hospital partners who, frankly, are showing, you know, significant revenue in san francisco, most of them, to be part of solving these problems. even if it is not in the da, and i know the mayor reached out to the hospitals and asked for help around beds that she was looking for, and i think it is incumbent upon the hospital community to step up to be solutions to this plethora of issues which sub-acute is part of it those are my points as a newcomer to this conversation. >> i think that is a good point. i want to say one thing i thought about in this conversation, it always struck me and i am glad she is here

today. we used to have -- was it 40 licensed or 60 licensed sub acute? they were the only one. this conversation is narrowly focused on cpmc sutter. some of that is decisions far before we as policymakers were here. they were made in the overall city. this is something the department of public health and there is a move, i guess, in the last 20 years to get out of the business of sub-acute care. it doesn't seem to make sense to me. those patients are not going away. those patients will need care. what we are saying in our decision making is, yes, but someone else is going to take care of them so we are going to send them to sacramento and san jose and to los angeles. to me that just seems it might

seem cost-effective in terms of just the bottom line, but in terms of just decency and humanity, if that were your family member that you wanted to go visit and you live here, how are you going to go visit them? it causes a lot of pain and discomfort for everyone involved in this conversation. i want to say for the record i did say this to the doctor yesterday, i understand we don't want to narrowly focus on cpmc. i do think cpmc should reconsider and do everything they can to be part of the solution. the facility itself is licensed and built out for sub acute care and sniff, and i think they should continue to do that. they should find a way to do that. also importantly and this is why

i want her to come back up to talk more about this is that we have other partners willing to step up and expand the number of sub-acute. myself and supervisor peskin spoke with the doctor yesterday. we want to invite the hospital council and cpmc because you are the only ones with current sub acute beds to set down with myself and first and more most supervisor peskin. chinese hospital is ready to step up to do this. we want to take advantage of that and we want to move. chinese hospital is having its own problems. i want to say for the record we want to invite cpmc to sit down with myself and supervisor peskin and chinese hospital to solve that and move to get those beds filled. can you come up and talk more

about some of the more immediate plans to expand this care? what i want you to do in light of that is and i asked this before. what is the right number of sub-acute beds we should have in the city and county of san francisco? >> it is hard to pinpoint a right number so ballpark we are landing around 49 to 80 beds would be a starting place number. people remember last year director garcia had reference to 70 beds that year. the number of discharges in the year that we were doing the survey that was closer to 49, but we acknowledged that number is deflated because you can't just count people who went to sub-acute because a lot of people go to alternate

destinations that might have gone there had it existed. that is why the number is placed in that range. >> can you speak a little more about the immediate plans with dignity and chinese hospital? i know that was referenced. i definitely want to dig in on that. >> we have been having ongoing conversations with chinese around the 23 bed unit originally outfitted to be skilled nursing facility. we asked if they would convert that. those conversations have continued to take place, we accompanied them to cdph when they were working with them around some of the barriers to opening the unit, which is predominantly around having food access. the kitchen as currently constructed is smaller than what can serve those 23 beds. we were trying to be

collaborative to problem solve that and we have that conversation with them. we asked for an active proposal from them with operating costs and capital cost to do the opening of the sub-acute. we put in that request for the proposal before the hearing today to give you something concrete. it was not forthcoming. the department is continuing to meet with the leadership. >> of chinese hospital? >> of chinese hospital. now we have had the hearing we hope that gives it more traction to move forward. >> i understand there is leadership change at dph and a bit of turnover and we have gone through a transition period. respectfully, as you said we had this conversation with doctor garcia. i know that we made some serious progress with dignity, and that got paused because of change in leadership over there.

we have gone through a change in leadership in a couple of different places. i want to say myself and supervisor peskin want to invite to sit down. we want to move to get this done. >> that would be very helpful. we look forward to participating. >> i want to say for the record. can you speak a little bit about the kent field. i will ask the chair to continue this so we can come back to say where we are in terms of numbers of sub-acute. we want to hold the department accountable and ask the hospital council to step up so we can come back with concrete numbers. >> we are continuing to have conversations with dignity. they are currently having conversations internally and with other external partners

about what will happen with the st. mary's space. it was our first go to because they have a space available that could be converted. consent field is provide -- consent field is pro -- kent field is doing the sub-acute. the conversations were moving to proposal stage when the leadership change occurred. the message from dignity now is the conversation is on pause and they anticipate coming back to the department in november with the status if they are willing to move forward or pursue other options. does it mean the department is done with the conversations with dignity? we have conversations about why it would be helpful for the city and county of san francisco to keep sub-acute as an option.

>> it would be important to have a timeline. can you talk about the conversation? there is a conversation between residential care versus acute care and hospital care. can you talk a little bit about that. >> for the department? >> just in general to get to the 50 to 80 sub-acute beds are these all hospital based? >> no, because the department doesn't have any authority over hospitals to say you have to put in a sub-acute. we are currently looking at all options how we could bring it into the city. the next opportunity that we can see happening most quickly would be by talking to freestanding skilled nursing facilities as in the report. we had them and the department outreached all providers doing pre-standing skilled nursing skill in the city about

willingness to open new beds or if they have facilities struggling, which will are in the city some skilled nursing facilities having issues, whether they could become sniff sub-acute. >> in that conversation does the city and county, are we involved in reimbursement, hoping them? are we doing subsidy for the care? >> we have just begun having outreach conversations. initial feedback that was not preferred choice. the choices for hospital based dwindled we opened up lines of communication at the same time so we would be able to explore all options rather than no options. the expectations is likely we will enter public private partnership. the structure is open for

discussion. we haven't had sit downs with those partners yet. >> i think if we were to say in 90 days, if you were to come back at some point we will continue this at call of the chair. we want an update on that and need to move aggressively with conversations with dignity and chinese hospital. >> the outline was that we want clear proposals to bring back to the board by november and then hopefully have a decision by december to begin implementation. >> that would be 60 days. october november. >> we will try to get something to you by november and have implementation plan by december. we will try to stay on track. we appreciate how important this is to to city and to the board. >> thank you. i wanted to ask you two more questions.

supervisor stephanie, did you have questions? we will wait. we have a couple questions. >> just trying to wrap my head around what to do as policymakers to provide sub-acute beds or ask the hospitals to partner to do that. why doesn't southern california have the same shortag shortage e and what are they doing to have this care readily available? i am trying to understand why we have a lack of beds here. one thinks financial, of course, but you can help me understand that, that would be great. >> i think it is real to state when you look at southern california, there is a great deal more acreage of land to build these kinds of facilities. the other thing is the bay area has free standing skilled nursing facilities offering this

level of care, but i think that the bay area struggles very much with many competing care vulnerable populations that need support and care and that is true for the department of public health, particularly over the last 11 years that i have been with them. it is selfish who are you going to serve with the limited resources we have available to us, and i think it is a constant struggle to prioritize. we are at a point where it is clear that sniff sub-acute is one of the population we need to put the time and energy to. >> what are the implications on the acute bed population if the patients aren't able to be discharged to sub-accute beds. do those patients stay longer than necessary in acute care?

>> absolutely. >> have we looked at the cost of that? >> i think getting cost of care -- the cost of care in a hospital the hard. we have some sort of projected numbers. we didn't want to put that into a presentation when it was such a soft number. we want to spend time to give it validity. we will be working towards that. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. >> my question is what is the plan for the space at davies? it is licensed for smith-sub acute now? what is the plan. >> well, through the regulatory

bodies, those beds are -- sub acute is a sub designation of sniff so they are licensed for sniff now. they go through a process by which they are termed active skilled nursing beds versus sub-acute. wwe currently have nine beds remaining for sub-acute. holding one available in the event there is a need for one of the patients to develop respiratory infection and needs a room by themselves. >> the ones not sub acute are just remaining sniff. correct. >> that is your long-term plan currently? yes. >> the floor is licensed for 17

sniff sub acute or are the rest not licensed as sub-acute. you said nine are. you converted them back to sniff? >> correct. >> so what i want to ask, and i said this to doctor brown yesterday, i would like at a minimum to reconsider keeping the nine that you have as sub-acute to be part of the larger conversation to get us to 80 city-wide beds. i know there are other hospitals. i am not just asking this today of cpmc. we are asking the entire hospital council to step up, st. mary's, chinese hospital, dignity, kaiser, everyone in san francisco needs to be part of this solution. it wouldn't be on cpmc's

shoulders at some point we made a decision to move away from it. now we realize that was a mistake. you are not obligated legally as part of the development agreement to maintain these beds, but you are obligated to be part of the solution so we would like you to reconsider that, if you would take that back to your leadership, if you could. >> of course. >> would you also since you are the only one speaking today, would you commit to being part of this conversation to work with chinese hospital and dignity and others to come up with a longer term solution? >> yes, of course. >> that is it. thank you so much for answering the questions today. i will close by saying quickly, chair, thank you for taking the time today to speak about a very important topic. it is something that i felt

compelled to be a part of, as i said in my opening statement. st. luke's is a lifeline for my district and neighborhood. so many people come across like supervisor stephanie with a family member with a correction or born in st. luke's or have a personal relationship with someone working there. i am thankful that cpmc committed to keeping the hospital open. it is important for our community. we then transferred the conversation to cpmc davies. now this is where we are. we do take responsibility as a city as well because we made mistakes in this conversation, and the decisions made have impacts on people's lives. we have to figure out a way to get to 80. i am glad she is here to say in 60 days we will get an update. we are looking for dignity,

chinese hospital, cpmc, kaiser, everyone that is part of this system in san francisco to be part of the solution to get us to the right number of sub-acutes beds, and 50 to 80 is a starting point. i am hopeful we will get a better idea what that needs to be in the overall conversation. this was not a comfortable conversation. it was very uncomfortable and personal to visit the families in their current state, and i appreciate the families for inviting us down, and i appreciate all of the folks that come out here from cpmc and add row -- advocates. we want everyone to be part of this conversation. we think it is that important for our county.

thank you, mr. chair, for giving me leeway in this conversation. i would continue this to the call of the chair, probably in about 60 days we will come back for an update, not as long of a hearing. we will get a quick update and engage with the different hospitals to move this conversation forward. >> thank you. you have made a motion to continue to the call of the chair and we will take that without objection. mr. clerk any more items before us today. >> clerk: no further business. >> all right, then we are adjourned.

>> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in

particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts

and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today.

today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the

city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is.

>> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning

properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area

where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook?

>> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe.

>> my name tom hewitt. first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. this safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. >> hi. my name's ed sweeney. i'm the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of san francisco to come down and meet all the experts. we've got engineers, architects. we have builders, we have

government agencies. >> well, we have four specific workshops. we have the accessible business entrance. >> my name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. i am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. so all buildings that have places of public accommodation in san francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. >> the a.d.e. was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. >> one of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months. >> and it's really to help the

public, the business community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. >> so on this workshop, we're going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. we'll also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the mayor's office on disability. >> hi. i'm marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. today, we'll cover the meaning of a.d.u.s, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. we'll talk about the code and permitting processes, and we'll also talk about legalizing

existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. >> this is the department of building inspection's residential remodelling workshop. my name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, we're going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when i'm upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and what's involved with the coerce process? we're going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in san francisco. there's always questions that need answers. it's a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors they're working with and the product they're getting in the results. if you have questions that

aren't addressed in this workshop, you're always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 mission street, and we're happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. >> the program is very successful. the last piece is already 60% in compliance. >> well, we have a very important day coming up. it's sept 15. last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how they're going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. >> i'm francis zamora, and i'm with the san francisco department of emergency management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in san francisco. and so that's really

importantiimportant. in san francisco, it's no secret. we live in earthquake country. there's a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we don't have to be afraid. these are going to be your first responders outside of the police officers, paramedics, first responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. by getting to know your neighbors, you're going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. one of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, san francisco neighborhood emergency response team. it teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. san francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. if there's some kind of an

emergency happening in san francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. all you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. >> my name is fernando juarez, and i'm a fire captain with the san francisco fire department. we have a hire extinguisher training system. you want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. if you're too close, the conical laser that comes out, it's too small, and the fire won't go out

on the screen. if you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. so it can tell when you're too close. >> my name is alicia wu, and i'm the director of a san francisco based nonprofit. since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. today we're doing c.p.r., controlling external feeding and how to do perfect communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. >> on any given day in san francisco, we're very well resourced in terms of public safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large

scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the public safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. there's websites. we have a wonderful website called 72hours.org. it tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. we can't emphasize enough how important it is to watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what

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everybody would be at work and it would be a couple of us today. but i see the cole valley community came out. thank you so much for being here today at wooden, one of the newest establishments right here in the cole valley community. this is an amazing neighborhood. so many great places like reverie and the ice cream bar and zazie. this is an incredible place to enjoy the day. there's wine that you can buy. there is a postal service. there is hardware. anything that you want is located in this community. it's one of the best-kept secrets in san francisco. i know that because i come out here and hide a lot. [ laughter ]. >> mayor breed: but of course the community, they recognize me because i served as a supervisor and one of the things that we know happens sometimes with our

small businesses, they get caught up in the bureaucracy, when all they want to do is provide a service to the community. this is a neighborhood where people know one another, where they walk down the street and see one another, where they hang out in places like this to enjoy each other's company. where we have watched kids grow up in this neighborhood. the fact that small businesses which oftentimes are run by the owners of the small businesses, the fact that they have to deal with so much bureaucracy makes me crazy. one of the things i have said we need to do time and time again is can you tell the bureaucratic red tape that gets in the way of allowing our small businesses to just exist and be enjoyable for communities like cole valley. [ applause ].

>> mayor breed: so i'd like to use this as an example, and let me pause for a minute and recognize captain bailey and the folks from park police station and the people who keep our community safe. we really appreciate you. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: but when i was supervisor, val, you remember this, free gold watch. you all know that, the pinball machines in that place. so free gold watch, an incredible place. there were pinball machine tournaments, there were activities, a place where the community came together. well, unfortunately it discovered after they opened that they were basically not in compliance with the law. years ago in the 1980s when we thought that video games were going to destroy young people, destroy civilization as we know it, all these laws were created that limited the ability to have these arcade locations within the certain area of the school

or a park or gas station and all this craziness. i just couldn't believe it that we could potentially lose this amazing institution because of some dated laws. of course, it's not just about creating new laws, but about fixing the old laws that put us in this situation in the first place. we got rid of that. free gold watch and all these other amazing places are open to bring back our childhood for most of us who lived through that time. this is no exception, where i think you just -- if you just wanted to basically have music and sell a little bit of wine and beer for a comedy night. what he had to go through has been crazy because of some laws that were passed that impact

neighboring communities which is sometimes unfair. what we are doing today is making it easier for small businesses to provide what i think is a basic community service. of course, when you're watching comedy, you have to have wine or beer or some kind of beverage in your hand to just enjoy it. because most of the comics sometimes aren't even funny. [ laughter ]. >> mayor breed: so here we are. trying to make it easier for our small business community and sign this legislation. my commitment to addressing what we know is a real challenge around how small businesses are able to survive and thrive in this city is important to me. dealing with our empty store fronts, coming up with new solutions, both with changes to our policies but also with financial investments. even if we can't get rid of certain fees, i do think it's important that we continue through the mayor's office of economic and workforce development under the leadership

of qua -- joaquim torez to make sure we are working with small businesses to do facade improvements and many others. this is how we're going to get there and the board of supervisors who has been incredibly focused. even before she was on the board of supervisors where she served as a legislative aid for two previous supervisors, i was one of those supervisors, there was no one more committed to supporting small businesses and being responsive to the community than your supervisor, district 5 supervisor, val brown. [ applause ]. >> i just want to thank a few people. i have them written down. i want to first thank the mayor. i want to thank the team at

o.e.w.d., ben, when we were doing this legislation, it was grinding. just because it was pushed out, came back. ben would come back and think he had a way to do that. i want to thank my aide in the corner hiding like normal. [ applause ]. >> he kept saying, we can do it, we can do it. i want to thank the chamber of commerce. they were there all along coming to meetings and speaking in favor. the council of district merchants. and really especially the cole valley community. when this came to me -- i have to say, though, this is kind of a bit of a strange groundhog day for me. when we talked about this, actually planning came to us ten years ago and asked us to clean up a lot of the regulations around these kind of

restrictions for businesses, because they said they were archaic, hurting small business. you have to remember ten years ago we were in a downturn, the economic downturn. we just didn't have time or the bandwidth to deal with it. when this came back to me ten years in the making, that happened with clean power. i started clean power and finished it in supervisor breed's office. this was ten years in the making again. but this time i said, hey, you know what? this is a heavy lift, but we need to do this for small businesses. we need to do this for the person that comes every morning, opens up their door, is here serving coffee, is here cutting your hair, giving you some of the best cheese you've ever had at say cheese. we need to do this for small business. they're struggling. we, as a city, should be doing everything we can to keep small

businesses in place and to open small businesses. we need to be able to take the regulations away that hurt them, to take the time it takes to open a small business. i don't know how you can afford to pay for a space for a year to 18 months before you even have a business. how is that possible? you have to probably save for two years just to open a small business. so we have to say no. we have to make sure that we protect small businesses. because, look, i lived in lower haye for 20 years and then i moved into this community. i feel it's a mayberry. i walk down the street and know everybody. i can go from one store to another and get what i need for my everyday needs and meet the people that i absolutely adore on these streets. so we have to keep these

neighborhood corridors vibrant. if we don't have vibrant neighborhood corridors, what does that do? that affects the whole entire community. when the neighbors came to me, cole valley, and said, look, we really support this business. they want a simple beer and wine license so he can have comedy night. how many times does a neighborhood come to you and say we want this business of a beer and wine? usually it's the owner, right? i said, wow, steve, you must have done something right in this neighborhood because they absolutely loved steve and said, steve, we want you to be here and successful. the least i could do was take this legislation and push it through. now, it took me three times before it went through l.a.n. use and i had third time is a charm and we got it through.

we did it and we all worked together, and it was unanimous at the board. i want to thank everyone who was involved. there was so many people who came out for public comment. people behind the scenes saying this is what we need. steve, you came to those public comments. your staff watched the store while you came. your café. you waited and spoke three times. i'm sorry. we shouldn't be doing that to small businesses. so really appreciate your time becau because, steve, you helped the whole city. you helped the whole city when the supervisors heard your story and they said, we've got to help this person, this small business, you helped the whole city. so you're an activist. [ applause ]. >> so that point i'm going to introduce steve wikwire that

owns this marvelous café and give you a few words. thank you. [ applause ]. >> thank you all for being here. so some of you know i opened this shop after working in san francisco for ten years. i wanted to bring my passion and dedication for really high-end coffee service to cole valley, where i thought it was needed. it's been really awesome and amazing being able to contribute to this community. with this legislation passing, we'll be able to contribute more, namely, staying open later, providing beer and wine service, and doing really fun comedy shows here that i think will just breathe some new life into the neighborhood and add to the mix around here.

i really just want to thank our district supervisor vallie brown and her team for supporting this. [ applause ]. >> if we do want to see more small businesses opening and being run by community members, people who want to serve their communities. it just needs to be a little bit easier to do. we need more pathways for these businesses to grow and adapt as they move forward. so that's really what this is all about. all of your support has made that happen here, so thank you all so much. [ applause ]. >> thank you. up next is rodney fong. >> thank you, steve.

congratulations. i feel like it's a new day. it's a fresh breath of air. it literally is a chamber of commerce day here in san francisco. i want to thank mayor breed, supervisor brown for being champions of this legislation. all of the points you bring up about the vitality of san francisco, how important it is for our streets to be filled with people and to get involved with businesses. at the chamber of commerce we've put an emphasis on small businesses. i feel growing up in a small business and running our wax museum down at fishermen's wharf, creativity is the secret sauce. if we can give entrepreneurs the ability to be cultivators of

things, we're going to do well. i'm happy to be here. i hope we have many, many more opportunities like this. congratulations to the planning department and clearing some of the red tape. hopefully we can get more businesses open here this san francisco. thank you very much for coming, and congratulations to you. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: thank you, rodney. before we sign this legislation, i just want to thank our two small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commission and sharkie, one of the newest sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ]

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>> evening everyone. welcome to the commission meeting. anthony, roll call. >> this is the meeting of the tran04 tran02. it is tuesday, september 24, 2019 and the time is 5:01 p.m. a note and the ringing and use of cell phone and electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. plea -- please be advised that any person may be removed for the ringing