services are provided for free. we provide services helping businesses incorporate with lease negotiations, contracts for employment, ip issues, really any kind of transactional legal service that a business will need if they are starting, but i think an increasingly important us, growing and scaling. on the financial management side , it is bookkeeping, accounting, financial statements , financial projections, and on the marketing side, building the internal capacity of the business to market and brand themselves and helping them access new places to sell. ensuring that once they have that sound legal and financial infrastructure, they have a place to sell their product or their service. like our partners, we do focus on the low to moderate income entrepreneurs. thank you. >> thank you.

>> i'm from main street launch. we are a community development financial institution. we provide loans for businesses from 10000-250,000. both for startups as well as existing businesses. we also managed the city's revolving loan fund in the emerging business loan fund. we have specialized programs for the investing neighborhoods. i think that we really are serving small local businesses and our key industries that we serve are the food and beverage industries, as well as professional services. >> i'm with i.c.a. we are located in oakland but we work with companies across the bay area. today we have worked with 700 entrepreneurs, supporting them to scale their operations and create good jobs and increase quality of jobs while at the same time thinking of ways they can help employees build wealth, especially in communities that

lack wealth. we do that through our workshops i'm getting ready to get people ready to raise capital. it is one on one advising. we are also a community development institution. we focus on community stakeholders and women entrepreneurs. and focusing on investment in companies and working with companies around $250,000 of annual revenue and above, and we invest in the range of 300,000 to about $800,000 through convertible units. happy to answer any questions. >> great. thank you. >> i welcome any questions you may have about the slides. any small business issues you would like to bring up. >> commissioners club. >> i'm super excited about this presentation. thank you to staff, and for all of you for being here. it is all women of color up there. a couple of questions. i definitely want to exchange business cards with all of you and totally continue a relationship, especially around the think tank advocacy end of things. that a couple questions i have

for constituents i work with, tech literacy for existing traditional small mom-and-pop businesses seem to be an issue in which there is not resources specifically for that. and retail, whether it is restaurant or corner store industry, we have a lot of tech companies that are doing order online and delivery and stuff. there's not -- those companies don't know how to work with producers. there all consumer based. they don't know how to talk to small businesses and they don't know when to come in. they don't know how to meet people where they are at. let alone there is no resources for how to vet which companies should work with and even how to set up the ipad his. they don't come in and set that up for you. they do everything online. so that is a question if there are resources specific to that. also for these traditional

businesses that need to change their business model or try to bring more onto the online dimension because there is a lot of regulation on brick-and-mortar his and retail policies that we have seen recently and specifically in the traditional convenience stores sector and we are seeing automated convenience stores popping up and a lot of things that are regulated brick-and-mortar but not online. that kind of how to help traditional businesses with that is my question. >> i don't know if it is a full answer, because i think there is two separate things. there is tech literacy and how that ties into equity and what kind of technology people afford and use all the time and that is a general theme we are seeing. it is a need for remembering your e-mail passwords on your squarespace password and

computer literacy. it is definitely a gap we are feeling where we could use more support for entrepreneurs or we as staff or trying to find ways to provide that. separately, there is navigating the partnership his. almost all of our entrepreneurs work with door --dash and caviar , and they all don't often come to us wanting to partner in different ways. i agree with you it is hard to meet where they are. we try to help navigate percentages and provide support services. i wonder if there is room to advocate, one thing i have found frustrating is that it feels often like i'm doing -- the tech companies are never willing -- they are willing to go revenue neutral to work with our business. so it feels a little bit like we are sort of funding their effectiveness of a heavily funded tech company and that has been a challenging space. i wonder if there would be a way if the companies themselves can deliver the services, if they would be willing to distribute or support through funds, through money, there's a lot of

people here who have that assistance, but he often find myself a little bit stuck sometimes where i think okay, we will do a bunch of brokering work for you and broker and set of entrepreneurs and have great food so your project and you continue to benefit and they -- when they go revenue neutral, they take 30% of each order, which is really a lot of money for a food business. twenty-five is when they are making a concession. this shows there -- those are the things that i have been grappling with in trying to understand for us to stay relevant, but also feeling like we are carving out a powerful position where everyone is benefiting. it has been challenging. >> we found this is a significant gap with the entrepreneurs we work with at the earliest stages. we are trying to work with them at those earliest stages to gain

those skills. one of the things we are doing next year towards the first quarter or second quarter is rolling out a new class called tech skills for entrepreneurs that focuses on these skills of -- how do i use excel in my business? how do i think about google sweet? how do i think about e-mail? how do i feel -- how do i think about presentations, and websites and social media and all those things that a business needs to have these days. at the same time, right now what we are working with is we just received a large contract from the city of berkeley to help bolster business models of small mom-and-pop businesses. some of the same processes that we use and are launching a business class are necessary for people to rethink their business model. we are applying that on a one-on-one business advising basis and hope to do the same thing here in san francisco. >> great. thank you. >> commissioners duly? >> i want to add my thanks for a

great presentation. it gives me a lot more scope to what i could be doing to help people and refer to you guys. especially i thank you for mentioning that you would not shun new cannabis dispensaries, which are basically small startups and need a lot of guidance. especially now that we have so many complicated rules. both state and city. i really appreciate that being inclusive in what you do. >> thank you. commissioner dwight? >> i want to acknowledge the important work that you all do. you are part of a vital network of support for entrepreneurs that don't have the benefit of sophisticated venture capital backers. when you do, you get all the support from them and you can talk to other c.e.o.s and operating people, and you guys get access to those people, both

yourselves, and two people that do pro bono work, and i think that's fantastic. i am the founder of s.f. made. i appreciate what you do. i am also -- i also ran a portfolio company so i am a direct recipient of their services and their capital. thank you. keep up the good work. >> any other commissioner comments before we go on to public comment? seeing none, let's go into public comment. is there any members of the public who would like to make comment on item number 6? >> what a bunch of beautiful and fantastic and powerful ladies. having been associated with funds with jobs for over 16 years, having sat on their board for ten years, i know the work that they do and how they've empowered companies and have become month -- multimillion dollar company starting out from scratch. for me, senior commission and

how we can work to incentivize and create grants, make sure they know about all the grants that are available to them. make sure we use a small business commission to be able to empower them to reach out to small business so they can go out and get other foundation grants and recommendations from other commissions to show they are doing good work. every little recommendation helps. we are trying to find those extra dollars to fund their programs. i would implore you to do that. thank you so much. >> thank you. any members of the public? seeing none, public comment is )-right-parenthesis. >> thank you. through the president, i just want to extend a thank you for reaching out to us. we do referrals to our nonprofits, but we have somewhat stuck to those with the city funds. it was interesting for me to find out that there is actually a larger wealth of technical

assistance providers that are working in san francisco and so we actually, for us, we get to offer more to the client that comes into the small business assistance centre, and able to provide more resources for them based upon where they are when they come into us. it's good to know. we will see. i have introduced optima to nicole to see if we will be able to help bridge something there to help -- especially help our equity candidates. as the only technical assistance provider that doesn't receive federal funds, they have the potential to fill a unique void that we have. i really appreciate it and i'm really looking forward to us working with all of you. >> it was great during small business week last year when we

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and for the legacy. the first is the appropriation ord ordinate. the reserve is for the fiscal year. that was released in '17, '18. we are in 018. 2019. >> we are '18, '19.

>> the fiscal year begins july 1st. >> we are assuming the annual allocation of 1 million a year. the allocation was 250,000 previously. the added carry forward and the year of release brought the budget above 1 million. >> the next section is the tableization grant. it continues on to the second page. as you know, the grants awards annual grants to landlords that provides to a legacy business for a term of 10 years or extends the terms. we see the grant for each year on the new lease. for example, for the existing

5-year lease, that is extended to 20 years. the landlord would be entitled to 15 years of grants. the grants pay up to 4.50 per square foot to a maximum of 5,000 square feet. since february, 2017, the average number of applications received per year have been 17. we received 9 so far this fiscal year. for the budget, we are assuming, a, the applications this year and 17 new applications each of the coming fiscal year. the average square footage has been 2873 square feet. we gave that number as an assumption for all the applications.

and the consumer price index adjustment, it was 1% for the fiscal years '17 through '19. and for the budget, we are assuming it will be 3% for the next biannual adjustments. to date, there have been 28 grants for the 151 businesses. one out of five legacy businesses benefiting from long-term lease and secure term. an effective strategy to stabilize the businesses in san francisco. the motion was recommended. the commotion directs businesses to prioritize funding to qualify for other grants paid through the legacy preservation fund.

i am suggesting this motion, if we follow the policy recommendation, the bottom line here, it would be the estimated available for other grants. you can see that by fiscal year '21, '22, it is expected to be the funds from the stabilization grants. for the section 2a, 243, specific procedures are in place for handling grants shortfalls. essentially grants from prior years are given a priority and are decreased proportionally. they would pay less than 4.50 per square foot. the grants shall not exceed available funds. moving on, the next section, the run stabilization accessibility grant. this fiscal year, it will be a

one-time of $150,000 available through the reserve release. to help pay for disability access and reports and improvements. that brings us to the assist grant, number two on the agenda for this protectiere presentati. it is $500 per year. the fiscal year, we have 3 million thousand dollars in grant applications and '17, '18, we have $625,321 in grant applications. we were able to pay a full $500 for the two years. the spreadsheet shows that the front amounts were paid in the

entirety each fiscal year. that was not the case. some payments were made the following fiscal year. that actually changed and cas carried to the next fiscal year. the true carry forward were slightly different than the spreadsheet. we did this on the spreadsheet for simplification, the long-term projections came out the same. for the fiscal year, '18, '19, we received 105 business assistant grant applications approximately. using the average of 8,685 per grant, the grant request for '18, '19 are expected to $911,925. we are projecting the available funds to be 550,000. we will pay less than $500 per fge. the amount available to the business assistance grant would decrease over the next two

fiscal years and assuming we continue receiving $1 million. we would not have enough funds to pay the business assistant grant starting fiscal year '21, '22. that brings us to the final agenda item, policy recommendations for the future consideration. january and february, 2019, we will come before you with a policy recommendation regarding the business assistant grant and in may, 2019, we will have a policy recommendation regarding the stabilization grant. i will close the presentation today. any questions? commissioner? >> thank you very much for the presentation. what this says is that when you come to year 2021, you have run out of money. effectively with the amount of grants and subsequently doubles

with your assumption of grants per year. is there a magic to the 17 number? >> that is what we have seen so far. we had 28 grants from 2017. taking an average. >> all right. so the remaining 17 for this period. >> that's correct. all right. so i guess, the decision comes at the end of 2020, 2021, and do we either stop giving new grants or keep giving grants and then start decreasing the amount that we are granting. they would be paid first and then decrease. it would be less than 4.50 per square foot and then, we would bring on new people next year that apply.

the prior years grantees, it is increasing. >> the prior year, you have the option to reduce their benefits of the grantees. you can either stop giving grants and continue to give them the benefit, or if you keep giving grants, and then have some decrease in the amount given to the prior grantees. >> unless we got additional funds from the city. there is some lobbying. >> and i think, you know, what we are -- for this year, definitely, we don't have enough to fund both programs. we definitely need the approval of the direction of the staff in recommending. as rick said in january of 2019, we will come forward with some set of recommendations and so, it could be, you know, you

might -- it could be your decision is to direct staff in the future years to -- when it comes time to discuss the budget with additional dollars. >> so the current period, with assistance grants. >> we received applications. we told the applicants it could take quite a few months to go through and we have to go through all of them before we pay the grantees. the recommendation of paying less than 500... >> there is that suggestion you have approval of 550,000 and change available. >> available for them, that's correct. >> if you chose to roll that over, you risk not getting more funds. it sounds like the city is giving money -- with the

$1 million over head. so the you want to make those grants. can we pull more people into the stabilization pool? >> that is up to your discretion to give us direction to say, we think we get more than 17 grants. we want to ensure that we are able to award those grants. so we would like for you to keep an additional, you know, we want to make sure we have the availability to have 20 grants. then we will just adjust that budget. adjust the budget. we over estimate funding available for those rents stabilizations. we sort that particular -- >> do you have enough

allocations to administer the $550,000. >> i am thinking since -- to go through all the applications, that we would come to within an exact number. we do have to allocate an exact number to the grant until we have to. and we would have more knowledge of how the rent stabilization grants are doing. >> i would recommend you stay the course on this. you have signalled that is available. >> and i think, from the experience that we have been observing through this grant program, that the rent stabilization grants have a higher value and meets closer to the mission of what the legacy business program is. which is why in our recommendation, that we ensure that we are able to fully fund

them. more so than the business assistance grant. >> yes, i see the logic in that, for sure. >> so that we are obligated to -- because we did issue the grant, we are obligated to -- a grant obligation to the business assistance grant this year. whether it -- even if it is not the full amount of the full 500. >> i am encouraging you as much as i can. >> any questions? >> we would like to get a motion just to approve the direction of fully funding the rent stabilization grant, since we don't have enough to fully fund both. >> i make that explosion.

-- motion. >> members of the public, we would like item number 7. >> the policy direction as presented today. to prioritize the rent stabilization grant program. >> okay, we have a motion by the commissioner, seconded by the commission duly. commissioner adams? motion passed. next item. item 8. updated report of the small

business assistance centre. policy and matters. the announcements from there. announcement regarding small business activity for discussion. >> commissioner, i have a written report for you. so i will verbally go through it. first, i want to say we had a great weekend with small business. and the district 2 last week. and then good activity with merchants associations on small business saturday. and with the merchants there. and i want to extends my appreciation to attend that and being at the right place at the right time when media was there. we are directing media to some

of our other small businesses that promote our -- that promote our manufacturing. you can elaborate on that. and i want to extend happy birthday to the president of our commission as well. and the business assistance grant, the business -- the successful business program, the checklists are coming in a little slower than i think -- although the agencies are wanting -- they are coming in. we do have 19 business -- company owners that filed for unreasonable hardship. those have yet to be heard at the access appeals commission. i did present to them, and have a discussion with the commission a week before last on things to give consideration for in

granting, consideration for regarding a hardship particularly when the property owner is requiring the business tenant to act as his agent. so they are still finalizing some of the criteria that they want to ask, and -- but we have lent our assistance in helping if they need support in helping to do some financial review. we have lended our support and given some suggestions to follow a grant guidelines that we will be using and we will be presenting to you at the december 10th meeting for the grant program under the business program. and we are developing a grant program through the funds that we are directed through the

business registrations and so we have $332,700 that was collected through the business registration through the disability access fund that we are able to use. we have $100,000 left over from the $1 fee that was collected. so we are first looking at helping the businesses that are required by the property owner to comply. we are helping them first and then we will be working with the two, three and four property owners. and then, there is an outreach event this next monday, the inner agency. it is not a full presentation, but all agencies will be present to be able to answer questions. and then, for the legacy business program, thank you for

allocating the funds for the grants. i have decided in discussion instead of quarterly reports, we will move them to every six months. you are mostly updated on what we have been doing. so the primary thing that you are not is the business technical that is provided to the businesses. so i think once every 6 months is a good update. and the legislation of policy. i worked with the supervisor's office to make a specific modification to the catering permit. restaurants are going to have to -- retrofit. if they have a food truck or grant to get a food truck, that

they are able to operate their food truck and their existing business during the time that the business is closed to the retrofit and for the same days and hours. doing that ki i wanted to extend appreciation for helping us figure out and the willingness to turn this around quickly. we businesses in january, they will have to close their business. this is an option that they really wanted to have to be able to retain to having some income, but mostly retaining employees and keeping them employed. so that -- we were not able to bring that before the commission. it is on a fast time line. the land use committee before the meeting approved it. moving forward next week for the

board of supervisors. and then an update on the separation compliance that you heard at the last meeting. so supervisors in response to hearing about the data changed the criteria for a large generator from 30 cubic yards to 40 cubic yards. that involved many restaurants and some non-profits. and especially our neighbourhood, grocery stores. a meeting with the department of environment, there is a three year implementation plan for the auditing, and so because these are -- these types of businesses are already really working hard to properly sort their refuge, they will be sort of the latter

ones to be audited and the supervisor when i explained the programming and the education that the businesses have, he felt that they would actually meet -- still to be affirmed by the department of environment. that likely they will meet the needs of having the waste facilitator currently on staff. it is not a mandatory full-time job. they can be part-time. the supervisor affirmed that there is a discretion that the department of environment has there. so i do know in talking to some of the small neighbourhood grocers, that they actually want to improve their profits as we mentioned, one of them has -- as part of the corp., to achieve certification, they need to meet the waste goals. we wanted to meet with the

department of environment to figure out the best solutions to be able to pass the audits because of the challenge of having the refuge exposed to the public when it is being picked up. so this will help meet both those goals. and so anyway, i think we have come to a good solution here. so really i want to thank you for your direction that you provided the department of environment, the supervisor's office. and then the committee this week will be the cannabis regulations you heard last time. the hiring of apprentices. that will be heard. i have not seen an updated

amended piece of legislation. your response, is conditional to the amendments being made. and then, i will provide a detailed -- analysis. that you heard the supervisor flexible retail. it has legislation, you approved it for district 4. it has now evolved to temporary retail and activity uses. and so district 1, the supervisor, and district 5, district 10, the supervisor and district 11 with the supervisor have signed on to the legislation. i will provide the legislation

in writing. the districts have now signed on. it is not limited. those districts are allowing the flexible retail in addition to what was amended in adding temporary pop-up retail and activities. >> it has expanded from one district. >> in the time since you heard it, and then moving on from legislation, so the next meet we will have the new commission, policy commission secretary. so i wanted to thank the staffing for the meetings. he will jointly staff with dominica on december 10th.

and then, i do -- i am hoping to be able to schedule super tang as an acknowledgment for her service. and also i just recently learned that jim lazarus is leaving the chamber after 15 years and he is moving over to the senator's office. we will reach out to him and see if we can get him scheduled. if not the 10th, then in january to acknowledge him for the service and all the support he provided for us and the policy. and lastly, i will be sending over to you, the schedule for our 2019 meeting schedule. we will not have to -- there will be some adjustments. small business week is the first week of may. we will not need to change the

first meeting of the month. but we will be needing to make a change to the second meeting of the month of may because of memorial day. so i have already prescheduled meeting times. i will need to affirm with you as to whether these adjusted times will work with your schedule. because of the indigenous peoples day in october. and november, because of veterans' day, i have reserved veterans' day is monday, november 11th. so i have reserved november 12th, which is a tuesday, 2 p.m. just so that i have room on the book. because these rooms book up quickly. ((please stand by)

>> even later in the afternoon, there was a good crowd therapeutic it was a great event hopefully the beginning of many of those. a couple of shout outs for upcoming holiday fares picked the dogpatch holiday fare is this saturday, december 1st coming up. s.f. made has a city hall pop up coming up next tuesday, on december 4th at city hall. and the s.f. made holiday fare at california college of the arts is on saturday, december 15 th. all kinds of opportunities to buy local and support the local maker community and small business community. that set. >> i love it. commissioner riley quach. >> i was invited by the committee to their goodwill

mission in china, they are very interested in the office of small business. the small business commission, as well as the assistant centre. we met with the assembly and parliament and some of the department his. anyway. we talk about the office of small business and talk about the business portal as well as some of the programs we have. they seem to be very interested and they seem to be very strong interest of the vietnamese people to come do business with the u.s.

it was a very busy. i just got back. >> welcome. thank you. commissioner dooley law specter. >> i spent several hours with the small business saturday with the xc maker fair at pier 35. it was an amazing success. it was so crowded there with shoppers. it was hard to walk down the aisles. which was very exciting. i got to meet it with lots of wonderful makers, designers, and i'm happy to see such a good turnout. the other thing i wanted to mention is that after many, many months of negotiation with city agencies, north beach merchants association has worked out a settlement for when they shut down and do an enormous amount of construction in washington square park. we actually have gotten to the point where we have signed a

contract with them, holding various various city departments ' feet to the fire we are hoping it will be a change to the positive for big construction jobs that do effect our small businesses that shows we are those that we can and should have some say in how that will affect all of the businesses surrounding such a place. >> great. thank you. any other comments quach seen none, public comment is closed. are there any comments on item number 9 quach. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item ten is new business big allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. >> commissioner riley. >> this meeting and the last meeting, and we have quite a few people who came and talked about

cannabis and how they don't like it and how it's bad for the community, bad for this and that i wondered if we need to do something on the outreach to let people know that to the voter already voted for this to be legal. for them to come and protest and tell us to stop them, may be there is lack of understanding and it is already being approved by the voters. may be that is something we need to think about. >> i would like to add to that period when we hear people talking, even though i'm not in the room, the massive amount of misinformation that we are hearing from folks. it would be nice if there is some way to point out the actual truth about many of these things and reminds them they can't

compare finding needles on the ground to a cannabis dispensary that is so highly regulated. it makes a liquor store look like you could just -- a 5 -year-old could walk in compared to the type of steps that are being taken to safeguard these communities. and we need to get that out there. >> especially today. i noticed one of the reporters here from the world journals sitting in the back. i don't know what we would take out of this whole public comment i don't want them to think that we don't care and we don't hear what they say. on the other hand, is already being approved by the voter. it is legal. there is nothing we can do other than may be they can work with their district supervisor to come up with something rather than -- i don't think they are

wasting time. but i think they need to be informed. >> and they can't continue to protest based on misinformation. >> right. >> that is not serving anyone. >> and you said something very important with working with district supervisor his. they did work with supervisor peskin with chinatown and not opening up any new dispensaries in chinatown. >> that's why i suggested it. >> and that is what should be done. there is a lot of misinformation entering public comments today, she was making comments about needles and cannabis. neither one has anything to do with the other. i agree. it should be a general information that is put out there. is it sr is at the office of cannabis? who actually does that? >> since they came to us to protest, me beat we need to think of something.

>> they also go to the planning commission to too. >> right. >> those individuals and the board of supervisors, there is a fine line in allowing people to voice their opinion and then there's, you know, i will still reach out to director elliott and the department of public health to ensure that suggestions of the distinction between those issues between needles and/or the fact that it's not legal to smoke on the sidewalk. people do. but just because we have legalized cannabis, does not mean -- just because we have legalized cannabis. does not legalize smoking on the public right-of-way.

i think, perhaps there is opportunity to be able to make sure that some of those standards are very clear. but to note that we are not the only commission that those individuals show up to, that anytime cannabis is on the agenda, they are there. no matter what body is hearing it. >> we are going to talk to elliott. >> i will talk to the city attorney and see what we will utilize for us as a commission. >> whenever they have public comment, we are not supposed to engage in the conversation. it is almost like a one way.

>> you can respond in general. i thank you spoke pretty clearly i thank you can continue to reiterate if the commission wants to send a message that yes , you have the right to be able to voice your opinion, but this commission, we have approved the adult use of cannabis if there are

suggestions that you have and want to submit them. we can agenda dies it when the commission is ready to affirm that position. >> thank you. >> that was it. >> any other new business? are there any members of the public would like to make any comments on new business here at the commission? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> san francisco government television, please so -- showed show the office of small business like. >> 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 business to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get questions

to your answers 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 affect the economic vitality of small business in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, it starts here at the office of small business. >> item 11 is adjournment. action item. >> do we have a motion? >> moved to adjourn. >> second. meeting adjourned. >> motion passes 5-0, total absent. of the infrastructure in

cities hasn't been built yet so there's a responsibility to help government and private sector design and build everything better. when you think about it, climate change is the ultimate design challenge of our time. - >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the

kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot

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

support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san

>> let's have the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flagd states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. . >> darlene, let's call roll call. (roll call). >> darlene, you will call out each agenda item. right now we are going to closed session. can i have public comment about going into c