. >> clerk: sfgov tv is televising the meeting which can be streamed at sfgovtv.org. members of the public who will be calling in, the number is (415) 655-0001. access code, 24804192839. press pound and then pound again to be added to the line. when your item of interest comes up, dial star three to be added to the speaker line. if you dial star three before public comment is called, you will be added to the queue. when you are called for public comment, please mute the device you are listening to the meeting on. best practices are to call from a quiet location and to speak

clearly and slowly and turn down the device you're listening to the meeting on. public comment is limited to three minutes per speaker unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. an alarm will sound when speaker's time is finished. sfgov tv please show the office of small business side. >> president: today, we will talk about things that talk about the economic vitality of the office of small business in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters particularly at this time, you can find us online or via telephone and as always, our services are free of charge. i'd like to start by thanking

media services and sfgov tv for coordinating the meeting. please call item number one. >> clerk: item number one call to order and roll call. [roll call] mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president: great. so we will do the v land

acknowledgement. the small business and office staff acknowledges we're on the unceded ancestral on the move land of the ramaytush ohlone. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibility as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and acknowledging their first sovereign rights as first peoples. please calls first item. >> clerk: this is a discussion item. item number two, honoree

program. honoring marco bruno, kristi tung, yongwen wang. and presenting this today is carol chang as case manager. >> thank you mr. president, and vice president, and commissioners. i'm very happy to be before you. actually, carry, before we start sharing the presentation, it would be great to have marco and kristi and yongwen if you could. if i could have you come up on the screen so the commissioners can see your faces. >> clerk: okay. >> hello. this is kristi tung.

marco just mentioned he didn't have audio. we want to thank you guys for this recognition. it was our pleasure -- >> director: kristi, i'm going to pause you for a moment. i want the commissioners to see your face and then we'll get into the formal recognition and then you can say a few words after that. marco, i know you don't have audio, but do you have visual at all? so i wanted to thank marco

bruno who is updating and bringing us into the current configuration for sales force into the lightning small business data collection and management and kristi tung has worked with carol chang on this project. and marco and yongwen have worked with richard carillo on putting together a database for the legacy business program and for rick to be able to both manage the legacy businesses along with the grant program and be able to integrate those so that we can easily monitor each business and also produce the data. so i'm going to read through the certificate and then turn it over to both carol and rick to say a few words. so i will start off with marco

bruno. on this monday, october 25th, 2021, marco. marco developed a lightning database for the small business assistance allowing the business assistance center to access new features and improvements to better track our interactions with clients in the small business community. marco and his team made major enhancements to the legacy business program database which enabled the office of small business to launch a new website for the legacy business industry. marco and his team designed and implemented a new database for the rent stabilization grant

enabling the office of small business to better manage this complex grant program. the small business commission extends its sincerest gratitude to marco bruno and the san francisco small business community. and to kisti tung, the small business commission is proud to acknowledge kristi tung. she assisted with a lightning interface in the sales foerts. finding solutions to reduce data entry -- finding solutions to reduce data entry and enhancing the user experience so the counselors could focus on supporting existing businesses during these challenging times. kristi imported thousands of

interactions with and also made upgrades and improvements. for the office of small business assistance center. so we extend our sincere gratitude to kisti for her efforts and service to the san francisco small business community. and, for yongwen wang. on this day, the small business commission is proud to acknowledge your contribution that you've made to the san francisco small business community. yongwen made major enhancements which enabled the small business office to launch a new website for the legacy business industry. the database and web silent are seamlessly inner connected, so in addition to the database automatically appear on the website. the legacy business industry website would not have been possible without yongwen's

expertise. yongwen. it was a complex endeavor, but yongwen implemented flawlessly. the small business commission extends its sincere gratitude to yongwen for her efforts to the small business community. i do have one more comment before i turn it over to carol and rick to provide a few comments is i also want to extend my gratitude to linda gurrell for recognizing that it was important for the department of technology to provide services to small departments like ours who have very small budgets to provide the expertise that we got with marco and kristi and yongwen

and so i also want to extend my appreciation to her. now i will turn over to carol. >> this is richard for carol if that's okay. >> director: okay. >> carol, do you want to go first? >> no. you can go first. >> okay. good afternoon commissioner, city staff, members of the public. this is richard carillo. legacy business program manager. i just wanted to say i had the honor of working with marco and yongwen on two legacy data business programs. one was the legacy business database. we've made some major enhancements in order to be able to launch our new industry website and we only had two and a half months from the time we hired a contractor and to a date we wanted to get the website up and running. so there was a lot of

complicated things we needed to do. we created a whole new vocation location of the website. we had to make a lot of adjustments to the database so that was in the website and there was just a lot of communication back and forth between marco and yongwen and the contractor and me to make sure we were all working together. it would not have been able to happen with marco and yongwen and i can't tell you how much we appreciate all the work that you did to get the website up and running. i decided the way to go was to

create a database for that and that was very complicated and marco and yongwen helped me with that database and it's very complicated and as an application and up to ten years or more, there's a re-application. there's a c.e.i. adjustment and every year the grant information has to get entered and the grant name changes and the fiscal year changes and it's very complicated. i didn't think it was possible, but they did it and it's great. we started using it just this fiscal year and i love it and it's made my life so much easier and i don't know how you did it. thank you so much. just appreciate everything you've been doing and it's a real pleasure working with you and i can't tell you how happy i am with the databases. >> thank you, rick.

good afternoon, commissioners. my name is carol chang. i'm one of the business case managers for the office of small business. thank you for allowing me to say a few words of appreciation to marco and his team being recognized here today. first off, i want to express my sincere gratitude for marco for his leadership and support on my salesforce projects. we were able to transition from the salesforce traffic to the lightning interface. we always made sure we had plenty of time to assess products and new features. as always, he's always a pleasure to work with and so i really appreciate he supports small divisions and departments like ours who may not have a resource like a designated salesforce admin, but marco and his team have stepped up to provide that level of support for our office.

and i'm grateful for all that they've done for our department and other departments in the city. and for kristi, i cannot honestly say enough about the amazing work that you do. she's just that knowledgeable and i truly appreciate the effort that she put into our projects, learning all the details on how we use salesforce to track data always making great suggestions on ways to help us track data efficiently so that we can focus our efforts on serving the small business community. so thank you again, kristi, for your continuous support and being such a key role in this partnership we've built. thank you. >> director: and now, kristi, shall i turn it over to you and

then yongwen. >> okay. i'll go first. okay. so first of all, we wanted to thank you, commissioners and o.s.b. for working with us and giving us a chance to serve you because we all serve the city and county of san francisco and we are so proud to be able to partner with you guys even during the pandemic. we're able to work it out and then get things done quickly and thank you, carol, and the team and, of course, regina for all the help. letting us know what is the specification and requirements so we can get things done quickly. so we really appreciate the partnership with your team. thank you very much. >> hi, my name's yongwen from d.t. and kristi actually

expressed what the team wanted to express. i really appreciate your office recognizing our work. i'm so glad i have the opportunity to work with the team involving in these programs to enhance the service of the city and there's a lot of hard work, there's a lot of communication. like always provides us feedback and information on time quickly. it's a real pleasure for me to be involved in such an interesting and challenging application development. thank you. thank you for your department and thank you, rick.

>> director: i think marco is not able to join us. he is on, connected somehow, but i don't think he's able to say a few words. >> can i say a few quick words. this is yongwen. marco is a great leader and i'm so happy your office recognized our team's work, but a special needs to mention we are under marco's leadership and there is a lot of complicated situations and he's helping us to make the right decisions and communicate with all parties involved and i want to thank him for his

leadership too. >> director: thank you, yongwen. well, thank you, commissioners, and marco, and rick and carol for allowing the department to take this time as part of your meeting to recognize city employees who are providing great service to your department and helping our efficiency and reporting our ability to be able to report and deliver services to our small businesses and so thank you and if there is any comments or anything that any commissioners want to share, you may do so. otherwise, this will open it up for public comment.

>> president laguana: i'll just add all my thoughts. thank you for all your hard work and keeping the wheels spinning. there's certainly been an awful lot of wheels spinning over the last 18 months. vice president zouzounis. >> vice president zouzounis: yeah. i agree. i'm happy that our director recommended this as an item on our agenda so we can have you all before us. thank you so much to our o.s.b. staff and friends in other departments that come in and help make our work possible. i'm really excited about these databases. i want to see them. i want to see you all and what you do in the trenches because it is so important. so thank you again for all your day-to-day work and making us a sustainable force.

>> president laguana: absolutely. not seeing any other commissioners lining up, why don't we check in and see if there's any public comment. >> there's no one on the line for public comment. >> president laguana: seeing none. public comment is closed. i will just say one more time, thank you so much for all the work you do. and we really appreciate you and thank you for making time for us this evening and, marco, hopefully we'll see you next time. so, with that, we will go to the next item. next item, please. >> clerk: item three, first year free update. this is a discussion item. this is a presentation reviewing key policy guidance and updates regarding the first year free program. presenting today we have amanda fried, chief of policy and

communications, office of the tax collector. molly cohen assistant director of the policy and communications and the legislative aid to supervisor ronen. >> president laguana: amanda, i think you're good to go as soon as you're ready to go. we'll need to -- you'll probably need to unmute if you're talking because we can't hear you. >> apologies. for some reason i couldn't

unmute when i was sharing my screen. so i'm going to introduce myself and then try to bring that back up again. apologies. sometimes these webex's are funky. my name is amanda fried and i'm joined by amy finer from supervisor ronen's office and molly cohen. amy, if you are here, i'm happy to give you the floor before i get into the presentation. otherwise, i can jump right in. >> i will be extremely brief. thank you so much, amanda. amy finer here. of course, the treasurer and tax collector's office. we're just so grateful for you having jumped in so fast, so effectively to bring this legislation program to life.

we're very optimistic that we're going to hear about amanda's amazing plan that's going to roll out and we are here with you all the way. supervisor ronen introduced this legislation. we worked very closely with all of you to make it come to peru wigs and now we're into the roll-out. we're already starting to talk to small businesses and organizations that work with small businesses about it and we're excited to continue on that and whatever ideas come out of this group, how best to get the word out and how to promote this, i'm trying to make sure it really brings back small businesses to our commercial corridors. we're excited to work with you. so i will make myself quiet and listen to amanda. thanks so much. >> okay. let's try this again. there we go. thank you, amy. and it's been a pleasure to

work with many of you over some weeks and months. commissioner laguana and i were on prevent calls in the pandemic. so amy mentioned back in the spring, supervisor ronen announced the idea for first year free and it was really born from the frustration of small businesses by opening a business in san francisco and it was expensive and time consuming. obviously i know i don't need to explain that to any of you today, but as we worked with the supervisor and other partners like osb to design first year free, our goal was always to try to make it easy for businesses to open without the huge and often unexpected things that happen today. since that announcement, the program has been approved by the board and the mayor. funding for the program was included as part of the budget this year and i'm very excited to say we are getting really

close to launching on november 1st. and so this is just a bit of a quote from supervisor ronen. many of you might remember the story. i think commissioner laguana was actually in it, so hopefully it looks familiar. so what is first year free? the program will waive the cost of the initial license, first year permit, and business registration fees as well as several other related fees for businesses who qualify. it is a pilot program, so right now we're funded to waive fees for qualifying businesses from november 1st, 2021, to october 31st, 2022, and i'm going to go through eligibility on the next slide. to give you a sense of the scope of the fees that could be waived, we're working with a range of departments including planning, department of building inspection, public

works, public utilities commission, department of public health, fire, police, entertainment. the list is long and that is by design and we're really excited that we've been able to sort of ininclude so many departments because we think it will have the most impact on all businesses which was always the point. so a bit about who's eligible. first year free is both for new businesses and existing businesses that are opening in new qualified locations. so the key here is the dates. the businesses have to start between november 1st, 2021, and october 31st, 2022. they have to be ground floor commercial. they can't be formula retail and they have to be small. and the way that we're defining small is the same way we at the treasurer's office define small in the gross receipts tax in the san francisco gross

receipts. for a new business, that's your estimated gross receipts that you put down when you register the business, and for an existing location, the opening location you're actual receipts from filing. again, we really set out to make this as easy as possible for businesses. so i'm happy to say today, there's no paper work or application for first year free. businesses will get enrolled as they register as a business with the city, something you already have to do. or when they add a new location to their existing business registration. we've built a question for eligibility just into those applications that businesses are already using and if we find that you're eligible as you go through it, we're going to share more information with you at that time and ask you whether or not you'd like to sign up. so, again, enrollment is automatic and it's immediate. so a business can opt in. there are some terms and

conditions. so we want to make sure businesses understand what they're signing up for, but once you say, "yep, i want to be in this program," you're going to get an e-mail that you can take with you as you go through your permitting journey with the city. as you decide you want to pull a permit that day, if you're standing in the permit center and you're like oops, i forgot to register my business and then we'll also mail a letter out so you have another way to show you're part of it. once a business is part of share fee, the fees are waived on the spot. you apply for a permit or you have a fee in front of you. the person you're working with from the city can take a look at the letter you brought to them, the e-mail, or they can look it up on an internal

look-up we have for them. so there's no waiting, there's no refunds. it just hopefully magically happens on the spot. sorry. i went a little fast. we want to make sure that we get the word out to businesses. so we want people who are thinking about opening a business, but may be on the fence. an aspiring entrepreneur, anyone out there to know that this is starting and so we are starting a newsletter. we have a website up. we'll have some social media. we've made flyers. we're working with sfgov tv to make a p.s.a. to send around, a short little video to help to get the word out. the program starts on november 1st, but we don't take time for businesses to start, and so we really want people to sort of build this into their

plan for their first year and understand that this is coming and this may benefit them. and let's see. we have more outreach materials. we have flyers. we're getting all of this information translated, it will be something to sell in multiple languages. we're trying as much as possible to target commercial corridors. so when we send around our media kit, if you think there's another photo that you'd like us to include, it's no problem. just share it with us and we're happy to swap it out for your photo of your choice and make sure everyone realizes this is a program they can benefit from. and lastly, i want to thank the office of small business, economic and workforce development, supervisor ronen's office, a whole host of departments who really kind of worked hard to make sure we

meet the november 1st deadline and also make sure you all know i had the joy of presenting to you today, but molly cohen has truly done all of the work and so i want to thank her for figuring out how to get this running in a short amount of time. and i'd love to get any of your feedback, your questions, anything we can do to make this better. with that, i think i'm finished. >> president laguana: awesome. well, it's a fantastic program. with that, let's listen to what our commissioners have to say. commissioner adams. >> commissioner adams: i agree with you, president laguana. this is an excellent program. if you can get some of this material for me, i know places i can distribute it to throughout the city. >> president laguana: yeah. i think the reaction i'm having is i need to open a business of

some kind. >> commissioner adams: i was thinking too, there's like organizations like renaissance and there's mission economics. there's a lot of organizations out there who do help people start their businesses and these people should be targeted with this. >> yeah. we've hopefully captured many of them on our e-mail list. we're waiting for some of these materials to come back from translation and then we'll send them out. but, yes, we'd love, you know, if you think of any, we're happy to take any of your ideas for who to send this to, who should be on our list. that would be great. >> commissioner adams: i know all of you so i will send that to you. >> president laguana: great. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: thank you, amanda for this. and thank you, supervisor ronen's office, for getting this off the floor. i would love to present this in my next sub committee on small business. all the c.e.o.s across the city

and our new technical system. this is awesome and i want to help. so thank you. >> president laguana: great. vice president zouzounis. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you so much for the presentation and to everyone who contributed on this. i want to give a shout out to supervisor ronen's office and really understanding the needs that you can, you know, solve for in legislation. so i see that there's been a direct result of working with constituents. so thank you so much. i love that this is setting a precedent for some of the tools with the treasury and tax collector's office that we want to pilot like the direct opt-in

and direct opt-out staff. this is really exciting for the governments in general knowing we have the ability to identify certain types of businesses. so that's huge for starting a small business. i will share it with the san francisco district office of the small business administration because we believe it or not through the course of last year, we've been getting consistent e-mails about sharing a new business. so there's a lot of new businesses, a lot of interest and i'll make sure that office gets that information too. so thank you so much. >> president laguana: thank you. commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: yes. i just wanted to thank you -- also, thank all of you for this. i didn't know exactly what i

wanted to say, but i definitely wanted to agree with all of this work and it's just -- this is actually something that i think kind of resinates oddly with me in a way that i'm super excited to see something really positive for new small businesses, you know. it's like i feel like we've kind of gotten hit with a lot of different things and i'm super excited to have some good news to share with people and hopefully this will inspire somebody to really go for it and take that leap between concept to actually executing because i love seeing small businesses obviously opening up in our city. so thank you so much for championing this and getting it into fruition so quickly. that's all i have. thank you. >> president laguana: great. commissioner dooley. >> commissioner dooley: i wanted to just add that it's a

very exciting program and for me what really stands out is it's pretty simple to understand and it's going to be something that new businesses can, you know, do not need a lot of interpretation on and it's going to give them direct help and that is something that we really need in our area. so thank you so much for providing that. >> president laguana: thank you. commissioner dickerson. you're on mute, commissioner dickerson. nope. okay. sound's not working i guess. all right. well, you know, i think this is

exactly what the city needs right now. this and a whole lot of other things just like this. you know, i think the pandemic has really made it very clear the impact of the small business sector on our economy as a whole that we have become awakened to the fact that without a small business sector, our economy is less robust and more vulnerable to shock events and other things that are bad for the citizens as a whole and we've lost so many small businesses and we're still losing them at a rapid clip faster than unfortunately than we're making them. faster than we're creating them.

so this legislation is critical because it helps unlock hopefully a whole bunch of people out there who are sitting on the sidelines and thinking maybe i can do this and maybe this encourages them to say, you know, all right, let's go for it. let's give it a whirl. and i wanted to amplify what commissioner dooley said about it being simple and easy to understand. i think we could use a lot more of that in our approach to the small business sector particularly as a whole with some of the land use and planning items and all the different parts that small businesses have to interact with cities. it's at times almost needlessly complex and this is such a wonderfully simple and amazingly sharp and smart

program. i can't thank the supervisor enough for pushing it forward. i do want to tell -- say for the benefit of the commissioners that this was actually surprisingly complex to get up off the ground when you think about, you know, these departments still need to show the work that they did for budgeting and they still need to show the revenue and, okay, how do we, you know, show that the revenue flows through and, you know, i think we basically had to create a payment system within city hall just to make this happen and it was a really big challenge and a big lift. so real big thanks to everybody that worked on this program, amanda, you and your team at t.t.x. and, you know, and all the other folks that

intersected with this. i'm sorry i don't remember everybody's names. sometimes there's a lot of people on those calls. but thank you and more of this, please. amy, let your people know. [ laughter ] more. so with that, let's go to public comment. >> currently, there's no one in line to speak for public comment. >> president laguana: okay. all right. well, um, i don't think unless lawanda suddenly got her sound to work. thank you guys. appreciate you coming in and, of course, we will help you get this message out starting -- i'll start to blast it tomorrow but, i think we really need to

do a full court press as november approaches. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: item four. resolution urging board of supervisors to eliminate deemed approved use ordinance. this is discussion and action. the commission will discuss the vote on a resolution calling for the elimination of the deemed approved use ordinance. director dick-endrizzi is going to start us off. >> director: thank you, carry, and commissioners. i hope you did take the time to read through the resolution. carry has done an excellent job in laying that out. the facts, the findings particularly that were discovered through the economic mitigation working group that

was established by supervisor wallton in response to legislation that affected many of our corner stores and small businesses who sold tobacco products, but they are also businesses that were targeted with this particular ordinance and i think the facts and findings of why this ordinance came into place sort of really has the evaluation. it's time to have that re-evaluated. so the deemed approveded ordinance just as a reminder is apply to businesses that have off sale alcohol license types 20 and 21. and we as a city directly

equated the behaviors of businesses that have these type 20 and 21 licenses that they tend to have higher amounts of litter, graffiti, unruly behavior, disruption of the peace, illegal drug activity, illegal sales of firearms, public drunkenness, harassment of passer buyers, gambling, prostitution, dealing goods, assaults or batteries on the premises. so that was in the findings and the justification for establishing the deemed approved use ordinances. and that was done in 2006. so it is time for the city. you know, we have strengthened the criteria that goes into the requirements of receiving an

alcohol license. not only through the a.b.c., but then there's also a process that certain alcohol licenses need to go through the approval, through the board of supervisors and so many of the conditions that are established in the deemed approved use ordinances are now conditions in receiving an a.b.c. license. so and i do -- and also highlighted in the ordinance is that there are other municipalities that have deemed approved use ordinances as well and they included bars and restaurants san francisco did not. so there's a disparity in relationship of saying, you know, what businesses, you know, what businesses have good behavior around alcohol and what businesses don't and we do

know that there's been, you know, issues around client behavior, customer behavior within our industry. we created an entertainment commission because of issues around customer behavior with entertainment. so i will, um, i think -- and then also, the last thing just to note is that with the pandemic and with the kind of expansion of some of the a.b.c. allowances for type 41 and type 47 licenses which we are allowing the extension of the sale of alcohol off site into the, you know, into the street through the shared spaces also allowing with the sale of food,

the ability for individuals to purchase mixed drinks with those -- with the food items and, again, we're not applying the deemed approved use extension to those sort of off sale privileges. and nor do i want to say that we should be applying it. i think we should say that what we're looking at and what we're doing and what we're moving towards is saying that, you know, our businesses are good businesses and with this extension through the shared spaces and through the pandemic, we have confidence that they have the ability to be able to manage and control their alcohol sales and the ability for individuals that they sell to. and so therefore, i think if we have confidence in that area, you know, we also have confidence in -- we should have

confidence with our type 20 and 21 off sale businesses. so with the economic mitigation working group, right before the pandemic hit, the working group and the commission has received the recommendations from the working group is to definitely eliminate the fee and potentially the ordinance. then, supervisors held a hearing and from that hearing, it also was determined that, you know, a reconsideration for the ordinance and the fees should be given. so this resolution and then the pandemic hit and so the recommendations from the economic mitigation working group went on pause. but as we are looking, you know, as a result of the pandemic, we are looking at

removing redundancies, streamlining, eliminating unnecessary costs for our small businesses and this is one that is one that can easily be done. so the resolution is to follow up with the recommendations of the economic mitigation working group and to request the board of supervisors which they were getting close to doing was to at least deal with the elimination of the fee, but if not the ordinance. so that resolution is before you. and i think what next, you know, carry did a good amount of drafting or she did the drafting of the resolution and an excellent job. if there's any information you want to add, carry, and i also

would allow vice president zouzounis to also say a few words as well. >> no. i think you covered it. so, vice president zouzounis. >> vice president zouzounis: yeah. great job, carry. really capturing kind of the all the pieces of this policy initiative. i'm happy to provide any context for some of our newer commissioners. we did start this conversation a long time ago. so i want to just give you some context. this as director mentioned was started in 2006. so at the height of the junction, broken window arrow policy. so not only is it a duplicative code that is now as the

director said addressed in a.b.c., alcohol beverage control law and other sfpd codes, it is an equity issue in the sense that it is targeting businesses that serve low-income communities, therefore, targeting low-income communities and our equity neighborhoods with unnecessary police presence and it's also not equally levied. right. so our restaurant and bars who are now able to sale off sale are not paying the same fees, nor are they subject to the enforcement and in our resolution, one of the whereas clauses that we added was how this precedent was deemed approved even though it hasn't been heard. since 2006, we haven't had any

-- we haven't had the compliance hearings that it should of had. it was used and enacted by sfpd as a curfew order on only certain types of businesses which are the same businesses that have e.b.t. licenses and that are in neighborhoods that don't necessarily have bigger food outlets. so this is definitely a class issue. it's definitely a racial equity issue and i think it's particularly important that we talk about this as criminal justice reform meets small business because it is, you know, trying to address the broken window policies that are low hanging fruit and still on our books and only some types of businesses are subject to them. so nuisance abatement laws

became in the public during the george floyd murder. this is a real thing. why are they still reasons for police, you know, to visit businesses and only certain types of businesses. so i know we didn't capture that as much in the resolution because we wanted to get into, you know, the actual policy areas that we want to reform in this, but we've been up to the rest of -- our commissioners and if this is something the racial equity commission wants to discuss too. but if we want to add an additional cause that does say speak to this as something the d.a. is interested in supporting. this is something that has to do with, you know, reducing the

criminalization of low-income communities and communities of color. and i think that that's a really important point to make in this conversation. so whether we want to say that in our recommendation or whether we want to add another whereas, that's up to you all. i just want to make sure you know that's how we should be talking about this ordinance. >> president laguana: thank you. does anybody else want to add to that? well, i certainly think this is something worth doing. so i guess i'm not supposed to say that yet. let's check in on public comment. >> there's no one on the line for public comment.

>> president laguana: okay. seeing none. public comment is closed. commissioners, do we have a motion? >> commissioner adams: i would motion to approve this ordinance. >> president laguana: i'll second. >> clerk: motion to approve the ordinance by commissioner adams. seconded by president laguana. i'll read the roll. [roll call]

all right. the motion passes 7-0. >> president laguana: all right. >> director: and, commissioners, just a note z carry and i will be meeting with supervisor walton's office to revisit the set of recommendations and the ordinance and the first step is having the ordinance supported and passed by the commission. but it does -- just, you know, it will be submitted to the board of supervisors, but we will still need to put some effort and energy into ensuring there is follow-through with this. so just wanted to make sure that that was brought to your attention as well. and then, carry, our technician, before we move on to the other items asked if you

could see about unmuting commissioner dickerson. >> clerk: it looks like she's unmuted on -- no. i cannot. >> director: okay. it does look like -- >> clerk: it looks like you're unmuted. >> president laguana: i think she's just having sound problems. >> director: okay. all right. thank you and we can move on. >> vice president zouzounis: i have a point of clarification. director, so i know that we just voted on the resolution and we didn't make any recommendations, but is there -- is there certain language that we're going to be using when we share this with other

stakeholders like the board and the departments? are we -- like what next step or what notice are we giving them with this resolution? >> director: when you are talking about certain language it's that some of the language that you -- some of the examples that you provided when you were -- >> vice president zouzounis: i guess, i'm curious, like are we just saying the small business voted on this resolution, here's notice of that or are we urging something next? >> director: well, i mean, the last 'therefore it be resolved' is that the commission is um, basically requesting that the board of supervisors eliminate the deemed approved use

ordinance and the fee. that's the last 'therefore' that's the resolve is the commission saying we are requesting the board of supervisors to take this particular action. we will be submitting it with a cover letter. i think, you know, to your concern, if there is certain ways of addressing this, i mean, we can work on drafting that letter. um, but, you know, it will be -- we will -- the cover letter will have the very specific request. >> vice president zouzounis: okay. >> director: that is in the 'therefore it be resolved' sections of the resolution if that makes sense. >> vice president zouzounis: yeah. i just know that maybe not every supervisor knows that this had a one public safety hearing or something, so i'm just trying to understand like

what language will be on our cover letter, but i know that that's safety hearing is mentioned in the -- >> director: right. and we can work with you vice president zouzounis to pull out some of the key highlights of the resolution that you want to have called out in the letter. >> vice president zouzounis: okay. that's exactly what i wanted to understand. thank you so much everybody and thank you for your leadership on this, director. >> director: all right. so we've called for public comment, right. we can move on to the next item. >> president laguana: yes. >> clerk: okay. item five, resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government code section 54953e. this is a discussion and action item. the commission will discuss and vote on a resolution that is considered or reconsidered the circumstances of the state of emergency and either that the

state of emergency continues to directly impact the ability of members to meet safely in person or that the state or local officials continue to impose or recommend measures to promote social distancing. this is the same resolution that we passed i believe at the last meeting and we have to renew every 30 days. so this is sort of procedural at this point. >> president laguana: commissioner adams. >> commissioner adams: yeah. i see this at a lot of meetings now. the city, i just want to confirm, they're not going to let us meet in person until after the end of the year, is that correct? >> clerk: yes. that's my understanding. >> president laguana: great. any other commissioner questions or comments? is there any public comment? >> there's no one in the queue. >> president laguana: seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll go ahead and make a motion to pass the resolution.

>> commissioner adams: i'll second. >> clerk: motion by president laguana, seconded by commissioner adams. [roll call] >> president laguana: just do a thumbs up or thumbs down. >> clerk: commissioner dooley thumbs up. commissioner dickerson, can you give us a thumbs up? >> commissioner dickerson: yes. >> clerk: i can hear you. okay. commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: yes. >> clerk: president laguana.

>> president laguana: yes. >> clerk: commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: yes. >> clerk: vice president zouzounis. >> vice president zouzounis: yes. >> clerk: great. the motion passes. >> president laguana: great. next item. >> clerk: item six is approval of draft meeting minutes. >> president laguana: director, is it possible to pass them all in one fall swoop. >> director: yes. but you need to first ask if any commissioners first have amendments or corrections to the minutes and if there's anyone that needs to be called out. if not, then we can pass them all together, but when we do make the motion, we do need to lift each -- list each of the

four dates. >> president laguana: commissioners, are there any amendments or changes or corrections you need to make? seeing none. so let's see -- >> director: then public comment and then motion. >> president laguana: yes. thank you. is there any public comment on the line? >> there's no one on the line for public comment. >> president laguana: great. so seeing none, i'm going to go ahead and make the motion to pass the minutes starting with october -- including the minutes for october 4th, 2021, april 12th, 2021, april 26, 2021, and may 10th, 2021. >> director: do we have a second for that motion? >> commissioner huie: i second. >> clerk: seconded by

commissioner huie. motion to approve minutes from october 4th, april 12th, april 26th, and may 10th of 2021, [roll call] motion passes 7-0. minutes are approved. item seven, general public comment. this is a discussion item which allows members of the public to comment on matters that are within the small business commission's jurisdiction, but not on today's calendar and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. >> president laguana: great. is there any member of the public who would like to make

comment on any items not on the agenda? >> there's no one on the line for public comment. >> president laguana: seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item eight, director's report. update on the report of the office 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. this is a discussion item. >> director: good evening, commissioners. so i do want to provide you some updates on some programs that have been taking place. the office of economic and workforce development, the workforce division led by josh arse is holding a job fair on november 3rd and that's focused on hospitality and i want to bring this to your attention because while this is for employers that have restaurants and hotels who are able to be

at the job fair and it's held at the ferry building from 10:00 to 2:00, what josh and his team have informed me is that they are really wanting to connect with small businesses who have just one or two jobs and if they're able, if there's space for them, they'll, you know, fit them in, but i also want to begin to connect them with the work force link sf job board. we know that hiring is a challenge for many of our retailers and restaurants. and previously, pre-pandemic, the engagement with the job board and workforce development was really targeting larger employers and not employers that had one or two jobs that they needed to fill. and so they're working to help

facilitate and make those connections because there are individuals that they're working with that do need jobs. so really trying to make better those connections to individuals that need jobs and businesses that need to have one or two positions filled. you know, we do have the jobs now program, but there isn't really a way right now for employers to connect with employees. you know, the employee is the employee applying at jobs and there are job applicants, and the business is able to benefit from that. but a business can't just go and directly connect with the jobs now program and say i have the job, please send applicants to me.

so, you know, that's something that we can focus on to help better connect because it's been very much a topic of discussion. both facebook, twitter, you know, our retail businesses and our restaurants particularly in our neighborhood commercial corridors are having a hard time finding individuals to work. in addition, i will follow up with you to send you the individual in oewd who can help connect with the workforce link sf job board so we can share that out through the business community. and then, also, i wanted to bring to your attention that the jewish vocational service is providing outreach to provide low cost services for their book keeping and account

needs. they are doing hands-on job training. these are new bookkeepers that have gone through the job training, come from underserved communities and so it's a good partnership for our really small businesses who don't have the financial capacity to be able to pay, you know, a more experienced bookkeeper and it's not free, but it's affordable and then, of course, the jewish vocational services is working alongside with these bookkeepers to assist as part of their job training. i don't know at this point if they're able to provide services in others have bookkeeper services that can provide services in spanish or chinese or other languages. but i will also send you information on that as well and find out. and then in terms of our

venues, the california venues grant program, their website launched and come this friday, october 29th, applications will be available statewide for independent live event venues and the application will be open from october 29th through november 19th. grants are awarded -- grants that will be awarded under this program will be done in the amount equal to or to the lesser of $250,000 which is it's dependent upon your gross revenue for 2019. so that's exciting news for our entertainment venues that there is more revenue coming for them as well.

then in regards to the sf venue fund, you know, at the beginning of in preparation for us, the office of small business, you know, issuing -- administering and issuing the venue fund here in san francisco. we had some discussions with gift sf and the ability to set up a donations page that could go to the venue fund. i just want to let you know that that is live now and is working. rick is working with ben van houten in oewd and dillon rice in the entertainment commission to connect with the venue folks to see how they might want to utilize this opportunity to do one kind of last push to get some additional funding as we need to distribute the last amount of funding from that

original $3 million. and that will take place during the month of january. and then, one thing i do want to bring to your attention about the san francisco our venue fund and the way that the legislation was written is that if there are any remaining funds in this account after january 31st, 2022, the office of small business shall use the money to fund in the fund to support the relocation and re-opening of eligible businesses. and so one thing i want to be mindful of is that because this is legislation, this is now written into the administrative code as part of the fund. if there is a need to have funds to go for relocation and re-opening, it may be a good

time to reassess with the sponsor about amending the legislation otherwise, it will be encumbent upon the department to periodically check in because this is a fund account that is now established to the office of small business and, each year the commission's going to need to make some determination as to whether you're going to be requesting funds for the fund program and i think that now that we're further in the pandemic with the city's funding and the federal funding, the concerns about needing to relocate and really deal with re-opening may not be there to the degree that they were when the legislation was drafted. so this may be something that

the commission will be -- rick will be working with stakeholders along with ben van houten and dillon rice to get their response to this, but i wanted to bring it to your attention because the challenge of having an established fund that was created by legislation and is there and it is part of our administrative code means that we need to know exactly what we are going to be doing with it year by year. and so if we don't -- i guess what i'm just saying, if we don't really need it, do we need to continue to have it on our books or on our books in the manner of which it's currently written? and then as far as an update on some of the legislation, so the legislation that for the local

business enterprise legislation that you heard a couple meetings ago, that has now passed out of the rules committee. the legislation regarding laundry mats passed out of planning commission and it's also passed out of the land use committee today. the legislation passed by supervisor stefani passed out of the committee. and the last, there's a couple resolutions that will be forwarded to the budget and finance committee.

and there's a possibility because the board of supervisors resolution, usually when they're introduced, they're heard at the next following meeting, be you these are going to be forwarded to the budget and finance commission and so there's a possible that they may come to the commission. and one of them is to support -- one of them is to do a temporary fee waiver for the sidewalk sales during the holiday season. so this is something that the office of small business and the commission used to sponsor as part of small business week in may. so supervisor stefani is sponsoring that for the holiday season. and then also waiving the banner fee so that we can have shop and stein and the 49 banners throughout the city reminding our city residents to

shop small and shop local. and then, legislatively, supervisor mandelman has introduced legislation for amending the planning code to conditionally permit bars in the castro neighborhood commercial district. i think there was perhaps a cap and so there was a need to make some amendments to the castro neighborhood commercial district around permitting more bars. and then, supervisor haney introduced a resolution last week. it's going to be heard tomorrow about supporting notice and compliance opportunities for small businesses facing lawsuits or violations in relation to the americans with

disability act. our office wasn't consulted so carry set up a meeting for us to get a little more information on this so that we understand it and ensure that it is also something that is supportive of our individuals while we also want to be supportive of our small businesses who are incurring the lawsuits, we also don't want to forget we are ensuring our civil rights as well. and i think legislatively, those are the key updates that i want to provide you. and then in terms of the office of small business, we're

beginning the interviews for the two positions that will be specifically trained and be able to service at the permit center. we don't know yet whether it will be both or one, but they will be trained to provide a level of assistance. it's a little more hands-on and the ability to track the business from start to finish once they begin the permitting process and to work at the permit center and to work with the permit center staff in addition to the agencies that are there to assist our small businesses. and then, the job posting for the ad back for the legacy business position has been posted as well and i do hope that we will get the neighborhood anchoring -- the neighborhood anchoring business

position posted within the next month. so that's still working its way through the department of human resources. and i think that that is all that i have for you for tonight. but actually one more thing to add, the arable equity special committee will be meeting on wednesday. so and we are now getting those regularly scheduled. so vice president zouzounis will be able to provide -- now start providing doing committee reports for you after this coming wednesday. with that, i'll take any questions if you have any.

>> president laguana: great. any questions from our commissioners? commissioner huie? >> commissioner huie: i was just wondering if you could maybe -- i caught only kind of -- for some reason, i couldn't hear the whole piece on the legislation by supervisor mandelman on the ada situation. >> director: that was supervisor haney who introduced -- it's a resolution. >> commissioner huie: okay. >> director: i'll forward you the resolution and because of being off, i haven't read it in great detail. it is a creating or requesting our federal electives to give consideration around noticing that it's similar to the state.

so i'm not clear as to what is being referenced in the state and i don't know, carry, if you recall if there's something, if there is a law that supervisor haney specifically is referencing. yeah. and why i say it's a concern is because under the federal a.d.a., the noticing requirements is not there. like to put the burden on the individual with a disability to identify to the business that they may be out of compliance, the federal government, you know, has clearly stated that the burden is not on the individual with a disability. so, you know, it's always a challenge when you're only taking a look at the law through serial litigants as

opposed to actual individuals with disabilities and who the law has really intended to protect and the civil rights to protect and so i don't want to speak too much more about it without, you know, having really gotten a thorough briefing from supervisor haney's office. if you would like to attend that meeting, commissioner huie, then we can forward that to you so that you can be part of it as well. >> commissioner huie: sure. i'd be happy to attend if you send me the information. thank you. >> president laguana: okay. no other questions. i'll just add in passing that certainly in the disabled community, they also feel even the serial litigants can

sometimes have a genuine legitimate purpose in helping create a negative consequence to not being ada compliant. but certainly it starts to feel really weird. we have been targeted by serial litigants before and it starts to feel really weird when you start to question whether anybody actually even came which was a question we had in our case. like there should be some legitimate at a minimum of legitimate visits. so i think it's interesting legislation and lots of work that needs to be done around that. i guess we should check on public comment. is there any public comment on the director's report.

>> there's no one on the line for public comment. >> president laguana: all right. next item, these. >> clerk: item nine, commissioner discussion and new business. allows president and vice president and commissioners to report on recent small business activities, make announcements that are of interest to the small business community, and make inquiries of staff. allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. this is a discussion item. >> president laguana: great. are there any new business items from our commissioners? so i have one that i want to bring up which is that the state small business office has an rfp for county agencies for

$2,500 grants for microbusinesses. i've just learned that san francisco's not registered yet. and this is something that we'll need to pursue because we're eligible for $1.1 million microgrants for microbusinesses. that's something we'll want to keep an eye on. i also want to bring everybody up to speed on the latest developments on the employee retention tax credit. to continue to get the word out. i've now bumped into businesses who have spoken to no less than three different c.p.a.s who said that they could help them and then after they get into it, the c.p.a. says, it's too complicated, i'm sorry, i don't want to do this anymore. so, you know, it's really looking like a frustrating problem. i was talking to one business

owner. she says honestly, i'm just tired, i don't think i'm going to even try doing it. and i said, wait a second, don't you have like 10 employees? and she said, yes, and i said that's like $330,000. i think you've got to keep trying. so at any rate, i've been working with oewd. we're going to do another round of trying to get the word out and, you know, i certainly hope to at some point find some ability to fund a pilot program to help, you know, particularly our businesses, our vulnerable neighborhoods who are going to be the last to hear about this, the last to get the kind of technical assistance that they need and the last to, you know, i mean, this business owner i was speaking to, you know,

she's pretty sophisticated, she's been doing it for a long time and she can't seem to figure out how to navigate it. i can't imagine what it would be like for somebody who english isn't their first language or doesn't have the kind of resources this person does. so this remains something that i think the commission should be focused on and we should be working hard to make sure that everybody in the small business community understands how big the possibility and opportunity is and we need to find really what i'm looking for now are c.p.a.s and accountants that will help these small businesses apply for it and get this employee retention tax credit. we are hearing of a number of different firms that are charging a percentage based approach, not just the one that you and i spoke with about,

cynthia, but -- or commissioner huie, but there's actually quite a few out there. but some are modest amounts, 5%. some are significantly more, 15%, but these are just outrageous sums of money for the amount of work that's being asked to do and, to me, it really feels predatory. so this is something i think is really important. we do have another two and a half years or so to make a difference because you have three years to file an amended return. so this is -- i'd put this in the category of long project, big project, but i would like to see every single business that qualifies in san francisco apply for it and get this credit. it's just too big otherwise and i don't see anything else that the city can do that would make

a material difference in that e $637 million of back rent and so i think this could really help businesses with their back rent and we need to be aggressive about making sure hour local businesses apply for it. so that's my exciting update. who doesn't love hearing about tax credits? >> commissioner huie: i'm not getting called on yet, but i put myself up on the thing. >> president laguana: i'm sorry. i didn't -- you were under the director's report. i thought it was still the same one. commissioner huie, i apologize. >> commissioner huie: no. that's okay. i actually feel strongly about this as well and so i kind of wanted to just -- i don't know

if this is appropriate, but maybe without speaking to you directly outside of this, but like, you know, i'm happy to offer my help as however i can to try to like identify, build, figure out like if there's a way to -- how just the resources and the networks kind of more -- it's a bubble to the top so that people know where to go to be able to get help when their own accountants are maybe not able to do it or their own, you know, professionals aren't able to do it or if there's a way to supplement the professional's knowledge to be able to provide this for people. >> president laguana: so the san francisco chamber of commerce has identified three firms and they offer a lot of multi-language support and you

can find a link to those firms pretty quickly by going to oewd.org/etrc and there's a whole page that's up there but kind of towards the bottom, they have a link to the sf chamber of commerce and -- it looks like the link is broken. i'm just trying to do this. all right. i have to send ben or dillon or somebody an e-mail about this. but the chamber has identified three officials. yeah. it's also at the top and that link does work. and those are b.o.l. global, and sp meyer and there's a lot of language between the three firms. so hopefully they can help, you

know, fill in some of the holes. and i did send these three firms over to the lady that i was speaking with. but i think we need more firms particularly local firms i think would be really well received and we could lift them or promote them. so we just need to figure out who's actually capable of doing it and able to do it for reasonable rates. >> commissioner huie: is there a report that you're able to pull to find out the utilization of it? >> president laguana: no. the irs -- i think as of may this year, we had 33,000 businesses nationwide apply for this. so it's a really minuscule number. i mean, we have 50,000 businesses with employees in san francisco alone. so 33,000 is nothing.

and you may recall from the survey we did that less than 5% of those businesses had said that they had applied or considered applying for the employee retention tax credit. so as far as i'm concerned, i pretty much just assumed businesses had not applied unless they tell me otherwise. it's a pretty safe bet. 95% chance they have not applieded. >> commissioner huie: well, i'm happy to put some energy, some more energy towards it. so, yes. >> president laguana: that would be very welcomed and i'm happy to connect with the folkses at oewd that have been working on this as well. it's definitely been kind of an all-hands-on-deck endeavor and,

you know, pretty soon here, i'm going to be sending an e-mail to the supervisors and really grinding on them to help get the word out to their constituents. i want to wait because there's a couple balls in the air in terms of how the city's approaching this. so i kind of want to see how -- let the dust settle before i figure out the optimal way to proceed. >> commissioner huie: okay. should i go with my report? >> president laguana: please. >> commissioner huie: sure. i just have a few things. one was -- i had that question in regards to shared spaces. i had somebody ask me about a shared space that has been abandoned. so meaning the restaurant had gone out of business and now the shared space was just kind of empty. they had called d.p.w. to see if they could clear -- if they

could be the ones to maintain or clear the shared space of the debris that had collected over time, but they reported that d.p.w. was not taking responsibility for that. and so it was unclear at that point who the responsibility was to take care of it after the business who had initially invested in it went under. and so this was kind of like one of these canary in the coal mine situations where i think for -- it brought up some questions in terms of whose responsibility is this? should a restaurant or business go out of business. and also then further down the line, who gets to reap the benefits of it after? a lot of these, i don't know if these questions have already been answered and so i'm kind

of posing this to you, president laguana, and the shared spaces people. >> president laguana: yeah. well, actually, your e-mail was stuck in my draft and i just hit send. i'll just repeat what i said in my e-mail. the permit and the structure on the permit belonged to the business. so it's the business that has the permit, not the landlord. if the business abandons the permit or abandons the structure and doesn't clean it up, then it would fall on the building owner to clean it up and get rid of it. and if it costs the building owner money in excess of whatever deposit they had, then they have a claim against that business owner, it might not be a very valuable claim if the

business is wiped out, if the business owner disappeared. that's part of being a business owner. sometimes you get stuck with the bill. ultimately, if there's no business left to pursue and there's nobody, you know, they've completely abandoned the structure, then it would be the building owner's responsibility in the end to get it straightened out, get compliant with the city. in terms of the benefit, it's much like, if there is a perceived benefit from the structure once they've left, i don't imagine it would be any different than if a business left restaurant equipment inside a business after leaving. you know, usually and commissioner adams can probably speak to this even better than i can because this is part of what he does, but usually when you leave stuff behind, after a certain period of time, it

becomes the owner's property effectively. and, again, if they incur a cost dealing with that property, then they have a right of action against the previous leaseholder. but other than that, it's basically theirs. >> commissioner huie: so is the permit transferable to next business? >> president laguana: in the absence of -- if the business owner is no longer around, then the permit effectively becomes the building owner's until a new business moves in there. obviously, if a building owner is not operating the business then it's just a structure. but the permit belongs to the business who has the ground floor retail space.

>> commissioner huie: so then if it's empty then, then say if the building owner decides to just keep the structure up hoping that it will just be included in the next lease or whatever it is, during that interim period, they are responsible for maintenance just as they would the regular building. >> president laguana: that's correct. and if they were noncompliance on maintenance, then they can be cited, you know, the shared spaces program could pull the permit, order the structure to be removed, you know, that's the right way to interface with that i believe is through 311 if there's say like something that's representing a safety hazard of some kind or, you know, if they're not cleaning up their graffiti or, you know, i'm not sure exactly what the

issue is, but they still have to maintain the structure even if the business is gone and now it just becomes the building owner's responsibility. >> director: through the president and commissioners, i think that this is something that's going to be extraordinarily important for you to monitor. and i, you know, flagged this for robin. you know, i mean, this is part of the messy, sort of like the messy middle of the transition. right. going from -- you know, businesses that put them up hoping that it would help them survive they & they left and left the structure. the way that commissioner -- i mean commissioner laguana's talking about, the property owner's responsibility is

important to monitor because there will be property owners who might take advantage of those structures being left and maintaining them themselves potentially maintaining themselves and then part of utilizing it as a means of charging more for rent because the structure is here which then doesn't allow another existing business to maybe put up a shared space because that space is there. right. because there's only going to be a limited number of shared spaces that can be on a block. so it is something i think how -- if a shared space is abandoned by a business, how this, you know, this evolves and, you know, gets dealt with i think is going to be something particularly from an

equity kind of perspective of who's really going to derive that benefit from that existing shared space. you know, if a business closes and immediately somebody moves in and they want to take over that permit, that's one thing. but if the space is every empty for six months and the property owner doesn't take it down and is sort of utilizing that shared spaces existing to try to attract and increase the rent for another business to come in, that's not what the intent of the program is. and nor does it then allow as i said another business that might want to put up a shared space but can't because that one is still there, their ability to be able to take advantage of the program. >> president laguana: director, sorry. if i may, do we know or have you heard of instances of people being refused a permit for a shared space because other shared spaces were up in

the area and do we -- if the answer to that is yes, do we know how that is being determined? i haven't seen this level of granularity in planning detail yet. >> director: i mean, i would say that, you know, moving forward, there's a lot of discussion about balancing the curve. >> president laguana: yeah. i've heard that. >> director: right. for deliveries, for various other things. so one -- i am saying this -- i'm just saying that you may want to monitor how this is being implemented and worked in these different situations and how they're being dealt with. >> president laguana: i didn't know if you were referring to a specific situation.

>> director: no. i'm not referring to a specific situation, but it is one that needs to be -- that consideration should definitely be understood that is a potential consideration. right. so um. >> commissioner huie: i think this is good to maybe bring up to robin and his team about like data gathering in terms of shared spaces. like what are some of the important metrics that we need to kind of keep an eye on in order to kind of understand. because i think that's a good point in that, you know, is there almost like a weightless type of, you know, situation? are there people who would like or because of business turnover, are there new businesses that would like a shared space, but because of it, you know, like, i think

keeping in general an eye on the situation and understanding what some of the areas of concern might be could maybe be well-monitored if we actually have a conversation with him about what are some of these -- like how many businesses are leaving or are shutting down even though they have a shared space? what happens to that shared space? i think those are fair questions for us to understand. >> president laguana: you know, i'll say this, at this point, you know, i mentioned the business i was talking to about the e.r.t.c., they were actually cleaning graffiti off their shared space when i was talking to them. and they were saying the minute they're allowed to go back full boor indoors, they're going to be dismantling their shared space. so i'm curious to see, you

know, that part that director dick-endrizzi alluded to, certainly, we've heard that planning intends to do some kind of weighing and balancing of how many shared spaces will be on a block and how much space will there be for parking and how much for e-delivery and e-commerce and that sort of thing, but what i haven't seen at all is how they plan to calculate that and, you know, i don't know, like when i go through the city, i can only think of a couple neighborhoods that seem to achieve the level of density that it seems like it would trigger that level of concern. like castro, north beach, maybe one or two other places, you know, the marina along chestnut. but otherwise it's -- i don't

know, it seems like probably not likely that we're going to be -- maybe i'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like we're going to be bumping up against that ceiling threshold outside of those high density shared spaces areas. so now the question is how is the department going to look at it and how are they going to space this out? and there's still a very active discussion about even just the required space between them and required space for access and all these different questions. so i think the first question is how's the department going to manage the block? and then once we get that question answered, then we can look at the secondary question of how do we manage the rights? but i take the point that in

hypothetically, yes, in a high density area, somebody else could be like wait a second, i want to open. i'm kind of inclined to think that planning would take that into consideration, but maybe not. >> director: i mean, and to your point, commissioner laguana, i mean, we're still in that transition phase of those, you know, i mean, i think -- i too also anticipate that there will be businesses that decide that they're going to shut down their shared space because of just the management and cost of it when they're able to fully return. so, you know, i think over time, it's really, you know, the businesses were still in that transition of going from the temporary permit to the more permanent permit structure. so, you know, perhaps three

months into it, you might have robin come and give you a presentation in terms of like how many businesses chose not to renew their permits and have they then -- did they proactively take them down? you know, how many were abandoned? what happened to them? you know, how are they dealing with the curb side management, all of that? i think it's just, as we get closer and closer to returning to normal operation, and then those who are going to decide retaining those. i don't think we know fully how things are going to flush out. so -- >> president laguana: that's right. >> director: but i think if there are concerns as president

laguana said around the cleanliness of an booned shared space, then 311 is the best thing to do for now because then that gets reports. those reports will go directly to robin and the shared space program. >> commissioner huie: okay. and is there like in the package or application, is it detailed like what president laguana stated like in terms of who's responsibility it is, you know, at each point? okay. >> president laguana: i think i'm also just kind of quoting common law. that's why i was kind of deferring to commissioner adams because i know that's -- property management is what you do, right? >> commissioner adams: yep. >> president laguana: i have that right, right.

like if you leave your stuff there, it becomes the building owner's? >> commissioner adams: yep. >> commissioner huie: i mean, i think i just wanted something easy to point to and say here's the answer to this. it makes sense to me, i just want to make sure it's clear. >> director: and understand that kind of as detailed as president laguana outlined it, that's moving forward to the more permanent structure. it may not have been as detailed in the covid temporary response, so but any city program that, you know, where we're permitting and allowing the use of sort of the public right of way is going to be very detailed about

responsibility. so just know that. but, you know, was it that detailed in the beginning? it may not have been. i don't know for sure. and, carry, were you going to add something? >> clerk: yeah. i was going to say there's a park lit business owner manual on the shared spaces website that has a little section about your responsibility and the business owner's responsibility that has a set of options to remove the park lites. i'm not sure any businesses are dealing specifically what you were talking about but there's a couple little updated resources. >> commissioner huie: okay. great. thank you. the second piece i was going to talk about was the a.d.a. lawsuits again. so i know chinatown is already in the works of dealing with them and now clement street and i think filmore and then i know

also like in the south bay people, you know, so it's continuing, it's still happening. and i was kind of giving some thoughts as to what we could do to support small businesses during this time and i feel like, you know, and i kind of just wanted to bounce this idea off of like -- off of all of you, the commission to see like, you know, there's multiple things happening at the same time. people have this like very emotional response to being kind of preyed upon and if we take that away, the ultimate goal of this is to move our city, move our businesses towards more accessible, you know, being more accessible spaces. right. and so it's kind of like how do we get towards that end goal

while not, you know, leaving our businesses super vulnerable, you know, in the ways that they are right now. and i was thinking that maybe one thing we could do is try to create more resources for small business owners so that when they are served a notice, they're not terrified and that there are, you know, kind of, you know, there's just some understanding of like, okay what the whole thing needs because i feel like i'm having the same conversation a thousand times over and over again and we always go through same thing. and everybody is always like oh, my gosh, this is the first kind of tough and even though

there was an e-mail thread a year ago or two years ago, it didn't involve your particular business. it's kind of like where can we kind of consolidate some information and, you know, can we put together our -- can we support putting together some workshops or i know we have them within different neighborhoods, but can we kind of get something where we're not recreating this tool kit constantly of what to do, what a cast inspector does. what you do to show good faith. like all these kind of steps that you can do. is there a way that we can get some cross pollination like for all of these things and not have to do it all the time over and over again and freak out every few months. i mean, that's kind of like looking at it in terms of how to support small business

owners and then there is the whole other discussion that maybe supervisor haney is looking towards like in terms of not leaving our businesses as vulnerable as they are. so i think there are multi-, you know -- >> director: yeah. having dealt with this now for like -- i mean, since i came in -- since the office of small business opened, this has been, i mean, the commission when it first started in 2000, there were lawsuits. and, again, grants were provided and commissioners went door to door to businesses and, you know, so, i mean, the complexity is enormous in relationship to some of this. i think where i get at is where i'm coming from is where, you

know, we've gone -- we've done informational workshops in all the merchant corridors, the majority of the merchant corridors at least once if not two to three times about the benefits of getting a cast inspection. [please stand by]

class you hire some and i guess i just really, where do we get businesses to have this on their mind as much as they are cognizant about who are their customers, you know. howthey serve their customers, maybe how they their customers . the whole customer experience and really knowingthey need to get that consideration . that's just how they treat somebody that walks through the

door. and again, training their employees to maintain that environment as well . so i ... there's the existing businesses and one of the things that i'm beginning to have a discussion with the neighborhood, it may not happen this grant cycle but the next is to mandateany of our renaissance center , mehta, like casino. any of the technical service providers who provide technical assistance to small businesses that we mandate that they do education. a part of accessibility you know, just like preparing to handle your books and all of

that that there's accessibility and it's going to be particularly important because websites are now the new frontier again. and so sort of focusing, there's the abilityto try to get businesses at the very beginning tounderstand this and adopt this into their business practice . at the beginning stages . but for businesses ... i think it's like we haveinformation . we advise businesses when we have our ada as part of our business advice when they come into the businesses but i guess i still need to maybe better understand businesses in terms of, i revisited hate street

districts. and evans said yes, wehave regina here four years ago informing us about all this . so where is that gap and when people are receiving this information why aren't they actingon it ? and i think thereis the larger issue . rihanna and i had a meeting with one of thealameda county supervisors looking at our program that we have . and trying to figure out what they cando to replicate that . so the lawsuits are happening allover the bay area .and perhaps we need to work more

collectively countywide on helping do more education but is there something we can do countywide. maybe look at ... i don't want to say legal approaches but i'm sort of repeating myself. i'm just now after doing this the number of years and providing workshops and information , granted not every business attends those workshops and what have you so you don't get all of them but when the information is being provided and businesses aren't acting onit, what's that gap ?

why? you know? >> as a business owner i feel like one of the gaps is that generally you don't have the luxury of a lot of time on your plate so you are just tending to things as they happen and as things come up into your face every day. it's kind of like there's this situation, i have to take care of this and when you're a newer business you're attending to things in your immediate concern and if you think about the cycle, or are probably a fair amount of newer businesses that have only been open the past three years, two years but i think there's turnover in businesses as well so it's kind of like there isn't this

passing on information i think that older businesses are kind of passing on the same information. it's when i see emails. i see the same merchants who some of them they went through it and they got through it in whatever fashion and they don't necessarily alwaysrespond and say i did ask y and z . maybe if you do these things you'll be okay to have the thing. there is like a formal way of giving, passing on knowledge and it's also kind of like i think that a lot of businesses are thinking about this. even if you put it straight in their face because it hasn't happened to them yet. when it happensthe biggest deal and that's the thing for a

lot of business concepts .i remember when i first started a business and i started understanding the idea of cash flow, i didn't understand the ideacash flow i have cash and i said how that happened ? i think different things you can understand different things until it happens you don't feel this is something ihave to take care of now . and i think for us as commission since we understand that shooting alittle bit , maybe we can help figure out how to make the information. it feels like you're right. ifeel like we're shouting at the top of our lungs . we just talked about the ert tax credit and it's all these things.

who tried to give people information proactively but sometimes it doesn't hit until there's some sort of immediate need .so i don't know if that's addressing but i think it is placing that we need to change that narrative about who we are in terms of san francisco andwe're a welcoming city , maybe part of that narrative means we are also accessible and we need to figure out how to incentivize that. because i do think that accessibility is animportant aspect in all our businesses . and what does that mean? maybe that's a larger discussion about public messaging and how we can promote this as a positive part ofour city . that is pretty much it for me.

thank you for your patience. >> president: vice president zouzounis. >> vicepresident: i think just to finish that thought director , i think you're pushing the city in a regular or annual requirements for compliance. it's a great step. i don't remember if they said it would be sent out but if it's the same time the licensing details, that makes a lotof sense to me. everything you have to do is on

file . but i'm happy to support all the next steps you have with the city and that area, director. i wanted to mention a couple of things to follow up withthe city administrator's office . they want to get information about a protigi program for local business enterprise contracting with the city so i hope that's something that we can all share as commissioners . they are trying to solicit small businesses outside of traditional contracting. sorry, construction space so i think that will be on us to help the next trade associations that aren't in

professional services and i'm really proud of the administrative process for all involved . i had a question about utility companies. i know at the beginning of the shutdown some of our utility providers were doing just payments owed bybusinesses . i've seen a couple of collections on thisstuff . so i'd be curious if there's anyupdates in that area . we can provide easy access to our small businesses who are facing compounded taxes like

utilities. get on a payment plan or some kind of forces around thatour utility providers might be able to provide . maybe we can figure out that information already exists and how we can better support small businesses dealing with back bills . >> which utility companies are youspecifically thinking about ? >> i've definitely seen some of the notices to businesses. pnc is another one.

>> we will look into ecology and crv. >> president: is there anything else you want to cover? if you are done, vice presiden zouzounis . >> vice president: yes. >> president: no apologies necessary. okay. i think that brings us to the end of new business. is there any publiccomment on new business ? >> clerk: there is no one in the line for comment. >> president: public comment disclosed. next item please.

>> clerk: please show the office ofsmall businessline, item 10, adjournment . this is an action item .>> president: we end with a reminder that the small-business commission is the official public forum to place your opinions and concerns that affect the economic mentality of small businesses in san francisco and the office of small business is the best place to get answers about doingbusiness in san francisco during the local emergencies . if you need assistance continue to reach out to the office of small business .>> clerk: is there a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> president: seconded. >> clerk: seconded by president laguana. i will call goal. [roll call vote]

>> motion passes 7 to 0. meeting is adjourned 6:40 6 pm. >> good nighteverybody .

shop and dine in the 49

promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a

great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but

to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.

>> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35

hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy

produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of

having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits

and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables

it is healthy being a diabetic you're not supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but

the personal pride business owners talk about in the program is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy

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a great way to get out and play. >> for more information, >> all in favor, aye. >> opposed? okay. we are returning to the commission meeting after a brief break. >> thank you. >> sfgovtv can go ahead and take us out of the recess. members of the public on the line, apologies. we have fixed the technical issue that was happening. if anything goes wrong let me know. hopefully, it is resolved now. if somebody wanted to comment on 7b which was the grant acceptance, we will ask you to raise your hand now. if there is comment we will

discuss. star 3 to raise your hand. >> both hands are raised. this is 7b. commissioner anderson you can decide if you want the vote. the $20,000 cash grant to the girls baseball team hold your comment to later. >> now that i am thinking about it, commissioner jupiter jones

probably shouldn't be here. >> maybe she can leave the room for a second. >> david, do they still have hands raised? >> they do. >> commissioner jupiter jones, leave again. i will let you know to come back in a second. first caller. >> general public comment. [indiscernable] thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker.

the line is open. did you want to speak about the grant to the girls baseball team? hello. anybody there? >> they hung up. >> get commissioner back and i will acknowledge commissioner griffin. >> we had one caller who asked to go back to general public comment. >> we are back to taking general public comment. >> thanks for your patience. >> there is one hand raised. >> you have two minutes.

>> hi, commissioners. thank you. i appreciate this, captain howard urban nature. at the mar3, 2021 meeting historic preservation commission considered for certificate to extend observation wheel. recreation and parks department offered proposals to mitigate the impact of the wheel. the noise from the generator are still continuing. moderation of the lights is not in place. we should have receive a letter with a lot more details and photos illustrating these issues. we ask you direct rec and parks

department do look into these and correct these problems. thank you very much. good luck with your technology. >> anyone else on the line who missed general public comment for item 6 and would like to speak now? david, any hands raised? >> there are zero hands raised. >> no further callers, public comment is closed. item 7c. periods of time recreation sender and twin parks promenades and trails improvements regional park program grant application. >> i had a question about this one. what is the normal practice? i am confused. is this for the california state

park department or san francisco rec and park department? i understand the grant part of it. the end part where it says they will main tain the park improvements for 30 years. rec and park maintain that now and will they not maintain in the future? is that what is happening in that is my question. >> we have our active director of safety here. this has become a common plan. a requirement you continue to operate and main take the park in perpetuity for park purposes. this is work we are already doing at hertz. it is an expansion. it is an explicit condition of the grant and something we do

anyway. we record against the deed. you want to chime in on anything? it is recreation and parkings department land and our workers doing the work. would be doing it absence of the grant agreement. >> i don't have anything else to add. >> that clears it up. i am fine. >> commissioner, it is the advice of the lawyers to be pulling utit out and bringing to the board for approval. we will continue to see that in these plans when they go forward. >> thank you. >> go ahead. commissioner griffin. >> i make a motion we approve item c under conbe sent calendar. >> i have a second?

>> second. >> public comment. >> if there is comment on 7c dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. any hands raised? >> there are zero hands raised. >> thank you. public comment is closed. all in favor. roll call. >> commissioner anderson. >> aye. >> commissioner griffin. >> aye. >> commissioner hallisy. >> aye. >> commissioner jupiter jones. >> aye. >> commissioner louie. >> aye. >> commissioner mazzola. >> aye. >> any opposed? it was unanimous. passes. we are at item 8.

san francisco zoo. do we have a presenter? >> i am with the san francisco zoo. we have a slide presentation as well. >> i will share it. just give me a moment. >> thank you very much.

>> we will review our diversity program at the san francisco zoo. starting off diversity fellowships. we had the 10 for 10 program with gateway high school in the city. 10 week program with 10 students. the purpose is to represent underrepresented youth to learn and gain insight of options that may be available to them.

also leads to the zoo camp and diversity as well. we enter that. diversity fellowship offers chance to gain leadership experience and planning and organizing. we look forward to doing this next summer and partnership with gateway high school as well. accessibility for community. our neighbor next door does help out and we continue to give free admission to the zoo and open doors to them. next slide please.

once again on accessibility we have u.c.s.f. foundation we partner with. families with epilepsy we open early to help out families and needs of children as well. also we join the museums for all program. from july to september we 43405 participants totaling 1.5% of the total attendance. we hope this goes up. we started roughly mid-july. this opens it up for admission for only $3 per person for four. family of four for $12.

these than a standard admission. we have online training. moved daei programs online and the unconscious bias training for staff at the due. internal acting with guests or each other or management. this is all online available to anyone at any time who works at the zoo. all documents at the internal

website as well as safety training right there. last slide please. >> we have our employee book club. we are talking about one of those issues. race, gender, inclusion, all of those things in a safe place. book club is meeting once a month to go all of the different issues, too. it is a way to talk about the issues without affecting other employees. once again this is open to all employees and includes a copy of the book if they join the book k

club. that concludes our presentation. >> any public comment on the san francisco zoo report? dial star 3 to be added to the zoo. >> there are zero hands raised. >> reminder to mute yourself if you are not currently speaking. i am hearing a lot of background noise. public comment is closed. we are now on item 9. general public comment. is there anyone on the line to speak on an item not on today's agenda dial star 3 to be added the queue to speak. >> we will have a moment for commissioners to speak if we do general public comment first. >> is lamar gone?

>> i am here. >> any general public comment? any hands raised? >> there are zero hands raised. >> public comment is closed. item 10. commissioners' matters. >> commissioner griffin. >> yes. thank you very much for the nice presentation. very insightful. i just had one question. how do you do your recruitment for the book club, the youth programs? how is the recruitment done? >> internal recruitment for the book club open to all staff. we had the head of the book club with the idea. we supported them fully on it.

we looked at the program, gave approval. let them put out the e-mail. they put the e-mail out to staff to let them know it was available in english and spanish. copies for any staff interested. external. pretty much networking. who is available during those times. we had connections at gateway high school. we found out especially during the panel pan on what their different interns were and what they wanted to do. we are working with other schools to get them on board as well. >> thank you very much. >> no problem. thank you. >> anyone to speak on equity issues? >> if any commissioners want to

bring forward an equity moment, now would be the time. >> do commissioners want to talk about anything else before we move on? >> i would like to acknowledge based on public comment from catherine howard we did receive a communication on this. staff is looking into it. i would ask sarah to get back to me and let's make sure if there is a status report for the next committee meeting we will gen° t to the agenda. >> commissioner griffin. >> i was going to say that it is only since september 23rd that i have been on the commission now.

i have been learning a lot more each day. i was on a commission prior to that back in the early 1990s. on boarding was different. i haven't had much time to myself. involved with stuff we have to go through. it is good stuff. it is an exciting commission. i just look forward to working with folks. i look forward to put my foot on every park in the city. i am sure people have aid that before. i would ask ashley to help with a list broken down by area. we can talk about that offline. it is fascinating. yesterday i had to go by the lodge to pick something up.

there was confusion. i was outside for a while. the smell of the red wood tree brought up old san francisco to me. >> commissioner griffin, i would be honored to join you. i have been quietly doing this myself. about 225 parks are open including some that aren't in the city. i will be happy to join you. i would like that list. i asked for a map. i don't know if we have an updated map. if we don't i would love to see it happen. if we do have a map of all parks and open spaces. perhaps we could get one to each petitioner. this is a segway to the next

item. >> i have seen a map but it doesn't have the name of the park on it. it is a city map and they are just dots. if we could get a name by the dots. >> i am happy to sit in if the newer commissioners want to be part of that. just work through that with ashley. do we need public comment? >> commissioner jupiter jones and commissioner louie. >> go ahead, please. >> i just thought this meeting would be a good meeting to announce the baseball program are launching the 403 saturday

girl clinics. we are scheduled for one for saturday. the forecast might prevent that until we get an official month. these are offered for baseball players of all level. they are for places to learn. crocker amazon. the home field. they are run by our amazing coaching staff along with some junior coaches and al lum currently in high school. we do 7-10. from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. from 12 to 4 ages 11 to 4.

next is november 20th. one on december 18. one on january 22. one on february 26. drop in, show up. there is a waiver they need to sign. if anyone has questions send an e-mail to girls baseball. bring out your girls. they are a lot of fun. >> admission commissioner louie. >> commissioner jupiter jones. i want to all girls high school and played softball throughout. we want to thank you for the work you do. i didn't hear my age range mentioned. that is okay.

i want to add that we are very blessed to have ashley and sarah and people like you that have really spend year time to make larry and i feel comfortable and excited to be part of this commission. this wonderful commission. the commissioners that i hope can get together and see more often. we feel blessed and welcome. >> i would like to also add that the an for mentioned blackwell and reed are running clinics at the refurbished gilman playground. they began on september 14th. they are running through november 4. boys and girls are welcome.

every tuesday, thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. i have been out there twice. there has been 20-25 kids. each one of those times. i hear now it is growing as we move forward. eye number of coaches as well. coach to player ratio is like one to four or five. i want to salute manny involved in multiple programs and vick read. that has about two weeks to run. take advantage of that as well. boys and girls. dill man playground tuesday and thursday 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. >> any public comment on commissioners matters, dial star 3 to be added the queue. >> zero hands are raised.

>> public comment is closed. we are now on item 11. new business agenda setting. commissioners. >> one of the items that is going to come up is we need to update our commission by-laws. i have the working document in hand here. if any commissioner wants to help on this just ping me and let me know. they were last amended in 2010. amendments will be made based on recommendations from the department's racial equity action plan and the controller's office public integrity review, preliminary assessment ethical standards for contracted award processes of the airport commission and other commissions and boards. and hopefully we can bring this to the commission for approval

in november or december. that is it on the by-laws announcement. anything else to bring forward in the future? hearing none we can move on to item 12. is that right, ashley? you are muted. >> public comment on item 11. dial star 3 for public comment. anyone have hands raised? >> there are zero hands raised. >> no callers, public comment the closed. 12 communications. any public comment on item 12? any hands raised? >> there are zero hands raised.

>> public comment is closed. we are on item 13 adjournment. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and jupiter jones seconded. all in favor say aye. >> aye. any opposed? we are adjourned at 11:11.

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line is open. account for time delays between life coverage and streaming. alternatively you may e-mail rec parks admission. if you submit public comment it will be included in the legislative file. this will be available on sfgovtv. we are now on item 2. which is the continuation of remote meetings. this is an item that was voted on at operations and capital committee. this is going to allow the commission to continue having remote meetings.

there is no staff presentation. if you would like commissioner anderson i can call a vote. >> yes, please do. >> item 2. commissioner anderson. >> aye. >> commissioner griffin. >> aye. >> commissioner house see. >> aye. >> commissioner jones. >> aye. >> commissioner lou. >> aye. >> commissioner missoula. >> aye. >> that is the unanimous. public comment. >> it is a continuation. if anyone wanted to comment on remote meetings dial star 3 to

be added the queue. david, can you let me know if anyone raised their hand. >> there are zero hands raised. >> no callers. public item closed. election of officers, item 3. there is a typo in this item which election of vice president for the remainder of calendar year as it was vacated. we do have a president. we will not hold that election until january 2022. with that, i will just very briefly go through public comment and then i will go through the election process and turn it over to you, commissioners. any public comment on election of officers? if you would like to comment dial star 3 to be added the

queue. >> there are zero hands raised. >> public comment is closed. the process for this election is that someone will need to motion to open the nominations. just opening the nominations. someone can second the motion and we will take a roll call vote on the motion to open nominations. after that we will move to nominations. someone can make a nominations for vice president and someone can second the nomination and we will see if there are other nominations and close nominations and do roll call vote on nominations. >> did you hear my motion to open? >> no, i didn't. go ahead. >> i made a motion to open nominations. >> second. >> i will call roll on that.

commissioner anderson. >> aye. >> commissioner griffin. >> aye. >> commissioner sallisy. >> aye. >> jupiter jones. >> aye. >> commissioner louie. >> aye. >> commissioner mazzola. >> aye. >> unanimous to open nominations. nominations for vice president. >> i would like to nominate someone for vice president other than president buhl. commissioner anderson has the most experience. sixth year as commissioner. she has chaired the zoo committee, served on the capital committee, when i was appointed a year ago, there was a state of flux within the commission. ashley was on maternity leave at that point. stacy was doing two jobs

apartment once. i met commissioner anderson at dedication of observation wheel in golden gate park. she gave me her cell number. if you have any questions, concerns please give me a call. i used that number often in the succeeding months via text and personal phone calls. she was very forthcoming with information and advice. we have been lucky. we have had two great vice presidents this year. commissioner loue and commissioner mcdonald. i think commissioner anderson would be tremendous in this role. it is my pleasure to nominate her for vice president of the rec and park commission. >> i would like to second that. based on gender equality it would be great to have a female

vp. as new commissioner i am very excited. >> thank you both. >> anyone else want to say anything before roll call vote on that? >> i would like to add that i have known kat for many years. she has been very helpful. she has been there when needed. she would make an excellent vice president. >> any other nominations? >> seeing no other nominations. nominations are closed. on the motion to elect kat anderson vice president. commissioner anderson. >> aye. >> commissioner griffin.

>> aye. >> commissioner hallisy. >> aye. >> commissioner jones. >> aye. >> commissioner loue. >> aye. >> commissioner mazzola. >> aye. congratulations. the vote is unanimous. did you want to say anything. >> thank you. i want to thank everybody for your kind words and your support. this is a tremendous commission to serve on both symbolically and effectively. i think san franciscans love parks above everything else. it is a wonderful way to relax and reflect, spend time with family and friends. we have beautiful gaulterring spaces all over the city. i raised my children here and i can tell you we have our

favorite places yet i still discover new places every some. thank you for being -- every month. thank you to all members of the rec and park team, department, you guys are great. i feel so lucky to be working with you. i hope that you will continue to call on all of us especially me to help. i think i am about to enter a period of time when i have extra time on my hands. i would like to do more. i know we all do. i am excited about the birth of new parks, francisco and india basin and the equity projects all over the city. in my work takes me to the southeast quadrant every day. i have seen the equity activism in beautiful neighborhoods and parks and neighbors so proud to

go and feel excited and safe to be there. i think we should all commend ourselves. a round of applause to all of us. if anybody has new ideas they would like to float that the commission could get involved in always let me know. i will give you my cell number beige i did for joe. contact me anytime. we do a lot but i think we could be more active as leaders on the commission. we will pick up the ball and run anytime. we are ready to go. >> thank you. welcome to the newest commissioners. commissioner louie and griffin. i am excited you have joined us. welcome. >> commissioner anderson our new vice president i will ask you to help me facilitate today's

meeting. our election is concluded. item 4. president's report. commissioner anderson. >> our president is in a foreign country right now. he tried to participate but we had technical difficulties. we wish the commissioner well. he didn't tell me to report anything. i think you pretty much heard my report. with any fellow commissioners like to speak up during this time? all right. go ahead. >> i wanted to speak a little bit about the graduation at the botanical gardens. >> thank you. yes, we had the apprenticeship classes. two -- cohorts selected to go

through a two year program. they are then going to do work in rec and park. some go to department of public works. i would say we probably celebrated more than 20 graduates from all walks of life who have completed training. many have started their careers in rec and park. i have to tell you it was so excited to hear them acknowledge, to meet them, to hear how great team leaders are and instructor. enthusiastic committed people. i have to say again our parks are in great hands. did you want to add to that. >> i will add one more thing. starting out attending events. that was particularly emotional in that i am so proud of san

francisco and the past commissioner on the rec and park was the one with the idea about a two year intern ship in collaboration with city college. it is academic and theness things to be a good gardner. that is manager ginsburg the only two year internship in the entire state of california. this is quite a feather in the cap of san francisco. >> we have a model program here. i also want to commend labor local 261. they embrace these apprentices who become part of that membership this. is a union that worked so hard in the city.

it is currently headed by theresa folio. a lot of involvement from convince courtney. thank you, commissioner lou. anything else anybody? i have one other item if no one else has something to share. we got a really nice commendation right to the general manager from the san francisco apartment association. she sent an e-mail thank you for your hard work and putting up with a lot of abuse from colleagues. i have lived in san francisco 45 years and have never seen the parks so nice. we were there on saturday and my long time san francisco friends were amazed at the quality of bathrooms. you rock. keep it up.

great job, phil and the team. thank you for that kind note. i think that is the end of item 4. >> any public comment on the president's report? if there is dial star 3 to be added the queue. >> zero hands raised. >> an e-mail from a member of the public who said -- okay. it is fun that we can work on this together with the public. i am not worried about that any more. no callers. public comment is closed. item 5. general manager's report.

>> good morning. >> turn it up. >> i am standing in for the general manager also in a foreign country. i believe not the same one as the president. i will be giving the congratulations to vice chair and general manager's report today. we start with the jfk bike tour on october 24th. please join the s.f.m.t.a. and rec and park staff for a bike and talk to your along jfk drive in the park this sunday. it may be rain. october 24, at 1:30 p.m. come learn more about the bike ride. bring your bike or rent one. talk about potential

improvements. it begins and ends at mcallister street. this is part of our jfk outreach project everything joint with m.t.a. so far included 32 events, five in equity priority communities, eleven senior communities and two very large recorded virtual information sessions. we have the survey and a companying information available in five languages. i believe this is a record in my over 10 years with the department. since this survey opened we have over 6259 responses to our survey. over 500 paper surveys complete. we have them available at our events for people to fill out on paper. there is more information this

project on our website and s.f.m.t.a. website. switching to child care makeovers. our city kids enjoy new green outdoor play spaces after volunteers created play spaces at nine san francisco child care centers and home daycare facilities. the transformed play years allow the young children to inspire world for learning, movement and imaginative play new plantings, gardens, logs, stumps and trees for climbing and nozzlenents to use in imaginative play. the children's services which serves children from birth to 5 years old with family incomes below federal poverty line is one of the four child care centers, five family child care homes with the transformation.

two centers in bayview, two in engle side, one near city college, one in the valley. these makeovers were spearheaded by the department cities connected children to nature project which is the san francisco based -- excuse me and the san francisco-based nonprofit low income investment fund, rebuilding together and the office of early care and education. like many things we do it is collaboration with different partners. we are opening the nature play area on november 1st. you are invited to join us. this is a collaboration with the port and san francisco children and nature. it will be at 5:00 p.m. kiddie signed and constructed

out every purposed natural materials. logs and stumps and it is a place where kids can connect, explore and play in nature and where kids are encouraged to balance on logs, play in the mud and use natural materials. the only limit is imagination. this is collaboration withca boone and leaders in nature play design with generous funding from kaiser permanente. november 1st is ribbon-cutting and play activities for kids. this project has many really interesting elements but you will see trees are re-purposed from tree removals at lake merced and different places throughout the system, exciting for kids and the environment as

well. close to halloween. we are not hosting the usual scare there are halloween events. halloween party on october 29th featuring pumpkins. top party costume parade on october 29th. attend if your life is in need of cuteness. party at youngblood coleman rec center. also on the 29th. dancing is more, we have the thriller dance flash mob by young people theater company on october 29 and 30. haunted house at glen park rec center on october 30th. they are dubbing nightmare on elk street. a full list of events is found

on the website. coming up same weekend is outside lands. this is returning to golden gate park after a year off because of covid. we are excited to invite lizzo and the strokes and jay baldwin to the park. there is a lot happening that weekend not just in the park but around the city. to help the public navigate traffic and plan the route around the park and we have set up a web page on our site. sfrec park.org that lists links to shuttle you information and other information. there is further concert information at outside lands. com. the road closures for golden gate park have been started. it is to the community looking

at the supervisor's media channel as well as our own. golden gate park the band shell concerts continue. you can head to the music concourse band shell to enjoy free live concerts sunday, wednesday, friday and some saturdays. illuminate is hosting free concerts. raggae sunday. singer-songwriter wednesday. a member of our staff appeared two weeks ago. special community events on saturday. the complete lineup is also on the website. another event to invite you to on november 13. lake merced boat dock is

opening. construction is complete. new dock boat ramp seating area and ada parking are available to the public. it is important. it allows for the continued operation as a regional national recreation resource. i met natural to improve accessibility to the public particularly seniors and those with disabilities. helps retain the diverse user groups. ribbon-cutting will be held on november 13 at 11:30 a.m. followed by a special demonstration of the california dragon boat association. finally, we are pleased to announce the san francisco parks alliance and bay area artist in partnership with recreation and parks bringing parks back to

peacock meadow. during the pan tan this dazzling force of life became a popular evening destination for residents and visitors. in the returning year you can look forward to augmented experience including new trees, flowers, interactive features to allow custom lighting patterns. it lights the way for a nighttime exploration along the car-free jfk route. the holiday tree, conservatory of flowers will be lit up, and the observation meal and illuminated band shell in music concourse. tree lighting on december 2.

invitations forthcoming. it includes hot chocolate and cookies and visit from santa. that concludes the general managers report. >> if there is any public comment on the general manager's report dial star 3 to speak. >> there are zero hands raised. >> general public comment. >> we are on item 6. general public comment up to 15 minutes. this will be continued to item 9. at this time the members of the public may address the commission within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission not on the agenda. with respect to agenda items you will have opportunity to address the commission when the item is

reached. dial star 3 to have two minutes to speak. anyone have a hand raised? >> there is one hand raised. >> caller, you have two minutes. >> they are not unmuting. >> is that on our end? >> normally they press star 3 to raise their hand. we have one attendee but no raised hands. >> there will be another opportunity. if you are on the call and speak during general public comment

dial star 3 to be added the queue to speak. dial star 3. did they raise their hand? >> no. >> okay. if this person on the line wants to speak during general public comment we will have public comment again on item 9. no further callers, public comment is closed. consent calendar item 7. is there anyone who would like to remove an item from consent calendar? >> i would like to make a motion we remove item b from concept calendar. >> second? >> second. >> roll call vote on removing 7b gloss commissioner anderson.

>> aye. >> griffin. >> aye. >> commissioner hallisy. >> aye. >> jupiter jones. >> aye. >> commissioner louie. >> aye. >> reminder mute yourself if you are not talking. commissioner mazzola. >> aye. i would like to pull item c. >> on the motion to remove 7b from consent calendar the vote was unanimous. commissioner mazzola made a motion to remove item c.

is there a second? commissioner griffin seconds the motion. the motion to remove 7c, commissioner anderson. >> aye. >> commissioner griffin. >> aye. >> commissioner lallisy. >> aye. >> jones. >> aye. >> commissioner louie. >> aye. >> commissioner mazzola. >> i don't think there needs a second on a process. any commissioner can remove any item. >> i will doublecheck. i want to make sure that is correct. it doesn't happen that often. thank you. everyone knows how this works. what we will do is vote on the

consent calendar as a whole. two things are removed 7a and d. then go to those removed. 7b. the item is removed and staff can be present to as questions or make statement. then i believe staff from item c are also on the call to answer questions. would anyone like to make a motion to approve consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. on the consent calendar. >> anderson. >> aye. >> griffin. >> aye. >> hallisey. >> aye. >> jupiter jones. >> aye. >> commissioner louie. >> aye. >> commissioner mazzola.

>> aye. >> i am supposed to take public comment on consent calendar. is there any public comment on consent calendar. dial star 3 to be added the queue. >> no hands raised. >> no further callers, public comment closed. 7a and d are passed. now item 7b. grant acceptance. >> commissioner jupiter jones. >> i recuse myself based on my personal and family's very in depth participation on the program. should i hang up now? >> hang up. as soon as this item is done i

will text you to jump back on. i won't start until you are back on. >> thanks everyone. >> roll call vote on 7b to accept $20,000 cash grant for the baseball team. >> motion? >> i move that we accept this grant. >> second. >> this is a very unusual agenda. i am mixed up. 7b the grant. go ahead commissioner mizzoula. >> i am confused why it was pulled out. >> it was pulled out because

commissioner jupiter-jones had to be excused. >> she didn't want to approve or not approve something she had a direct personal interest in. she is involved with the team. >> we are taking public comment on 7b the grant acceptance from amazon for the san francisco bay. any public comment? dial star 3 to speak. >> do we have anyone? >> it looks like two hands raised. i do not have the option to

unmute. there is a lot going on for me right now. david, it sounds like there is a problem in terms of people trying to comment and they are not able to. we can't go forward in the meeting until we figure that out. commissioner anderson, do you think we should call a five minute recess for the technical issue or do you want to it is here? >> if your person e-mailing you to speak about this item? >> she wanted to speak during general public comment. >> why don't we go ahead and finish this item b and then we will take a brief recess to figure out the technical. if it turns out someone wanted to comment on 7b and we felt like it was substantive we could always rescind our vote. >> anything else to say before roll call on 7b?

commissioner anderson. >> aye. >> commissioner griffin. >> aye. >> commissioner hallisy. >> aye. >> jupiter jones. she is not here. commissioner louie. >> aye. >> commissioner mazzola. >> aye. >> with that item 7b passes. >> i would like to move for a brief add injury meant to see -- adjournment to address technical issues with public comment. >> i believe sfgovtv will put us on brief recess. don't hang up on callers. if they can't hear us i want to make sure that they don't get confused. >> i need a second on my motion.

>> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> any opposed? all right we are going to briefly recess. [ a brief recess was taken.]

[♪♪♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game

was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football. i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine. >> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america

scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> that's right.

>> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this?

>> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. >> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. there is no complex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has

kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural.

>> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature.

almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique scenery. until next time, get out and play! >> in 201,755.7 million

passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was

able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig

and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other organizations such as hospitals and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we

are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. >> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift.

>> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs

is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our first pig. >> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact

with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to toby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. >> i'm warren corn field and we are doing a series called stay safe, we are going to talk about staying in your home after an earthquake and taking

care of your pet's needs. ♪♪ >> here we are at the spur urban ken center and we are in this little house that was built to show what it is like in san francisco after an earthquake. we are very pleased to have with us today, pat brown from the department of animal care and control and her friend oreo. >> hi. >> lauren. >> could you tell us what it would take after an earthquake or some other emergency when you are in your home and maybe no power or water for a little while. what it would take for you and oreo to be comfortable and safe at home. >> just as you would prepare for your own needs should an earthquake or a disaster event occur, you need to prepare for

your pets. and i have brought with me today, some of the things that i have put in my disaster kit to prepare for my animal's needs to make sure that i am ready should something happen and i need to shelter at home. >> what are some of the things that people should have in their home after an earthquake or other emergency to help take care of their tasks and take care of themselves. >> i took the liberty of bringing you some examples. it includes a first aid kit for your pet and you can also use it for yourself and extra meds for your pets. and water container that will not tip over. we have got both food, wet food and dry food for your pet. and disposable food container. and water, and your vet records. in addition, we have a collar

and some toys. >> yeah. to keep oreo busy. >> he needs toys and this is san francisco being a fruity city and come on oreo. this is your dinner, it is patte style chicken dinner with our foody seen here. >> what they say now is that you should have at least a gallon of water and i think that a gallon of water is small amount, i think that maybe more like two gallons of water would be good for you and your pet. >> does the city of animal control or any other agency help you with your pet after an emergency. >> there is a coalition of ngos, non-governmental organizations led by the department of animal care and control to do disaster planning for pets and that includes the san francisco spca. the paws group, the vet sos, pets unlimited. and we all have gotten together

and have been getting together for over four or five years now to talk about how we can educate the public about being prepared for a disaster as it involves your pets. >> a lot of services. i understand that if you have to leave your home, we are encouraging people to take their pets with them. >> absolutely. we think that that is a lesson that we concerned from karina, if you are being evacuated you should take your pet with you. i have a carrier, and you need to have a carrier that you can fit your pet in comfortably and you need to take your pet with you when you were evacuated. >> i am going to thank you very much for joining us and bringing oreo today. and i am gogogogogogogogogogogoo

>> good morning, everyone. today is the october 26 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority. good morning. i'm rafael mandelman. i chair this board. our vice chair is aaron peskin, our clerk is britney milton. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> yes, chair. [roll call] it's been a while since i've done this. [roll call continues] melgar absent. [are call] [roll call]

and one more call for commissioner chan. chan absent. ok. we have quorum. >> all right. thank you. i think you may have a public comment announcement to read. >> yes, chair. and i see that commissioner chan just popped on. so, should i just call her name? >> sure. >> commissioner chan? >> present. >> thank you. chan present. um, all right. oh, and commissioner melgar as well. commissioner melgar? >> present, thank you. >> all right.

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or radios around you. if you wish to comment during the meeting, it is best to listen via the public comment line to avoid delay on the live stream of the meeting. >> thank you, madame clerk. please call item 2. >> chair's report. this is an information item. >> great. colleagues, this must be transportation authority celebrated the completion of two important transit and pedestrian safety projects in japan town and the fisherman's wharf area. i want to congratulate the m.t.a. on delivering the first phase of geary via the geary rapid project. it makes transit faster and more reliable by adding dedicated red side bustlings, signal priority and decibels on one of san francisco's busiest transit corridors and brings much needed safety

improvements along this high-injury corridor, including new crosswalks, recorrecting japan town with the fillmore and western tradition which were constructed by the geary expressway in the late 1960s. the transportation authority led environmental planning for the project and provided over $13 million to fund the project and i am pleased that the m.t.a. delivered the the project on time and on budget. and we can all hope this trend continues as the project continues westward to the richmond in phase two. secondly, i want to recognize public works for the successful completion of jefferson street, phase two. that project includes three blocks of streetscape improvements between powell and jones streets completing the design developed in the 2010 fisherman's wharf public realm plan, featuring widened sidewalks, new landscaping and public seating. the project will improve pedestrian safety along a street that sees more than 60,000 pedestrians per day on a typical summer weekend with

vice chair peskin's support, the transportation authority was a significant contributor to this project as well, providing $8 million or approximately half of the funding to complete this work from sales tax and state gas tax funds that we program. at the regional level, after many years of development, the association of bay area governments and metropolitan transportation commission adopted planned area 2050 as the region's long-range transportation and land use plan last week. it was not an easy process, but i do want to thank commissioners ronen and mar and our excellent staff at the t.k. for helping to ensure all of our transportation funding priorities were included in the final plan. as we wrote in a joint letter with mayor breed, we look forward to working with both agencies and colleagues around the bay area to advanced regional rail, fund transit core capacity needs at muni, bart and cal train and improve transportation policies in the region and san francisco will certainly

continue to play an active role in pushing plan bay area to encourage a more equitable development pattern throughout the region as planned strategies and policis are updated every four years. as part of this next focus on implementation, we appreciate m.t.c. staff's recommendation to allocate $30 million remaining in federal transit covid relief funds to sfmta to support rest nation muni service. thank you, commissioner ronen, for advocating in eke witable access at the m.t.a. and finally i want to take a moment as supervisor haney did, commissioner and supervisor haney did at last week's board meeting to remember becky hoe, a former transportation authority c.a.c. member representing district 6 who passed away earlier this month. becky was always highly involved in her community, working on accessibility issues city-wide, serving on the pedestrian safety advisory committee including as its chair and later focusing on treasure island where she lived for many

years and served ton treasure island development authority's community advisory board. we'll remember becky fondly for her legacy of community service and, with, that i conclude my remarks. and we should open those remarks up to public comment. >> there is no public comment, chair. >> all right. public comment on item 2 is closed. madame clerk, please call item 3. >> item 3, executive director's report. this is an information item. >> director chan. >> good morning, chair and commissioners. let me go ahead and begin at the federal level. of course, we're all tracking the preparation of the build back better act and potential consensus in congress with the administration on an infrastructure bill. federal surface transportation programs are really dependent on passage of this as well as a third

extension of the federal programs, in the event that there is no agreement, however, before the current extension expires on october 31, we will need to be ready to assist cal trans and other agencis that would be affected. it has been reported that the extension will be through december 3, however, which is the deadline for funding the federal government and raising the debt limit. so we're tracking both sort of the federal extension for current programs as well as the process for reaching agreement on the now smaller infrastructure bill, reducing it from $3.25 billion to $1.5 to $2 trillion as has been reported in the news. next, turning to the local level. as you may have seen, the sfmta just recently announced their winter service plan restoration update.

this looks like a 10% expansion in february of 2022. sfmta will restore service on the 2, 6, 10, 21 and 28-r. sfmta also plans to extend the 31 along 5th street to serve the cal train station at 4th and king and plans to extend the 43 to its prepandemic route. additional changes to other muni buses and light rail routes are also under consideration and this announcement follows extensive public outreach throughout the city and at the presentation at our board recently earlier in the month. there are about 4500 survey responses, 30 stakeholder meetings and other types of input. hopefully we can address many of the concerns that were raised through further consultations, but the agency does plan to release a network proposal next month and will seek m.t.a. board of approval in december.

moving back up to some local issues relating to autonomous vehicles. in late september, the california d.m.v. issued autonomous vehicle deployment permits to two operators. these employment permits allow the companies to make their autonomous technology commercially available and is a next step in allowing the companies to deliver ride hail or delivery services to the public. weymo received a driver deployment permit which allows an operator to charge funds while operating an autonomous vehicle but requires a safety operator in the front seat. they can now use their vehicles within parts of san francisco and san mateo counties on public roads with the maximum speed of up to 65 miles per hour on the freeway, including where there is rain and light fog. crews received a driverless deployment permit, which permits an operator to charge funds while operating an a.v. withouts a safety operator in the front seat s. crews was

granted permission to use its vehicles on public surface streets within designated parts of san francisco with a maximum speed limit of 30 miles per hour. including when there is rain and light fog. however, their permitted hours of operation are between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. so, we believe that they will be starting with delivery of, say, food services. now we know that both companies need to obtain a california p.u.c. permit to operationize these d.m.v. permits and commercial services so we'll keep you up to date as that rolls out. turning to our sales tax renewal work, they continue to bring a recommendation to the board in december for a new 30-year expenditure plan. the group's fourth meeting is later this week on october 28 when they discuss transit enhancements such as a ferry based landing and cal train station which is also topic

on today's agenda. major transit projects like muni train control and the bart core capacity program as well as some of the policis that shape how we administer these programs will also been the agenda. all of the meetings are virtual and open to the public and we're also actively engaging with the broader community on this effort through multiple methods, partnering with local c.b.o.s to hold focus group, including in spanish, chinese and russian this week and early next week. and we will be hosting two english town halls in early november. we do have a live survey online now for anyone to fill out and we can make those available in paper as well and to get more information, please visit our website at sftca/expenditure plan. this month i was very pleased to join commissioners melgar and safai for an initial meeting at the ocean avenue corridor working group and action plan. as you will result, this is

an effort that we funded earlier this year at the request of commissioner melgar and her n-tip program and it will document funding and implementation strategies to improve safety and access in circulation along the ocean avenue corridor for already identified and planned improvements as well as prioritize four to five new transportation improvements to a further level of detail to advance for near term funding opportunities. the task force members include district 7 and 11 residents and representives from the corridor's many schools, businesses and neighborhood organizations. at the first meeting, the task force members provided feedback on the scope and out reach plan for which we will be requesting prop-k funds at your next month's meetings. so we will see you back on that topic next month. now turning to some management updates and administration updates.

our august sales tax recreates came in. they were higher than july but they did lag the prepandemic levels. revenues of $7.9 million were received in august. these are 18% higher than in july. which was $6.7 million and they were, however, 23% lower than compared to august of 2019. we see an increasing overall trend in sales tax revenue which is we hope continues to rise. now to help with ensuring we have broad contracting throughout the city and our work, on october 21, we participated in the virtual meeting of meet the primes, an outreach event with members of the business outreach committee to connect and introduce small businesses to prime consultants and public transportation agencies throughout the bay area. nine served as panelists in break out rooms to answer questions so small businesses can understand how to do

business with them and what they need to do to get involved and contracting with public transit agencies. 90 people attended the event. and it is a multiagency consortium of approximately 26 bay-area transportation agencies with a common goal to assist small, disadvantageded and local firms doing business in transportation. now coming up in october -- november on the 17th, we will be hosting our own virtual d.p.e./l.b.e. disadvantaged and enterprise opportunity meetings. the firms -- interested firms can learn about the contracting opportunities from the t.a. agency at our website, sftpa.org/contracting if they can't make that meeting and i want to offer our staff heartfelt condolences to the friendeds and family of becky to add to the chair's remarks. she was a very beloved member of our c.a.c. and we really

are going to miss her and the impact she had in our work, especially on treasure island. thank you so much. >> thank you, madame director.

>> we have nine ayes and the minutes have final approval. >> and commissioner safai is aye as well. sorry about that. >> melgar as well. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. madame clerk, please call item 5 through 7, our consent agenda. >> item 5 through 7, comprise the consent agenda. these items were first approved at the october 19 board meeting and are now before the board for final approval. staff is not planning to present, but is available for questions. i would also like to acknowledge that we received one public comment as it relates to item 6 and it is posted to our website. >> thank you. is there a motion to approve our consent agenda? thank you, vice chair peskin. thank you, commissioner ronen for the second. madame clerk, please call the roll on our consent agenda.

>> for the final approval -- [roll call] >> we have 11 ayes and the consent agenda is approved, finally. final approval. >> thank you.

please call item 8. >> item 8, execute contract renewals and options for various annual professional services in an amount not to exceed $725,000. this is an action item. >> thank you. and i believe we have lily yiu here on this item. >> good morning, chair mandelman and commissioners. lily liu, principle

funded by a combination of federal and state trends as well as [inaudible] funds w. that, i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. i do not see comments or questions from colleagues so let's open this item to public comment.

>> there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment on item 8 is closed. please call for approval of item 8. madame clerk, please call the roll. >> for item 8 -- [roll call]

we have 11 ayes. the item has been aproved on its first reading. >> all right. thank you. please call item 9 . >> item 9. progress update on the cal train 22nd street station access study and the san francisco planning department southeast rail station study. this is an information item. >> all right. >> thank you, sir mandelman. good morning, commissioners. geoffrey kahler.

i'm here this morning to introduce this item which will provide a progress update on two prop-k funded planning studies being led by our agency partners, both of which relate to the caltrain corridor within san francisco. the transportation authority and multiple partner actions are working together on a comprehensive program of planning and investment that will transform the caltrain corridor in the coming years to serve an electrified caltrain starting in 2024 as well as future california high speed rail service. as the board is aware, we're working closely with the trans bay joint authority to procurement and construction within the next four to five years. concurrently, the transportation authority is leading planning and design studies for the pennsylvania avenue extension or pacs project, which will extend the corridor's tunnel alignment further south from the d.t.x. in other words reconnect neighborhoods currently bisected by the service railroad. the pacs project may necessitate the relocation or

replacement of the existing 22nd street station over the longer term. within this context, the san francisco planning department has been leading the southeast rail station study to evaluates potential future station locations in southeast san francisco. both near the current 22nd street station as well as in the bayview. and nah harvey will shortly provide an update on this work and our current public outreach efforts. in the immediate term, caltrain is improving accessability to the existing 22nd street station. anthony simmons, director of system-wide stations will first provide an update on caltrain's 22nd street station a.d.a. access feasibility study. anthony? >> thank you. good morning. my name is anthony simmons and i'm director of

system-wide stations and capital planning and as he noted aye like to take this opportunity tos provide a brief update to the board on access improvements that we're investing for 22nd street station. if you could please share the slides, nick. thank you. next slide, please. just looking ahead of it in context, when the j.p.b. took over the caltrain in the 1990s, it inherited many stations that weren't wheelchair accessible, including 22nd street station. we have been steadily upgrading those stations, some in the spoke projects specifically for access and then others part of a larger scope of projects just overall general station improvements, for example. that is now with 22nd street and at the moment, 22nd street is accessible by

stairs, but as an overall approach, caltrain is providing a system-wide access to the network. but we understand that the arrangement at 22nd street is not ideal so now there is a key opportunity to look at how we can better improve access for people who may need assistance so people with disabilities. the 22nd station is quite constrained, as you would be aware and that provides some limitation on what the type of improvements are that we could provide based upon the dimensions of the station, [inaudible] it's got a very long drop, about 22 feet in some places down below the surface and starts to limit the different opportunities of what we might be able to look at doing. next slide, please. so, we kick off the study in

february 2020 at the request of supervisor walton and this study was -- or is focused on determining the feasibility of some street level improvements. we only perform engineering analysis at a 15% design and then we also wanted to make sure that we took into account some of the longer term work that jeffery mentioned happening with southeast rail stations and which meant to take into account what the improvements could be based upon the current status of the station and what a potential future could look like. the study looked primarily at different ramp and elevator configurations and looked at constructability implementation, timeline costs and funding opportunities. next slide, please. as part of this work, we completed quite a bit of outreach. and we completed outreach for

groups as a general look at the different stakeholder groups across the general area where the station fits. but then also looking at more specific outreach for the community that would more specifically be tailored to the needs of the a.d.a. community and we made sure we got feedback on all the design alternatives as well as all the different criteria that will be used to evaluate those alternatives. next slide, please. so with the feedback we got, the most significant actually, was that ramps were actually preferred over elevators at this location. and that was primarily because there was some understanding that elevators tend to have maintenance sun news general based on experience across transit systems around the area and elsewhere and then, of course, there was the frisk it's all elevators and there is an elevator that is out,

then, you know, the station could be back to the current situation that it is as far as some of the limitations on access to get up and down into the station. there's also some concerns about being potential draws for vandalism and those types of things. but by and large, we did get ramps as an overall source of feedback. interestingly enough, we noted to the groups that those ramps, because of the distance, came an interesting 22 to platform level, they could be long ramps and while it's also not the most ideal type of ramp, it was still a much more palatable approach than looking at elevators. but probably one of the biggest things was that the stakeholders took into account the fact that whatever needed to happen here was going to be making the best of the current

situation, but an ultimate proper solution would be a full upgrade and replacement of the station at some point in the long-term. next slide, please. so, this is just a layout of what the recommended alternative is, both for the north and the southbound platforms. you can see the southbound -- the southbound platform is kind of this serpentine platform that has quite a bit of length to it. it's approximately about 465 feet or so. the equivalent of a city block in some places. but it is there to deal with keeping the slope as low as possible while still providing some sort of balance to, you know, of a length that still gets to be a little bit more reasonable. in the northbound platform is a little bit shorter but, again, still going to be quite long to get down from the street level. again, just dealing with the

height difference to get down there. and also included with this are some additional works i'm dealing with, improvinging tactiles and improving the surface that people use, the southbound platform has a lot of predominantly gravel and unpaved areas so this is part and parcel of improving overall station access and experience. next slide, please. so the next steps of this work is to present to the j.p.b. at its meeting next week. and this enwe'll finalize this report and then represent it to this board for its approval early next year. in order advanced the recommended alternative, we need look at being more specific on what the funding needs would be and what we need to secure. we also need to conduct additional out reach or as part of the work and then

also working to advance the designs through to 100% engineering, which we estimate would take about 2 1/2 years from starting that next phase and then getting through the construction and eventually close out. and with that, i believe i'm happy to take any questions. >> it doesn't look like there are any questions. thank you. >> anyway. >> supervisor? >> there we go. >> my apologies, chair mandelman. i didn't get into the chat quick enough. but i wanted to thank c.t.a. for getting into this study. it's very important, i believe, that this [inaudible] has been in operation for too long. we know it is going to be a very expensive endeavor. but we need to not have

stations that exist without being a.d.a. accessible. appreciate this and we'll continue to work on making that a reality. >> mr. kahler? >> so, our next presenter is anna harvey from the planning department. >> good morning, board members. anna harvey with the planning department staff here to provide an update on the southeast rail station study. our work is interdisciplinary and across agencies with trapsinger land use and transportation staff with s.f. planning along with sfpta and sfmta and caltrain. we praoernlt the ongoing input and advice from the 12c0ik9 office president wallton's office. and the work is jointly funded through prop-k and m.t.c.s planning grant as well as planning department funds for a total budget of just over $500,000. this update will cover an overview of the study's scope

and provide details on ongoing public engamement. next slide, please. while the caltrain study you just heard about from director simmons is exploring options to improve 22nd street station in the short and medium term, this work is looking at the medium to long-term. beginning in march of 2020, this study originally known as the 22nd street location study worked with the t.a.-lead pennsylvania avenue extension team to explore options should the extent of the packed tunnel require the redesign or relocation of caltrain 22nd street station. acknowledging the san francisco planning commission's charge to center our work program around racial and social equities through resolution 2738 as well as prior studies conducted by sfpta on a potential oakville station, this study's scope was expanded to include a priority to restore regional rail access to the xwaiviews and hunter's point neighborhood. the work was then renamed to

the southeast rail station study or surses. next slide, please. technical studies were done to identify all possible stations in the project area. the study considered track geometry. you can't build a station on a curve. physical barriers like hills and caoex as well as the distance between stations and we also looked at existing and future land use and existing and kind of planned major developments in the area. the study revealed six possible locations in the project area, which is between existing 4th and king or future 4th and townsend as well as existing bayshore station in the south. there are three options for 22nd street and three options for a bayview station. these locations are shown here based on the nearest cross street. for 22nd street, the station could either stay approximately where it is, but rebuild or ship it into a tunnel or shifted north to

around mariposa street or souths to cesar chavez. the option at mariposa would be deep inside the future pacs tunnel. the option at cesar chavez would be on the surface near where a longest version of the potential packed tunnel might end. regional rail access from the bayview was made much more difficult in 2005 when caltrain closed the former paul avenue station due to low ridership. most recently, the work jointly lead between s.f. planning and sfmtat connect s.f. investment strategy included a new bayview station as a priority. and the sfmta led bayview community-led transportation plan recommended a station at oakdale as one of their eight

major policy recommendations out of that work. there have been a number of subsequent changes to land uses and other factors at oakdale including the development of a new site for the southeast community facility at 3rd and evans avenue. acknowledging these changes we conducted an assess of three stations including oakdale as well as williams and evans avenue. next slide, please. a quick refresher on the pacs alignment at the conclusion of the rail alignment and benefits study which was led by the planning department. staff recommended the continuation of the planned downtown rail extension or d.t.x. tun frel the fourth and king railyard south along 7th street and pennsylvania avenue. the pacs achieves the goal of separating high speed rail passenger rail as well as caltrain from san francisco streets. it provides immense benefits by ensuring local automobile and people movements in mission bay neighborhoods would be spared from conflicts with trains at these two major intersection, mission bay drive and 16th street. s the extent of the pax are currently under study by sfmta but we worked closely with your staff throughout. next slide, please.

this sketch shows a potential oakdale station concept in the context of the surrounding community. looking north, you can see the station platform stretching between oakdale and gerald avenues with access from gerald and a future connector road. this sketch style communicates the early stage of concept development that we're currently in and a series of these sketches for each station option has been developed and they will be presented at our second round of public outreach. next slide, please. speaking of public out reach, the planning department, caltrain as well as the t.a. are collaborating on a series of virtual public meetings to inform and engage the public on these related efforts. the primary focus of this outreach effort has been on equity with the goal of reaching khunlts that may not have had the opportunity to weigh in on these projects in the past. with this in mind, our outreach for these events has

focused on community-based organizations in the spanish and cantonese speaking communities along with those in the bayview close to the potential station site there is and translation was offered and utilized at our first round of virtual public meetings. we recorded the sessions in english and spanish and cantonese. next slide. thank you. our first round of public meetings was held in october and focused on project backgrounds, purpose, and related studies. we also presented at caltrain c.a.c. as well as the planning commission just last week and then are here at the board and c.a.c. for the t.a. this week. a second round of public outreach will be held on november 4 and november 6. also virtually. this second round will focus on a review and discussion of the potential rail station locations in order to hear community feedback and concerns.

and tomorrow evening we'll be presenting to the tacac and machine to return to the board at the conclusion of this work in the first part of 2022. more information and registration for the upcoming out reach is available on our project website, which is www.sfplanning.org sl, serss. thank you. with that, i'll take any questions. >> thank you. seeing none, let's open this item -- well, mr. kahler. oh. commissioner walton. >> thank you so much. chair, again, i just want to say thank you to planning and everyone for all of their work on the improvements around the station and, of course, additional cal train stations for the southeast

sector of san francisco. appreciate all the work and looking forward to getting this done so we can find the resources to make it happen. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner walton. mr. kahler, if you don't have anything else, we'll open this up to public comment. let's do that. >> ok. hello, caller. your two minutes will begin now. >> caller: good morning. supervisor strong from san jose. so, the first thing i'd like to bring to your attention, it is very important that this is being presented to the board before the c.a.c. because if it was the other way around, the c.a.c. would be able to engage into substantial discussions and then feedback to the [inaudible] and would be able to engage in discussion. but here are my comments so far. it's not a question of either

cesar chavez or mariposa station. the current answer is actually both. the mariposa station needs to be relocated [inaudible] the proposal for the station becomes redundant. now with regards to phasing, 22nd street station will continue to have service as long as caltrain provides service to the [inaudible] station. but when it opens, then you can start providing service at cesar chavez, at mariposa or 7th street or whatever and the trans bay transit center. 22nd street will be closed at the exact same time as the [inaudible] terminate and everything transfers to the transit center. thank you. >> thank you, caller.

there are no more callers. >> all right. public comment on item 9 is closed. thanks to our presenters for all of their work. and we will move on to our next item. madame clerk, please call item 10. >> item 10, 101 mobility action plan update. this is an information item. >> i believe we have eliza potts. >> good morning, chair mandelman and board members. i will be giving an overview of the 101 mobility action plan. hopefully you can see any screen. great. ok. so, the 101 mobility action plan was a regional and

multiagency effort to identify noninfrastructure transportation demand management actions to maximize the benefits of planned transportation projects along the u.s. 101 corridor. the actions identified in the plan are that of policies and programs to support people when they can and making travel by car more reliable for those that need to drive. the three project goals were established through a series of workshops with the project management team and steakholder advisory groups. the mobility options in the plan were developed and evaluated based on their ability to bring reliable travel times to the corridor, prioritize high capacity modes, like buses and car pools and foster healthy and sustainable communities near the freeway. the 101 map actions can build on and be incorporate into many existing planned projects. express lanes already exist

from santa clara to redwood city an additional 22 miles are being built to extend the network to i380 by 2022. san ma toy yo is currently studying an additional extension of the lanes from i-380 to the san francisco county line. and in san francisco t transportation authority is leading environmental planning for a study of managed lanes but would begin at the county line and extend to king street along 101 and 280 along with expanded express bus service. in addition to these lanes, there's also projects along the corridor that include cal train electrification and modernization and the feasibility study and the el camino reliability study. existing conditions portions of the 101 map identified key challenges that drove the need for the study.

traffic along the corridor causes unpredictable trip times and they need to add almost 50 minutes to their trip. the lanes are not being used as efficiently as they could be, there's increasing congestion that leads to an experience of twice as much travel delay as there was in 1998 and is also disproportionate health burdens for communities along the corridor and all three counties, the rate of asthma attacks is higher in the study area than in the counties overall. also know that these are intersectional issues and based on the project's survey efforts, households earning less than $50,000 per year are more likely to have trips to school or jobs with a strict start time, meaning that the unpredictable travel times can cause a greater impact.

project outreach included technical advisory groups, a stakeholder advisory group and community engagement. there is a public survey open from june to august 2019, which received about 23s00 responses. the survey asked about travel along the 101 today. barriers that people experienced traveling or living near the corridor and how people travel choice might change with certain incentives or programs. building offers out reaches best practices and key studieses. the map identified as nearly 60 mobility actions. each of the actions was scored against performance metrics for three goal areas shown on the loeft side of the screen and, in addition to this, there is also an assessment of equity and implementation. outreach affirmed that equity can either be max miami-dade or lost in the implementation process and so the project team used the equity

framework to identify equity actions for each of the 60 mobility actions in the report. the equity actions intend to address barriers that travelers may experience and a consistent element of the equity actions the need to work with communities to co-develop solutions throughout a project's development and implementation. moving forward, project partners will use the 101 map to continue to coordinate and collaborate for state, regional and federal grants. and locally the 101 map actions will be incorporated and promoted through existing projects, connect s.f. and other long-range planning efforts. building on 101 maps, the 101 to 80 managed lanes projects is currently in the early stages of environmental studies and we are beginning to conduct traffic operations analysis with caltrans. we're conducting the 101-280 equity study to establish an

equity strategy for travelers along the corridor. the 101 map actions can be implemented by public and private entitieses and can be incorporated into planning and capital projects and can be packaged together with infrastructure projects to be more come pettive for funding. in san francisco, we are advancing actions through our managed lanes projects which i just mentioned and advancing express bus service, supporting transit improve. -- improvements parallel to the corridor and promoting transit equity program. in addition to our current efforts, we can also incorporate actions into future projects. some examples of actions are on the screen. and include co-creating solutions with equity

priority communities and employer [inaudible] to work trips and combination of incentives and rewards to encourage people to make trips without a car. more information on the project, along with the details and outreach summary is available on the project website, which is 101mobilityactionplan.com. thank you. with that, i'll take any questions. >> thank you. seeing no comments or questions, let's open this item to public comment. >> there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment on item 10 is closed. madame clerk, please call item 11. >> item 11, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> looks like no one's

jumping in the queue. madame clerk, please call item 12. >> item 12, general public comment. >> let's hear from our public commenters. >> ok. i was just about to say we have no callers, but one put their hand up. hold on just a moment. hello, caller. your two minutes will begin now. >> caller: hello again, commissioners. so, the first thing i'd like to do this morning is to thank the sfpta and m.t.c. for allowing public transportation of the executive hearing committee, otherwise known as e.s.c. meetings. having said that, i would like either the sfpt or m.t.c. to take over

responsibility for opening these meetings. [inaudible] to record these meetings or make the recordings available at the later date. now this is becoming really important as we advance into this project. because the record that we have to present to the t.a. and other agencies is essentially participation in the minutes and that is it. and we started seeing problems back in may when they're preparing the phasing study, which eventually was the basis for [inaudible] north of $30 million. it's that they're withdrawing material as an example. the operations analysis is completely missing. the reason it's completely missing is because of what happened later. it became very obvious from the operations analysis, some

of the proposals [inaudible] in a way that is basically redundant. and basically the entire thing that they presented to you that this basis -- >> 20 seconds. >> caller: i would say that by now approximately 50% have disappeared. so moving forward if you could please make it possible to not only record, but hold the recordings of these meetings at a later date would be much appreciated. thank you. >> thank you, caller. there are no more callers for public comment. >> all right. public comment on item 12 is closed. madame clerk, please call our next stem. >> item? 13, adjournment. >> thank you. we're adjourned, everybody. we're adjourned, everybody.

>> the bicycle coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. i was happy to receive one of

them. >> the community bike build program is the san francisco coalition's way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. the city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the san francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. the partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are

transportation dependent. we ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. we make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. >> bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. it is not only a form of recreation. it is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. i really appreciate it. i am very thankful. >> we teach a class. they have to attend a one hour class. things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars.

after that class, then we would give everyone a test chance -- chance to test ride. >> we are giving them as a way to get around the city. >> just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. i guess enjoyable is a word i could use. that doesn't describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they haven't ridden a bike in years. these folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. take my picture on my bike. that was a great experience. there were smiles all around. the recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous

occasion. at the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. >> if someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike.org/volunteer you can sign up for both events. we have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. we are growing each and every year. i hope to top that 376 this year. we frequently do events in bayview. the spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. >> for me this is a fun way to get outside and be active.

most of the time the kids will be in the house. this is a fun way to do something. >> you get fresh air and you don't just stay in the house all day. it is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community in san francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program.