my name is joseph sweiss a fellow commissioner on xhum human rights but but leer on the air american democratic club because we work with merchant groups and merchants a lot of which are too busy to come to these kinds of events but we're also appreciative for this. i love the parklets and i'll be brief. i think they're great for commercialppreciative for this. i love the parklets and i'll be brief. i think they're great for commercial corridors and neighborhoods. i think based on merchant association neighborhood meetings with supervisors and supervisor mendelton it's time to update the codes in regards to the table service. a lot of restaurants and cafes that do serve food do find an awkward daily occurrence where

they walk up with a plate that isn't to go and they're going up to consumers that may be mostly tourists depending on the district like the castro or hayes and have to constantly explain you have to stand up and come get your food with me and because they incur costs and keep the space public and don't inhibit the public use and maintain it and keep it clean they'd like to have more of a conversation with the relevant agencies maybe how certain restaurants or cafes could maybe have a more updated amendment to these codes to be more of a seamless effort with the public spaces. i know after we met with the supervisor we thought the next best thing would be to inquire with the small business commission since you're the subject matter experts to see what you think and what we do going forward and i would love a follow-up discussion with

stakeholders and community members interested and supervisor and merchants to see if it's a good time to discuss amendments that are good for the small businesses and members of the public. that's all i'd have to say and i'd like to see the conversation move forward. thank you so much and thank you for the presentation. >> commissioner: thank you very much. any other members of this public. seeing none, public comment is closed. i'd like to thank the members of the public and there say restaurant in the castro -- is a restaurant in the castro i won't name the restaurant on 16th street and they string the lights up and were told not to serve and yet they serve and i don't have a problem with that bit know the -- with that but i know the owners want to work with the city in legalizing

that. maybe that's one thick the commission can do -- thing the commission can do going forward continuing the conversation and especially with a lot of the smaller restaurant owners who want to engage. that would be great idea. commissioner dwight. >> i had one comment to your question and i wanted to say it's always a good time to ask questions how to improve situations for small businesses in san francisco to the extent the merchant associations and merchant and restaurants are interested in having that dialing -- dialogue first to the cdma and they can inquire with their memberships what merchant associations would like to finish the conversation. always look for ways to make life in san francisco better and easier for businesses. >> commissioner laguana. >> i'd like to echo what commissioner adams and dwight. i was listening earlier and

thinking why can't they? it's essentially serving that purpose anyways. it seems like an arbitrary distinction that is lost on me. it's a great conversation to have. i can't speak for my fellow commissioners but i'm strongly in support of having that conversation. i'm sure there's a reason for it. i can't imagine what it was. if there's a reason let's have a conversation about what reasonable exception to that reason might be. >> commissioner: thank you. any other comments? thank you very much for your presentation. this was a very good presentation this evening. thank you very much and for coming tonight. >> thank you. >> commissioner: next item, please. >> clerk: approval of the minutes action item.

>> commissioner: any comments on the minutes? >> nope. >> commissioner: do members of the public would like to comment on item number 5 the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve the draft minutes for october 28? >> move to prove the minutes as present. >> second. >> commissioner: all in favor of voice vote. any opposed? okay. next item. >> clerk: item 6 director's report and announcements from the mayor and regarding small business activities, discussion item. >> commissioners, just passed the director's report so just wanted to make sure each were able to get a copy.

so just want to make sure i'm doing a reminder about the implicit bias training. i realize there's been complications for some commissioners in being able to log on. we're both gone the week of the 23 through the 27 and she's gone the week afterwards. since it does need to be completed by the end of the year, to resolve the issues i'm requesting you try to test out logging in to get the issues resolved so you're able to complete the training in time. and i think it's hard to know whether it's the user number or the password so feel free to call me with issues so i can help figure this all out four.

-- for you. then the next thing is there is and i pu put this under city initiative and programs because it's legislation that is going to be requiring departments have a hearing on the budget twice when the mayor introduces the budget. that does mean this is at to the board of supervisors tomorrow for the first reading. i anticipate it's going to pass. this will mean we'll need to schedule in two hearings for our budget is -- so the timing will be probably in february but i'll know more by the end of the month in terms of the mayor's budget timing for submittal. it could be from the last meeting in january to the last in march we're scheduling a

presentation. i wanted to provide an update for active space. december 6 was the final day for the submission to the planning department around for those businesses that need to get legitimized in establishing the youth for that space because the majority of the active space the uses were never officially established. the property owner is taking responsibility for that. and so did get the submittals in. and did inform us they will be assisting those businesses that are office space. the legacy program so we're in our final stage of selecting so

we'll have a decision done by the end of week and be able to inform you on that for the plaques. then we're in the new position for the legacy business program is making its way through the approval process through h.r. and the budget office. couple things i wanted to bring to your attention is that the sfmta is going through a whole new look and potential revision to the curb color management. i wanted to bring that to your presentation. if you'd like a presentation we'll work to schedule that. there's a congestion pricing advisory committee meet from external stakeholders and internal. so for the external stakeholders the sfcdma mario magonom is on that committee but i do think

it's probably advisable we ask for updates to be presented to the commission as well. so if you would like that, let me know. and we can start scheduling those updates and providing you with materials to read. >> i wanted to ask a question on the congestion pricing. definitely would like a presentation and from previous things put out congestion pricing would tend to impact some neighborhoods much much much more than other neighborhoods. is there going to be a time those areas could speak? >> that's a good question. i don't know. we'll ask for the sfcta to provide a presentation for you.

>> so taxi hailing is not a congestion tax? >> no. >> the people who use city streets for the purpose of running a business or using a public right-of-way as their primary source of revenue which makes it harder for small businesses they need to consider different tiers based on usage. >> we can write them here. >> and impacts residents. >> okay. >> so great. i just wanted to put it on your radar since they've had a

meeting. i will be taking information from their committee meetings and forwarding documents so those interested you can do nighttime reading. then moving on to legislation, supervisor peskin has initiated a request to the city attorney's office to draft a definition of small business based on number of store fronts, employees, actual or anticipated annual gross receipts. i think he's looking at creating some sort of definition to apply for fee mitigation and we have reached out to supervisor's peskin's office to make sure our office is involved. right now we use the state definition of 100 employees or

less. i think that's important. that's for employee regulations and the fact is the majority of our businesses that ploy employ one or more is 10% or 80 or more employees. i'd want to caution any specific d definition being the definitive definition dealing with small entities. >> i think they should call it something in and of itself like micro business. we're not harmonized as it is with the state and the federal government. we need a category where

everyone can agree. we're not talking about small businesses in the broader scope but what we in san francisco regard as micro business. >> first that's well said and a great suggestion but one challenge is going to be the political messaging because you'll want to say you did something for small business so we may be wrapped around the axle nonetheless. i agree. >> i think the nuancing of creating a definition to be utilized to help do some incentives can be addressed in the broader scope of small business. i know that the state while we

looked at the definition of small business in a revenue level but the state mostly refer to it in a numerical number which is 100 employees. which is where the commission when it started adopt the definition. >> continue. >> and then the accessible business entrance program while dbi did send out a notice not long ago affordable housiinform thigh needed to extend the time period for some of the other filings that need to be

completed just and they feel they need more time with property owners to get things done. you'll hear that at the first meeting in january just so you know and i provided updates on other items. the vacant commercial storefront tax pasd -- passed the board of s and submitted november 21. you heard supervisor mandelman extending the waiver and refund of investigation fees and the time period for medical cannabis dispensary permits to make its way through the permitting process. he had to amend it and separate it out. initially the legislation you heard was an extension of one

year both for the fee waiver and then through the permitting process. so he's extended the waiver the refund to two years and getting through the permitting process to three years. so just so you have an update on that. and then the environmental for the code the promotion of the reusable food service ware you heard for the 25 cents for cups for coffee and requiring businesses that use disposable items for cafes or restaurants to use disposable items to

transition and charge for disposable items hit me. here with the park let if we end up passing any legislation that requires restaurants or cafes to use reusable items then right now it's like those going out to the parklet -- >> there's going to be a lot of dishes in the parklets. >> anyway just to bring attention to and sitting with supervisor peskin and working on the massage regulation, it looks like supervisor ronan will be taking as the primary sponsor for supervisor brown and the planning code revisions are being drafted and may soon be

submitted. i have the additional new business items we need to work our way through on here. i forgot to check in on the target time for doing the tablets. next month. i didn't write it down. >> next year you mean. >> so that concludes my report unless there's any questions. >> commissioner: do any members of the public would like to

comment on director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. any other questions? next item, please. >> clerk: item 7 commissioner's report allows president and vice president and president to report on small business activities and make announcement of interest to the small business community. discussion items. >> commissioner: i participated november 27 the shop and dine in the 49 with directors and commissioner and we had a good turnout for a rainy day. it was a rainy weekend but all in all and i participated in the small business saturday kickoff at harvey milk plaza with american express and oewd.

that's what i've got going. commissioner ortiz. >> i want to let everybody know december 11 at the commission economic development agency we're re-opening our market. we had several businesses and we'll have cafes, restaurants and housed a small comic book store. it's awesome. culturally inclusive. it's a small comic book shop in the world. we did it and we'll have a lot of small businesses there and i've been meaning to do this. i wanted to give a shout out to someone in the department of technology, robin earl and they've reported stuff in the portal and she's always amazing.

always helpful and i wanted to give a shout out to her. >> that's awesome. >> that's it for me. >> commissioner laguana. >> one, i wanted to thank my fellow commissioners for their fellowship over the last month. it was an interesting month for me. learned a lot about city politics and na was exciting. i have been working as a result of that there's been a few silver linings. i've been working with supervisor haney on publ

public/private/partnership and i've reached out to the chamber and sf travel is enthusiastic as well. hopefully something comes out of this i can come back to you guys for support on but i think there's also an opportunity i think in the exchanges we have with policy makers to emphasize that we're citizens and we're interested in being active participants and making things better and want to help them be the best they can be so good stuff. >> good. >> thank you. commissioner dooley. >> i wanted to thank the commission and particularly our staff for setting a date on the 20th to hear the legacy application for cafe sopora in the middle of an ugly eviction process. as a member of the community i

want to thank everyone for that because it's an important place. it's the community space and any help we can give them will be appreciated. >> commissioner laguana. >> -- commissioner zouzounis. >> i met with the new tenderloin tenant's association which i'm excited because they need representation as a whole with that and a lot of immigrant businesses there that are facing compounded issues and i think it's a particular spot where minority businesses can play a larger role in the advocacy for small businesses. and i also went to the youth commission holiday party in which one of the commissioners was like i want to start a business and i was so impressed with the youth commission and the other youth that were there and a just think that's maybe an area small businesses can think

about we can get more creative in how we partner with youth. i know some conversations around flexible use and how to activate spaces in between leases or window space changes. i think there's a lot of room for potential partnerships with youth and i think definitely leadership development is a huge thing i think about because a lot of people like me grew up in small businesses so youth are constantly around small businesses and they become more savvy that way and we need to develop a new generation of advocates. >> thank you. any other commissioner comments? do any members of the public that would like to comments on commissioner report? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> clerk: item 8 new business allow new agenda items for the future discussion.

>> commissioner ortiz? >> i want to follow-up on the cloud kitchen. there's a second location that opened up in the mission. with half a billion they're not here to compete but annihilate. >> it's on my agenda for next year. >> their prospectus is to be like uber to small and businesses. >> they there's a pop-up on 15th street. they're not ran by uber but it's a restaurant. >> same founder. >> they're in negotiation with the third largest parking company to try to acquire several parking facilities in the city to propagate their hubs of distribution. it's all without permits. we cannot allow them to say

sorry. >> we need put that on the agenda. thanks. >> i'm concerned with what are equity applicants for the cannabis permitting. i want to see if true 100% equity applicants can get prior -- prioritized and get expediting in planning and it's costing small businesses in that industry where they're closing down or selling their shares of the company. >> would you like for me to

invite the person in charge of small business cannabis for a presentation? >> yes. >> irene. >> commissioner riley. >> in addition to the congestion pricing i also want to know more about the curb color management. i want to know how it affects businesses. >> you see the green zones. >> new business for me, i would like to request the sfpd small business working group present to us. >> that's an interesting one. >> i don't know what it was

before. it's predominantly with the merchant's association. >> they got mario. >> it's mostly with the merchant's association. i haven't attended any of the meeting. i don't have the bandwidth to do that. it started around safety issues around homelessness and they've continued to meet and when there was no action happening at the d.a.s office for petty crimes but no one was getting arrested. they're back on the street which is still a problem.

>> i'd be interested to hear if sfpd has a list of their concerns too we're strong enforce this and it's not useful. >> you didn't hear from them to hear what happens on the back end. >> i know in our potrero dog patch meetings we have regular attendance by our local chiefs and officers. they're willing upon request. >> the station has never missed any of ours. >> north beach, central station. they're always at our meetings. >> they'd be happy to come here. >> any other news business? is there any members of the public that would like to comment on news business? seeing none, public comment is

closed. next item, please. >> clerk: sf gov tv show the small business slide. >> small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop when have you a question about what to do next. you can find us online or in person here at city hall. best of all our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters start here at the office of small business. >> clerk: item 9 adjournment. >> i move to adjourn.

>> all in favor. aye. [gavel] >> meeting adjourned at 7:31.

>> chair ronen: the meeting will come to order. this is the december 9, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. i am hillary ronen, chair of the committee. to my right is supervisor shamann walton, and supervisor gordon mar will shortly join me. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. please silence all phones and electronic devices. items acted on will appear on the december 19 board of

supervisors agenda. >> chair ronen: just a quick note. i'm going to call items out of order, so i'll call item 1, and then 3 and 4, and end with 2 because it's our longest item of the day. mr. clerk, will you please call item 1. >> clerk: item 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 31, 2020, to the commission on ageing advisory council. >> chair ronen: thank you. is mr. cooper here? >> my background, you have aha

a recesume and summary to look over. i went to harvard, and my last clinical environment was with liver disease. i wasn't a full-time clinician, but liver -- liver disease. and about half of people are liver disease, about half on our transplant list had issues with substance abuse, and i often was tasked on having to give lectures on alcoholism and alcoholic liver disease, so i was familiar with that subject. and i took early retirement when i was 70 because they gave me money to get out and decided after a year off traveling that i wanted to work in that area, work in safety net medicine. i had been an activist when i

was quite young, kind of let -- or not so young, through college and medical school, and in residency, i let that go, but i wanted to go back to that and work in safety medicine. so i went over to the haight-ashbury clinic, which was the epicenter, the start of addiction medicine, and they didn't have a job there, but they got me a job the atreasat island, working with the trainees in the job corps a. many of them had issues with homelessness, many of them had issues with substance abuse in their past, and they were trying to get their lives in order and learn a trade. then, there was an opening at haight-ashbury, and i worked there for a while. i had to stop for some personal health reasons, and as i was

recovering from some of those, i got to walking the neighborhood and got to know some of the homeless people, and that led me to get involved with that issue, and you did -- and i can that a couple of different ways. i joined d.s.a., with you. worked on proposition c with jennifer, and d, and jessica, and i decided to join her action. i volunteer a couple of nights a month at the m.s.e. south shelter. it's run by the medical students, and we kind of help with medical problems and

referrals for residents of the shelter who want to, also parenthetically involved with the beds for babies, so i'm sure you hear from our colleague who runs the rounds quite regularly. we're her colleague. at m.s.c., i became interested in and all this stuff that was going on about the neediest and who are they and focusing on drug abuse and abuse and mental health, but there are a lot of seniors who have medical issues, who have other issues who i think -- i'm not challenging anyone. i think we need to take care of everybody, frankly, but they're equally vulnerable, if not more so. and when this came up, it was

my wife who noticed the opening i think as a way to get out of the house -- oh, this'll be good for you. i won't see you wednesday nights, so that'll be good, i applied for the position. my interests have gotten fairly broad, but they remain -- i know that the housing stuff has gone over to h.s.h. for elderly, but i think we still need to make sure that commission and that department is supervising it, making sure that their needs are being met, that they're not being pushed aside because of another group who's politically in favor, so that's the main thing. my main job in the first months will be obviously to learn about what they do and how they do it, and then see areas where i might be able to make

contributions, like contributions tend to be focused from the point of medicine and medical issues, and i would hope to continue doing that. right now, i know at s.d.a., we're working on an issue around wheelchairs, and hopefully, you'll be hearing about that as we -- as we begin to refine it and come forward with some proposals for the city. that's about all i can say. if you want another pain in the neck, approve my appointment, and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> chair ronen: well, i would love a pain in the neck like you -- not just any pain in the neck, but a pain in the neck like you. i want to thank you so much not only for everything that you do but for being willing to take on this role, as well, and i highly, highly recommend and am excited about your appointment. supervisor fewer?

>> supervisor fewer: yes, thank you very much. sorry. i just entered the conversation, but i have been watching it, actually, on the screen, and my question to you is in my neighborhood, we are planning the first senior playground in san francisco, an exercise area specifically with equipment that is targeted towards flexibility and mobility for seniors, so age-appropriate equipment, those type of things on public land. wanted to know how do you feel about that? >> i think that's terrific. i hope the city will put enough money into it so that it becomes effective, and be delighted to watch it and follow up on it. >> supervisor fewer: oh, great because i'd love to work with the commission on this. thank you very much. >> great. >> chair ronen: i think that's all. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> chair ronen: thanks for your testimony. i'll now open this item up for public comment. any member of the public wish to speak, come on up.

you'll have two minutes. >> david elliott lewis here. through my volunteer work with senior disability action, i've gotten to know dr. cooper over the past year plus as we continued to work together under voluntary services plus. and i've just been immensely impressed with his work on our voluntary first coalition, on other senior disability action committees. he's been a measured and quiet voice. he's not the troublemaker in the room like he describes himself. he's actually been sort of a voice of reason and intelligence and wisdom in the room, and we're, like, grateful to have him. he provides a great perspective with his background in medicine, substance abuse medicine, and anybody would be

lucky to have him. i strongly support his nomination and support. >> chair ronen: thank you. anybody else like to speak on this item? yes. and if anybody would like to speak on this item, please lineup on this side of the room. >> hi. i'm here for probably a different reason than a lot of people that come here are. they usually have a lot of very real letters after their name or experience with a lot of different organizations in town or therapeutic centers or whatever. my experience has more to do with the street in a way and with international experience with the drug culture all-around the world. i'm from san francisco. i've lived all-around the world. i speak spanish fluently.

i think that that's important -- >> chair ronen: i'm sorry. i'm pausing your time. are you considering item number 1, which is the appointment to the commission on the ageing advisory council? >> i'm 66. i thought there was some program of reducing drug dealing on the street. >> chair ronen: that's the next item. >> okay. sorry. but i am a senior. what does this program involve? >> chair ronen: sorry. this is the appointment of allen cooper on the commission to the commission on ageing advisory council. >> okay. well, if you need somebody, let me know. >> chair ronen: okay. is there any other public comment on this item, item number 1? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: would you like to make a motion? >> supervisor walton: i move

that we move item 1 forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> chair ronen: without objection, that item passes. >> clerk: it'll be the recommendation of allen cooper to seat number 2. >> chair ronen: that's right. congratulations, mr. cooper. [applause] >> chair ronen: and as i aunited stat announced at the beginning of the meeting, we're going to be calling items 3 and 4 next just because item 2 is going to take a long time and items 3 and 4 are going to be relatively quick. mr. clerk, can you read items 3 and 4. >> clerk: item 3 it to -- item number 3 is a motion amending the board of supervisors rules of order to rename the five-member budget and finance committee as the budget and

appropriations committee, and to require that the committee to hold special hearings regarding the mayor's budget instructions and budget priorities. and item 4 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to modify the process for the city's adoption of the annual budget by requiring city agencies to hold public hearings prior to submission of their proposed budgets to the controller and the mayor, requiring the mayor to submit to the board of supervisors a description of the mayor's budget priorities after holding a public hearing regarding these priorities, and requiring the controller to maintain a public website with information about the city's budget process. >> chair ronen: thank you. supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you. colleagu colleagues, thank you to each member of the budget and finance committee for going

through the process, and thank you to each of our cosponsors, supervisors mandelman and stefani, and that makes the entire budget committee, supervisors ronen, yee, and walton. but truly, thank you to the community advocates and the budget justice coalition. this legislation will make changes at every phase of the budget process to ensure transparency and community engagement. departments will submit the proposed budgets both to the mayor and to the board which will help us as a body better understand how departments are allocating funds and for what purposes prior to the june budget process. the mayor will also solicit input on budget priorities

through a public meeting format and submit budget priorities to the board. and for the board of supervisors, this legislation will change the name of the five-member committee to budget and appropriations, and struck the budget chair each year introduce a motion outlining the budget process. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: thank you, supervisor ronen. first, i wanted to thank supervisor fewer for her outstanding leadership as understanding budget issues and her term on the board. when i began my term in office, i made a commitment to a robust and transparent budget process, so i'm really proud to have worked really closely with supervisor fewer on a comprehensive budget reform

legislative package which are just a couple that we'-- of wh we're going to be introducing over the next year. i specifically want to thank the budget reform working group members, debbie lerman of the human services network. joe wilson of hospitality house, and jennie friedenbach of the department of homelessness. i became even more concerned about -- upon learning about

the invitation only closed-door meetings held by the mayor's office in every district without input from the district supervisor or notice to the public. with -- with this legislation, the public will have more opportunities to engage early in the process when so many crucial decisions are already being made. i am eager to hear what my constituents have to say even before the budget comes to the board -- board of supervisors, and i will be engaging with departments and the mayor's office to ensure the public knows about these opportunities created by this reform. democracy is one of our core values, and it does not begin or end at the ballot box but should be part of the processes with which we govern ourselves with every facet of our lives. i look forward to moving this legislation forward with positive recommendation to the full board, but this is only the beginning. we will continue to work with community advocates on subsequent budget reform

legislation to address the structural equities of this process, one which will allow the city to tackle the biggest issues of our time, wealth equality and its ability to tackle homelessness. thank you. >> chair ronen: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair ronen. this last budget process was my first as a member of the board of supervisors, but i certainly participated over several processes over the years, and i appreciate the job that you did during the last process, but even more so that you want to continue to make the process more efficient and particularly more transparent for everyone to get involved in the budget process. so that's why i'm happily supporting this and appreciate all the work that has gone into this. >> chair ronen: thank you.

i want to echo you, supervisor walton, as an extended member of the budget committee. i want to congratulate and thank supervisor fewer for running probably the best process that i've ever seen as city hall, and i've been here ten years, running through these processes. this is no small feat, and i want to also thank you for these changes. i want to tell you about the one that i think i'm most excited about and i think is goes to be more helpful that we in a two-month process have the herculesan task of submitting budgets to the board at the same time that they submit them to the