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economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, it starts here at the office of small business. >> item one is called to order and roll call. [roll call] >> mr president, you have a quorum. >> item two is general public comment period allows members to public -- to comment generally on matters that are in the jurisdiction of the small business commission but not on the calendar. and suggest new agenda items for the future consideration. discussion item. >> do we have any members of the public would like to make comment on any item that is not on today's agenda?

seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item three his approval of legacy business legislation, approval and -- the applicant is a paper tree. -- the applicant is paper tree. >> good afternoon, commissioners office of the small business staff. the legacy program business manager. san francisco government television, i have a powerpoint presentation. before you is one application for your consideration for the business to be included on the legacy business registry. the application was received -- reviewed by me for completion and submitted to planning department staff on october 11 th for review. the historic preservation commission heard the application

on november 7th and made a positive recommendation to the small business commission. for the applicant to, the spc has been provided a staff report and a draft resolution. the application, the case report from planning department staff and a resolution from the h.p.c. there are copies on the table for the public. the applicant is paper tree. the business is a japanese origami paper and art supply store in japan town. paper tree opened in 1968 at 22 piece plaza in japan centre and permanently relocated to its current location at 1743 buchanan street in 1974. the store sells many authentic imported japanese art supplies as well as handmade cards and other crafts by local artists. the family that owns a business has been an anchor in japan town for decades. paper tree provides support to the many japan town festivals,

provides volunteers, monetary donations and advertising for various japan town community organizations, and administers japanese language and cultural outreach opportunities. the business received a positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. after reviewing the application and the recommendation of the h.p.c., staff finds a business has met the three criteria to qualify for listing on the legacy business registry. there is a draft resolution for the legacy business registry applicant for consideration by the s.p.c. notes that support of the business should be in the form of a motion in favour of the resolution. in the resolution, please pay close attention to the core physical feature or tradition that defines the business. once approved by the s.p.c., they must maintain their physical feature or tradition to remain on the legacy business registry.

for the applicant, paper tree, the paper store is featuring origami. this concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions. there are business representatives here who would like to speak on behalf of business. >> thank you. any questions before we go into general public comment? seeing none, we are open for public comment. if anyone would like to come talk about our nominee today. >> hi there. my name is linda, i am part owner and currently the manager of paper tree. our family business is honoured. thank you for having me speak today. it is a business grew up with. our family has been part of japan town for over 100 years. when you talk about legacy, the legacy that has been handed down to me is this wonderful art of

origami pack which i actually got started on with my grandpa, because he wrote two of the first books in english and origami. it has already -- always been around my house. we have the opportunity to share the joy of origami with everybody through paper tree. we not only have this amazing selection of origami books and paper, we are in origami centre. we are called the origami store. we have customers around the world for that to, which is really great. for the community, we are very much involved with a lot of the festivals that we have, and we carry on the tradition of the origami as we demonstrate out the different festivals and we get to do projects -- i get to do origami projects around the world. it's really a great thing to not only be part of the community of japan town that i grew up in, i am a native san franciscan. i'm a third-generation japanese-american. i am happy and proud that we

have this business in japan town there is only four family-run stores left. we feel that those are the ones that really helped give japan town it's labor -- slaver and keeping up the traditions of japanese arts that these other businesses do as well. we are very pleased and honored to be considered for this legacy business and thank you very much for your time. i'm here to answer any questions if you have any. >> thank you. >> hello, commissioners. my name is nikki. i am a san francisco resident and part of the japan town task force and cultural business district. i'm here today on behalf of paper tree and to provide support and hope that you will pass them into the legacy business program. i grew up going to japan town as a young kid, and was always

excited to go to paper tree and to bring home the origami and the books and the arts and crafts and share it with my friends who were not exposed to this type of art. now as an adult, i am the cool aunt who exposes this to my friends' kids that are not aware of this type of arts and crafts. there are a couple of generations of the family that has provided a lot of support and contributions to our japan town community. i hope you will award them with this legacy and bring them into the program. they have been awarded -- they have received many awards. they have been featured in many t.v. programs, magazine articles , and much more. they are an important part of the japan town community. san francisco is extremely lucky to have one of the last physical retail places for origami in all of the u.s. i hope you will deeply consider

that. thank you. any questions? >> any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have action? >> i move that we add this business to the legacy register. >> i'll second. >> motioned by commissioners and seconded. rollcall. [roll call] >> motion passes 5-0, with 2 absent. >> congratulations. thank you. [applause]

>> next item, please. >> we will move along. item four, board of supervisors -- >> does he read it first? >> it doesn't matter. i think it's probably better that the recusal happens before reading. >> okay. >> i need to recuse myself. i'm employed in the cannabis industry. >> for items four -- >> that's it. >> do we need a motion? >> yes. we need an emotion -- a motion and an approval. >> moved to approve the recusal? >> second. >> there is a motion by commissioner dwight and seconded by commissioner riley. should we do a voice call? >> all in favor? >> aye. >> motion passes. >> it is 4-0. okay. >> great.

>> item four. board of supervisors file 181061 planning code. conversion of medical cannabis dispensary uses to cannabis retail uses. ordinance amending the planning code to allow medical cannabis dispensaries with the approval from the planning department for a medical cannabis dispensary used as of january fifth, 2018, to apply to convert to cannabis retail uses under the same conditions as m.c.d. that held valid final permits from the department of public health as of january fifth, 2018. exempting all such converted cannabis retail uses from otherwise applicable conditional

use authorization requirements. clarifying that such cannabis retail uses are not exempted from any minimum gradients that is required by a state licensing authority for distance between a cannabis retailer and the existing school. daycare centre or you centre. allowing equity program or equity incubator applicants who have applications pending to apply to convert to cannabis retail uses. exempting such cannabis retail uses from the minimum radius requirements between those establishments and existing cannabis retail as a medical cannabis retailer. affirming the planning department department's determination under the california environmental quality act, making findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of planning code section 101.1. and making public necessity

convenience and welfare findings under the planning code section 302. discussion and action item. presenters are michael christianson, senior planner of the planning department and nicole elliott, director of the office of cannabis. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon commission. i'm with the planning department before you, we have legislation that the office of cannabis is taking to the board soon. i promised that despite the complex title, it is much more simple than it would seem. we are here to run you through what is proposed and how it impacts existing m.c.d. in this c.d. the legislation is broken into three main areas. the first two are very similar. it is largely just clean up of the existing section. it is background section 190, it is if you are an existing medical cannabis dispensary, it is a process where you convert to cannabis retail permanently. currently all the existing

medical dispensaries in the city are still medical only with a temporary authorization to do battle to use sales and in order to continue that pass a temporary period, they have to formally convert by obtaining a permit. so the initial section when i knew it was adopted in december of last year, it became effective in january. at the time, there were a couple of items that were included in the legislation that had become problematic for existing medical dispensaries in the city. the first two areas of the legislation are cleanups for that. the first is in the legislation, it said that in order to convert under the section, you had to apply for the permit by march 31 st, 2018. unfortunately, there were delays in establishing the permit process, and so we were able to get many of them in by that date , but there were some that missed the march deadline.

due to some confusion, conflicting dates between the planning department on the office of cannabis, our solution is to remove the date, making all of those remaining sites eligible. they are completely eligible other than just being a day late to apply for a permit. the second bucket is just clarification. we had some sites that were approved at the very tail end of 2017 and the legislation basically, section 190 requires you to have your doors open in order to use that section to convert, but if you got planning department approval in december of 2017, you might not have building department approval and build out. so this is allowing -- we are changing the wording to say if you had approval by the day of the ordinance, you can use this section to expand that. the third bucket is an expansion of the scope of section 190. that is a little different.

the final issue that we discovered in working with applicants as we had a number of sites, we had three sites, that had applied from 2017. they still had not received approval. when the legislation allowing adult use sales was adopted this city for a 600-foot buffer between dispensaries. these sights had already invested almost a year in the application process suddenly to be ineligible. the legislation seeks to remedy that by allowing those sights to continue through as a cannabis -- to seek a cannabis retail permit. it is not exempt them from meetings to a public hearing or anything that would otherwise be required for cannabis retail except for the 600-foot buffer

between dispensaries. we had one site that was 599 feet away. that was somewhat surprising for the applicant to have that come up half way through. planning commission reviewed the legislation on november 15th, and did recommend approval of it to the board of supervisors to require that those sights that are -- the ones that had not yet been approved but are getting that 600-foot rule waiver require that they obtain conditional use authorization even if it's not otherwise required for the zoning that the site is in and add an additional finding the finding that the relative -- the relative cannibal -- cannabis uses the facility and whether this would -- giving these operators a pathway to move forward.

that is the summary of the legislation and that concludes my presentation. i am available for any questions >> good afternoon, commissioners on the director of the office of cannabis. thank you for having us here today and for hearing this item. we are hearing this item in large part to clean up what was a very complicated pipeline for many of the operators, and to allow some of our legacy dispensaries to move forward with their cannabis retail permit applications where they otherwise would be unable because they missed the deadline we are really trying to clean up the process, make it very clear for these small businesses exactly how they can and should proceed, and other than that, i'm here to answer any questions that you guys may have. >> okay. any commissioner questions, first, i would like to say you are doing a great job with this. it wasn't easy.

nicole, i know what you had to go through last year at this time, and i know what we had to go through last year at this time and our deadlines and everything, so for you to come back and clean some of this up, especially with the people with the temporary permits and how they can finally be whole, this has not been an easy road, and you should be commended for the work you have done. it is amazing. i have been working this and you guys amaze me. >> thank you. >> you deal with a lot of people from a lot of different communities and i don't know how you do it sometimes. >> it's been a challenging year. we spent the last weekend reflecting back on how far we've come, but we still have quite a bit to do, and we did commit to regularly iterating these processes and policies to better meet the needs of these operators in the community. we have done that about six

times this year. we wanted to do it more next year as well. it will not be the last time we are before you but i appreciate your kind words. >> any other commissioner comments before we go to public comment? >> we will open this up to public comment period do we have any members of the public would like to come and have any say? come on up. >> thank you, commissioners. my name is richard lau. i walk the street a lot and there are times when i see some young people smoking marijuana. three or four of them together. lots of times, the mothers are carrying their baby or pushing a carriage. we do have a reports put out by

our department last year saying secondhand breathing of marijuana is not good for our children, and not good for anybody. i heard something like we have 60 or 50 dr prescription dispensing marijuana. that is supposedly for the health benefits to relieve the patient's' pain. and then we heard that the recreation of marijuana, there is 70 or more, that are only approved. people are putting in an application of a couple of hundred dollar more and pretty soon, there will be more and more marijuana dispensaries of the city. i don't think we need it.

we have lots of patience in our general hospital and they are suffering from lung diseases and the contributing factor of lung diseases is working. marijuana is one of its. so the legislation of the 64 by the people of california give the authority to the local government such as your commission and the board of supervisors regulating the dispensary and distribution and the whole business of marijuana. some countries and in our neighborhood say no for the whole county for marijuana you do have the authority to seize control and the less marijuana is better for our city.

>> any other members of the public? >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is victoria wong. i come from district three. >> my name is jane lee. >> she is from a different district. we all represent our peoples in san francisco. i want to say that even though we don't even have to allow all

of this regulations, this is not good for babies and seniors especially. and i can tell, i walk on the street, and there's people putting needles, and each time, many policemen have to fight with them. they insist that they put needles all over the place and taking marijuana and smoking all over. this is not good for the public, and not good for the young people especially. so i think that you people have enough power to tell and to control, not to have so many of

this law to be passed to allow cannabis to be all over the city , and on the streets. as i walk in the elevator, they are smoking on the street. they are smoking everywhere. even though we are not smoking, but we still have secondhand inhale of the cannabis. so i would say, i hope you people put some control on that. do not open it so freely for everyone to get into it, and especially now, and they make it as candy, and colourful cookies to attract young people. and many young people think it's fun. it is not. they do not know that it will damage their brain eventually. even some of them, their fathers

are saying this is not good. my sun is 25 years old and his brain is deteriorating already. i have only one sun. now i have nobody in the family. so this is a very, a very tough thing. it is not medicine. it is a killer. so i think you people have the power to do something for the young generation. thank you. >> thank you. >> by -- goodbye. >> good afternoon. my name is alan. i am a public health employee, and i am a public government employee representing for public employees. we have more than 16,000 members

citywide. i am not here representing any agency. i'm here to represent the san francisco coalition of good neighborhoods. we are a coalition comprised of 11 districts. we have so many people. the population is so big for asian people and people who care about san francisco. i am a public employee. when we fought in this room for medical cannabis, it was told it is good for patients. it is good for people who are h.i.v., who are dying, who need medical care. that was the purpose to open the cannabis back then. but now, we have a recreational -- you tell me. a patient's drug now has been turned into recreation enables -- in neighborhoods, 85% opposed

and said know , we do not need to cannabis in our district and in our streets and in our neighbours. yes. we have more than 250 applicants that waited in line. think about what you do to the city. i am a public employee. we have a daytime research. we spend so much money for drug rehab. we have so much money that we waste on government waste on drug rehab, homeless, and drug abusers. you and i know we have more than 23,000 people on the street dying from drugs. last year we had more than 200 people overdosed from drugs. what does this have to do with cannabis hearing today?

we have so many people coming in here and packed the room in here and opposed. you approved for medical, so let it be medical. there is no use for medical to convert into recreational if we have so many other applicants in line. it's called government right -- waste. you as commissioners have the right to follow the law. the law and order for people. this is a government place. the government was created by the people and run by the people and we know how hard it is for parents when they face all this craziness in san francisco. thank you. >> any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any recommendations? >> i will. i think the amendments as

presented today are quite reasonable and i think we should approve them as presented. i move that we do so. >> i second. >> there is a motion and it is seconded. do a roll call. [roll call] >> motion passes 4-0 with 2 absent and one recused. >> great. thank you. good job. thank you. next item, please. >> item five. board of supervisors file numbe. administrative code. citywide project labor agreement public work or improvement projects. ordinance amending the administrative code to require

citywide project labor agreement applicable to certain types of public work or improvement projects with projected costs over the threshold amount ranging from 1 million two 5 million depending on the year in which the advertisement for bid is release or 10 million if the project is funded by a source other than a general obligation bond. or why delay in completing the project may interrupt or delay services where use of facilities a discussion and action item. presenters are members of the local business enterprise community. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners thank you for the opportunity to update you on the pending legislation. it is scheduled to go to the budget and finance committee on thursday of this week. i apologize. due to some efforts from mayor breed, and supervisors, a lot of

hours and a lot of time was spent in front of his doors and behind doors. trying to hammer out a piece of legislation that was amiable to the small business community and that protected l.b.e.s and gave labor what they were looking for i think that over the course of the last several months, there's been a tremendous effort to come to a consensus that meant everybody's goals. and we are very, very close to being there. one of the big key items was the protection of the l.b.e. community, and i believe we are very close to having achieved that. and we want to thank the commissioners and the commission for their original support of their amendments to the legislation and we look forward to their continued support knowing that there are amendments that will be put forward this week, most likely

by the cosponsors of the legislation, and hopefully they will be adjudicated and put into the legislation, and make -- as a supervisor said, create no harm to small businesses in san francisco. that's really the only update i have for you, but i really appreciate your support, and continued support. thank you so much. if you have any questions. >> great. thank you. any commissioner questions? >> that was a good update. i really appreciate the fact that you are working with the l.b.e.s and the micro l.b.e.s. you are working with the mayor, and the program with helping the builders in the city and everything. i really appreciate all your work and listening. i appreciate that. >> if it was not for her leadership, we would still be in the room. [laughter]

>> still arguing back and forth. to their credit, labor came to the table and the community came to the table and really hammered out some difficult issues and i think as supervisor joe supervisor said, nobody was happy leaving the room. at the end of the day, the consensus was very close. hopefully we can get there with some accountability pushing to the legislation and i think we will be able to put this want to bed. >> great. thank you. do we have any members of the public would like to make comment on item number 5? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we need to take action on this? >> it is your choice. you don't need to take action. >> i'm happy that everybody came to a consensus, especially with the l.b.e.s. i'm fine with the way it is. any other questions or anything? no? move onto the next item.

thank you. thank you very much and thank you for all of your help and for your work with this. >> item six. presentation on the san francisco economic development alliance. it is a collaboration of nonprofit organizations that provide business training, funding, and ongoing support to bay areas, small and micro businesses serving san francisco discussion item. presenters are representatives of the san francisco economic development alliance. >> so where are the -- do we have the powerpoint? we do have a powerpoint presentation in your packet. >> okay. great. i am the executive vice president at main street one and i serve as the chair of the s.f.

pda. we are here today to provide an overview of our group and to promote the low and free cost services that we provide to small businesses, as well as awareness to partnership opportunities with our group. i will let my colleagues introduce their name and the name of the organization. >> hello. i am the executive director of an organization called start small, think big. >> hello. i am the founder and c.e.o. of an organization called optima business boot camp. >> i am diana and i am the director of acceleration at ica find good jobs. >> hello i am carla and i in the san francisco business relationship manager at main street launch. >> hello. i'm gabby and i am the problem -- program director at la cucina >> hi everyone, i'm with the

mission of economic development agency. >> all right. for an overview, we consist of 17 nonprofits serving local small businesses in san francisco with equitable access to business at acute -- education programs, advising resources, and capital. you will see on slight watch will, the logos of our organizations, and in the appendix is a brief description of each organization as well. our group particularly focused on serving underserved small businesses such as minority owned, women-owned, immigrant owned and lgbtq owned, low income own to start up and legacy businesses. our 17 groups provide referrals to one another to ensure that small businesses have the resources that they need and we have currently been using our collective voice to advocate on behalf of small businesses for a better small business environment in san francisco. several of our organizations

have worked with the office of small business for many years by providing referrals back and forth to one another and on this slide you will see quotes from four of these member organizations. other ways to work with the s.f. pda, are as followed -- we would love to help in promoting the free and low-cost services available to small businesses of san francisco. we are also happy to participate on any panel about small business resources or access to capital. we can also use our collective voice to endorse policies and legislation that supports small businesses and we can provide supporting examples from our clients or from our speakers from our staff. we can also be a resource to landlords. we can help fill their vacancies with our clients and to provide tenants with capital and advising resources. we encourage yourself and the city and other stakeholders to let us know of gaps and needs

that you are seeing facing small businesses so our member organizations can work on addressing those gaps. as far as advocacy, our group has decided to focus on the affordability and availability of commercial spaces. with the current focus on reducing vacancies. some ideas that came up with our meetings with six of the supervisors of san francisco, some ideas included increasing the vacancy fees and penalties, increasing d.b.i. enforcement staff, emphasizing landlord reporting over complaint based reporting, and d.b.i. potentially partnering with the merchant district association to help track vacancies. this last slide shows examples of our services that are covering the continuum of needs of small business owners. i would like to invite each of these organizations plus an additional organization to speak

a minute about the service that they are providing on this continuum. after that, we welcome any questions do any of these organizations, or to what we brought up in the slides, or any small business issues that you would like to bring up. let's start with met up with credit counselling. >> hello. our agency, what we do is make sure that we -- our clients are ready to take a debt or take on a loan to start their own small business. or to suspend their -- expand to their own small business. we have been focusing on credit counselling. we do have different ways through credit negotiations, with collections, or we help a lot -- we work a lot with people who don't have credit established yet. we help them open a secured credit card or things like that. we also help people do their taxes. so they monitor their income and stuff like that. credit counselling has been one of the things that has helped us

to make sure that our clients are ready to take on new debt. >> hello. we provide training in business advising to freelance or small business owners and start up founders. we do this through five core modules. the first one is our freelance accelerator where we work with people who are looking to be self-employed or grow their self-employed business in a six week module to help them get off the ground and make that self-sustaining. the second one is relaunching business course which is geared toward small business owners and startup founders at a very early stage to help them launch that business. then we move into the planning module which focuses on creating a business plan and financial forecast. we found it is still not enough for people to receive funding so we created a building operational capacity course that helps them through the different phases of operating their business. we have our funding a business

course that works with people in the earliest stages of funding through friends and family types of financing. we are the first business accelerator that has been set up as a cooperative which means the people who come through our programs and the people who work in our programs and to a much lesser extent, the investment capital of our programs have an opportunity to become owners of that accelerator and sharing our profits and have a say and how we are run. we funded very differently from most of the business accelerator accelerators and entrepreneurship programs. we have no federal funding and no grant funding. it allows us to be flexible in the types of businesses that we work with, including cannabis businesses. >> hello. we provide a suite of services. we do consulting, we provide affordable kitchen space and we spent a lot of time navigating the ecosystem, specifically for food business entrepreneurship. we are working with wonderful partners and charting a course and doing a lot of advocacy with

for-profit partners and businesses to create equitable opportunities for small micro businesses. we focus on low income people of colour, and today we have 30 businesses run by graduates around the san francisco bay area. and from that we learned a lot about the gaps that are still there for entrepreneurs that have the business competency, they have the proven revenues, they have employees, within the gap in really moving through the program into a place of full self-sufficiency. i'm happy to keep talking about that more margin questions. thank you. >> hello. my name is jenny from start small, think big. we are a nonprofit organization. we have an office here in san francisco and also in new york city. we provide three different services. legal assistance, financial management assistance, and marketing assistance.

on the legal side, we help businesses and all of our 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 had -- during now what was lavers, everyone on stage was a graduate. it was awesome. good job. [please stand by]

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