since march, there are 95 unique clients. the committees and taskforces, as i mentioned to encourage them. to do business with the city, legacy businesses must be suppliers with the city in the county of san francisco. they have access to one-on-one consulting. assistance with the registry applications. technical assistance. and workshops offered around the san francisco small business development sector at no cost. the topics are marketing, manage, books, training, access to capital and technology. providing assistance to legacy

businesses impacted by the construction project. from april to september, the semi-annual period. recorded in the previous quarterly report. and additional from july to september are shown here. and square footage of the replications were about 2600 square feet. there reporting period, we have the legacy business plan. now, the press articles, the legacy businesses and the legacy business program for the quarter between july and september,

including specs. the legacy businesses. and victoria bakery which is a legacy business, the legacy business program was also mentioned in the article. legacy businesses are featured in articles. and new additions to the registry were featured in a news article. two additional articles were featured this semi-annual period. the legacy program between july and september, to august and

september. october and beyond, include working with a creative group from the legacy business program including marketing and improvements. we are in the business of for applications. and creating an application for fiscal year 2020. creating a tool kit how to do business with the city and county of san francisco. creating a tool kit for legacy businesses on purchasing commercial property. investigating, providing legacy businesses to purchase the business from which they operate, and the assistance grant and developing protocols to address the growing demand for the grants. thank you. that includes my presentation. i am happy to answer questions

you have. >> you had a very productive year and you have done a great job of managing the program. i have to say your tweet frequency is sub-standard. >> going forward i will tweet more. >> you have done a great job. it is really great. i am looking forward. >> commissioner? >> i would like to say you have done an awesome job with this. each of the programs. you really put it in the forefront of the community. when i am out in the community, you help me. but, you have done -- you have

really taken this program with the office of small business. i am so proud of you. you have done a great job. so thank you. >> thank you. >> a great job. >> are there members of the public who would like to talk about item number 6? seeing none. all right. item 7. >> okay. anybody, any questions on item number 7? >> no. >> would members of the public like to make comment on the draft minutes of november 26th? seeing none. closed. we move to approve as submitted.

>> second. >> all in favour? >> approved. so motion passes. 5-0. okay. >> item 8, directors report. updated report on the small business sector. the department programs. policy. announcements from the mayor and announcements with regards to small business. discussion items. >> commissioner, before i get into my report, this is the time to do the official welcome for dominica donovan. so, it is -- we want to welcome

her. and she comes to us via boston but worked in d.c. she spent time with the peace corp. worked with the department of education. really, i appreciate her government experience background that she is going to be able to apply to this position. do you want to say a couple of words? >> sorry. i didn't hear you. i will keep it brief. i am honoured to be here and be part of the office of small business. and to really help small business associates. thank you. >> thank you. welcome. >> so moving on to the report, we highlighted some of the information regarding the

accessible business entrance program. i do want to say i am appreciative of the department and the inspection and overseeing the program. they have been a tremendous partner. and really collaborative and working through some of the issues to help us figure out how best to solve some of the small business issues. i do extend my appreciation there. with the small business program, we will meet with the mayor's budget office to review the preservation grants. taking a look at the budget that we presented to you at the last meeting, and the retail vacancys, the mayor made an announcement, i would like to turn it over now to the president of the commission to elaborate on the mayor's announcements around the vacancy retail as the president was very involved in working on.

>> it was introduced through the mayor and the supervisor brown. and a lot of it has to do with streamlining the inventory issues of getting into small, especially small business retail space. and a lot of the now -- the commissioners talked about having to move a store and talked about the licenses involved. a lot of this will be taken care of and streamlined. and allow pop-up stores to come into neighbourhoods without going through the rigamarole. a lot of businesses it takes from 6 months to 3 years to open. and that is unacceptable. and the mayor has realized that.

you know, they want to support a broader range of space issues, create solutions to activate store fronts, including the combined uses within one location. allowing temporary pop-ups and promoting. and streamlining the progress review process, to opening a expanding and operating small businesses and making it as simple and efficient as possible. and supporting temporary activation development sites. i invited them to come speak in fron front of the commission. i think it is a win-win situation for the landlord and for the city. >> and the legislation is yet to

be introduced, once it is, then, it will definitely be before you to review. >> so thank you president adams for that. and the legislation and policy, i will highlight some of the items that you have heard. items that are before the board tomorrow is the last, well, technically was going to be the last board meeting of the calendar year. but they are arguing a special board meeting to hear one particular item that doesn't have to do with small business. so the board meeting is the 10th, it should say the 12th. it will be the second reading of the refuge ordinants. i highlighted some of the key changes, the three key changes that really pertain to the issues that are a concern of our

small businesses. as i noted last time, they changed the definition of a large refuge generators to 40 cubic yards. that did take out a good number of small businesses but not all. also, under the definition of audit, they added the language which may be conducted to analysis of representative samples. that is important, especially for businesses that are going to be audited, the refuge is corrected, curb sites. and then, the first hearing, they are extending out -- spending time for affordable housing and the non-profits, there will be an additional 360

days to engage with the facilitateors. this allows them time to short of remediate the situation before they need to engage with the zero waste facilitateors. we did that for the small businesses. but they will have time to rectify the situation before hiring a zero waste facilitate or. there will be a report on finding the recommendations. after three and a half years. and then, for the programs for candidates. so the director spoke of, those were included. so the agreement was decoupled from the apprenticeship requirement. on your recommendation. i am highlighting the section

that was -- the requirement -- the recommendation which you adopted, the full commission adopted that under the subsection operates in partnership with one or more community based organizations. we are -- ask it to be amended to say san francisco. the community based organizations. i will see if it is specific to the commissioner's recommendation which you have adopted. and we will see if that gets in the final legislation. the director is working on that. we are yet to see. and then, the regulations that you did here with nicole, the director nicole elliott. those have been amended at different times. i have not been able to really

go through and things have been added and changed. so it has its second reading tomorrow. so after it is finally passed, i will do a briefing on what was in the final legislation because the legislation that you heard and provided comment on was the first draft. so there -- and quite a few amendments and changes. and i just wanted to highlight for you that supervisor cohen is creating an african-american arts and cultural district in the bayview point. just to let you know that it is -- the city departments are to submit written reports and recommendations describing the culture objectives of the district and proposing strategies to acknowledge and to

preserve the cultural legacy of that district. so it is working to establish the formation of it. it is not the final legislation that says this is what the historical district is. the project agreement, the informational presentation was given at the last meeting. last thursday's government audits committee. amendments were presented. and i was not able to be at that meeting. and watch the meeting. so i just pulled out a couple of things from the legislation that i think -- that i think will be

of interest to you. so that contractors will position engagement of each contractor on the subcontractor's agreeing to comply with the terms of the project labour agreement and unless the subcontractor is a local business enterprise that has not received over 5 million uncovered projects -- over the entire duration of the poa. so i have not been able to check in. you know that is -- it looks like that was one of the amendments toward trying to make things a little more beneficial. lbes are allowed two core employees per cover project. the first time, no employees were allowed.

lbes were trying to push for more. they have two. and then the final, the final thing that i think is going to be very important is that within one year after the city administration executes the poa, the controler shall conduct annual reviews to evaluate whether there is completion of the project. the cost to covered the project and the impact on the lbes and local work workforce. there is that ability to track the implications of the ordinants. the temporary -- the regional vacancies, it highlights what is in the ordinance. this is a very simple find. and again, it is district 1, 4,

5, 10 and 11 who are -- have -- who are amending the zoning codes to allow for the temporary pop-ups, the flexible retail, and also activity on ground floor. and then to highlight -- to highlight some interesting items through -- that have come into the office as well. we are receiving calls from small businesses wanting verification of the legitimacy of waivers, the landlords are requesting them to sign, due to the june proxy, the additional tax on commercial rents, mostly child care and education. which has been interesting. there is not an official form that i am aware of yet that the

city has created. one business i contacted is in a large sort of manufacturing space. and his business -- his business is in the space, but his business does not fit sort of the traditional manufacturing definition of the property owner. he was confused as to whether he could sign this. the one thing that we need to clarify for our office and i have asked support for this is that if a business is signing this waiver saying i certify that i am a business that -- that basically accepts my property owner from paying the additional tax because they get an exclusion under the proxy, if for any reason that is not quite accurate, who is liable?

we need to dive into that a little bit more how we advise businesses. and on the radar, there will be a presentation early -- or sometime within the first half of next year. the retirement program, it is for businesses that have five or more employees that they are required to offer this retirement for the program. if they do not have their own workplace retirement program. and so it is a business's responsibility making sure that the employees know about the program and have the opportunity to be able to sign up for the program. there is no employer contribution, but there is an obligation on the employer to make sure that the employee is

aware of it. so i will be reaching out to them. i want to know what the outreach strategy is, according to the california employers association, any business with under 50 employees do not have in house hr, so between the 5 and 50, what will be the outreach to ensure that businesses are aware of this. and of course, we will continue to do outreach and make sure people are aware of that. and then lastly, advice for 2019. i have highlighted some of the meeting dates here in the report. may 29th is -- we have rescheduled to may 29th, in may, because of the memorial day

holiday. is it a monday or a tuesday? >> 27th is memorial day. >> so this is a tuesday. and then -- so the may 29th, and november 12th are -- the may 29th is a wednesday, not a tuesday. and then the november 12th is a tuesday, and these are the only alternative dates that i could find for this meeting room for any meeting room, hearing room to be able to have a second meeting in the month. we of course, can cancel it if we don't need it. but i wanted to make sure that we will a second meeting scheduled. so concludes my report. one last thing president adams,

if we could close the meeting in -- wednesday is the anniversary of his passing. >> okay. any questions for the director? any members of the public who would like to comment on the director's report? seeing none, public questioning is closed. any questions for the director? next item, please. >> item 9. the commissioners reports. (reading item 9) >> i have one thing, i want to say thank you to the supervisor vanderman, the office of economic development.

i want to say thank you. the announcement on the storefront vacancy strategy. >> commissioners? >> i attended the city hall, small business pop-up last week. and it was well attended and i want to give a shout out to the city for continuing to support the annual benefit. it is a great opportunity to showcase what the small business businesses. >> any other commissioners? seeing none. members of the public who would like to comment on the commissioner report? seeing none. next item.

>> item 10 (reading item 10... >> anything else, commissioners? members of the public who would like to comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. next item, please. >> each small business commission meeting, small business is the only place to start a new business in san francisco.

the san francisco small business commission is the official area to voice your concerns. next item. >> i would like to adjourn tonight's meeting and honour our member who passed away a year ago. it is hard to believe it has been a year. >> second. >> i have a motion by the commissioner and seconded. all in favour? opposed? motion passes. 5-0. with two absent. and the meeting is adjourned at

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. >> president cohen: good afternoon, and welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. today is december 18, 2018. thank you all for being with us today. for this important meeting. to the members, begin with

attendance, lead the pledge of allegiance, communications and nominate and vote for their president pro-tem. so let's start with the roll call. [roll call vote taken] we have a quorum. so, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. members of the board please join us in the pledge of allegiance.

[pledge of allegiance was recited] >> thank you all. during the roll call for attendance, those marked not present were president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang. my office has received communications asking to be excused from the meeting. a pro-tem officer is appointed by the members, a motion to excuse the members the first order of business. but first, board president malia cohen is among those members not present, pursuant to the rules, clerk calls the meeting to order, and opens the floor for members to make nominations and to vote for their pro-tem. all right. though this appointment would terminate after today's meeting. any member may make a nomination, a second a nice

touch and majority vote of the members present. so, if there's one nomination, we'll take the vote. if there are multiple names in nominations, we'll take a different type of a vote. so, are there any members who would like to nominate president pro-tem? >> yes. >> supervisor yee: i would like to nominate the only outgoing supervisor in the room, that would be supervisor jane kim. >> supervisor yeah has nominated supervisor kim seconded by safai. we'll take a vote on that as supervisor kim as the pro-tem. [roll call vote taken]

there are eight ayes. congratulations, madam chair. >> colleagues, thank you for your confidence in your vote today to allow me to preside over our special board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 18th. more than anything, i want to thank my colleagues for coming in for this special meeting to allow me to be able to vote for this charter amendment to bring this forward to our voters. may i take a motion at this time

to excuse president cohen, supervisor peskin and supervisor tang? motion from ronen and second from brown, do that without objection. madam clerk, call today's one and only item. >> clerk: item 1, charter amendment third draft to establish the free city college fund to defray certain costs of city college students and to require annual appropriations in designate the amounts to the fund, at election to be held november 5, 2019. >> i want to thank the members, primary sponsor, supervisor mandelman, supervisor yeah, ronen, brown, fewer and safai. i did promise a brief meeting, but i did want to make a couple of points before we took a vote on this charter amendment. i just want to recap the journey

that we had been on since 2015 when i first introduced a revenue measure to create more equity here in san francisco. we have one of the fastest growing economies to the envy of cities and states around the nation, yet we also have the fastest growing income gap between the rich and the poor in the nation as well. the great equalizer or one of the great equalizers in our country has always been education, and in the mid 20th century when this country made a very expensive and at the time a very radical decision to fund a free and universal k-12 education system we saw a middle class grow in this country. while that was not the only factor for the growth of the middle class, it was certainly one of them. and during this time we also found a high school diploma was enough to get a middle class job. 30, 40 years later we have seen

technology has raced ahead of education, and that by 2020, 70% of all u.s. jobs will require some type of post secondary degree training or certificate. i believe it's our role as elected officials and as government to constantly review and reexamine the social compact we have with our citizens to provide them a foundation to become successful in our nation and education of course continues to be one of them. in 2015, we started to hear candidates for the democratic party and president talk about tuition-free college, and community members reached out to me in december of 2015 examine what it would mean to use revenue measures for a free city college. over the next four months we worked with our controllers office, ben and his team and in particular, thank jalieal, and my chief of staff, to look at what the investment would look

like and found it does not cost that much. with an estimated revenue of between 20 to $44 million through luxury real estate transfer tax we realized we can make san francisco the first city in the nation to make community college free for all of our residents regardless of age, income or any type of g.p.a. prerequisite and thank my colleagues on the board at that time for supporters a charter amendment with ten votes, i'm sorry, supporting a revenue measure with ten votes that became proposition w, luxury real estate transfer tax, asking those who are doing tremendously well in the real estate economy to invest back in the city to create more equity. the average job available for city college graduate, $11,000 more than the same individual with a high school diploma. l 62% passage in november, able to raise $27 million in just the first year of implementation and able to make city college free

that fall of 2017. however, as you know, through that process, we were able to allocate only 6.4 million of the 27 million to this free city program. we wanted the pilot to begin and get our foot in the door and the program has been much more wildly successful and popular than i think any of us even the strongest advocates have anticipated. we saw a growth that looked to be about 20 to 25% of increase enrollment of san francisco residents and we saw city college adding classes and hiring faculty again. one of my favorite quotes was one of the, one of the faculty members saying that she enjoyed being screamed at by a student for not being able to get to the class because it was full, instead of telling a student that they could not get into the class because it was canceled due to underenrollment. since that time we have gotten so many letters from city college students. including this letter that we received, on behalf of the students of city college, i want

to express my gratitude toward the victory of free city college. as a student and as a graduate who continues attending ccsf, the removal of financial barriers has opened greater skills necessary to prepare for the 21st century work force. i'm a mother of three young children and been working towards a career change in life. obtaining this education is essential and purposing career path that is fulfilling. free city contributes to their talents, and pursue new career paths without going into financial debt. reduced education iniquity and made education accessible for all of our city residents and thank the board for championing free city. it's so important in a city that talks about innovation and disruption, we need to make sure the opportunity is provided for all of our residents. so, colleagues, i just want to thank again our co-sponsors, i want to thank our rules

committee for expeditiously allowing this to come before the board. i know this is one of the quickest charter amendments that have come before the board of supervisors but i really do look forward to working with all of you to champion this in the november 2019 election. i want to recognize the college board of trustees for adopting this charter amendment and recognizing the president, the vice president, and others, and also my former chief of staff, ivy li, the architect behind proposition w. thank the city attorneys for working tirelessly to make sure we could get this done since july, janet and john, and recognize the controller's office, ben rosenfield and his team, michelle and jayliel, will work on this in a different hat without your office and all the data and numbers we would not

have been able to move forward with proposition w or the charter amendment before us. and last but not least, i want to thank the free city coalition. i have really enjoyed standing in front of this campaign but this idea came directly from the community and not from any elected official. it was again members of labor and afc2121 that brought the idea of investing in free city and said this was possible and tremendous amount of research across the country to see what what it would take to make this a successful program in san francisco, examining the tennessee promise, chicago promise, oregon promise, the strengths and pit falls of the program to make sure we would implement a program in san francisco that drew on the strength and also addressed and mitigated some of the challenges they saw, one most importantly, low income students in households did not enroll in free college, we found that

books and transportation and child care costs exceeded the cost of tuition and that was also a barrier attending the college, so unique not only tuition free but for the lowest income students enrolling in city college part and full-time, providing additional stipend to pay for books and other things to be successful in the school. i want to thank afc2121, our president jenny warly, our former president, aleesa, james tracy who worked on it at the partnership, and labor council, connie ford, rita gonzales, and kim paulson. community housing partnership, anokvil rama, and the student

solidarity committee co-chairs. among others. any comments or questions you would like to make before our vote on the question? this is really going to be a short meeting. so -- at this time, madam clerk, please call the roll. >> on the question shall this charter amendment be submitted to the department of elections. [roll call vote taken] >> clerk: there are seven aye and one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. >> colleague, ordered and submitted to the november 5, 2019, election. and failed to thank kitty fong

for working so hard the last couple of months. madam clerk, general public comment. yes, still doing that for the special board meeting. >> at this time the public may address the board up to two minutes on subject matter items within the board's jurisdiction, but not on a free city college. first speaker, please. >> city college for free, first of all, i want to point out to you that there's nothing for free. during the budget cuts, two executive females for city college came up here and said it's a good program but we here before the budget today because we are $5 million in debt. so that's proof nothing for free. you just testified you got multi-million dollars of dollars from proposition w, if so, why is city college $5 million in debt per year. you want to continue this program for 20 years, 20 years times 5 million, $100 million

that the city is in debt. another example of the situation enjoyed by preferential treatment said the people but not enjoyed by the most vulnerable people. you have lower level institutions of schools in order to get to the best schools, junior high and elementary schools, and other school institutions, you have to go to school based on the lottery system. whereas city college is for free and no lottery system involved. in fact, i have to speak up for the teachers as well, because the teachers are not getting paid on time, and just this past holiday season, s.f. -- over 200 instructors that did not get paid. and as a result, they received foreclosure notices from the banks, eviction b notice from the apartment owners, and by the same response, some homeless teachers out in the streets, too. and i want to point out another example of differential treatment, because scott wiener

and the previous mayor put together a $44 million homeless bond for teachers only to build 100 units and 120 units for homeless teachers only. you have a situation enjoyed by homeless teachers but not enjoyed by nonhomeless teachers. moreover, another situation where this homeless bond after seven years of living in the building the teachers have to be evicted and start the homeless teacher situation all over again. >> thank you for your comments. just a reminder, general public comment. not comment on free city college for future speakers. >> thank you, thank you. mr. wright is throwing fastballs and they are covering the plate. this issue, this is coming back to bringing our government back home. this is just one government, and this government needs to say well, we have other governments,

the federal and the state, and there are budgets there, dropping. littering yemen with bombs, couldn't we get a few more, instead of bombs, schools. i mean, this is across the country. people are not going to have a lot of money for the programs for the people but yet we need to bring the governments back home and this is a perfect example of it. good luck finding funding for bringing the governments back home. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberte. any of the other members in general public comment? >> i would generally like to say thank you very much from a city college person, it was free -- i'm not commenting about the i think this, just saying thank you. it was free for me and i've taught there 39 years and if it had not been free, that would have never happened. i know we are not allowed to clap or sing, so, hey! thank you. >> i think we are allowed to

sing. >> thank you. ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ we've got a charter amendment ♪ ♪ to keep city free, from the bottom of my heart i say thanks to thee ♪ ♪ we have free city college for you and for me ♪ >> thank you. >> thank you, police berg. -- miss berg. >> all right, madam president. >> oh, yeah. i just want to say, i wasn't here last week for all the great accolades that, thank you jane kim for a wonderful eight years. i'm proud to be a district 6 resident and close out as board president, one of the great moments. thanks for pushing universal child care, ban the box, and raising the minimum wage wage, and the other thing we are not supposed to talk about in general public comment. thank you.

>> thank you so much, to members of the public. sorry -- flip the page. madam clerk, any further business before us? >> after you close public comment, madam president, i believe that brings us to the end of our agenda and a year that we will remember. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. thank you so much to mike colleagues for coming in today for a special board meeting. we look forward to seeing everyone in the new year. thank you also to our staff and clerks for organizing this special board meeting for december 18th and for the members of the public for coming. today's special meeting is adjourned.

>> hello, everyone. i'm supervisor katy tang. welcome to 12 days of kittens. my staff came up with an idea of hosting animals in our office so people can come and not only find animals that they might want to adopt, but we found it's a great stress reliever for people that work in city hall. they come around all day, whether it's the shift department or upstairs or the mta, just want to pet the animals and it helps people feel better. a lot of people proactively ask us, are you bringing back the kittens? we've been doing this for five years. it usually culminates in a party

in december. we'll see animals adopted throughout the year. if people are thinking about animals to adopt, they may go to a pet store, buy from a breeder, go to spca, but we want people to know that the acc has animals that need homes. >> every year, her office does the 12 days of kittens. and she picks up every morning cute, adoptable kittens. she has different groups of kittens every day and brings them to her city hall office and they're there all day for everybody that goes through to see and enjoy. we adopt out 900 kittens every year, cats and kittens. we're working all year long promoting adoption, getting people in to see the cats. so it's a pleasure it have the opportunity to showcase some of them in supervisor tang's

office. kittens love to play and they're frolicking and all that and it's super fun. >> sometimes they will roam around people's desks. if someone wants to adopt a cat, they can identify any of them that might be hanging around our office, but we have to go through animal care and control, make sure they pay a fee. it's very affordable, as well as they receive the proper vaccination. >> come on down, adopt a cat. there's a lot of kitties waiting for a beautiful home. >> how can you resist this face? >> i think everyone needs a pet in their life. it makes your day so much better. i hope you will support us in