commissioner sharky. our office working with oewd. i caution being overly prescriptive in a dollar value at this particular point in time. >> i many am not suggesting a specific dollar value. i am saying within a range. if we are talking a fairly subjective analysis of what the permit is valued on range between 20 to 300,000, minimum exit point is $340 million. >> we can give suggestions on what we mean by valuation without being so vague that we even got into the conversation because it is vague, and we have, you know, i am in the business of knowing the value of my business. i know about business value

valuations. this did not capture any kind of direction towards the supervisors as to what we mean by value situation, remuneration and valuing the impairment we are proposing here. with we should be careful that we stay -- that our recommendations stay on message about specifically what this is. we have a ten dab see to -- tendency to go on tangents. this is a specific issue. the other thing to consider what if the fda rulessed this product to be unsellable. we should consider what happens. the city isn't going to get anything if the federal

government says you can't sell it. >> say that you can't market it. that is what the fda is deciding. >> i think to vice president dwight, your point is perhaps we point to a definition of valuation. >> i am not suggesting we can can do that right now. i don't know what all of the the components are. i know in the case someone is looking at retirement, that is what is the value, the exit value of my business? can i sell my business? how does restricting my ability to sell tobacco products affect the valuation of the business i invested my life in? you have to do analysis? what is the value in the

business unrestricted in the way this legislation was restricted versus before that? >> i am not cheer. clear -- clear do you have a problem with the analysis? >> the wording of the resolution doesn't have enough information in it to have informative to the supervisors. >> maybe explore industry analysis? >> i think perhaps so we can get this. we have said considered but not limited to as one of the amendments. then i think to vice president dwight's point, item number one tobacco retail permit buy back program evaluation. we come back based upon the discussion having more direction what that valuation is or

direction. >> buying back the license is what you want to do. the store might say i want to keep my license but be compensated for impairment of the license. again, asking to buy back licenses is not the right directive. it may include that. the.a path to coach them on diversification. welcome to business one-on-one. you have got to change with the times. how does that business owner change in whatever his time or his or her time horizon is their business so they get a valuation that they want. it is complicated. >> let me just add one other anchor point here. i was at the mayor's press conference this morning where she was very proud and

rightfully so of this initiative to help with small business, and she spoke quite forcefully about this $2 million grant that has been established and a separate $1 million grant that had been established. naturally when i'm thinking what we are proposing and our costs. maybe i am crazy. maybe that is the wrong word. maybe i don't have the right sense of perspective and my anchor point is too low and i am willing to be persuaded on that issue. based on listening to her talk about, you know, essentially $3 million that has been designated for small business for ada compliance. >> we will review it in the director's report. the press conference. there are several things that are. >> i would say that it appears

to me the ability of the city to renumerate the damage done to these businesses is fairly limited. >> you don't want to come across as being punitive. we don't like supervisors look like they are punitive to small businesses. city hall doesn't like it when others come at them like you owe me something and this is what you are going to pay me. it has to be a rational dialogue around the real impacts. >> this isn't right. i don't think we can solve it here today. i don't have the records for you. this is not me specific field of expertise, tobacco licenses. you have answered my questions today. i personally am not prepared to send this document to the board

of supervisors. if you want to do it with majority vote, have at it. i don't have the suggestion. i don't have the wording how to make this a document that i think will actually get results for the people affected here. >> i will say i want to do something, but i want it to feel like we are saying something that is going to be heard. >> may i ask also what the role of the controller's office is in this realm? looking back at older legislation from maybe 2012 or 2015, it was the first bag feed that was applied for louisian louisianatic bags -- for plastic bags they looked at the impact on small businesses.

why can't we ask that of the controller's office in relation to the numerous tobacco control laws that we have? >> so the point that could be stipulated in here is that, i am getting more clarity, maybe not clarity of commissioner dwight. maybe the first item is not permit buy back program but establishing a valuation, right? so the permit buy back program may be something completely different than the valuation. establishing the valuation helps get to an understanding. we could modify this to say the controller's office be involved in establishing some of the economic determination.

>> i understand what vice president dwight is trying to say. we can't prescribe such limited answer to the supervisors. that is what the valuation is going to be. it is after we get the data economic report fromted or whomever. then it probably seems categories with groups. we can't evaluate every permit. we can establish categories. maybe coming up with a panel of subject matter experts such astor owners

i have a business based on what was given and will be impaired by what is taken back. i think there should be a method for valuing the impairment. that is language that is i'm not

saying that is ideal. it starts getting specific without being prescriptive. >> can you repeat that one more time? >> i wrote it down. if you want me to read it back. compensation for business impairment resulting from legislation that restricts the sale of products heretofore -- that were until now sellable. restricts the sale of products that were until now sellable and are sellable outside of the city's boundaries. >> i can get behind that. >> you can put legal in that. products that for legal products for sale. you know, basically getting in key words. they are legal elsewhere.

the city lets me sell them and has now made possibly impulsesive decision to halt the sale and not giving me, by the way, a runway. part of that valuation can be mitigated by saying i will let you get rid of your inventory. >> then you get to the horse trading. how do we minimize the impacted and therefore minimize the payout. >> i can support that. >> talk about the sentence that precedes that. >> okay. you opened the door. >> reassessment of cigarette litter abatement feeds. >> the sentence preceding. it should include commissioner had previously said consider but not limited to.

>> mitigation measures default should be considered. >> you are headed the direction i was going. further resolved that the city should cashould consider offerie following mitigation measures. does that sound right? >> or consider the following mitigation measures. >> can we end number one with what you just said. >> include the point i made earlier about technical assistance and upgrades in equipment and technology? >> well, let's be careful that the mitigation measures that we request are directly relevant to the legislation that is being proposed.

for example, you can answer the question for me. cigarette litter abatement fee is very specific. why is that reassessed in light of this? because that is correlated to the revenue you get from tobacco products, the abate meant fee? >> can i just make a proposal we could cut it all off right after your sentence. >> what you said. it seems like the purpose of this resolution is to put forth an intent, right? that intent is, look, you are knocking over some boats here. maybe you can take a couple people out of the water or throw them a raft or tell them you are going to call the coast guard, whatever it is. i can get behind just putting our foot in the door to say you

should consider. then leave out all of the detailed stuff. >> you want the cause and effect. >> the cause is the disruptive discontinuation of sale of an otherwise legal product. the effect is depreciation of the value of the business because it is immediately impacted. what you want to try to do is get a path to what you would like to do is figure out how the city puts the businesses on path to recovery, either through training or whatever. less through direct compensation. that is always the hardest ask. the easier ask is say we need an education program. we need an active engagement so

the businesses can be better businesses under the new rules. >> i would like to say that approach has been taken many times. it results in the city using the money that could go to retailers going to a third party that we don't need. >> that is like my concern and my concern with tieing this up in excessive study, you know. i love data as much as the next person, maybe a bit more, but it seems to me that we have a finite number ever number of th. we are diminishing -- i am casting an eye at the office of oewd somehow training these folks. i give them more credit than

that. i am inclined to think that would not be all that helpful. i guess other specific. >> we could make specific recommendations about the ability to deplete current inventory because you are already in. again, it is what is the real damage here? you are telling me tomorrow i cannot sell? is it six months now? that may or may not be enough time to get rid of someone's inventory. i don't know if six months is enough time. one should not carry more than six to 12 months of inventory. >> i can't imagine what 12 months would be. >> that is a lot of cigarettes. >> again, the specific recommendation should be specific to the cause and effect.

a direct eeffect is i have something i can't sell not only in the future but as soon as this is effective, what do i do with my inventory? either grandfather it until it is sold. you can't buy more but sell what up got. i think that is a legitimate ask. we made specific recommendations to the supervisor about that, so the city should take that. >> i would like to leave it implemented in a timely manner. part of the problem is the mitigation wasn't done at the same time of the last two laws and we had fall out. >> minimize coul colorado colo . >> when it was at the department of health and owwd it was a

motion and letter. that was before the e-cigarette legislation was in place. i want to make sure we are very clear that this is being elevated because of the potential e-cigarette ban. this is a cumulative economic issue for tobacco retailers you requested the mitigation measures be put in place that haven't or programs put in place or developed that happened back in september before the e-cigarette legislation was introduced. i also, you know, the intention of having the office of economic and work force development, small business development center and office of small business in addition to the valuations or developing a

compensation, putting that in there, not only giving consideration of programs to develop and budgeting that out and what it would cost but it also puts a responsibility of entities insuring this takes place and reported back to you that it took place because what we saw with the september while the commission made a direction and request, nothing had come of it. we are trying to tie back in some accountable so that this resolution, while we have supervisors who say they want to support and get the mitigation measures, but there is no assurance that they won't receive this and it won't be shelved. >> two questions.

one, the resolution before appiers to have language very similar to the language you just crafted. the mayor and board of supervisors administrator economic mitigation measures in support of small business retailers licensed to sell tobacco. are we just repeating ourselves? the previous resolved. >> without being maybe without. >> maybe we can put in something like the offers of small business and commission will work with soo supervisors on creating a white paper initiative. >> a white paper is generally a kind of a . >> to give you a sense what i'm talking about.

we have done that with fees and contact analysis and then an ask related to that fee. >> i hear what you are saying. i have to say and i don't want to put it all on our office to do the work. i would like to see some money behind this to have experts. it may not be the controller's office or the bla but we have an entity with the expertise of putting valuations on businesses and we contract with those to create the evaluation. you know, there are other ways of getting to this besides. >> us doing all of the work. if the city is saying preserving and not creating vacancies is very important. let's put money and support

behind this with a program that helps our tobacco retailers. >> should we instruct staff to go back and redo this based on our recommendation today? i am struggling with the fact we seem to have just rewritten the previous resolved. >> that is a valid point. i feel like we should table this and take another crack at it and district it around. >> my second question. who wrote this? was this you, commissioners? >> it was dominica. >> i got it. i understand. help me just was this again new person questions like i am trying to understand how all of these pieces come together. was this is result of an office conversation?

>> merchant meetings with supervisors and conversations at the commission. >> first, it was in september of 2018, the commission made a motion directing department of public health and the office of economic and work force development in relation to the flavored tobacco ban about creating mitigation measures, of which some are outlined here. creating the valuation buy back, helping businesses transition into the they don't want to close their business but putting together some meaning full transition support to other products, other things businesses can do up to and including cannabis was one of the items mentioned. this comes from -- this is

initiated from this. then conversations with the merchants and supervisors and supervisor walton said give me specifics on what to do for mitigation measures. i think for the commission to i think it is for the department oewd, small business development center with our office representing the commission and businesses to utilize their expertise which is what they do to develop these. they develop mitigation measure programs like construction mitigation. part of this direction is saying. we give you indication and direct you to some areas of the mitigation that the commission would like to see, but to develop it and as we drafted the final be resolved to also then

develop those mitigation measures to come back to say, yes, this is the right direction, now we work with the mayor and board of supervisors to make it happen. >> we are asking these folks to come up with mitigation measures. that is the intent is to get these departments to come up with mitigation measures that will have a meaningful difference using their expertise at solving these problems in the past. is that fair? then i guess my feedback for whatever it is worth would be the last resolved like run on sentence. to me like the whole jewels thing with that particular. i am getting the nods you agree or disagree?

>> i think the inclusion is to make a point this is part of the justification why this is being written. i am following general format of prior resolutions this is how they are typically written. they are not written to be full sentences. >> i get that part. >> in the first resolve. >> it has the air if jewel gets to do this, we get to do this. citations about jewel are one thing. then saying if you let jewel do this then we should do this. then it is getting into a little bit of . >> the point of jewel is made and referenced in the spirit of equitable policy administration. i think the sentence about jewel after that is not needed. you are getting a point. >> i am fine.

>> i also think it is important that -- i think the ultimate resolution should be independent of specific companies. because then you are actually drawing battle lines in a way you don't want to. you want to talk about policy and legislation. the legislation is certainly being, you know, the impetus comes from a specific company and revulsion to that. it is legislation against a market segment not against a specific company even if it is indirectly. >> i am fine with the points preceding that. >> i have to personally leave. can we make a motion? >> my preference is you don't make a motion that we come back. >> we don't need a motion we

justin? >> i recommend we continue. >> you would only make a motion if there was also a desire to move this forward. >> i recommend including the amendments we made and tabling this. >> not tabling it, continuing it. >> continuing it to either the next meeting and perhaps i think the one last point i want to when we are talking about economics. the city is deriving tax benefit from atic entity in this industry. there is a dollar amount there that can be looked at, too, in terms of developing mitigation measures. i just don't want to forget that. >> mitigation doesn't necessarily come out of the general fund. it could be directed.

that would require further legislation to have a specific syntax on that. >> let's continue it. you are taking off. any public comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. next item. >> item 7. draft legacy accident program annual report for 018-2019. discussion and possible action item. >> just a reminder the presentations are heretofore limited to three minutes. i can make this as quick as you

want. >> are those handouts? >> you have more than that for this thing of beauty, bring it on. >> good afternoon. richard kurylo. i have a power point. this is the annual report for the period april 1st, 2018 through march 31st, 1019. -- 2019. this is a quick high level overview. the report has been rebranded in the legacy business brand style and colors. we are seeking feedback on content, grammar and design. draft report can be found at sfosb.org meetings 10 under may

29 supporting documents. >> the final report will be distributed monday, june 3rd. the executive summary is four page overview of the entire annual report covering accomplishments, legacy business registry, marketing and branding, legacy grants, budget and upcoming activities. this is very quick. the background section is one page of the business program. it is the same as last year except for styling. there are two pages on major accomplishments. order of accomplishments mirrors the order of establishments. there is a picture of st st. mas pub.

the business registry section is seven pages. first two pages address nominations, applications and businesses listed on the registry. there are two and a half pages which list 46 businesses added to the registry since last year's annual report through march 31st of this year. there are three pages on nominators and the number of nominees per supervisor district as well as map showing the 175 locations of businesses as of march 31st. we are adding a picture and quote to bottom of page 15. there were many accomplishments in marketing and branding. it has taken time to complete the section. the copy in your binder is a preliminary draft. we did complete the final draft

the morning. i brought copies which we have distributed and placed a few copies on the table for the public. in the final draft we report on research and developments by the marketing and branding committee which met from september 2017 to 2018. we present the logo and go over the elements and discussed marketing and branding for legacy businesses and the items produced for the businesses including those on the slide. we asked how they plan to utilize the marketing tool kit and reported some of their feedback. lastly, in this marketing and branding section we discussed marketing and promotion by the office of small business including social media information, press releases, notable press mentions and newsletter information.

there are three pages on business assistance services including summary, clients needs and success story about henry's house of coffee. table and another table highlighting the types of services provided. the legacy business historic preservation fund is next. 11 pages featuring rent stabilization and business assistance and accessibility grant. the section on rent stabilization including grants awarded to landlords through march 31st, 2019 since it was issued in february 2017. there are nine pages on the business assistance grant, all 104 recipients in 2018-2019 are

included. there are tables for all three years of the grant. we indicate how the businesses propose to spend the 18-19 funds and how they spent the 17-18 funds. the annual report touching upon the accessibility grant which is presently underway. and the program budget includes this fiscal year and next fiscal year we are checking the date take before issuing the report on monday. this is the second year we included program challenges in the report. the challenges reported this year include escalating staff obligations, budget obligations and legacy business applications. there is a one page section on major upcoming activities.

the order of activities mirrors the order of sections in the annual report. lastly, contact information including small business commission, office of small business and legacy business program. thank you. again, we are seeking any questions, feedback. you are welcome to mark up the draft report in the packet and hand deliver or e-mail us. please behind full that we are issuing the report on monday so we will be making changes by close of business on friday. >> there will go up on the website. >> yes, on the website. >> this is great. very well-done. >> the whole report will be on the website when it is finalized on monday. >> thank you. >> well-done. we need to clone you a few

times. >> there is no question that this program is really the crown jewel of our commission. thanks to your stewardship, of course. i think it is one. you think about on every dimension the most direct engagement we have with small businesses. they are here. they come here. it is all good, really, some of them we have had some tears on the stage. it is a celebration, direct engagement with over 100 some -- a couple hundred businesses. >> 190 now. >> i think the branding elements are solid. i think all in all it is really well-done and well managed. it would be great if we could figure out some programs that

would be as useful and as well run as this for the other businesses, you know, other sectors of business other than just legacy business. how do we make sure we have a good stable potential legacy businesses not dying on the vine. anyway, i think this is a model program and one you should be proud of. we should continue to put, you know, disproportionate amount of effort into, in my opinion. >> thank you for your leadership. it is helpful having the commission provide us with excellent guidance and leadership. >> commissioner did i forget you? any comments before the public comment? >> none. >> thank you, richard. awesome. do we have members of the public to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is

closed. is there any action required here? >> no. >> i don't think we need action. we are seeking feedback. >> i mean it is discussion and possible action to adopt it. not necessary. >> i would say, you know, do your thing unless you get suggestions in the meantime. what i see is thorough and frankly also you have built on what we have approved before. some of this is update and certainly a beautiful layout with our new branding so it is great. >> i want you to prepare my reports. >> april 1st right after the data ends on march 31st to get it here today.

>> unless you need a vote of our blessing, you have our blessing. thank you. next item please. >> item 8 approval of draft meeting minutes. action item. >> any comments from commissioners on the minutes. any public comment? public comment is closed. a motion? >> so moved. >> motion to approve the minutes. >> second. >> all right. >> motion by commissioner dwight to approve the comments seconded. >> voice vote is suffer, i think. >> -- voice vote is sufficient. >> awful in favor. -- all in favor. motion passings. >> item 9. director's report. update and report on the offers of small business and the small

business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor and announcements regarding small business activities. >> i have pressed out the press release from today where the mayor announced investments to strengthen san francisco small businesses. on the back side it highlights $4 million in cornerstone grants. this is financial assistance to small businesses and nonprofit located in ground floor spaces in newly constructed housing -- newly constructed affordable housing. $2 million in small business fee assistance. this will help mitigate funding. it is help offset some of the fees that businesses have in terms of regulatory fees. that is the annual dph and fire

fees and things of that sort. then $1 million increasing funding for the city's revolving loan fund. increasing funding to our loan program to help more businesses be able to start and/or expand their business. then $2 million to expand our sf shines program. that program has been pretty successful in helping businesses either do façade improvements, tenant improvements inside, expanding on that. as commissioner sharky noted earlier, these are for façades, interiors, signage, ada and anything in relationship to historic preservation that may be required. those were early announcements in regards to the mayor's budget

for 19-20. then i had the office was planning on moving from our current location to the other tax and treasurer's office in 140. we are in 110. this was to take place friday and monday. because there are some missing essential parts to the furniture set up, we are now that is going to be extended out to after i am back from vacation in mid-june. we were all looking forward to getting that move done and taking place but it is now delayed. >> do you have a timeline on the move? you will move out of here when the new building is built, is that correct? >> not completely. >> we will definitely always

maintain a presence here. then we will have some presence over at 49 south vanness. >> i don't have to change the preamble to the meeting? >> no, no and that will be late 2020 at the earliest, if anything is happening. we do get a fair number of businesses that are referred from the tax and treasurer's office and they are the newbies in starting the business. it is essential we maintain a presence. that concludes my report. >> commissioners any comments or questions? any members of the public like to comment on in item? seeing none public comment closed. next item, please. >> item 10 commissioners reports. allows president and vice president and commissioners to reported on recent small business activities and make

announcements of interest to the small business community discussion item. >> i don't have anything to report. >> i would like to report i worked with gloria lee and the director tom from sba. we put together -- we worked with the offers of the senator and david chu's office to put together a resource affair on may 17th. we invited speakers to the fair and provided information on different ways to access capital and information about the retirement programming. also the office of small business was there participating and also lawrence from sbc was there. it was pretty well attended.

positive feedback from business owners and potential business owners. also attended some functions on the small business week and may is asian heritage month. i attended the celebrations as well. that is it. >> anyone else? any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> 11. new business. allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. discussion item? any public comments. public comments is closed. >> sfgovtv please show the

slide. >> this is the only place to start your new business in san francisco. the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. if you need assistance start here at the office of small business. all right. next item please. >> item 12 adjournment. >> i move. i second. >> all in favor. aye. >> meeting adjourned at 4:58 p.m. it.

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>> for the first time in nearly two decades fishers have been granted the legal right to sell fish directly to the package right off their boat -- to the public right off their boats in san francisco. it's not only helping local fishers to stay afloat but it's evoking the spirit of the wharf by resurfacing the traditional methods of selling fish. but how is it regulated? and what does it take for a boat to be transported into a floating fish market? find out as we hop on board on this episode of "what's next sf." (♪) we're here with the owner and the captain of the vessel pioneer. it's no coincidence that your boat is called the pioneer because it's doing just that. it's the first boat in san francisco to sell fish directly from the boat. how did you establish your boat into such a floating fish market?

>> well, you know, i always thought that it would be nice to be able to provide fresh fish to the locals because most of the fish markets, you would have to do a large amount of volume in order to bring in enough fish to cover the overhead. when you start selling to the public that volume is much less so it makes it hard to make enough money. so being able to do this is really -- it's a big positive thing i think for the entire community. >> a very positive thing. as a third-generation fisherman joe as his friends call him has been trawling the california waters for sustainably caught seafood since an early age. since obtaining a permit to sell fish directly to the public he is able to serve fish at an affordable price. >> right now we're just selling what a lot of the markets like, flat fish and rock fish and what the public likes. so we have been working for many, many years and putting cameras in them. there's the ability to short fish and we have panels that we open and close so we target the different species of fish by

adjusting the net. and then not only that but then the net sort out the sizes which is really important. >> joe brings in a lot of fish, around 20,000 pounds per fishing trip to be exact. >> we had one day one time that we sold almost 18,000 pounds. >> it's incredible. >> i know, it's hard to imagine. >> but this wasn't always the case for joe. >> the markets that we have left in california, they're few and far between, and they really are restrictive. they'll let you fish for a couple months and shut you down. a lot of times it's rough weather and if you can't make your delivery you will lose your rotation. that's why there's hardly any boats left in california because of the market challenges. my boat was often sitting over here at the dock for years and i couldn't do anything with it because we had no market. the ability to go catch fish is fine, i had the permits, but you couldn't take them off your boat. >> that was until the port commission of san francisco rallied behind them and voted unanimously to approve a pilot

program to allow the fish to be sold directly to consumers right off their boats. >> the purpose of the program is to allow commercial fishers to sell their fish directly from their boats to the end consumer in a safe and orderly manner for the benefit of the overall fishing community at the port of san francisco. we have limited the program to certain types of fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna and rock fish. crab is restricted from this program because we did not want to interfere with the existing crab sales on taylor street and jefferson street. so this is not meant to favor one aspect of the fishing industry more than another. it's to basically to lift up the whole industry together. >> and if joe the program has been doing just that. >> it was almost breathtaking whenever i woke up one morning and i got my federal receiver, my first receivers license in the mail. and that gave me permission to actually take fish off my boat.

once we started to be able to sell, it opened things up a bit. because now that we have that federal permit and i was able to ppetition the city council and getting permission from san francisco to actually use the dock and to sell fish here, it was a big turning point. because we really didn't think or know that we'd get such a positive response from the public. and so we're getting thousands of people coming down here buying fish every week and so that's pretty cool. they like the fish so much that they take pictures of it when they cook it and they send us all of these pictures and then they ask us, you know, constantly for certain types of fish now. and when they come down here the one thing that they say is that they're so amazed that the fish is so fresh they could eat a little bit during the week and it's still fresh all week in the refrigerator. so that's really cool. >> the fish is very fresh and the price is super. i don't think that you can get it anywhere in the bay area.

i can see it, and i can stir fry it, wow, you can do anything you want. i just can say this is a good place to shop and you have a good experience. >> this program supports the strategic plan in terms of engagement, people being connected to the waterfront, and also economic vitality. because it's helping the fishermen to make ends meet. they have no guarantees in their businesses, not like some people, and we want to do everything that we can to help them to have a good and thriving business. >> how does it feel to be able to sell your fish locally kind of in the traditional way, like your grandfather probably did? >> when i was a kid and i used to work in my dad's fish market, a lot of the markets that we sell to now are second and third and fourth generation markets. so i remember as a kid putting their tags on the boxes of fish

that we shipped out of monterey and ship down to l.a. so it's kind of cool that we're still dealing with the same families. and this is probably about the only way that anyone can really survive in california is to sell your own fish. >> one of the advantages of this program is the department people that pull in the fish, they can find out where they caught it and find out more about the fisherman and that adds to their experience. the feedback from the fishers has been very good and the feedback from the customers have very good. and there's a lot of people coming to the wharf now that might not have done so. in fact, there's people that go through the neighboring restaurants that are going to eat fish inside but before they go in they see the action on the dock and they want to kind of look at what's happening on the boat before they go in and they have a meal. so it's generated some conversation down at the wharf and that's a good thing. >> as you can see by the line forming behind me getting ready

to buy fish, the pilot program has been a huge success. for more information visit sfsport.com. (♪) (♪) >> all right, we are going to get started. this is the regular meeting of the san francisco unified school district for may 28th, 2019. it is now a call to order. roll call, please. >> thank you, commissioner. [roll call]