go ahead and flip forward a little further. so, we sort of set the table by talking about highlights what we have collectively done really ing the past year and a half 2 years and some of the metrix you see here are inclusive as well of what the contribution of the office of small business made. next slide. maybe a little difficult to see, but i think it is always useful because oewd has grown over many years to see what makes up this department, so if you look at the bottom, if you could scroll up a bit carrie. hard to see. so, we have 7 what i would call operating divisions that are the parts of oewd that connect and work with communities so we have work force development

division which director (inaudible) heads up and that-you will see a minute a very big part of oewd so everything from helping people get trained in new careers city build program and work force development, it is also the division that work with employees to get people placement of jobs and over the course of covid, our work force development division in partnership with other departments was a key entity that stood up covid relief hubs which was a area that collectively we worked with community to restore another full year of funding for the covid relief hub and there are 4 operating now. (inaudible) our film commission is actually similar to our office of small business is also part of oewd, office of small business of course. our invest in neighborhood division

is our-very close partner actually with the office of small business. they also serve small business but a focus on neighborhood commercial corridors and opportunity communities so very specifically focusing on those neighborhoods and those communities of color and a lot of our covid relief dollars for small businesses flowed out through the invest in neighborhood division. our business development team and economic recovery regeneration team which is our newest team worked a lot with major industry sectors, larger employers and together a big part of our economic recovery aroungd sectors like tourism, travel, hospitality and downtown core. and last but not least the joint development team works on major development projects where we aspire to have a community

benefit agreement, so things like mission bay for example. next slide. everything we do just like the office of small business, we are looking for equity and i think i said before the commission in the past we try to look at this crisis we are living through as a opportunity to build back differently and in terms how we measure across our impact we look at impact from how many small businesses we support, how many do we help start, how many do we help stay, how do we stabilize our neighborhood commercial corridors and downtown and support entrepreneur and small business owner and train and place job seekers but it comes back to optimizing return on equity and

return on small business and constitch wnths and are smart how we invest the dollars and it is a tricky equation to balance sometimes. next slide. okay, let's make this a little bigger if we can, so we can see the numbers. okay. so, director tang asked me to take a brief moment to level set how the budget process actually works and what you see right here is what we went into the board of supervisors after the mayor phase. every year and this year we got specific instructions each department and that's inclusive of office of small business comes up with a proposed budget and we always start with what we call baseline from the previous year, and some years departments are instructed they need to cut x amount. sometimes they have it

restored again. this year was a good year. this year across the city departments were instructed to not cut anything out of baseline funding so that was a good place to start so we started with full funding for our programs we run year over year, full funding for our staffing and then we really built from there to see where the mayor and ultimately the board of supervisors wanted to consider adding or changing capacity. so once you start with baseline, then we work with the mayor's office to add in what are called enhancements so-air yeahs we add more money from the general funds to augment particular areas of our shared operations that are especially important and this year we are continuing and you'll see in a minute there was a heavy focus not only on continuing to provide support for small business,

but also a focus on continuing to provide support around safety and areas like the tenderloin and providing more resource to accelerate recovery of the economic core so you will see in a minute how that played out. the main things that changed from previous year , if you scroll to the bottom where it says total fy21, 22, you see we had a overall budget of $152.6 million and wenth into the budget cycle this year not too much more so 156 but if you look at individual portions of oewd budget there was quite a bit of shift in areas such as workforce development where we did not cut baseline but had a lot of extra funding come from federal sources for federal covid relief, so a lot of what we saw change is

workforce development not changing baseline service but saw a big drop in the funding that augmented the general fund so that is where the original $13.4 million change happened. similarly the other way, economic development which includes invest in neighborhoods and downtown core work you saw decline in certain funding and we saw increase in proposed funding which again i'll highlight in a minute arond tenderloin ambassador (inaudible) office of small business the starting position was largely baseline from the previous year. the good news is, as you will see in a minute we got additional resources for osc through this process this year. next slide. so, the first new inment investment i want to highlight and happy we got the full $10 million is direct

grants and loans i will focus on-direct grants for small businesses. there was a original debate when we presented this. there was a recommendation to cut a million dollars and able to fight for that and succeeded keeping the full $10 million and we have some flexibility around how to deploy this but the key is majority of this is intended for grants to small business and recommended deployment of the capital is in a number of our programs that are already under high demand and over subscribed to add more money into the programs such as sf shines which is probably one of the popular programs that we are continuing to deploy city wide. we have is a commercial rent relief program that we piloted with around $2.5 million this year.

we propose to take at least half the money and add that into that pot of money so that we can serve more of the businesses who applied for that and one thing i like so much about that program going back to the idea of roi is that we ask not only business to prove they have fallen behind but ask the landlord to get in the form of a long-term lease where there is renegotiated repayment term or in terms of a write down of the debt so it is not only on the businesses side to augment that debt. we had over 10 $10 million worth of applicants to the program this will go long way to helping satisfy that. we can also use the money to replenish the grant fund to support the shared spaces program. we can also use this funding to add more into that and then we are

suggesting this particular side says $2 million in loan leverage and suggest we reserve arond a million for loan leverage and what that is for, we were able to access in the last year a state loan program of rebuilding california program at let's say a market rate interest rate for small business loans and able to take city capital to buy down the interest rate to zero percent. some say businesses need grants and don't need more loans but what we have learned hearing for small businesses particularly capital intenshive the amount of money they deget with a grant, 10, 20, 25 thousand is helpful but some it is not nearly enough so the advantage for zero percent product is it goes to

up hundred thousand and repayable over 5 years so that is why we argued some of this should be reserved for that program and rest for grants. the other piece that i really want to celebrate and directly impacts the office of small business, oewd has been since before i got here every year increasing the number of dollars that programs that we push outs the door to community without commensurate increase in our own workforce (inaudible) it was visceral, i could feel how hard people are working and are how incredibly stretched they are so happy we are able to make the argument to add 5 new positions all of which will directly be added to serving small business. two of these positions will go to our invest in neighborhood team to add more capacity into the community they serve, mission, china town, bay view,

fillmore and three of the positions are going to the office of small business. one of those 3 positions is a very new concept i think is very much needed which is someone who would focus and will focus on vacancy mitigation city wide and the way we envisioned it and i want to give my colleague director tang credit as well as others on my team who came up with the idea, we know that across the city we had uneven performance in the neighborhood commercial corridor. some have done well and some not well struggling with vac ancies and vac aenshs degrade the serns of the neighborhood but they help if you have too many vacant spaces you are dealing with safety and other issues that we just know that a nice full retail corridor has fewer issues. the notion is while we still have teams and all of our

merchant groups and community benefit districts we work with with city wide in each corridor, that there is no where in the city right now that we look across all of them and aggregate. i know this space is vacant on ocean but don'ts know why we are having a hard to rent it. is it because it is big or issue with tenant improvements and too expensive so part is get a level deeper and have is a better way to understand what is out there and ultimately to be better partners to our neighborhoods as we aspire to get those spaces filled. so that will be coming to this department and really excited to see what we will do with that. next slide. for those who did enjoy the spotlight on the hearing you

probably remember there were quite a few questions about ambassadors and will not bore with you many details, but needless to say, our ambassadors have become a key piece of the mayor and city response to our crisis in the tenderloin. our safety midmarket ambassadors are a key first line of engagement with community, whether it is calling 311 for a cleaning need that might be in the neighborhood, but more importantly working with community folks with mental illness, folks who need housing, folks who need to be directed to other resources, (inaudible) is the primary vendor that contract runs through this department and we fought to sustain the current level of deployment, which in turn is required as we

start to look at how we support businesses in and around the tinder loin and we are done resolving challenges we have in this part of the city. thefunding is basically sustain said so we have that as a baseline as we continue to work in other ways in the neighborhood. in our economic core, which we define more broadly then just downtown so we have the downtown financial district but what is impacted looking at the metrix but the area of the city where we have our larger commercial operations, so that would be the financial district, down tosouth of market, mission bay and union square have all been tremendously hit hard by the last 2 years and

recovering more slowly then other major u.s. cities in the country. and it is uneven so we have a seen a real challenge with the hospitality, the travel and tourism industry. we are starting to see that come back a little bit more quickly actually, so i think that is good news and we know our welcome ambassadors we deploy in and around downtown along the major transit bart stations downtown and we also use them to provide more support around mucone is paying off so we are able to keep the funding to thecurrent level of ambassadors through the budget process. and then the new piece here is unlike other u.s. cities we have yet to invest much in figuring at a broader level how we can help with the fact that work has fundamentally changed and people are not and

probably are not going to be working 5 days a week in their office the way they once did before the pandemic. we have yet to see what (inaudible) what the long-term new normal is but i think we all know it is going to be different then the way it was before and so that has challenged us as a city to think about while we are working to entice people to come back to their offices, what else can we be doing. the $8 million street vibrancy ground floor activation funding is our starting point in partnership with community to look what we can do and think this is what we can do. the first is and we have seen models ing other u.s. cities. looking proactively at the vacancies as a opportunity for arts and culture and small business who did not have the tonight in the past to ever do business ing our

economic core to get a leg in and we think it can start with pop up but doesn't need to stay with pop ups. we also want to be mindful as we look how we can create use of vacancy and create other actations we are reaching out to neighborhoods so some cases we have a established nairfbd neighborhood business they want a presence in the economic core so everything we do with the economic core is done going back to equity with a lens how to use it to support small business, the arts and how we can make connections to our neighborhoods so i hope we can put to bed the dialogue of downtown versus the neighborhood. it has to be both. we have to figure how to have both and make the connections. i think another piece is build on the things we heard about. we have a small program going into our

shared spaces for live performance and we want to extend that into our economic core. so we have more a reasoning whether you are a employee choosing to come in for the 4th day or visitor choosing to come here insteads ofue new york on your summer vacation or whether you are a conference planner choosing to bring fancy foods back where it needs to be in san francisco whether then las vegas. i think that is a lot what we will will be focusing on in the next year and not to say we are not also keeping our eye on longer term trends around what else we can be doing downtown in addition to traditional offices but the focus of this year budget is on the activation and very excited to engage all of you in thinking what those might look like. see if there is

anything else. i think long and short, we were able to protect everything that we proposed at the board of supervisors. we took $1.5 million what i say is a cost efficient we look at savings from rolling a contract last year to this year and one time expenses but able to protect all the big items as we wnt through the board of supervisors and the budget process. i'm really excited at the level of investment we work to get everyone to come together on the board and mayor office and want to thank many who worked with us behind the scenes to make sure we had powerful ways to articulate why we need to do what we are doing

and these invest ments you want to make. at the end of this we got another $5 million from board of supervisors and one of which was $3 million in partnership with the mayor's office to fully restore the covid relief hubs which we are very excited about. so, that is what i have now and i am happy to take to questions or anything i could be helpful answering. >> vice president. >> thank you director. the first and most exciting thing is it to see vacancies in the different categories and my first reaction to that is kind of thinking about oewd programming in the

last couple years that maybe didn't get to the communities it needed because of not having staff from those communities and not having the outreach capacity, so my question i know it is all under equal opportunities hiring, but i would love to be able to send some of the vacancies out to our merchant groups to share with their own communities. we need to hire from the business communities to understand their needs. i just in the last month like had two different businesses who were-one was talked to by a private developer and said voluntarily evict we will move into a bigger on market and they got completely screwed because there were no oversight or accountability in that process, they had no

idea oewd had negotiation services probona, things like that. i mean, this happened to (inaudible) commercial leasees (inaudible) has more oversight with the city but still businesses are not aware of programming that can support them in relocation efforts or vacancies that may be of interest to them. so, i would love to understand if there's intent in trying to also fill these vacancies with dem graphics reflective of the business communities. i know there are so many arab and south asian and african businesses in the downtown coreders and dont think we had a work force person or investment neighborhood person particularly in those

communities and that for me is like i would love to be able to make sure we somehow can get these vac ancies to the business communities if they have young professional s already connected that would help oewd extremely in their outreach. that was kind of my first-that was both of my questions together is really just understanding existing efforts, also to help businesses relocate or expand and how we different programming that falls in the categories and how we keep an eye on it since we are trying to play a bigger role in the space. >> just speaking to your first question about outreach, that is something we are keeping in mind. of course we will probably ask you to help us share the job postings to reach

certain communities but that definitely-right now it is me, carrie, it is us going out to benefit from extra people being dedicated to being on the ground passing fliers talking about the different resources. we keep getting all the money to put out the door and into the hands of businesses but not enough staff to process to do the outreach, so we are look ing forward to that. one thing we have been doing more of you probably notice in the budget is spending a lot more for translation service trying to translate the materials beyond the 3 threshold languages. vacancy is where the position is instrumental so we dont just have a list of addresses of what is vacant and now we dont have the staff capacity within oewd to comply was the zoning and previous use and

outstanding notice of violation, the owner and contact information and the contact information so hoping we can have a position to have a good data base we can then use our permit team staff members to actually connect businesses entrepreneurs to spaces that are easier to open up in something that is turn key and zoned properly versus something that needs a lot of work. we are excited about that and hope we can better connect people to vacancies. >> thank you. >> the other thing i would add and think we are just getting started, but another observation i would make when we were looking at things together and across the department how we get out to small business. there is 92 plus thousand of them across the whole city and i think this is the beginning of a deliberate move to actually add

more resources into osd so we have the twin engines now of our invest in neighborhood team, our community economic development who is quite focused and probably focusing even more and that means inin neighborhood cannot be in all neighborhood commercial corridors everywhere in the city, so the one hand you have invest in neighborhood with some capacity and needs more and on the other i think we have a incredsable resource at osd to help with city wide engagement of the small business community and that has in the course of pandemic very reactive because there is so much coming at us so we are trying to take the opportunity to be quite thoughtful and strategic how we get out to more businesses and the other piece is we will never

have enough city employees to do the outreach so it is hub and spoke model. we have staff that comes from the community that speak the language of the community and at the same time we still need all our partners, non profit partners operating in the community and we need to do a better job empowering them to have the same information that we do around resources that they may not have within their own non profit but if they understand the resources they can refer clients to that they have access to that, so it is work in progress but think there is a powerful role for the office of small business and really excited to continue to invest more resources into this department and this division. >> thank you director and thank you for all your work and advocacy on the budget.

>> great. commissioner carter. >> i want to applaud you for all your work and advocase. you are one of my favorite departments. for obvious reasons but when i was a new business you are phenomenal. but i really would like to know how or if you are working with the planning department what the revitalization of downtown. how are you attracting new businesses like are there plans to entice people to want to come, what does that look like? >> yes, so we partner with the planning department in a lot of different places. the planning department will be pretty heavily involveped in the tenderloin 93 it is transitioning from department of emergency management will

play a stronger leadsership role and we will continue to work (inaudible) as it relates to the economic core, the discussion we had so far and i very much think you have to think about the financial district and south of market area and union square are different from a planning zoning perspective. i think union square is maybe one of the more obvious places where we have to think differently but the upper floors of those retail buildsings so a lot of zoning encourage retail on multiple floors and that isn't necessarily going to be the best approach going forward so that is a area that we already identified with planning that we will be looking at how we might be able to evolve the zoning to make it easier for folks to lease up the upper floors and not necessarily require them to have

retail on multiple stories. i think south of market is going to be a very interesting area to look at. it is actually one of the most balanced compared to the otherer parts of economic core having housing as well as commercial space and you got huge new brand new buildsings like uber and you have all of the single double story buildings in the historic part of south of market, but i think are wonderful buildings that we should be looking how to encourage-i came out of the manufacturing industry so how can we invite more making to come back a little bit in to south of market if we have some of the buildings vacated by technology companies, you don't want to be in 5 days a week. i think our financial district is going to be one of the most

interesting parts to figure what we do on the one hand. the planning zoning for downtown is very permissive already. even though it looks like we have all of one thing office, already you can do even housing on upper floors. that is not the first place we are starting. we actually think one of the more immediate opportunities is to look at providing incentives to help building owners subdivide what might used to have been large floor plate leased up to one big business and it might very well be finally the opportunity to get smaller businesses even office space businesses on the upper floors of those downtown office towers might in the past were priced out. it isn't quite time to do that because a lot of the big leases are tied up so we will carefully monitor that. we see a lot of subleasing going on but until the big leases need to

be removed it isn't clear how many will need smaller footprints or different solutions so we will keep our eye on that and planning is a very big part of it it. >> i think i am not say concerned about bias to market street and the cable car turn around. >> we have funding in the budget and carried over from last year and there is funding this year to focus on increased improvement to (inaudible) the plaza you exit on powell as well as improvements along powell street in particular heading up into union square. i am looking at a proposal now with my team that would have a series of activation potentially along powell heading into the holidays as a starting point. powell has always been as you

know a trickier part, right of -- >> you get off the muni and come up the escalator (inaudible)

>> i am feeling so confident about both of you as our leaders and being able to advocate for us on such a level that many of our i feel heard, i feel a lot of things we have been talking about were actually seen and heard and that you really fought for that and so i really appreciate it. it makes me feel like my time on the commission is well worth it so thank you. a couple questions i had. one, basic question, but sf travel is that under the purview of oewd? >> sf travel itself is its own organization and then there is the tourism improvement district, which have a

independent 501c3 the community benefit district for travel and tourism but operates in partnership with sf travel so interesting relationship. sf travel is-has been a very important partner even if we dont fund them per se, soft partner in thinking how to increase the velocity of getting folks back to choose to come back to san francisco as tourist whether for leasure or business and so for example, one area where we along with the city administrator who has (inaudible) and sf trarfbl and pd have been working very closely to coordinate safety and make it feel much better when we have these business conferences that come into town and it seems to be paying off. we are starting to see bookings picking back up again and it is

critical because that is a big part when we say visitor tourist economy and talk about hotels, all the hotels and hospitality jobs, the restaurants, not having strong business travel was really hurting us, so that is a great example where we are working closely with sf travel again partners more thenfunding partners to explore what we can do. that said, the welcome ambassador contract is managed right now through the tourist improvement district and sf travel so they have that one contract and again it is very helpful because they are on the ground looking what confrnshs are coming in and that helped us figure where to deploy the extra ambassador resources but i say more then a grantee organization they are much more of a thought partner and help us understand what we need to do to help the sector

recover. >> now we are in this exciting time. we are talking about reenvisioning what the city will look like and what we have to offer to visitors as well as residents and i think to me that is super exciting. i guess-i just had like certain ideas or thoughts in terms of the neighborhood. would there be opportunities to kind of reimagine what ground floor retail looks like? in the past coworking spaces are not very attractive for many neighborhoods, however there are a lot who live in the city still and like to not work in the dining room and go somewhere that isn't a cafe. for people with thoughts towards this like particular period of time that we are in,

this time of like reimaging our spaces, all the possibility for downtown, who is holding those ideas and where can we as residents and small business owners and community members help shape the conversations and help be a part ramification >> that is a excellent suggestion. i think the short answer is, we have different approaches and ways we are trying to reach out to different communities, but i think there is no reason-we are san francisco we couldn't also crowd source in a much bigger way. community engagement, resident engagement and adding to the pot of ideas. if you dont mind i will take that back to my team for further consideration. i think again, we do rely a lot on

all our relationships and individual communities but this is a once in a life time opportunity to kind of reimagine the san francisco we want to be. >> all ideas are on the table. >> i think a variety of use on the ground floor is appropriate. this is how director tang and i first met years ago when we were looking at trade shop legislation to make it easier for small makers and (inaudible) that is still there in the code. a lot of makers and manufacturers dont realize you can do that, so i think it is also a moment where key can already look at opportunities that the businesses dont know are out there how we use our space on the grond floor. >> a think a lot of places can be reimagined. i

think about why are people traveling right now. what is compelling people to travel? is it the food. it used to be this was a foody town and people come to eat for a weekday or whatever it is. but maybe people are not doing that so much any longer. maybe there are other compelling reasons and maybe the world has changed and like watching someone do letter press is very compelling. watching someone create a tote bag is very compelling. i think going back to some of the ideas we had reimagine new things it is just very exciting for me to think that we could have perhaps the artist lofts that kind of brought many communities back. thank you very much for supporting this kind of spot

and really-making all this happen. >> maybe there is something special you can add now that you have the vacancy mitigation resource. what can we dream that that role could also hold, so i will think more broadly how we can create more a crowd source approach to get ideas, but i also think in addition maybe there is something special we could do with that new role here. >> thank you. commissioner ortez. >> are thank you for the presentation. all exciting. echo what was said. i want to highlight stuff working with creativeness and working collaboration and community. especially like with director pauns day lee on-in the mission and out rf mission we have a

vacant mitigation specialist and that is killing it like we were supposed it get business (inaudible) we are creative in vacancies because we have a specialist that knows the neighborhood and speak the language and that is something off our plate. in conjunction with planning and the equity council and having a planner letting us know about zoning and all this, so i am excited because we are being creative in the mission and out er mission. (inaudible) that isn't necessarily because the world is a lot smaller now, right? culturally we become a-youigate your culture fix. you come to the mission for (inaudible) you come for the car cruses and optics i don't have the data but small businesses they boom those days. that is home runs. that weekday businesses are booming

and that one weekday sometimes makes up the whole year. that makes profit or not so excited with the vision and director tang, we have done walk throughs and done walk throughs with (inaudible) it is new day and want to highlight what is working and the collaboration in community looks like and how important it is because we are really really pushing the needle. we are and that is dope. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner carter. >> i just want to circle back on what commissioner huie said and also-lost my train of thought. for the sf travel when we talk about the sf travel. you said they are not directly a partner, but more of a (inaudible) thought partner. >> largely a thought

partner but occasion in example of the case of welcome ambassador they administer that contract but generally they are a thought partner more then anything and we think together what we need to do to attract leasure travellers from other parts of the world and actually one thing they are working on now we are excited about is rebrand campaign to change the negative narrative that has been put out there around san francisco that we are not-we are dirty and people are all leaving and moving to austin and there is no reason to come here. but it is real. when you look at people making decisions whether they are people coming overseas or over the bridge, that stuff hurts us over time and it keeps getting recycled by (inaudible) or fox news. it

doesn't matter, it just reinforce the negative narrative and until people come here you have no way to distill that. when we look at other major cities, new york is probably the biggest example, a number made really significant investments. sf travel is working hard to get more state funding for this and has been very open to having us provide again thought partnership around what the campaign might look like. i want to mirror on a much more modest level similarly trying to attract employees to work a few more days in the city. i think we are not going successful making people mandating people come into work 5 days a week. i think that is not realistic for most of our industries right now, but enticing to come back, thinking of them as tourist and make a decision whether deciding to come from west portal to

downtown or the mission town downtown or making a decision to come in from east bay, thinking about the brand piece we can take elements sf travel teaches about how you market to visitors and apply to the region. was there a question? >> not so much a question but i love in that thought process to for bipoc businesses to be included in sf trachbl. f travel. we are left out of the conversations and advertisement and like the culture. i know for my community, we juneteenth is is a big hit and just as a small business owner on that scale, i saw numbers i never saw before, so i think san

francisco has been really out of the ball park as far as culture and getting that back. i haven't saw it in the city in a while. i haven't seen it in the last year or so post pandemic i would love to see that featured in sf travel. a lot of thculture, the china town parade came back, juneteenth, carnival recollect we have so much culture and bipoc small businesses so i want to see that as we reimagine and doing that type of work. one last thing when we talked about the reimagine of our city, if we can stay in the loop of that, our commission i would love that.

>> we had planned for my colleague at oewd leading all the economic core recovery efforts to come to the commission to present i think at the next meeting, yeah, the next meeting we can continue to have those conversations. >> i don't know if you have been seeing it but the cars right now between the latino community and our community, it is big thing right now. we are like i'm starting to see us crossing over and intertwining so it is great. even the chase center, they had the west coast classic at chase center so i would love to keep that going, that car culture. i'm ready to pick up my dad. >> commissioner huie. >> i just had a quick thought. i love that we are thinking about art and culture

and all those things to activate people to or compel people to come to the city, when we are thinking about encouraging people to come into work one more day, i wonder if there is some resources in which we can build like benefits into being in the city in terms of child care or other supportive services that we are not mandating businesses to have to do, but really creating and allowing space for it. if we are having-if we have vacancies in buildings can some of those be then child care type of facilities or something along the line-something very positive and not punitive for people. >> (inaudible)

>> free day care friday for all employees providing by city of san francisco here at city hall running wild- >> (inaudible) >> aren't we doing that already? [laughter] >> vice president. >> thank you for bringing all that up to my fellow commissioners. i wanted to yeah just say like, weekdays are like my family business has to close on weekdays because we don't have staff and that's when we would get the tourists. people would literally come into the city just to come to their favorite small business and we can't accommodate that and i know there is always hiring fairs for big business but we never had one for small businesses and my mom hustles. she is talking to the mission hiring hall. we are part of

the community so network in that way, but there isn't infrastructure to reach a base of employees and that is the elephant in the room for me when it comes to work force and oewd and small business. yeah, and i mean, i know we talked about city projects that have control over their hiring a little more and incentive that like should be talked probably talked about in the reperation committee people displaced from work or housing, how do we encourage them and incentivize them to rejoin the work force and community and i don't know if there is overlap for small business hiring, but those are things i know we touched on at different points but haven't heard any action on so

i wanted to bring that up - >> i wanted to add that there was a job fair like 4 or 5 months ago something like that- >> we have been-that is something that is new in the last year so we are starting to do job fairs focused on different sectors opposed to only big businesses or small businesses, so so far we had one on hospitality so that had some of the big hotels and really small ones as well, we had one health care and again i think the focus we had is trying to look at sectors opposed to only big businesses versus small business and that said i know it is really hard to-it is a lot easier to build a relationship with one big employer who hires a bunch of people then a bunch of little

employers (inaudible) it was really invaluable to find a way to aggregate to (inaudible) that is something i'm hoping during my tenure here i'll be able to solve for that more broadly because i know it is not happening at the scale we need to happen especially now. we do have a job portal and that is also in the last year since i came on-board workforce connect allows you to put jobs in their that you are hiring for. has anyone here tried that so far? >> we got (inaudible) >> you got one. have you tried it yet? >> (inaudible) i'm on the e-mail list for the wave subsidy. i think just a better understanding of those resources for small

businesses would be a good start but also yeah, more infrastructure around small business work force is definitely like something we don't talk about, but needs to be talked about. >> commissioner herbert. i is a question about transaction portation because transaction portation is is a big part of getting to work. is there any partnership happening with muni or also making muni more attractive and vibrant so people want to use it? that is my first comment or question, and my second thing is, an idea how to integrate the arts maybe downtown or south of market in the big buildings we could do a

south by southwest, which will drive people into that area and hopefully bring other businesses with it. >> one area i'll let my colleague kat daniel will talk about it sounds like she will be here in another month is we do need more city wide one or two more city wide -(inaudible) is taking out the tech part because when i use that example people are like it isn't about the tech (inaudible) it is about the having of a thing that is city wide that brings people from all over the country in the case of (inaudible) of course they didn't make it through the pandemic so we don't want to make that mistake, but i think it is a good example. one thing we are hoping to do with some of the economic core dollars in partnership with the

private sector is come up with one or two big ideas we could implement. so, i think that-i think the other first part of the question, could you repeat that? transportation. that is a fertile area for discussion. what i can say where we sit here at oewd, we have been all along very vocal with our business community and employees who need to get to work at challenging hours of the day, very vocal needing to continue to get the service level back to where we were so people can count on frequency and consistency of service particularly early in the morning, late at night. we have been making progress, so it is unfortunate the muni band didn't pass in the election (inaudible) they are hearing the message we need to continue to improve service levels and

every month when i check to see where things are they added more frequency. bart and cal train are having a much harder time right now so just very honest. their ridership is way way down from where it 30 percent of pre-pandemic levels and those are regional transits system we are part of but that is probably where i'm more concerned is what happens to the feeder systems which are so important getting people in and out of the city so don't have a easy answer for that right now. on the clean and safe part, i do think one role we collectively play at oewd with ambassadors is at least making the hubs people get on and off feel more inviting and a lot of the role bothing the midmarket ambassador and welcome ambassadors play is helping way

fine and support for folks when they come out of the subway they feel they are entering a inviting area which is (inaudible) other civic center plaza, fulton mall which (inaudible) we were able to open that up for pride and also working within my department in partnership with rec and park on a plan to activate the fulton mall where the statue is. i think we will move forward with the roller skating instillation there sooner then later. something the mayor has been asking for since i was hired a year ago, so think we are getting there. those all connect together but there is not a super easy solution in place for bart and cal train. >> okay. couple quick thoughts for myself. i personally have live lived in austin

and miami- [laughter] and waiting for the folks to ender a couple summers and how they feel about continuing to live there because each one- >> (inaudible) >> well, the florida (inaudible) is is a thing. a real real thing. let me tell you. it is everywhere. so, that's a thing. but the mosquitos, it is-the humidity. just telling you, i lived in both of these cities and i'm like, okay, you guys want to move there, knock yourself out. >> (inaudible) >> yeah. >> (inaudible) >> right. i'm like, i'm good. i'm staying here. thanks. and then on when we talk about iconic events this is a fun idea somebody mentioned to me. i was-sorry my idea.

[laughter] we are talking about bringing back iconic events. it has been over a hundred years since we had a world fair in san francisco. in fact, the last time we had a world fair in the united states was 1986, but believe it or not, it is still a thing. dubai had the last year. when you think palace of fine arts and treasure island the entire island wouldn't exist for the world fair or good chunk was manufactured for that purpose. fun idea. something to throw around. it would be great to

bring back the international trade exposition and i think it would be a intriguing way of resetting the clock and resetting the narrative and people perceptions and also give impetus to help accelerate some of these initiatives that we have to make things cleaner and nicer and more attractive and better for business everywhere and of course would be a wonderful way to exlempify and celebrate the diverse cultures within the city. goofy idea, but something i have been thinking about. not the worst idea. on the transportation front i want to mention this in passing, that cal train is trying to get what

is called dtx, downtown extension and this would help facilitate people getting from bart to cal train and also critically source of-if it gets built a source of a lot of jobs that are particularly contractors and blue collar workers and a lot of folks that benefit from the jobs but also help facilitate reengaging and helping the downtown urban core become revitalized. there is a committee called the mtc programming allocation committee. they are having a hearing this wednesday on whether the dtx extension should be priority 1 or priority 2. if it is priority 1, then it gets-it is already allocated dollars but those dollars are allocated to it first, if is priority

2 it is allocated after other things happen. if it is priority 1 then we are well positioned to get federal matching dollars, which are significant and substantial. if it is priority 2 we might miss the window on that and the opportunity for the dtx extension could happen might be something your grandchildren enjoy. so, i'm not telling you which you should advocate for, not suggesting you should go to this committee hearing and offer public comment at 945 a.m. on wednesday, but if you happen to be so inclined and thought that perhaps that might be a good thing for revitalizing the urban

core, that would be your decision. last, i was talking to a business owner the other day who said i'm depositing this employee retention tax credit and it was a local small business and it was a 6 figure check he was depositing, i was like that is a big check and he said yeah if you hadn't told me about that. i'm working on some stuff so just going to keep ringing the bell. you mentioned roi. this is the thing where hundred, 200, 300 bucks per employeeed can generate $21 thousand back to the business, so again, i will say this, again for the reminder of all the business owners here if you have not applied for an employee retention tax credit for the

year 2020 and 2021 your window is closing, you still have time. you have to file an amended return, but you have 3 years to file an amended return so you have to the end of 2023 to an amended return for 2020 and end of 2024 to file amended return for 2021. not giving tax advice, i'm not a tax advise der, you may not rely on me or offering legal advice but saying i know business owners who really suffered and this is for business owners that suffered who really suffered in the pandemic and are still struggling with back rent. it continues to be the biggest opportunity that the small business community has that we are not taking to sufficient seriousness and whatever oewd can do

along those lines i think would be very welcome. there you go. >> (inaudible) we agree. we were just noodling on the two part challenge how to get the word out more and i think again i'm hoping by adding similar resource into osd we can generally figure how to get the word out to more communities more quickly in partnership with invest in neighborhoods and then i think it is matter of identifying (inaudible) and we need to look at that. >> i'll just add for director tang, i was privy to a wonderful e-mail exchange i think highlighted how what a good job our business resource specialist-i forget what the term is- >> (inaudible)

>> case manager. yes. what a wonderful job the case managers are doing listing all the different resources available to them listing all the different grants. it occurs to me popped into my head now, perhaps we should mention the employee retention credit as well as just part of our spiel and actually sure you thought i was being rude but a business owner texted during the hearing to say who should i talk to, office of small business, trying to figure how to apply for grants and i said call the main number, they are all great and had a conver sation about that. continues to be a thing and we should probably work that into our spiel too as much as possible. is there any public comment? >> we have one caller on the line. >> wonderful. caller

please proceed. >> my name is fran cisco decosta and i have been listening to you very intently. why dont you all establish a office that (inaudible) [difficulty hearing speaker] why don't you establish a office so that the small businesses can be housed? here is is a example, san bruno avenue, only one business got some money from the stimulus money, so i want to know if it is maybe preoperative appropriate for a audit? i know there is

(inaudible) it amazing the commissioners don't get value to the thousands of jobs that small businesses on san bruno avenue, clement street, taravel and not mentioned in your discourses. the events like carnival and the parades, those are separate . one thing you fail to understand the thousands of nob left the city and need to do needs assessment to stop

rambleing about art suggestions that dont give jobs to many people. (inaudible) it takes 5 years. to get a entitlement for a building it takes 10 years. and you are saying san francisco are not astute and stellar and not understand these things. i know some of you (inaudible) i know during the pandemic they used to send a link that you all couldn't open and i had to open the link and i had to get 10.800 people destinations, so it is about doing not about talking. it is about doing not

about talking. thank you very much. >> thank you caller. so, i will say for the benefit of the caller this commission worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic. we often talk ed about the impact of jobs and the contribution small businesses all over the city. anybody that attended the meetings with regularity, heard me speak often about the neighborhoods of acsels polk and bay view and san bruno but i do appreciate and understand the sentiment the caller is articulating because often throughout the city it is easy to feel you have been for gotten and easy feel like your business doesn't matter and easy to refeel resources are not distributed equitably. i

appreciate the caller taking the time to call. i encourage the caller to also follow up with an e-mail and that would give us the opportunity to look at your consideration a little more closely and certainly if there is any opportunities for the small business commission to engage and help and rectify and try to make things a little better, which i will just remind the caller we are advisory body, not a statutory body, we can not execute policy, we can only recommend, we can only nudge. we can only advocate. so, with that distinct constraints certainly if there is any specific policy recommendation that you have, we will gladly look at it and appreciate you taking the time to call in. next item, please. >> item 6, resolution

making findings to allow teleconference meetsing undrp california government code section 54953e. >> anybody want to make a motion? i guess we got to-any comment or questions on the findings for teleconfwrns meeting? >> there are none. >> any public comment? sorry, you said there was no-i can see there is none. that i can see. any public comment? >> no public comment. >> okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners dpoo we have a motion to allow teleconference meetings? i make the motion. do we have a second? >> second. >> great. [roll call]

>> motion pass. >> next item please. >> item 7 approval of draft meeting minutes. >> commissioner, any comments or questions of the minutes? before you just disregard this completely, i will point out that it is section 7 in the booklet and these minutes are from the summit we recently had or the-retreat, thank you. these are for the retreat and direct your attention to the action planning portion of the retreat. double check and make sure nothing was forgotten or needs to be amended.

commissioners let me know if you have any comments. otherwise-i wasn't trying to encourage you to make comments, just that portion is important so i want to make sure we didn't just profucktry pass it. get one more crack at the bat. any public comment? >> there is none. >> any amendments or recommendations? seeing none, comment is closed. next item, jrsh , >> it does take a motion. >> you can probably say all in favor say aye. you

can't. >> i are move to approve the draft minutes. >> is there a second? >> i second. [roll call] >> motion pass. >> great. next item please. >> item 8, general public comment. there are no callers on the line. >> okay. and there is nobody in the room, so public comment [laughter] i think we can safely say public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 9, director's report. >> thank you. i see you rick, don't worry. i know it is late so i'll start off

quickly. we welcome a new staff member to the office. this was a long time in the making a neighborhood anchor business program coordinator/case manager will add spanish speaking to the office which is much needed and previous worked in office of small business so walter is the newest staff member so want to welcome him. also will pass arond our draft strategic priorities and goals of the retreat and work oewd is doing in terms of goal setting and how we will measure our work at the end of the fiscal year so passing out a draft and will send an e version if you could in the next week provide feedback and comments anything we missed that is most helpful. i will save other update said for another time. i know it is late but wanted to share we wrapped up the accessibility grant june 30 but we have a new version that just

launched also in conjunction with that closing and basically we will try to help fund anything related to accessibility improvements accept for labor, so that i hope to be a ongoing program in our office. with that, i will conclude our director report. >> thank you. any public comment? sorry, is there commissioner comment? okay. any public comment? >> thereis none. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please. >> item 10, commissioner comments and questions and new business. >> okay. is there any new business items commissioners? i know it is late, i will mention one thing briefly. at invitation of supervisor mar i visited the sunset-i will mangle the name. the farmers- >> (inaudible) >> farmers market. >> thank you. there is a lot of words in that. i

have branding suggestion. outer sunset farmer market and mercantile. i met with angie petit the person who is i guess the-she developed it. she got all these folks to join . angie is a delight. she is very soft spoken and sweet and amazing, but this--as far as farmers markets and small business merchant markets go this one is really really something else. it is really really beautiful, incredibly diverse array of business. i talk to dante from (inaudible) yeah. i bought some hummus and pita

chips. i didn't catch the young ladies name. this is what happens when your beard turns gray. but, i think the reasoning i bring this up is i just want to plant a seed with this commission because i think that farmers market will need some help. there is competition for the use of the road and when i looked at that road and i saw i will guess 40, 50 different little small businesses, some of them were home based. i heard about one business owner who was had heart issues and had been raising his daughters with the income he was making from this event. i heard a success story of the coffee roasters they started in a garage chronicle had a article about them roasting their

coffee in the garage and went to farmers market and now looking for the brick and mortar location. it is these kind of events that creates a stepping stone for people of anybody that wants to be a entrepreneur and wants to be a business owner. and so i think that this farmers market in particular may need some help so just planting a seed with this commission at some point we may want to send a letter or issue resolution of support or accommodation and so i wanted to let you guys know that that they are out there and doing a really really great job and we-you should keep a eye out for that and i'll bring it up again when the time is right. alright. commissioner huie. we chatted about you by the way. angie loves you.

>> so, on that note i guess i have been working on a project, art walk sf since january and don't think-i think i brought it up kind of slightly like in meetings but haven't talked about in commission meeting yet. we have been planning neighborhood art walks in conjunction with murchants that receive avenue green light funding and our goal through that was to help business merchants associations build capacity and understand how to activate their street, because there is turnover in associations and like leadership doesn't always know how to tell next step leadership like how to activate a street or how to produce an event in the neighborhood, so

our group and literally just a passion project of ours, has now gotten to the point where we are able-i put together a merchant tool kit to be able to share with neighborhood associations to kind of give info graphic how to produce an event, who to contact, what to do, and as well as templates. down to the basic of how to invite your district supervisors to your event kind of thing, so we've really started to get to the point now where our next phase is going to be building that infrastructure to support merchants and associations we had a wonderful conversation with morgan cellar who is in our office here to talk about the permitting process and how we can hopefully be able to relay that information in a way that associations with actually feel comfortable and confident about. the other key

piece is also helping artists as well as crafters and vendors feel confident in formalizing their business so that is the key page we are putting up is the resources to direct them to osd as well as other technical assistant partners and things to be able to feel like yeah, i did this show and now i can maybe take it to the next step and have either whatever it is for them. i think angie does a wonderful job curating her market and i think she has a eye for finding businesses that are like really driving traction and so those are kind of the next steps that we love to partner with more events producers and i think we are going to be working with them on outer sunset and so our hope is also that we had

this set of neighborhoods on the calendar and what our next steps are to reach out and work with neighborhoods who have not had reoccurring activation and don't have the experience doing it and sharing the tool kit we are putting together and see if people can run with it independently. yeah, that is the goal of art walk sf and we are just kind of building this whole thing as we do it. >> love it. >> thank you. >> alright. don't see any other commissioners, so is there any public comment? >> there is none. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 11, adjournment. sf gov tv. we will end the small business commission is official public forum to voice your opinion and concern about

policies that effect the economic vitality of small business ing san francisco and the office of small business is the best place to get answers about doing business in san francisco during the local emergency. if you need assistance with small business matters, continue to reach out to the office of small business. meeting adjourned.

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold.

tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies.

some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> everything we do in the tenderloin, we urban outfit. here, this gives us an opportunity to collaborate with other agencies and we become familiar with how other agencies operate and allow us to be more flexible and get better at what we depo in the line of work in this task. >> sometimes you go down and it's hard to get up. so we see ourselves as providing an opportunity for the unhoused to get up. and so i really believe that when they come here and they've said it, this right here is absolutely needed. you can't ask for nothing

better. >> the tenderloin is the stuff that ain't on the list of remedies, liked the spiritual connection to recovery and why would i? why would i recover? what have i got to live for? things like that. and sharing the stories. like i was homeless and just the team. and some people need that extra connection on why they can change their life or how they could. >> we have a lot of guests that will come in and say i would like -- you know, i need help with shelter, food, and primary care doctor. and so here, that's three rooms down the hall. so if you book them, they get all of their needs taken care of in one go. this is an opportunity for us here in the tenderloin to come together, try out these ideas to see if we can put -- get -- connect people to services in a

now we are in the city by the bay. we are getting ready for the big parade. the warriors have a lot of fans. you see her at all of the games. the blue and gold for the last few months. welcome the mayor london reed.