neighborhoods to serve food and i've never served food and i've done everything i can to try to be within the compliance of what the city and state means and all we're asking -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. apologies for interrupting you as the timer concluded. ok, operations, we have, i believe, about nine callers in the queue. if you are one of the 48 or so listeners, now is the time to press star 3 and so that you are able to get into the queue to make your public comment. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> hello, my name is erin and i'm a partner at a cafe we're a small bar and restaurant located at bush and taylor street. i'd like to remind the board that restaurants and entertainment venues are a huge part of the reason people come to san francisco and spend money

here. restaurants are quite literally running out of cash right now and resources to stay a float in this outdoor dining ban that's really di killing us. our revenues are down 80% and without it with the outdoor ban in place, we're additional 50% down. at snookie''s we believe we're operating a safety and before the ban and we're helping guests maintain required distancing and masking and we're responsible on those. we believe that banning outdoor dining actually sends people indoors and pe perpetuates the spread of covid-19 because they have nowhere to go outdoors that is heated to dine and spend time with their friends safely. people are gathering now indoors with masks off and spreading the virus because they have nowhere to go. i have seen no data.

>> clerk: thank you, caller. thank you for your comments. apologies to interrupt you as the timer concluded. we have i believe about nine callers in the queue if you are interested in making public comment and you are one of these 47 listening press star 3 and let's hear from the next caller, please. >> welcome, caller. >> my name is h. joseph and i own the corner of 16th and the second oldest salon in san francisco and my time of 17 years of owning that business i restored a historic location and i've contributed to the change in culinary culture in san francisco helping to create the current cocktail renaissance i get a lot of press and i talked to the public initially and internationally and i'm ashamed of our city right now and i am

ashamed of the way our government is putting their head on us and how they're not letting us breathe and i don't want to be the next cliff house and i don't want to be the next person to go out of business and i don't want to be the next person to flee san francisco but i'm ready. i'm ready to leave and i'm ready to take my capital and my people and my ideas and my friends and my colleagues and go somewhere else and invest somewhere else if this board and the mayor and even the state of california doesn't do something to help us out economically you need grants, loans, we need shared spaces and we need removal with taxes. >> clerk: thank you, sir. a poll goes to interrupt you with the timer concluded and thank you for your comments. we have 12 listeners in the cue and 49 who are actually just listening if you would like to join those who are ready to make their comment, please press star 3. operations, please welcome the next caller.

>> hi. give me one second. my name is valerie and i'm the manager for san bruno avenue. a cyst 100 plus businesses in the area most of which are suffering from 50% decline in revenue. the port we have 15 personal care providers and hair salons, a gym and co working space which of which are owned by immigrants who speak trial n little to no . they have been hard-hit and unable to generate income during that time and on behalf of these mer each ants, we ask it bal co indicated to cash flow as many of them have been unable to pay rent. loans are not ideal as they take on more debt as zero percent interest we support the suggestions to was landlord and forgive them. we ask the city to consider ways that it can be open during a

stay at home order instead of closing completely for example, limited capacity or require additional ppe and vent race and the 116 mom and pop immigrant businesses and the port need your help and thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> hi name is john i'm a property manager and i have a small property management company. our tenants are struggle to go survive and we've cut runt and tenants were paying less than 20% of what they were and they're still closing down. while your intentions to stop the spread of covid-19 are well placed, it's not working and when you look ago the data and compare our state to other states there isn't much different compared to states that are open. we need to resume outdoor dining

and indoor dining at some capacity and do so safely so that our businesses can survive. thank you. >> thank you for the comments. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> caller: hi cash and i have a store here as well as tech. i've been listening to the stats on the traffic drop and the sales drop and the situation on the ground is even worse than that. people have left and the people who are here, they're staying home and even if we're open the fact is it's just a different shade of empty these i remember coming back any time soon. it's expensive and presentation and earlier and online sales have been flat for people from san francisco and they started a covid-19 initiative and livestream what is in our store and we've been trying to reach out to the city and it's been

crickets and i want to tap into us for the solution as well. so you know, matt haney, i know you talked about helping out. can i e-mail your office and get on the phone and you talked about our initiative is called knock knock knock tv any other of the supervisors we have stores online right now trying to connect with customers and we need the city to step in and work with us and not just tell to us get federal help or go online or things like that. >> thank you for everyone who is waiting still and your patients and as you their line to make comments, we have 49 listeners and 12 members of the public in the queue ready to comment. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> hi there, i'm chris cohen and i zone old devil moon a bar and restaurant in mission bernal and my two partners and have i been

working for absolutely for free overtime for the last nine months and the only thing that's been keeping us alive was being able to do that outdoor dining on the tiny back patio we had. so, doing business in san francisco is very difficult and even at best of times. dealing with this the city is always difficult and allow outdoor dine to go come back as soon as possible thank you. >> thank you for your comments. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> my name is manny and i call on the board of supervisors to take action on funding, legislation for small businesses and both restaurants and venues and if we don't have any when

this pandemic is over, the unemployment will stay up. thank you. >> thank you for your comments and your patients for waiting all these hours and operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> hi, i'm president of the north beach brings association and i own a legacy business in san francisco as a sole proprietor but i also work with my daughter in the capacity of maintaining this business. my comment is i find it as a native san francisco outrageous ands the department of health services this holding data needed because they have been interpreted it as being insufficient or inaccurate. that is for the public top

decide and our representatives to decide. the board of supervisors demand that all the data concerning the covid spreading be public immediately. also, there's month data that supports the idea that outdoor dining is causing the spread of the disease from what i can find anywhere in this country. and we need to reopen our businesses and it affects the outdoor dining closing it down effects the retail and small business communities -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. my apologies for interrupting you as the timer concluded. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> caller: my name is nan i'm a woman of color and an owner of yoga family which serves family and in san francisco and i know the focus has mainly been on restaurants and i feel like gyms and yogi studios should be in the forefront of people's minds

as well and it was hard for us to out to do our business outdoors and staff alone and to

be shut done for six plus months and reopen for a short time and close down again, and have to pay licenses and tax fees is a mockery and we are always resilient and all we ask is inform give us a break on the licensing and to let us work. we don't want handouts we just want to work. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments.

>> caller: my name is kevin and i'm the owner of three bars in san francisco actually pre covid and now i'm the owner of two bars because i've lost one because of the self-in place and i'm down 6% and 27% and we're doing 6% of the business in q2 and 27 in q3 the only thank that saves us to get to the 27% is the shared spaces and they're no longer and i ask you to employ them back there's no data that says they're not there and i also ask you to support this small businesses and i'm outside for every grant and loan and i've received nothing from the city and thank you so much.

>> thank you for your comments. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> he have a collection of bars in the tenderloin and north beach and of course, we thank you for listening and you can hear the frustration and desperation among my fellow business owners in san francisco and.

>> those are what you can do for us. you can know can you do it. help us and show that that is a city worth sticking around for. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comment. >> may we have the next speaker, please. >> please proceed with your comments. >> caller: i'm from the chinatown me merchants associat. i support small business grants that are going to be helping small businesses and i was a director for the walkway weekend and can i tell you and helped the retail businesses as well and so the shared spaces program

needs to meet to continue and we need more money directed towards tourism and recovery and not only for chinatown but for many associations or district sets rely on tourism the money and thank you for listening and thank you for the opportunity to see a small businesses. >> thank you for your comments. >> may we have the next caller, please. >> night my name is jennifer hall and i'm speaking on and san francisco and the nail hall and the beer hall and the nail salon and a bar and the worst industries to be in during a pandemic. we have three kids and are in the public school system which is no concrete date or plan to start in-person school again. we need financial relief and the

city prioritize leaving small businesses and the lack downs that have been ineffective and detrimental and it's not safe. we should be coordinating and we're all on the same page. sheting down should include a concrete plan how to help us reopen and we need financial support, no grants and no loans and no deferred payments and building business will take years and where our primary customer base our office workers and they're working home indefinitely. come up with a plan to help us survivesurvive. >> clerk: may we have the next caller. >> caller: my name is laura and i'm an 11 year san francisco resident and the mother of three native san franciscans and small

business are the heart of the our city and the children are our future. the way city hall expects small businesses like gyms and nail sal constructor and without providing any resources or solutions to keep them own is wrong and cruel to let them open for a few weeks spend tons to shut them down again. after supervisors to find a middle ground to protect public-health without destroying our cities. thank you. >> we have the next caller, please. >> caller: my name is (inaudible) i'm the director of fill more merchants and small business advocate and i work with a lot of associations and cbds around the city. it's really important to open up

shared spaces and some capacity and shared spaces only help benefit the restaurants and it also helps ensure and demonstrate to our customers that the streets are safe, clean, and fun to be in again and it's also encouraging other merchants to open up as well and i was? golden gate park and there were hundreds of people looking at the beautiful lights at night so just an observation and the farmer's market is open too. if they can be open and attract this many people, why can't we have shared spaces in some capacity. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. operations, please put forward the next speaker. thank you for taking my call and i'm calling on behalf of a venue restaurant and bar in downtown san francisco and we have three stages that present local artists and we hosted about 20

events a week and 95% of the people who performed there are locals and we worked with job training programs that work with people who live in the tenderloin and we're just a vital piece of the fabric of our community and that's just our story. the story of every small business on this call is just as different and vital both to the economic and spiritual recovery of this city post covid. i'm calling to urge the board of supervisors to please help small businesses with money and grants not loans. when the ppp ran out we had to keep paying our bills take on debt deferred rent or more loans and we have over $100,000 in debt. i don't know what we are going to do with that but we'll figure it out. also, please, support matt haney sf independent recovery policy. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, speaker. can we have the next caller.

>> caller: hi, my name is goner i can son and i own two games in san francisco with my husband dean and i'm just calling because i would just really appreciate relief in fees and we n.d.p. help with rent and i'm really looking for future aid to help small business. we've been pivoting so many times and we've worked with oewd to create the amazing protocols that are safe and you know they're safe and we haven't had any problems with covid since we have implemented them. i just feel like some of the things can be tweaked right now to really make them work and you guys are not listening and for us, even just having one person in the gym at a time would make a huge different for our business and you guys aren't listening to us you are saying that having one person in a gym

isn't safe and you are just shutting it completely down. i just think that we can all work together and. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> caller: good evening, supervisor. my name is curtis and san francisco and public bank holder ship and also calling someone who worked several small businesses including industry and san francisco and i just want to say in regards to we as a city are fighting a huge wave of a business shuttering in almost every neighborhood and we're so dependent on our state and federal and private philanthropy this is really one of the reasons why our city needs a public bank for those who may not know, nueces county dakota has a public bank and some say what we have in common is they have a lot in common and same population size and around the same budget however, north dakota was able to issues more

p.p.p. per state per worker than the country. and they just released numbers and 910 loans at $30.8 million and another covid recovery pace for 277 loans at $377 million and i could rattle on more stats but this isn't even including the grants and i want to say more public bank are really a key way to make sure that we can address this crisis and at the scale it requires. so, as outgoing supervisor fewer always said public are. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. apologies to cutting you off as the timer concludessed thank you for your comments. we have four listeners in the queue and 34 callers listening and if you would like to provide public comment on these two items, now is the time for you to press star 3 and otherwise we're just going to hear the next four callers until the end. so operations, let's welcome the next caller, please. >> hello.

good evening. thank you supervisor haney for my name is (inaudible) and i was happy proudly owned a hair salon and we have for 2020 and 2021 and more grants not loans and i urge you allocate discretionary funds. i'm looking at $140,000 loss for 220 and although she's p.p.e. is all gone and many of us are debt and depression and anxiety. >> they're first running my employees are and i'm impressed and positive person and the uncertainty of opening in san and the lack of respect of the personal services industry and the fact that i wear many hats, my emotional, physical and mental health is declining. i wish i had the data and personal issues and other dining

and thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. we know you are balancing a lot so thank you. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hi, my name is kim. i own a (inaudible) and thank you for letting us speak and i ask that we grants and not loans and relief on taxes and i know the city is not doing great either and i'm concerned about next year and rumors about landlords or real estate and more money and restaurants and corporate shops and zones and communities that don't want them and i know that there's 30 empty businesses in the valley right now but i just hope that we give independent, small businesses the opportunity to reopen and

give the opportunity for big corporate and change the fabric of san francisco which is inuvik and independent and small and artist and yes, that's just my biggest concerns. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. we have about five callers in the queue and 33 listening. press star three to get into the public comment line. operations, let's welcome the next caller, please.

we need you to fight for us. thank you for your call and thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your patients waiting in line these hours to make your comments. thank you for your comments. operations, let's hear from the next cal caller, please. >> caller: everything that you've heard today, many, many hours, rings true and i want you guys, all you supervisors, to listen closely. you are listening to experts about small business. and, many of the powers at be

that have never owned a business and they're making decisions based on never having owned one and what is happening right now, is heart of san francisco is being torn apart. and, the locals are going to continue to leave and the tourists are going to begin to not come and who would want to come to all these great neighborhoods that used to be great. now they're filled with wall greens, targets. apple bees, and out back stake houses. no one wants to experience that. they can get anywhere. the heart of san francisco is disappearing, it's up to you, the powers to be, to listen and make good and help these people. they need your help right now. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. there are seven members ready to make public comment and 33

listening. let's welcome the next caller, please. >> hi, my name is rosario and i live in san francisco and i support small businesses throughout san francisco and i'm concerned and listening to all these owners and speak on how the livelihood has been effected and the board of supervisors can bring him relief and i'm asking if you can somehow regarding the relief of taxes and open up the restaurant and the gyms and listen and public safety and to hear them because and it's important the livelihood and the supervisors feel like that and that's all i'm asking and support commissioner and matt haney and for the businesses. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. operations, let's welcome the

next caller, please. >> hello. my name is ryan gilbert and i'm a small business owner in san francisco. i agree with what they've said to far but i want to focus on the shared spaces because it's something that is in your control here and the primary health refused to buy data for their decision on the closure and i just wanted to provide some data that i saw last week on friday night when i stood outside a local pizza operations, when i watched them in the course of maybe 15 minutes, probably fill 30 orders and over half of those were for multiple large pizzas and so, if you think that shared spaces down and forcing people to eat inside in a city where they're sharing houses with four other people is a good, by all means keep t t