the recommendations from h.p.c., staff finds the businesses have met the three criteria to qualify for listing on the legacy business registry.

there are three draft resolutions in consideration by the small business commission, note that a motion in support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolution. in the resolutions, please pay close attention to the core physical features or traditions that define the business. once approved by the s.b.c., the businesses must maintain these physical features or traditions in order to remain on the registry. while balboa theater is theater, for fireside camera, it's camera store, for house of bagels, it's bakery featuring new york style bagels. this concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions. there are business representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the applications. >> commissioners, do you want to go right into public comment?

>> yes. >> i know that supervisor fewer is in the audience, so i'm going to call on you for public comment. thank you for the nomination. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioners, so happy to be here today to represent two thriving businesses, small businesses in my neighborhood. first i'd like to speak about the balance bowl atheater. the balboa theater was constructed in 1926, and it has screened everything from silent films to modern classics for over 90 years. these small theaters, privately owned are now becoming more of a rart in san francisco than ever. i was raised in the richmond district and one by one have seen these theaters disappear from our neighborhood. it has been an anchor for the corridor. i would also say another wonderful thing about the balboa theater, it not only serves the

people in my district but all over san francisco that seek an experience of just a small family owned theater. and also, the balboa theater is very active in our merchants community. they host many fundraisers for nonprofits and so they're really institutionalized not only into our commercial corridor but throughout the whole richmond district, really supporting a lot of our nonprofits in our neighborhood. i strongly ask, respectfully ask that you grant them the legacy business award. another business that -- in my neighborhood that is being honored today or considered today is our wonderful house of bagels located at 5330 geary boulevard. i was raised in the richmond district, and my own whichildre cut their teeth on bagels at

house of bagels. they have a thriving business in other grocery stores, expanding their business to other retail outlets. it is a -- a real hub, i think the house of bagels, as we have seen bagel companies come and go in san francisco, the house of bagel has remained strong for one reason. they make a very, very good b e bagel. i request that these two businesses in my neighborhood be granted the legacy business because not only do i think they deserve it, but they are unique to not only san francisco but to the bay area. thank you very much. >> thank you. the members of the public, anybody who would like to make comment on our three legacy businesses. come

. >> my name is mike fuente, and i've owned the house of bagels for quite a number of years now. i also wanted to thank all the families of san francisco that have been coming to us for 56 years now, and it's always a great honor and privilege to hear from them, even when they're outside of san francisco and i meet someone from san francisco or from the city, and oh, i used to go there all the time approximate my parents and stuff. like, thereat's a great thing t hear from all those people, in

the richmond district, and keeping us to stay in business. so thank you, everybody, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. >> great. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is adam bergeron, the owner of the balboa theater, with my wife, who couldn't be here today. it's been a pleasure to own the balboa theater and service the community and the city at large. thank you for this. i feel like the balboa is kind of what a legacy business is in this city. it's carried over from an olden time to a modern time, and hopefully we're bridging the gap between modern amenities and kind of a nice, old time feel. we know our customers' names, we love our neighborhood, and we

hope to support it for 92 more years to come. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is spencer pawn, and i'm one of the owners of fireside camera. rich did a very good job of talking about our stores. the only thing i have left to say is the retail brick and mortar business is very difficult now adays, especially photo, because you can go on-line and get things. it's been a very difficult time. we're just happy that the legacy program's considering us and think that it can help us in staying around because there's so few original san francisco camera stores left. there used to be tons, but in the last couple years, you saw gassers close, you saw sf discount close. previous, there were those like the photo factory and such. it's just really depressing for us, but we'd like to thank you

for giving us this opportunity. >> great. thank you. any other members of the public who would like to make a comment on item number 4, legacy businesses? >> my name is henry canilo. president of council of district merchants. these are the jewels of our city. these are the jewels that people want to come and see and enjoy. i think it's really fantastic that we have them, and we should have more of them. and help them sustain business, and i really, really am proud of them. i'm so glad you guys are around, and i hope you stay another 30 years. thank you. >> okay. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner dwight? >> i just want to thank all the business owners, and i

especially want to thank supervisor fewer for her two nominations. it's an essential part of this process that the supervisors be nominating businesses, and so we encourage her to nominate more businesses and her fellow supervisors to nominate businesses on this district. we especially appreciate the work that you business owners go through in this process. i know rick is helpful, but much of the burden is on you, and i know that it is a lot of work to fill out these applications. it allows you to take some time to reflect on your history. as small biusiness owners, it's very rare that we get a chance to reflect on our history. so i hope going through this process left you with a document that you can share with your friends and family and appreciate for the next 30-plus years, and pass onto your grandchildren, hopefully, so thanks very much for being here today. >> any other commissioner

comments? do we have a motion? >> move to approve all three businesses as recommended by the -- by rick. >> second. >> motion by commissioner dwight, second by commissioner yee riley. roll call. [roll call] >> a motion passes, 6-0, with one absence. >> great. congratulations. [applause] >> next item, please. >> item 5, legacy business program marketing and branding. presentation, adoption of a legacy business program logo, and presentation of a legacy business marketing and branding program. discussion and action item. presenter is osaki creative

group. >> good afternoon, president adams and commissioners and everyone in attendance. my name is robert osaki, and we are very honored to presepresen the logo and also our branding design committee. first of all, i want to thank the san francisco small business commission for the opportunity given for us to work on such a great project. this means a lot to us. branding review committee, regina, mark, rick, thank you for all your hard work and commitment over the last ten months. >> commissioner dooley.

>> and commissioner dooley, i'm sorry. >> so today, we're going to present the process. robert's going to go over the process we went through over ten months. okay it's condensed because you guys don't want to go over our work, but it's a very good overview how we engaged the community, how we engaged the businesses, and ultimately how we came up with the logo that's going to represent all the great businesses here in san francisco, so i'm going to pass this onto robert riley to do the process and i'll unveil the logo. >> thank you for having us. as going over the background today it's just a little bit of the process that we go through with our general logo development. this was done with the committee, and we go through a six-day process on our brand development. one of the things that we always start with whenever we're developing a brand is research. those cover our first two phases. we researched about the city of san francisco's