>> thank you very much meet nothing person in city hall room 4 huh live on sfgov.org and available to view online or lynching to calling 415-sick 15-0001. authorize said by code 54943e it is possible this some members of the small business commission may attends remote. in that upon event they will participate and vet by video if possible. >> the mall business commission thanks for televising the

meeting viewed on sfgov.org or live streamed at sfgov.org we welcome the possible's participation. there will be an opportunity for general public comment the end of the meeting and an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item. commission will take comment first from people in person. and then from people remote. when connected you will be muted and in listening mode only when your item come up dial star 3 to be added the line. if you dial before comment is called you will be added to the kwuchl mute your device. when it is your time to speak you will be prompted to.

public meant during the middle easting limited to 3 minute and an a marm will sound. speakers are requested to state names. sfgovtv show office of small business slide. >> reminder that this is a forum to voice opinions and occurrence about pop3s this affect small businesses in san francisco. it is the best accomplice to get answers about doing business during the local emergency. if you need assistance with small business matters at this time, finds a phone line or via phone and as also our serviceers free of charge. before item one i like to thank media services and sfgov.org for coordinate thanksgiving virtual hearing. and helping to run the meeting. call item one.

item 1, roll call. commissioner carter. >> present. >> commissioner hughy is absent. president laguna. >> present. >> commissioner ortiz are you able to -- >> here. >> vice president [inaudible]. >> present. >> you have a quorum. >> thank you. >> next item. >> item 2, approval of -- i'm sorry. we have to do the ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment. >> the san francisco small business commission staff acknowledges we are on the home land of the ramaytush ohlone who

are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards the ramaytush ohlone have never lost nor forget gotten responsibilities as care tashgs and for all peoples who reside in traditional territory. as guests we recognize we benefit from living and working on their only land. we wish to pay respects acknowledging the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their rights as first peoples. >> item 2, please. >> approval of legacy business registry applications and resolution this is it is an action item. the discussion and possiblely take action to approve registry applications presenting we have richard. legacy program manager with the office of small believes. >> welcome, richard.

>> good afternoon. commissioners. city staff and members of the partial i'm richard legacy program manager. like to acknowledge michelle reynold who is helps with the program and marketing and communications for the office of small buildings. michelle reviewed and processed the registry applications buffer today >> sfgovtv i have a power point presentation. buffer are 4 applications for consideration for the registry. each application includes a staff report a draft resolution. the application itself and a case report and resolution from planning the applications submitted to plan olgs on april sick blt and heard on may fourth. can item 2a is glen park

chiropractor. a medical business found in the 1987, offering characteristic services and treatment. glen park provides high quality chiropractor care for health, spine health and treatment without drugs or surgery. >> glen partial has been ownd and operate bide doctor [inaudible] for the entirety of its 35 years in business. >> he treated over 4,000 parents since opening the business. >> glen park generates treatment plans for each patient focussing on health needs and issues it has been an ancientor in the commercial corridor. the business must maintain on the registry is chiropractor. >> goat hill pizza the business a neighborhood pizzaria opened by 5 friend in 1975.

the name honestor potrero hill as a pasteur lonned everland the mascot gold hilleda roamed the backyard behind the business. her image is on signage and interior decorations. combines a red checkered table cloth and casual atmosphere of a classic pizza reria. sour dough crust whchl it opened sit down restaurants were not common in potrero and it was a popular place for friends and family. >> in 2008 they opened a new location in south of market which today is a prep kitchen. in 2012 it opened a third location in westportal temperature is more than a pizzaria part of the fabric of the community. core feature tradition the business maybe

tain is restaurant featuring italian footed. 2c is san francisco mike sdop cal on sight. a particular organization with the folks that was form in the 1870 by 2 members of the academy of science. society's constitution and arms of incorporation date back to 1872. established with the intention of studying the use of microscopes and signs through meetings consisted of discussion. demonstration and lect urs pertain to the business. the san fran society met through 1905 and reformed in 96 with the secretary of state in 1954.

it it is continuing to be operated the past 68 years and the only of its kind in san francisco. scientific topic include geology, epidemioiology, pailien to and more. >> the core futured the business maintain is community. item 2d the business is family owned italian restaurant in north beach. it is an italian-american restaurant with comfortable evercomfort service. classics that people love of and menu items cocktails and wines. they use high quality, local

ingredient and sustainable raised meats and fish. leave your problems at the door, enjoy your meal. of all 4 businesses met criteria for and positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. the staff recommends adding the businesses to the registry and drafted 4 resolutions for your consideration. >> a motion in support should be fripped a motion in favor of the resolutions. >> thank you. >> thank you. this concludes our presentation we are happy to answer questions there are business representatives in the room and online withhold like to speak during comment. >> great. >> looking forward to it. >> commissioners, any comments before public comment?

consideration for making here i'm a fan of goat hill pizza. been large majority of my life. congratulations to you guys. i'm at the present timed to say we are all fans of goat hill pizza. >> okay. open up for public comment. >> if members want to lineup and say a couple words we can form a line and please, come up to the microphone. >> hello. i'm arial i'm the president of the san francisco microscop cal society. we are a dmunlt of explorers that come to reveal the hidden wonders around us.

too tien tow see. i'd like to think this makes us the definition of a small business. mission it is a focal point on science and the arts. we welcome autopsy people. serves an educational resource for the communities as well as the social network for people to connect over their excitement for ex the microcosmos. exploring. our look longer longest serving member is 93 over in the back. who helped steer society since 1986. henry navigated the society through uncharted water and honored for him to pass it to

mow to introduce the society to the next generation. the society start before henry. we are founded over 150 years ago in the 1870's. overnight last century we have tied with other institutions including ucsf. randall museum and merit college and others. as president of a society over 150 years old i thought it prudent to quote what a president said in an address in 1893 about the 23 year old history. the san francisco society which grown old in a mule part of the world should exhibits the gratitude for age and prosperity discharging a duty and bringing the treasures of new field in the possession of all who desire them. what of our future? the fact that is one of the

oldest societies in america and that after 23 years of untwupt everintupted existence is large and are strong and policy perrous than any time in history of itself justified the brightest anticipations for the future. and i'm proud to carry words into 2022 and grateful to you and the city for the nomination to have our past and present recognized as a business looking forward to the next 150 years. thank you. i'm henry an honorary board member of the microscop cal

society >> we are pleased and honored receive on behalf of our members a positive recommend agsz from the historical preservation commission for inclusion in the leg business registry. we ask for you as members of the mall business commission to accept the recommendation. i first joins the san francisco society in approximate 1986. while i was of the faculty member. the society gave me the opportunity to expand my knowledge of and meet individuals who used the instruments in their profession or as a hobby. the regular public meetings of the san francisco society and east bay -- provided ample

opportunity for fellow help and learning experience in the field. our aim as a nonprofit california corporation, was to promote the science through lectures and demonstrations open to the people of san francisco and the near by communities. we currently joined with other organizations to provide the services at public events where appropriate. we participated last saturday and in the past years as well, at the san francisco randledal museum as they celebrates [inaudible] day. we provide microscopes and displays in cooperation with niekon for the science festival

at oracle park. and that event was attended by hundreds of adults and their children. on april 30, 1922, we participated in the discovery day by the college of science at the california state university east bay. until little pandemic curtailed our public meeting the society held public evening meetings at the randall museum and merit college. on a regular basis with invited speakers and displays. he's open meetings are a part of the tradition that dates to the 19th century. when the society met in san francisco. and the 19th century.

television and radio broadcasts or zoom meetings on computers were unimaginable. thank you for your contract aggravate and service to the people of san francisco. thank you. good afternoon. commissioners i'm speak without notes your staff out lined our history i don't want to repeat it. but i want to add a couple of names to the record who have played a big role in our continued existence and success. first -- kirt and debbie became ordinance part ordinance of goat hill pizza. 20 years ago, when we needed their money to pay bills and to

pay for improve ams in our newly created dining room in the back. and kirt and debbie have been with us since. and most recent owner to be added not just as an owner but as ceo is david sterno who -- kind of grew us up. he brought a sense of business that we really didn't very much we were -- a bunch hipies. who grew up for funnel starting a restaurant. and luckily surviving until 2016 when we needed someone to take over. not just because we need someone who knew how to run a successful business at that time we were in

our 70s andit did not want on run it anymore neither did philip. you may hear from him to thank folk who is helped us. i want to get names in the record and thank them and thank you for your support for goat hill and of course approval of this application. thank you. i'm sorry before you leave state your name for the record? state your name notoriety i'm joel lipski. i am afraid i did not give that you before. >> thank you. any public upon commenters online? >> no.

>> hello. i'm andrew a doctor of chiropractor in the owner of [inaudible] and after this meeting and the previous one it validates what i thought overnight last 35 years i should have opened a pizza place or ice cream place. i was asked by janet the head of the merchant's association and works with sdrishth merchants to inspire other businesses and this is what i wrote. fellow business ordinance named a legacy business is an honor and a testimony to being in business over 30 years. you know time guess quickly we rarely celebrated for our hard work, long hours and little financial compensation. few others appreciate what it takes to keep a small business going. am we other life blood of our city. >> will i went to yellow submarine on sick and irving for

lunch. same family freighted it for 47 years the same woman made my meat ball sandwich as she did when aate their 40 years ago i was thrilled see her. for dinner i want to my's vietnamese restaurant the same couple run it sans sfan when i start there for me the businesses keep our city i have brandt. born in raised san francisco daughter drive around the city we are excited by the businesses that have been there for decades and we remember from our childhood. i honor all small businesses hard work and dedication whether in business for 4 weeks or 40 years. like to recommend to the san francisco office of mall believes and the san francisco historical preservation that an owner of a business that come

before you should have sick minutes to speak we may be in business near years and no one bias us a gold watch or 3s a party furs. our opportunity to speak in front you may be our 15 minutes of fame. we may have family and friends tune nothing to hear and watch us. this may be our only fooen opportunity to be acknowledged by anyone besides our family an extra 3 million system not too much to excuse me i understands having a 3 minute time limit for everyone but recommend you give up to 6 for the actual business owner. >> thank you for considering my suggestion. one caller on the upon line. >> great. caller? >> hi.

can you hear me? we can. >> my name is gina the owner of the restaurant on union and mason involved since 2000 i was hired when i was 20 the owner at the time now my father-in-law hired me with inekz tension of keeping me while a finished my degree. and a few years later his son worked after he finished college and we fell in love. bought the restaurant from him and have own today since 2012. kevin, my husband is third generation our kids are fourth. and we hope they will work at the restaurant as long as we have. we hope their kids will work there as limp we did make it through the pan dem and i can we are feeling good about what is

to come. we try our best to keep everything local and try our best to serving the public as much as we can and keep kevin's grand father's dream arc live that is our intentions and honored to be part of this group and to be speak nothing front you have hope you get the chance to n come in and we can serve you meat balls. >> accepted. any other commenters on the line. >> no other commenters on the line >> is there anybody in the room who would like to make admissible comment. >> public comment is closed.

i move to approve item number the legacy business resolution before us a-d. >> moved by vice president. a second? >> i will second. >> i commissioner carter. >> aye. >> president laguna. >> aye. >> vice president [inaudible]? >> yes. >> motion passes. [applause]. congratulations, everybody. congratulations. item 3 office of small business budget update. number one this is a discussion item the commission will hear and discussion an update on the

22-23 office of small business budget of director katie tang of the office of small business will present today. >> thank you. >> so we will have slides and i will give a moment to have them come up before i begin. >> so. congratulations to the legacy businesses. i wanted provide a brief update before our budget process at the board of supervisors. if we can go to the next slide. >> for a baptist background --

asked or instructed from the mayor's budget office is one prioritizing restoring san francisco recovery account at and equity the policy priorities. also getting back to basics and improving core service delivery in our budget. and this year good news, no reductions. but there is no increased to general fund support. >> so in terms of time lines i wanted share with you -- we are in the phase now where we are close it having the mayor announce by june first the proposed balanced budget to the board of supervisors. in around 2 week in june, the latter half, the board will hold budget hearings at committee to consider the mayor's budget proposal and make recommendations near changes. and then in july the budget be

considered at the board and august or by august first the mayor will assign the budget so that it is adopted at that point. next slide. >> so as a reminder i know we have a couple of new commissioners. the office of small business is a division within the office of workforce development. our budget will be considered when oewd's budget is discussed. what you will see in the chart a division of of their budget. this current fiscal year. you get a sense of00 autoinvestments. and where they are. so under neighborhoodses and business resource. you see 3.8 million under office of small business, again, there is a significant portion of

resources dedicated to small business support. and so what you will see out lined in the pi chart is an break out of the various division in oewd. >> we wanted to share with you in terms of the different types of service that we offer to the small business community this is from our current fiscal year you have a fuller picture. what you see broken out is grants, for example, probably something this most are familiar with and directs level of monetary support. and training provide toppent prenurse. technical assistance lieu many community partners and commercial sdrishth intervention from investments in shared space to other beautification efforts and commercial corridors.

there is a segment for loans. loans are not as much preferred compared to grants they can be instrumental to a small business community. in the center you see the staffing dedicated to small business support. 3.1 million in terms of cross osb and were invest in neighborhoods. this really represents the services and support and resources provided to the small business community. so just as an over view in the upcoming 2 year budget at the b. tablature really is there is in the a lot of xhafrj in terms of our budget for the next 2 years. really -- very small including the fte's and the next slidesil go over what is changing. and you get a historic over view

of the last several years to compare. >> really. the changes represent you will see reflected in fte's in the last year we reassigned the small business development center, over to the office of small buildings. preaching. they were housed under oewd's neighborhood division. change reflects the 3 staff with the stars next to them now under our office technically speak. there is no new proposed in the next 2 budget cycles. changes are thenualization of these 3 positions that were approved for the last fiscal year and the reassignment of over to osb. we currently have 2 vaccanceys.

for one of them it was tieed a program that was oaf00 through legislation by supervisor chan to establish a neighborhood anchor business program that person will help out with case management. that was a 974 community specialist position. and the conditional letter went out today. we are excited about welcoming that person on board short leave and also 1 position is vacant. we had a business case manager who -- has found employment elsewhere. so that hiring process will begin once the budget is dapped. we are substituting the position from an 1822 to 1823 to ensure haposition is on parwith other case managers in the office currently.

so that is the staffing in a nut shell. reason notoriety change you see in our budget. i will point out -- on that slide we have did have one temporary person. staff member helping out with legacy business program and osb marketing and communication. we are trying to figure out in the budget season how to keep this staff person on board. this person has been instrumental in helping our office do further out reach about osb services. you know we have a better presence online and social media. through creation of flyers and basic things to help people know about the services we offer. she has been instrumental in the legacy business program. since january of 2022, has helped us do you believe the amount of business applications we have processd and getllow

this commission. i wanted note that as well. for the next slide this . is a snapshot to show you thus far how many case we served case 1, 833 to date. and in terms of the initial clientses a 3, 145. and they will grow throughout end of the year ending on june 30th. in terms of the number of clients, and if we were to compare to past year this is it is on parwith when we have seen in traditional, nonpandemic years the last 2 years had we faced the pandemic client numbers fiscal year, almost 6, 500. and fiscal 21, almost 5,000 clients. and really that represented the need during a challenging time.

now we are seeing this year in terms of the number of clients and case its is back to the levels that we have seen. >> so -- next slide. shows the types of services that people asked questions us about. in the last fiscal year. always rising to the top is foodservice the most complicated. i'm sure that commissioner carter can arc test to that. and so those continue to represent the majority of the questions coming in. in addition to second most is in retail. and then the next slide. this also gives you a snapshot to show you where the upon entrepreneurs are when they contact our office the most are in start up phase. combine, those are the once starting out or thinking about starting a believes. you will seal the definition of

what is prestart up versus start up. >> and prior to the pandemic 43% of the cases that we saw -- really were -- related prestart up phase and 20% in the start up and 23% in existing businesses. during the pandemic rose to increase in existing businesses needing spchlt i imagine as we hit the recovery phase we see that again trend back toward what it was before. next slide. perfect timing we have legacy business grants in our office we do give a couple of different grant promise. one is the legacy believes grant approximate rent stabilization program. on going program where we throughout office of small business receive 1 million each year. and as a reminder, this is so

that -- there is an incentive for property owners to sign a lease agreement and extend a lease by 10 years or sign a lease for 5 years. so. in this last fiscal year as of on friday. our office has issued 588,000 worth of grants paid to businesses. and since the inception of the program on fiscal 2016-17. we have paid out 2 penalty sick million to 14 property owners. roughly 50% of the property ordinance will turn that back over to the legacy business tenants giving back to the small businesses. this has been successful in helping legacy businesses continue to stay in place. and then in terms of legacy business grants in the second

box, these are grants paid directly to the small businesses a one time source of funding from the board through the add back process. and in the last fiscal year as of friday, we have paid out 278,000. there have been a couple of grants in the paid yet due to issues with setting update accidents as a city supplier. noting the process we do have and also are seek to improve and yet businesses are able to not be paid yet. and of all of the small believeses that have received the direct grants they do remain open to this day. again . it is great to see that these are helping out our small business legacy businesses. all right. and then the other grant program

that our office had begin in this past fiscal year was to venn use. and this was a program establish in the march 2021. during the pandemic. and the city received we received about 3 million dollars to grant out and the goal was to support our san francisco based live music and entertainment venn use to prevent the permanent closure due to the pandemic. our president was involved in that creation. there are 3300 businesses in the city with a pace of entertainment permits as of february 2000. the grants that were focussed with venn use with sound and lighting systems and engaged in marketing of performers by name and print and digital publications, communication and social media. geared toward smaller segment of

the 300 venues that had a place of entertainment permit. in the first round 68 received grantses and a couple not paid yet due to city supplier, and then 71 received 481,000. so from my understanding, in terms of the number of venues that received lines up with what the participated based on criteria which the grant program operated under. that is great to steel. >> the next. quick interjection. big thanks to rick for administering that amazing to be on the other side and see that money that has gone out. i know it made a huge difference. we worked hard on the linguistics of that. it is nice, nice to see it

delivered. were i echo the thanks to staff who made that happen. >> thank you. >> and lastlimented to share with you and this it is a reflection of oewd's goals as limp this is i pulled out our small business recovery transgender. focused on a recovery government, increasing revenue. access to capitol. commercial space and workforce pipeline. so -- really i think our work is cut out for us. and our recovery years here. and we will be as soon as our new commissioner joins us we'll be interested to hearing thoughts around our upcoming year as well to help further guide us in our recovery phase for san francisco small businesses. with that, this is a preview of our budget for the upcoming fiscal year and happy to answer

any questions. could you pull up that last slide? i know downtown is going to be a core focus going toward -- does that -- unless we have thoughts on how we, specifically can support the downtown region? >> i think our goals upon toward downtown recovery. i know it may not sound flashy but it is continuing our work and trying to help make the permitting process fortunate for people who want to do interesting things in space downtown given the foot traffic is not what it was prior to the pandemic. helping connect people to resources whether it is loans, funding. or other upon grant programs to help them with improvements. there is a team that is

specifically dedicated to downtown recovery. looking at ways to activate space and increase public safety. draw tourists to our downtown area as well as encourage employers to at least welcome or incentivize. ties come back to work in person a couple days a week. all of that collaboration will be important to downtown recovery. >> okay. good to know. commissioners -- thank you. thank you, directors for the report. that was great. um -- can we get a coup copy or a link to it at one point. i definitely appreciated the update on staffing and the budget. i was curious if you could go a

little deep in that. where is my note and questions. . i'm curious you know if there is specific report back of how oew d&o sb staff are situated and housed. working together? are being cross training? are there new referral services available to us that we need ton about? how is that lay of the land and also report back from staff about how will working with new colleagues. i keep meeting new people. like oewd cohoused folks. i'm curious about what it looks like now go you could go deeper >> thank you for the question. >> last week we had a completed a physical move of the small business team which is 3 people

and they were previously 1650 mission. and we when they were there, our office worked very closely, staff are referring people to the team if they need technical advising. . access to loans. or other resource and doing a deeper technical assistance compared to the staff. and so this relationship has been strong. and they work together with office small accident team in city hall they locateed 1650 mission. we have 2 of the case managers in city hall. the director is located in our office at the permit center 49 south vaness it is getting crowded. and prioritizing the staff who serve clients regularly. so -- it is great to bring them in our space again.

and to even further collaborate and cross refer people to service. there are clear differences what we do and so, yea, it has been a positive experience. and then we have been working with closely with the oewd team and making sure we are sharing information about resource and that00ue know it should not be up to the small business owner to know the difference with what invest neighborhoods does and office of small business does we are trying to refer people and connect them to resource so they don't have to ask 10 people the same question. we will continue to build on that. >> nice. >> great. >> so i had another follow up about the legacy business program. i realized we have new

commissioners who may be were not around when that program was mandated i think the historical context of how it became our responsibility of the commission to manage might be important for like a check in -- because it was designated by the voters then the board of supervisors got involved to make sure we were doing you know -- our -- fulfilling the needs of the voters. i think that may be checking in, if there is any items around the legacy business program we need agendaized. on the commission relating to any program updates? or changes or may be just if it is something of interest to hear the history. that we are prepared if we need to make a decision in the future relate to legacy buildings. and -- that was i know that

there was a website finished, too. i would love to may be have a presentation show indicates new business website. if this is one thing we can agendaize and then we can talk history. i don't know that is something i was thinking about. >> yea, that it is a good suggestion with new commissioners on board to do a couple basics around not just legacy but the city budget. especially as we are about to go in the city budget process. that is a good time to talk about how that is made up. we can also also explain the conversation on the other major facets of the small business sector upon perhaps like a refer fresher on the shared spaces

program. and whatever else we come up with there are a couple other things i think >> yea. for new commissioners learn who is in charge. how does it work. >> great and we can build that in our planning session. which is open to the public as well. when our new commissioner joins we do some of those trainings we were hoping to do this earlier. any day now. >> fingers acrossed. appeared we'll have a new commissioner. >> fingers acrossed >> thank you for the suggestions, commissioners.cros >> thank you for the suggestions, commissioners. >> thank you. commissioner walker, questions or comments? >> no [inaudible]

>> great suggestions i would like to know more about the legacy business program. [inaudible]. commissioner ortiz do you have questions? >> no. [laughter]. usually we are struggling to get you to stop talking so much. good to know we don't have to today. >> he will keep interrupting you now. [laughter]. okay. upon i think we can go to public comment. is there public comment? public comment online? there are no public commenters online >> it is closed. >> next item. >> item 4 resolution finaling to allow teleconference meeting under section 5495e this is

action sthchl is not controversial. i will head straight to public comment. is there comment? >> there are no commenters. >> i move to approve. >> do i have a seconded. >> i will second that. >> motion by president and seconded by commissioner carter. commissioner carter. >> aye. >> president? >> aye vment >> commissioner ortiz. >> yes. >> vice president [inaudible]. >> yes. >> motion passes. >> next item >> approval of draft minutes this is an action item. gi was not presents for this meeting. i don't know if the fact they have to recuse means we don't have quorum to vote or not. >> i can vote fiwas.

>> i thought i had to recuse that was the first time i had to was for a meeting. >> you did not read the minutes. >> i did, too, read the minutes. >> you don't have to recuse. >> all right. i read the minutes i will accept your legal analysis for the benefit of moving forward. is there public comment? >> no public comment. >> okay. seeing none. closed. >> do we have a motion? >> approve the minutes? >> i will move to approve vment >> do we have a second. >> yes. >> seconded by commissioner carter. commissioner carter? >> aye. >> president laguna. >> aye. i hope i don't go to sf ethics for this. >> commissioner ortiz. >> yes.

vice president. >> yes. >> motion passes. >> great. >> and next item. >> item 6 general public comment. this is a discussion item allowing members of the public to comment on matters in the small business commission jurisdiction but not on today's calendar and suggest new agenda items for the future consideration. >> any member who is would like to comment on items not on today's agenda. why no public commentors on the line. >> public comment is closed. >> 7, director's report a presentation and discussion item. >> okay. >> thank thanks. so i think a couple things i addressed during our budget presentation but as we were discussing at first. the mayor selected a new commissioner top joins mere.

on our commission and we anticipate rachael to be sworn in the next time we have our next meeting. sbc meeting. of look forward to welcoming our new commissioner. as a quick recap of small business week it has been awhile. our office, thank you rick and michelle the first legacy business mixer. it was a huge success with over 100 participates. it was wonderful to see people in person. our office hosted a number of upon events including virtual workshopos starting a mall believes. and coordinated small business recognitions with the board and supervisors and the mayor. i thought it went well this year. and in terms of legislation, supervisor megar and supervisor stephanie introduced legislation

on may 10th. this is through graf feetee and corridors this was introduced after this commission weigh in the on the city's arc baitment program and intreszed a desire to see change especially for small businesses. we anticipate that legislation will be referred to you all. you have already voiced your opinion on the matter. tell be wonderful to get your thoughts on this program. i will not go into this the neighborhood business registry. position of however i will share, i think i might have shared with you via correspondence. but per connie chan's legislation we created a neighborhood anchor believes registry, a form. online form on our biebs.

if they have been in san francisco for 15 years or longer temperature is a simple. translate in the our city's threshold of language. fill out your information and this is going to be different from the legacy business program. it does not come with grant funding, dedicated to it however we will have staff that will focus out reach efforts on those businesses that ends up on the registry. so they are aware of the grant program and resources available through our office. and lastly i want to update you about out reach in our commercial corridors special thank you to our commission secretary carrie joining for many of the merchant walks. we developed a flyer. again a basic out reach tool to let businesses know about what we do through the office and the commission. why we have been walking on

corridors to understand them ourselves and also to community with small business ordinance about what resources we have available. since our last update to the commission we walked on fillmore. third and geary boulevard. and we also started a you tube channel for office of mall business to share our resource in video. we will post hopefully of digestible information there. now we have twho videos which we hosted during small believes week. those are my updates for today's meeting. >> thank you. >> good updates. >> of >> is there public comment on the director's report? >>. [laughter]. richard with legacy believes. i happened have 4 copies of the

san francisco bay times did of the san francisco legacy business mixer. so -- i was hoping i could. >> that would be great. >> a cute one of regina and director chang. >> picture of our directors. >> yea. we have regina and katie and commissioners up here with me. >> also legacy buildings. it is amazing. thank you we will do this every year part of san francisco small business week >> thank you for the cool swag. >> business swag. i'm akansas noticed i was not able to be there. i was not abl there.m i was not able to be there. i was not able to be there.n i was not able to be n i was not able to be

there.o i was not able to be there.y i was not able to be there.e i was not able to be there.d i was not able to be there. comment on the director's report >> no public commentors >> next item. >> commissioner comments and questions special new business. >> this is a discussion item allowing the president and commissioners to make announcements and inquiries of staff. >> commissioners do you have any new business or -- comments or anything you want to share. >> commissioner walker. >> thanks, commissioner, yes. we have a new -- black owned cannabis dispensary that opened at right across from keysar. let me see the address of it.

yes, check it out. it is equity owned cannabis and from bay view and so we want to support him how we can. harbor side dispensary. i will get the address. that's all i have. why don't -- support the dispense easier as much as i used to. 20 years ago i was a reliable customer. commissioner? >> first i want to say i did seat new osb flyer, it is really cool. so um i'm really excited that there is on the ground out reach about our assistant services and the business program and -- all the programs we offered. issue mentioned a new business

upon i didn't mean will reiterate that for new business i would love to have a presentation on the legacy website and history agendaized. buffers. for arc while we have been trying to as a commission and as a racial equity committee figure out what our inquiries and asks are. in terms of our understanding of where they support commercial core dpoers where we can really understand how to leverage that programming. so i i i think i have come up with what a new item on their programs would be. i would like to understand the landscape of technical support rfp's. who and where their fuvenldzing to have -- people go out -- and

visit merchants on commercial corridors. let them been programming. hold them with applications. check in with compliance needing up with the deadline. i know the tenderloin merchants have a city staff person to do that. i know e dot and bay view has a staff person. ir would like to understands thap lands scape administrative technical assistance and out reach funded and our equity corridors. and that's the -- yea. my -- hope that makes sense.

um -- i feel like there was something. -- you know as director tang mentioned the budget process is going to start -- kicking in high gear i think we will need to be paying attention, too. where funds are going schmitt think our input will be solicited a bit on -- how we should be helping small business and i will use this opportunity to reminds my fellow commissioners the downtown area is dragging behind the other neighborhoods.

whether they are work or visiting or are tourists. tell be hard for that region to come back for the small businesses to come back >> i know that is top of minds for many, many different businesses and organizations and in the city it is critical to our tax revenue. as a city. basis under which the buildings have value and that's where 80% of tax revenue come from. that is the thing i'm harping on at the mobile home. other thing i believe that we have a window of opportunity to get as many businesses as possible to apply for the employee retention credit. i hear from business owner friendses that applied for this

retention krdz some got hundreds of thousands and under subscribed program. >> not familiar with it. >> the emit was created out of cares and if you kept employees throughout the pandemic you can get a tax credit. it is complicated to file for. you have -- until end of tax year 2023. file an upon amended return. can you get up to 7500 per employee. excuse me. 5,000 per employee. that's 20 -- 22, 23 thousand

dollars doing bad math. 23 thousand dollars per employee. if you have 10 employees that is 230 thousand dollars! and it come in the form of a check from the u.s. treasury. you pay less tax its it is that credit you because this is pay role you paid. it is complicated to file for. you need an arc counterant it is not the thing you can go on a website and figure out. believe me that was the first thing i thought. you can't. you need professional help and i have been. very gently and consistently trying to encourage the city to step in. and help facilitate connecting small businesses with the technical assistance. great opportunity to have an opportunity around that to help small businesses apply for the tax credit. but it is -- in many cases

businesses are more money than they got from ppp. and -- there is no tax ramifications because it is a tax credit. so you don't owe state taxes or federal taxes on it. it is money coming become to you that you paid. and so -- it is terrificly under subscribed. when we did that survey in -- january of 2021. only 5% of the businesses that we had spoken to about it had applied for it. nationwide the last time i got a number on this less nan 30,000 businesses had applied nationwide. there are 50,000 small knowledges in san francisco. so -- this is an e normous aim of money that is out there.

it is already paid for. nobody can take it away. >> you don't have to worry about waiting for a bank. or somebody like ha. all the different problems we had with the ppp, being distributed some people got it. there was this and that. 91 of that exists with this program. and -- am you know i don't know exactly how many businesses in the city qualified for it. but hypothetically it could be hundreds of millions or a billion dollars for our local small businesses in excess. whatever the number is. it it is more than the city has available to devote to small businesses. the bandwidth opportunity the small business community has they know of in, i ram bowl about it. >> i have a question. i know especially with dealing

with ad a issues now, you know i know the city has preferred vendor lists. like of -- verified cast inspectors. that are private but the city says, here is a list, right >> i know that osb housed -- transition support resources another example of -- small businesses that want to retire. and transition to worker owned or -- self and they have some resource you know. i know specific low like a cpa list would be useful. not just for employee retention tax credit referrals but even left lanesed transfer and business sales service. i know the cpa's that might business community are tapped

out. everybody is asked trying to retire and asking for the same support and -- there is in the a lot of referral services for those upon types of -- requests that are growing in our small believes community. so i think a cpa list would be will useful for multiple reasons and i'm cure if that lives somewhere. is that vetted somewhere? >> director tang. joy wish we could do that. i wish it was simpler inform government it is complicated to refer anyone to a private business. the reason why we have the. inspector's list there is a list of people certified under the state architect's office. and they actually agreed to the station -- of -- familiarity with san francisco building codes and serve san francisco

there is a pool that we pull from through that licensed list. and it is difficult with cpa's, lawyers. et cetera to come up with a list like that. could be -- hundreds and thousands of people long and also again, we cannot official low make any referrals to private businesses we make it clear for the inspector its is not a referral to any of them. and so, yea. one of the things we are working on with the community partners that provide assistance is figuring out where are the gaps we are seeing i brought update issue that the president raised over and over again. and so we are figuring out through municipality partners whether they can make it more well known what they do. and if it is an existing resource or something they

provide and perhaps it is not addressing the case here we are talking b. workforce boards can

disseminate to firm and stuff like that. may be the city can be involved not with providing the technical service providers but referring to them but may be helping centralize people toward this program? i don't know. i think it is the fund ammal program. where the rubber hits the road is the private level of service. it is a challenge. chamber of commerce found people willing to provide services in multiple languages. go to their website there are 3 different if i weres. a point of frustration for me with some of the firms. not necessarily the ones on the chamber website. there are firms out there that

will charge 15%. somebody will get 200 thousand dollars that is like they will pay 30 thousand dollars to this organize. i'm seeing other organizations charge 150 dollars per employee. in that case it is a thousand dollars. i don't know why a small business should pay 29 thousand dollars. it is a big gap. well is a lot of people who are seizing the -- lack of knowledge and -- lack of ability to do anything and capitolizing and taking advantage of temperature with that said, i think everything else equal i rather see someone take advantage of a mall business and the small business get something than 2023 go by and did in the file for any of these credits and now

that the opportunity is gone forever. so -- i'm starting -- opposed to the comprehends that are greedy. >> if something, you know. like it is something is better than nothing. yea. i appreciate everybody hearing me out on that. and probably not the last time. not the first time but it is so much money out there for the mall accident community. i'm running in people like yourself constantly who have never heard television. i had one business owner changing this changes my life. you know got her out of debt and caught up with land lord. and ahead of the game and like

she was not stressed about her kid going to college. it made a big difference. why a life change. >> right? >> so i'm just -- all can i00ue know if i kd physically grab people, without violating -- you know the thingsure supposed to sign when you join the city i would grab will people and take them to the accountant that would not be appropriate. okay. i'm stepping off my soap box now. >> i have a few things to echo that. >> please. that is great information as a mall business owner i have not heard of that. i can't imagine how many have not heard of that. especially those of us that -- did not get ppe and did keep employees during the pandemic. i would love the small believess

give that -- being creative with -- how we can link them with accountants and may be that it is through cb oshg's or something. for me it was expensive lessons. you know not having an ash countant and bookkeeper. i would like to see more technical support and you know being really creative with how we can do that. i know it suspect really needed especially for the small businesses. that -- don't have a clue. and i also will echo i'm deeply interested in how we are looking at what is going to happen with downtown san francisco.

i did have the pleasure feegd the new i k ea team that came last week >> it was nice. they randomly came. we were able to talk to them and they were excite body openingum. so00 i will see how they are middle easting with plan and what will downtown look like now. >> i tell you there is a lot of people working on this issue. a lot of people -- personal low met with off the top of my head. some are -- owner or operator or managed -- you know global businesses. everybody is worried about it. >> yea. >> as a city kid. downtown was always the heart of the city.

it is not a reflection of that. i'm vested see what that looks like and how we are moving forward to make sure that mall businesses and big businesses and business period, is the store fronts. >> we should be looking for opportunity to invite people to present to the dmagz can facilitate that growth. you know one other thing. i made this promise to somebody i will bring it up with you. there is a music festival that is happening in bay view -- portola one? >> thank you. >> portola competival. responsiblesed by golden voice. i had a conversation meaghan mitchell a reporter for the

standard. meaghan was saying that you know she felt like the out reach to the community could have been better to provide more support. encourage more going to the festival to individual preor post game or show. to visit the businesses in -- at the very like if you just drive down caesar chavez and go until you hit the water it is somewhere around there. i don't know exactly. i was like where are they going to do it. >> i'm not, i'm not 100% clear on the details but because i heard about at this time other day. >>you know i think there is possiblely an opportunity there for to -- agendaize an item that

could may be facilitate a conversation and possiblely create more lines of communication between the community and the local small businesses. and the promote orer which is a pretty big promoter with the national presence. i don't think they intend flight they -- they are not from here and it is not part of how they are thinking about stuff. and that's something helpful we can do. why i'm planting seed in your heads. these are ways we can interact and engage to help mall businesses proceed. >> and grow. >> sunday street went well a lot of small businesses out there. not sure how they did. i brought up a bunch stuff. >> good.

why it was great to see. >> all right. >> limp i guess one last thing talking about the port, i did run inspect somebody on the port commission and they mentioned they have a whole round of new potential leased spaces that will be coming up. it will be good on have a nexus to that out reach or notification if there is -- spaces available. i have a lot of businesses in my community that are looking to transition from a store front to more of a like production like -- like -- a coffee house who wants to do a roastary and a port space you know they are being evicted. so what i'm trying to get at. good to know if there are pdr spaces or some vacancies that we

can let businesses who are not able to maintain their store fronts but want to do more of a production or manufacturing use. to have may be some kind of i don't know if we get involved with earlier prioritized access. we need targeted out reach to businesses who are not able to keep it and want to do a pdr business and the port has been mention in the that to me. >> great. >> let's look into it. >> okay. should we go to public comment. >> no public commentors in the queue. >> public comment is closed. >> item 9 adjournment. sfgovtv show the office of small business slide. >> the small business commission is the public forum to voice

your opinions and concerns about policy that affect the vitality of small businesses in san francisco. and that the office of small business is the best place to get answers about doing business in san francisco. if you need assistance reach out to the office small business. >> and meeting adjourned. learn

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families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers, and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin emergency initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services, and increase investments in the neighborhood. >> the department of homelessness and supportive housing is responsible for providing resources to people living on the streets. we can do assessments on the streets to see what people are eligible for as far as permanent housing. we also link people with shelter that's available. it could be congregate shelter, the navigation center, the homeless outreach team links those people with those resources and the tenderloin needs that more than anywhere else in the city. >> they're staffing a variety of our street teams, our street crisis response team, our street overdose response team, and our newly launched wellness response team. we have received feedback from

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