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>> and also revitalize our streetscapes. and we have supervisors stephanie as a early supporter. appreciate that. so, in our district as you all know graffiti can spin out of control quickly, especially with vacant store fronts or absen tee owners not there to address it. we had a big outbreak ing the west portal district and it seemed to be done by one

person and so then our office was flooded by phone calls saying what is the city doing and think the people think the city is responsible for cleaning up private property graffiti so we want to help people out and as you know that isn't possible until the properties owner can (inaudible) woe have spoken and worked with dpw and they are enthuseic about the program. we didn't want to micro manage too much but the proposal was to have dedicated routes they go on every 2 or 3 days to proactively address graffiti they see as long as the owner has opt in. of course we are going to try to promote people

to sign up once this is in effect, but also people who don't know about a program have a chance once they received a violation notice. thrf is $4 million spread over 2 years for the programs so it is funded just need the ordinance to pass. we heard from tons of small businesses and residents that are eager to get this started. i hope that you will be supportive of this. >> commissioners i will go into checks for questions so i dont see a name yet. i will mention for our new commissioners this commission had previously introduced a resolution in support of dpw picking up the

reins for graffiti abate ment. that is common in other cities including boston new york, dallas, uncommon among cities our size putting the onus on building owners so we passed a resolution because of course when the onus is put on the business owners often it becomes an onus on the building owner, it often comes by extension a onus on had the business owner. commission carter. >> hi, i wondering if this is commercial corridors only? >> the legislation has a list of the corridors and if there is already a cbd in the bylaws they are funding-taking care of graffiti then those cbd are excluded from the

program. >> jennifer you may want to stay up till everybody is done. commissioner ortez. >> thank you. we love the legislation and support supervisor (inaudible) at least i do, can't speak for the entire commission, but my only question would be, how do we safe-guard to make sure more disadvantage commercial corridors are not disproportionately not taken care like the mission district and outer mission. >> there is long list of what qualifies. i don't have it memorized but pretty sure the mission is included in that. we had debated whether to do corner stores and residential thought is just-it would be very inefficient to have dpw hit one store so focus on the main problems. >> my concern is more like (inaudible) focused on more regarding that list.

how do we know there is parody? how do we gair (inaudible) having inflelsh contacts. >> there is still details to work out with dpw for sure like what do you do about graffiti that is way up high but our district we will be working with them-we know where the problems are so i think every supervisor office should engage with them and let them know where they should be going or it is not is not enough, let's increase it. >> thank you. >> commissioner huey. >> are thank you so much for the legislation. this is really exciting given what the history of the conversations we had ong the commission regarding this. just off that

question, is there a possibility or to kind of give input on like language and outreach for dpw? to insure that there will be some sort of roll-out that really speaks to people. >> right, translated. yeah, we are going to continue to shepherd-the form they use to have people opt in so we will be involved in that. very sensitive to that issue. >> thank you. >> thank you. quick question, you mentioned that dpw wants to go along pre-determined routes or regular routes presumably up and down the corridors. but, through 311, we do have graffiti i guess reports, and i

was wondering perhaps your office could inquire, this is gentle suggestion, not a strong suggestion, but perhaps as more and more people opt in either through 311 or the itt, there could be a way to cross correlate the 311 complaint with the buildings that opted in so you generate a list of buildings that neighbors or the community has complained about but also we know have opted in so we are not just driving around hoping to see something. >> have it data driven by 311? >> also i think one of the goals of the legislation and how other cities constructed is to be responsive. having said that i want to reemphasize commissioner ortez point, when you look at the 311

notice that is definitely one of the densest district in the city in terms of graffiti violations and we want to make sure that these are-the service levels is proportioninately allocated. but it seems to me that we--it should be conceivable hopefully without too much work to just generate a list these people could go through and think that would be very helpful to city residents because then they would see, i made a call and the city came out and fixed it and it got fixed within a week or two instead of 6 months later it is still there. which is i think in many cases what they are experiencing now so it is a way to improve at least the perception of the city service level if not service level outright. >> these are all great suggestions and we are going to be as i said still

working with dpw to make sure it works for them too so i'll be sure to give the feedback and if you want to write a letter too. >> yeah. i think we would be amenable to helping provide that support. >> thanks. >> commissioner huey. >> i'm wondering with the request for the hearing and things like that. it would take over 30 days for something to come down. if you noticed a piece of graffiti up and then the property owner was unaudible to- >> under the old system my understanding and you can correct- >> this is existing. >> under the new system or under the new law the city-if the owner opted in and jennifer correct me if i'm wrong, but if the building owner opted in the city can clean it up inminute they see it or minute they become aware of it. >> okay. >> yes.

>> sorry i forgot my question. >> i didn't mean to knock you off course. if you remember just hit the button again. >> jennifer, i had a question. what happened to the vandal that hit up your neighborhood? >> what happened to what? >> that particular person. >> they didn't catch him but think they have footage, they might catch him. >> so they didn't know who it was- >> no, but it was all over the roof top and very much the same. and we got them to increase patrol and stuff at night time. it happened over the weekday at night. >> okay. >> seeing it on a park and rec property too. park across the street, seems once a month now like just overnight will just be tagged top to bottom, left to right, the entire--i think it is a trend right

now which is-i was a kid once too, but it is bummer for the folks that have to may to clean it up. any other comments? okay. seeing none, any public comment? >> public commenters can come up to the mic. >> hello. >> hello commissioners, janet tarlove and here today representing both our merchant group the glen mark merchant association and the san francisco council district merchants which are merchant group belongs to. both organizations are fully in support of this legislation somewhere we hope you will recommend to support it and--we

urge you to support it. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? >> there is none. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners i will go ahead and move to approve the legislation as drafted. do i have a second? >> motion by president to support, seconded by

commissioner dickerson. i'll read the roll. [roll call] >> motion passes unanimously. >> thank you. thank you jennifer and thank the supervisor on our behalf as well , we appreciate her moving forward with this. next item, please. >> item 3, street vendor permit program update. this is a discussion item. the commission will hear and discuss update on the street vendor permit program including information on outreach efforts, application development, and potential timeline for implementation. presenting today we have nicolas huff, gregory

slokeen and michael lennon from department of public works and believe they are all joining us remotely. >> okay. >> this is nicolas huff. is the presentation pre-loaded or do i need to share it? >> if you want to share it, you are welcome to. >> okay. i did not know that so give me a second. >> it's okay, i will pull it up, you can start. >> okay. the bureau manager for the bureau street use and mapping, aka bsm the city regulator for construction and commercial activities that take place in the commercial right of way, that translates to most accepted sidewalks and streets in san francisco. bsm has 3 divisions, permitting, inspections and enforcement and subdivision and mapping under

the county surveyor. you will hear from the permitting division graig slokem and (inaudible) inspection and enforcement division. our permitting division represents or has two groups engineering construction and commercial permits. they also develop the regulations for any new legislation enacted by the board. all the work permits performed is essentially handed off to inspection enforcement however does not handle oversight they deal with a large volume of 301 complaints and work negotiated with pg&e and puc. we are called for (inaudible) today as i mentioned earlier my colleagues greg slokem and mike lennon, greg manage (inaudible) inspection and enforcement. we

are going to review bsm status with the sidewalk vending regulation and review the various categories the code now covers. our permitting process and requirements in various zones under the new code, current outreach action focus and where we are with the regulations. we are done with the regulations. they are with the board for approval and i'm hoping that they will be accepted, and with that, i will hand off to greg slokem. >> with good afternoon members of the commission. thank you for having us. my name is gregory slokem and work with (inaudible) and my team handles mobile food facilities food trucks and (inaudible) other business oriented programs you may be familiar with.

so we have two proposed vending categories within this program, mobile foods and-pardon me, merchandise and prepackage. merchandise is prepackaged and (inaudible) you have to have a health certificate but prepackaged. we will continue to have the mobile food program which you are familiar with and-slide, please. we are proposing two subsets -pardon me, hold on. -there

are no motorized vehicles on the sidewalk. next slide, please. there we go. thank you kindly. i appreciate that. vending program exclusion. just to be very clear about a few things this program will not speak to because we have gotten a few questions. this is not motorized conveyance so not food trucks or anything of that nature. this is not going to regulate food (inaudible) sold by non profit forfund

raiser. most comage example we talked about is girl scout cookies. this is not going to apply to farmer market or swat meets and (inaudible) state code state bill 946 which is a overall umbrella that helps inform the regulation in the program. anything that is dictated by a (inaudible) [difficulty hearing speaker] and then there are some very specific areas within rec and park mainly (inaudible) and holiday plaza that would also be under this program. now that we have them pinned down we are working on the process. (inaudible) the team has been working with digital services and team responsible

for developing the shared space portal which you may be familiar with for this program as well so i expect a similar user experience (inaudible) if you have familiarity with that program. some requirements we enum erated are on the slide. the business information what you are saying. the regulations that went forward will not require certificate liability insurance. the team worked to make this a nimble process. that is lower barrier of entry and quicker review time because we don't have to volley back semantics on the policy and improved user experience hopefully. making it a more quick experience will hopefully lower the permit price which is good for everyone. next slide,

please. this is annualized permit so ask folks to update on a yearly basis and then additionally like i just mentioned, we are not going to require a updated certificate of liability insurance because we won't need it in the first place. the dph credentials only apply to those participating in the prepackage fool and eligible for (inaudible) legislation dictates we can do fee wavers and reduction which is to the best of my knowledge unprecedented for commercial permits, again to lower barrier of entry and we have enumerations for eligibility and we base that off the lifeline program so not reinventing the wheel, there is familiarity with folks that may have participated in the program. same program and vetted and accepted to that extent. next slide, please. i

kind of (inaudible) for individual applicants, there can be outright wavers, the standards are enumerated the life line path i put out and are there is a 50 percent fee discount for renewal permits. you still have to show the proof of eligibility because something situation may change to extent they are ineligible for the waver. groups and organizations, you'll see there is a 50 percent fee discount and you see the way this was enumerated we took the standards from economic development and the same standards they proctor for many grant distribution programs so again we sought to just use a preexisting standard people are familiar with that is vetted and had predictability for the user as well, and then we were approximate $400 for initial application and $100 for renewal application.

we are tinker with this. i believe the $400 figure will drop. we are trying to estimate how many hours we respond on the permits. not necessarily enforcement but making sure folks are compliant. responding to the complaint but making sure that the public right of way is good. we are working on fine-tuning fees and also notice that if you look above the (inaudible) that is the threshold for waver and reduction. next slide, please. so, program requirements, relates to the access and public right of way. the standards we have here are consistent with ones we already had in the mobile food facility programs, and other preexisting

commercial programs. shared spaces. you see these consistent dimensions. again, not trying to introduce any novel conspt, just trying to maintain consistent, clear, accessible path of travel in the public right of way and additionally that 2 foot path of travel adjacent to parallel parking, we want to make sure folks are (inaudible) by cars the way they set up. next slide, please. so, as mentioned there is a state law that informs the overall tenants we can regulate this program with and the tenants they say we can regulate are public health, public safety and public welfare. so, as such there is not restriction on zoning operations. however, the state law does say that we can prohibit state stationary vendors in residential areas so that is the only explicit

prohibition therein and there are also carve-outs again pursuant to the state code for certified farmer markets, swap meets. we have un plaza and holiday plaza (inaudible) the program doesn't regulate them nor does having the permit to (inaudible) separate event, separate permit. intuitive to that extent. next slide, please. program outreach. partnering with economic development. mikes team has been partnering with other agencies and are non profits. they are going-pardon me, they are going to be (inaudible) additionally, additional service portal we are developing is translated as well. so, one thing we are focusing on is upcoming program requirements they need to obtain the permits, where you get it and (inaudible)

and also going to be working on some like i said very targeted outreach thereirn. with that, i think i wrapped up everything on permit programming and mike you may have other things to supplement program outreach with, but we are very excited to start this program. we know there is a lot of interest in it. the team has been working hard on it. we are hoping to build off some of the standardization and success of preexisting programs and not introducing novel concepts, maintain integrity of public facilities, path of travel in the right of way and predictable functional permit processing, folks where they need it go and what they need to have and what it will result in. thank you very much for your time. mike. >> good afternn everyone. michael (inaudible) public works, bsm. as mentioned

oversee inspection enforcement side of the house and to date (inaudible) advice on drafting the regulations and getting these things up to date and then we have been working with community groups and different city family members to kind of operationalize a lot of regulations and things percolateing and developed over the past several weeks. dating back to april, we started having the conversations and through those conversations the focus ended up on the mission street corridor for our initial operations as well as un plaza, so each of those areas because of this type enforcement does (inaudible) does require a team approach. we do need sfpd, bart pd when we are in

the mission to engage with some of these individuals and vendors then because of some of the carve-outs gregory mentioned regarding prepared foods and farmer market produce items with those items not falling within this we also have partners with the department of public health to accompany us on these walks and they-we can address holistically to address the fresh prepared foods and public works and others address the cite requirements and display. right now the regulations are pending with the board, so once those go into effect we will have a more full spectrum of enforcement at our disposal and i guess a high level corrective actions. right now we are not enforcing for vendors operating

without a permit because the permit site isn't available yet. you cant ding anybody for not having the permit site so it has been focused on outreach, letting them know of the citing requirements and enforcing accessibility and life safety access. in the interim while we await those more formalized regulations to be approved so in the mission we worked with mission pd, bart, police, department of public health, community groups, kia24 is involved from the beginning in outreach. they also intened to work with the vendors and help them with permit applications, filling out the applications, submitting them. there is couple other groups that emerge recently in the mission. i believe it was mission food bank who reached out regarding interest in trying to support the vendors and kind

of get involved and make it work for everybody. so, once (inaudible) do go into effect then we will be able to basically if you don't have a permit you are not operating lawfully. we will ask people first to cease operations, clear the public right of way. if they refuse then we can escalate enforcement and at that point ask for proof of ownership and if they are unable to provide proof of ownership and refuse to vacate the area we can escalate or confin skate items and hold the items and allow 90 days to reclaim those items after paying for a cost of impounding storage and return

them. once (inaudible) there are two different fine scales or assessment scales in place. if you operate without a permit you're subject to steeper fines. $250, $500, $1 thousand. if you are permitted, then you have a lighter fine and it is 1 to $500 within a year. again, i (inaudible) fines against the individuals. i dont know if that is necessarily going to be the way we will gain compliance and get people into it, but it is a tool that's available to us, a resource we can enforce as well as confiscation. next slide, please. there

are two distinct like i said mission and un plaza. we have been doing the enforcement, but they are very distinct in the challenges they present. in the mission you have (inaudible) they fit the definition of vendor more traditionally where they do have goods, they have booths, they are set up and engage in transaction on the public roilth right of way and because we do not yet have the permit and sort the vendors by who is permitted and who isn't, we are focused on the clearance from the corner clean zones they are cleared up in those areas and that there are 6 foot path of travel and accessibility #30i7b9s for emergency service to get into the bart plazas. we also have

been enforcing umbrella and overhead clearances, but once the regulations take effect, and the 12 foot cite requirements for the bus shelters, 12 foot clearance from red zones, blue zones, that is really going to move the needle in the mission because pretty much everything you see set up along 24 street or mission street or any of the plazas are no longer allowed there because those are bus zones and 12 foot clearance would essentially pick up the entire sidewalk. i know in the mission (inaudible) real estate is working, 524 (inaudible) and i believe few others i'm working with. bart real estate to figure if there is a mechanism or way that some of the vendors congesting the sidewalk are able to locate in designated locations ing in the

[applause]y plazas. on the other hand, un plaza is a no vending zone so messaging is cleaner, more direct. it is simply you can no longer vend in un plaza. there are two distinct groups we found within un plaza and one are elderly women who set up usually on the back side of the fountain and selling goods from a food bank or church and reselling goods on the sidewalk. they are i guess more in line with what you would normally think as a vendor and that is one i guess aspect of the un plaza we are addressing. the other side is more street level activities which i think there are

certainly exchanges made between these people but it is not necessarily of the type that you would necessarily associate with traditional vending, so when we deal with those individuals it is really having them make sure they are not trying to display anything. there is not any stolen goods subject to confiscation and basically trying to maintain people along and keep the area clear. next slide, please. and that-all i have for now for enforcement and we are available for questions. things are still rolling out and developed. once the regulations do go into effect and we start trying to confiscate items you may see movement in un plaza and other areas. in terms of scope and the creep and us

going to the interagency enforcement we received inquiries from china town merchants and i heard discussion but merging with the port operations that had been happening, but as of now our focus is still primarily mission and un plaza and as we ramp up it may expand to other areas, but we are all available for questions if you have them. >> great. thank you. commissioner ortez. >> thank you president. thank you gentleman for the presentation. i have several questions. a lot of my constituents are based ouf mission. i worked along gentleman here with kia, homeies and outer mission so bear with me as i go through a list of questions i have. the first one is just i want to again state for the record and get clarification that

insurance is no longer required as part of the permit process? >> that is correct. >> and there is no unintended because dpw isn't requiring insurance no other agency falls under purview where they need insurance for their portion of the permit. >> none i'm aware of. i might refer to a colleague at dph if there was one because there allowance for prepackage food and regulation by them. they may require it, i'm not aware. we are the permitting agency so for a streetveneding permit you do not need a certificate of insureance. if that is a prerequisite i'm wear

but would ask them as well. >> thank you. before i ask the other questions can you walk me through a scenario-me, i'm a vendor on 24, the permit is live now, i can get the permit and just dont listen. tell me what that looks like? >> (inaudible) the permit isn't live. i have all my stuff i'm vending, tell me how (inaudible) >> presently, we are out there with the chief so there is multiple people out there and accompany us and we will approach the vendor. at present it is more

about outreach but assuming that the permit type is available, it would be the requirement is they display it prominently, so first, say if it isn't prominently display probably interact and say how are you doing today, you don't have your permit displayed, do you have a permit allowing you to (inaudible) if they say no, and then we say okay, well as of april 21, a requirement that a permit be available and usually give them informational background on what the program is, the citing requirements and just the high level requirements -we are usually out with kia and they have people that try to work with them to arrange an appointment and kia

does outreach thursday through saturday and in the office trying to help with the paper side of things rest of the week. -we would be

pushing for full on removal of the areas and clearing out the area more so and not there without the proper credentials and think it is clear enforcement action once we are at that stage because it is beyond

outreach and education, people aware and know they need it and then we can have- >> and these interactions along the way from initial enforcement of contact to the actual complete enforcement will sfpd be along with you? >> yes, we are not doing any enforcement with sfpd present. >> but you will be the lead agency because you are the agency that enforces it? >> yes. for package goods and -goods and prepared food, because prepackage goods, we at bsm public works will be the tip of the sphere for enforcement but it needs to be addressed on a interagency basis where dph will continue for the timebeing to be the tip of the sphere for enforcement for fres prepared foods. hot

dog vendors and fresh foods. >> okay. regarding the old peddler permit issued by the san francisco police department is there a preference for those peddlers that operated legally until the permit no longer became valid? >> i would be happy to speak to that. first of all that is a great question. it is kind of a two sides of the coin. there isn't explicit advantage. yes, there is incentive if they have business registration certificate they got their sneakers laced up to hit the ground running. the same principal applies to the members of the arts vendsing program. ithadon't necessarily have a explicit carve-out in the program or exclusivity, however, some of the paperwork they already had to do year in year out they are going to (inaudible) different e-mail domail opposed to what they were doing before. i do have

optimism while we have not given exclusivity there is a greater ease of process for them because as i mentioned earlier, we are not trying to reinvent the wheel, we want to be predictable and functional which is why we use preexisting standards. >> i'll add to that, to date we have encountered a couple vendors who had a peddler permit that covered a portion of the operation so we have been working with them and allowing them to continue to operate under the peddler permit with miner adjustments. the umbrella coverage or placement over flowers. allow them to retain the umbrella for the flowers and cover it but it had to be pulled back out of path of travel in order to provide the requisite

accessibility. once the vendors put irn the new application and income to compliance under this program, i think we can reconcile the differences between what is allowed under the peddler permit and what is allowed for under the current regulations but as of now we are working with anybody who has a permit and will work the permit team to figure out what is allowable in the current day. >> okay. now i have 3 specific sites. (inaudible) the pops, fruit not cut and flowers. >> fruit, even if it is a farmer's market type- >> i'm selling at the corner boxes and mangoes uncut no prep. >> it is not subject to the legislation. i believe that

along with the (inaudible) hot dog vendors all that packaged or actively cooking those (inaudible) >> so it is mmf. >> that is not part of this of what falls under this legislation. because we encounter the variety of things we will have several different issues dph is responsible for. a lot of public works issue. that is part of why we have been trying to do this as a task force, because you could address everything more holistically. >> what about flowers? >> flowers i don't believe is a concern because it is merchandise and not

consumable. we do display merchandise permits for produce along the mission corridor and i know that-without being dph extrt to any extent i know one of their concerns is a lot of times coverage so there (inaudible) it doesn't go over the produce. i know dph has standardss (inaudible) flowers, the intent isn't to eat, i would classify that as merchandise. if there is environmental health that exist i'm unaware but these are excellent questions to validate with dph but not seeing yellow or red lights. kwrrks >> so the flower is ubder this permit? >> i would qualify as merchandise. the other flower sales public works is involved with are the flower markets on market streets. i believe you are able to vend flowers with this permit

pursuant-the fact they are not consumable, there isn't a loop hole and flowers are flowers. graduation bouquet. >> understood. what about corporate like on william llc and i snatch up several permits and i have other people working under me for them? >> my understanding in reading the legislation is the provision for non profits, non profits explicitly to assist with permitting. nuther nothing for a corporation allows that. one thing required for the legislation when you apply is a photograph of thevened vendor and that isn't necessarily (inaudible) so folks can't pass a permit and we know who is responsible for what, who, what, where, when. the analogy a use kids have a substitute teacher and all a (inaudible)

avoid that by having some information so we know you are you but not so much information it is burden to access the program so hopefully that is somewhat responsive to what you asked. >> but i get a permit and legit and don't feel well for whatever reason and have my son vendor, what does enforcement look like? >> if we are out there proactively it is looking for the usual things. is the permit displayed, the credential and if so and somebody is passing by and you are pushing ice cream cart or whatever and you have your placard or permit prominently displayed, there probably wouldn't be much of any interaction is how you are

doing, and have a good day. if there isn't the permit prominently displayed we are probably along the lines of what was discussed earlier, hi, how are you doing today? i see you are vending, do you have a permit allowing you to vend? >> okay. >> yes or no. if they produce the permit and it aligns with the goods that there's the application they are supposed to be selling if you push a ice cream cart and says you are supposed to sell ice cream and the permit isn't displayed i imagine it will be a relatively routine interaction but if unpermitted vending it will be escalate enforcement for other issues but not because you your son is out there rather then you. i think it will

be permits and content based versus food a person is pushing. >> understood. on one of the slides it says in proximity to farmer market, what is the proximity to? what is the feet? >> i didn't see a specific distance. i think if you are not part of the organized farmer market so un plaza, if you are not a permitted vendor who is setting up as part of the farmers market wednesday morning anyone attempting to vend near that whole square block or whatever, i think would be chased off. i am not too aware where other like- >> so, there is no hard feet from proximity to? that is just subject--to what?

>> no, but (inaudible) for some sense of scale we talked about 8 feet from other lice ance. the core thing is path of access. without speaking for inspection but speaking to inspection concerns, the number one reason you talk to someone on the team is if you block public right of way. you don't have the interest or ability to look at every permit and data field. if someone is blocking path of travel that is probably why we are speaking to you. whether that is approximate to farmer market 8 feet or more or on corridor and sidewalk. i think we have defined proximity for bus stops and other vendors 8 feet so if you pin down on approximate i say 8 feet because we have is a

vending program that says that. additionally we would say we need path of access in addition to that. we have to make sure folks can get through and you are not on top of a preexisting (inaudible) we seek to insure access is the main driver. if folks are crowding the perimeter of farmer market and there is no path of travel or accessibility that would be the big driver in our arrival there and us structing folks in the field how far they can be. the nice thing about permit and roaming thing is they are moving. the other thing is when folks apply for this permit, if there is a stationary vending their submit where they are vending and location of the vending. if i look at that and know there is a farmer market on reoccurring basis the permit team would ask the applicant you have

un plaza wednesday 9 a.m. to 2. there is event we are not going to allow you to do stationary vending so i think what we hope is the way the application portal is set up and the way we guide that engagement of someone saying i want a vending permit and go to the website and tell what i want to sell and where they want to sell it, we are able to guide the applicant to a place they are not having interaction with mikes team at the farmer market or previously permitted event. they know well in advance-we know both know where you are vending. that is what they tell when we apply. for a stationary vendor that is the issue because it is camped out approximate to permitted event so i think there is engagement and think additionally we will hopefully put bumpers on the bowling lane and permitting process so folks know what they

are going after if that makes sense. >> yes, i have two more questions. particular 24 street plaza. the over lap with bart so 12 feet from bus stops say i'm a street vendor and playing games and hop on the part where it is bart are you still going to enforce them? >> that is outside our jurisdiction, but bart has officers present this week and week and they were out in the some of the preliminary discussions out there, so i got e-mail from a bart community officers and they have patrol goes through the area and now they have i think in the week days they have two community officers who are spending 5 hours a day and bart

had been involved with (inaudible) office and (inaudible) regarding use of the plaza to somehow activate it and make-be helpful in the issue rather then being a jurisdictional line people jump back and forth across, but we hope to address the jurisdiction al issues by doing it as a task force basis because if public works is out there and pd and we tell you can't be on the sidewalk they can no longer go in the plaza because bart is clearing the plaza as well. we do need dpt-they have been out a couple times with us, once the regulations go into effect and we start enforcing the full spectrum and keeping the red zone clear by 12 foot, that is pretty much going to eliminate any vending on the sidewalks near the 24 street plaza because i think the

red zones go-stretch both corners all the way the length of the plaza and 12 foot clearance near the red zones or loading zone i think the sidewalk itself to the frontage of the plaza is 10 to 12 foot max so based off the regulation that entire area by the plaza will become a no vending zone just by name nature of the requirements. >> lastly, when do you think the permit will go live? >> they wnt to june and 30 day period. >> this was legislation passed by the board and we created regulation. for the

regulations we had to look at the state law that has things that probably would have been regulated had they not been prohibited by state law, meaning we can only do safety, health and public welfare which is not explicitly defined in state law but there is not accessory regulations so we have to view first through the prism and took the preexisting vending laws because we have stationary mff and we basically applied a lot of clearances for that. most things are also consistent with commercial permits like shared spaces, (inaudible) when i say most things i mean the clearances, what we are asking for. also pretty straight forward. who are you, where are you going to be. a little information if you request a fee waver. qualifications. we develop the regulations, we kick it back to the board. the board has to adopt this prior to

september or else-walk back when we say approve the board can disapprove these regulations, so i don't necessarily know-there may be limitations on the considerations of this matter which is to say we created these regulations, consistent with state and local codes that dictate the programs. if they disapprove it would get kicked baback and prolong. i have bing working parallel with digital service team we have been working parallel to launch the portal so coming to sidewalk near you this fall would be my answer. september has to be approved by hoping the portal is pretty much ready to launch after. we are also doing testing on the permit system so mikes team out in the field with the tablets it talk to the 311 system and it talks to the permitting system and someone looks up information there is consistency throughout and it

is not a mystery if somebody needs info or stats so we are coordinating that behind the scenes as we wait for board adoptions. we are not running like a relay. we are chewing gum and skipping right now. >> thank you gentleman and are thank you for your patience and your diligence in answering my laundry list of questions. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner huie. >> thank you very much for your preezentation. this might be a basic question. street vending is not allowed in front of brick and mortar existing businesses, is that correct? >> there is no prohibition based on location accept for stationary vending in residential neighborhoods so no, there is not a prohibition on vending proximate

to brick and mortar. state bill 946 dictates very explicitly what locality can regulate and a item in the state bill is a provision that says perceived economic (inaudible) which is a reason why you don't see that in the program. >> what happens if i'm a brick and mortar business and i'm pretty much also responsible for my sidewalk and i have a street vendor who is now vending permanently permitted in front of my business. >> when someone submits request for stationary location we will ask for more information, who, what, when, where, why to insure there is appropriate ada clearances and access in the public right of way.

we will want to know what the dimensions are and setting up. >> sorry to interrupt, just for the sake of time. i understand the ada needs for the sidewalk access, but generally like as a business owner i am responsible for the space in front of my shop to the street, so i'm--and as a paying leaser or whatever-paying rent in my space and someone is vending in front of my isspa, i feel like is there no mechanism to deal with that conflict?

>> what metrix would you gather during the course of the program to evaluate the success of the program and that in turn would be asking what would you consider success for this program? >> i know that the legislation asks for report-outs and most of the information that is requested is pretty generic which is essentially how many folks have applied applicants were approved. we monitor review times and turn around in the permitting system

and stats. because we are-because there is eligible and fee wavers in the program i imagine programs to track stats. how many folks apply, were they approved total waver, partial waver. so far as defining success, i wouldn't assign a metric. there hasn't been suggested metrix. what we are seeking for my team to be compliant in the public right of way there isn't obstruction and folks vending have permits they are able to display. that seem successful on the permitting end making it (inaudible) functional and boring in a puz positive way. i got a permit and is a friend and they got a permit and so on. it isn't that hard to get a permit. the rules are articulate said ed in the manner easy to follow. if we can get there the program would be successful. >> i can definitely

tell from the presentation that i think the program itself is very much focused on the regulation and compliance of the program but as a small business commissioner, my perspective is really that of how does this help the vendors who are right now looking at the pictures of the vendors in the mission. these are vendors building legitimate business and livelihood so how do we help support that through the program that is impactful to their lives as well as how will this shape neighborhood corridors because we have vending permitted in more areas or areas we never thought of before, we have consistently spoken unin10eded consequence and if we think about the vendor program without thinking of the larger

ramifications this is again another step we will be taking in the same direction that we have been going in, dh is not really seeing what the larger outcome might look like so think there are metrix we can look at to see econom any if this is a positive program fwr us, because it could be and not just relying on this as a regulatory or compliance driven program. i guess my question is not so much meant to be answered right now, it is really putting it out there. i don't know who is going to answer it. i love to have a meeting next year and be able to talk about the program and say look, now in the mission district we do have designated areas where there is vibrant street vending where people are growing businesses of all scale, and there is opportunity for new and thriving

visitors as well as people in our neighborhoods. so, to me that is the outcome i would like to see. and again, i ask who can help make that happen. >> thank you for your presentation. i'm here--i wanted to follow up on commissioner huie comments because this started as a tension between brick and mortar and think our commission sees things as a eco

system so we want to build in that way and follow-up questions is there planned outreach to brick and mortar and muchant associations around how they can participate in guiding vendors in their area and maybe there's potential for shared -collaboration. i know a lot of brick and mortar in the sector that i work in are not applying for table and chair permit or display produce permits because they just dont have the capacity to maintain that element of business buts they really love to so like, is there any potential of a vendor being hosted by a small business to be that produce outside of their business and is there a way we can help guide that sim bioses

opposed to making inherent tension where businesses moit not be aware that there is a legalization and they end up calling the police or making some other complaint that throws off the compliance process in general? that was my question, how can we help support brick and mortar who maybe have relationships with vendors or potentially have relationship with vendor that support each of their businesses and in that my question was, if at any-is there any permitting that currently allows where a brick and mortar says they're allowed here. they are vending at my--does that mean that streetveneder then doesn't need any permits? that was the question i wanted to leave you can. thank you.

>> i can speak to some of this hopefully. so, we have been partnering with economic development, which has been per the legislation a requirement and also something that is a good partnership we have been developing. we have been working on shared spaces and other programs so this just deepens that working relationship. economic development, very helpful with outreach to that extent so topically this is something we can introduce to their conversation we are having with them, and just a follow up to the follow up. so far as subhosting we don't have to-temporary occupancy permits and free murch chbt give away permits which allow folks to pop up and we had folks that utilize the permits in conjunction with brick and mortar but we do not have a preexisting permit. one of the challenges we have and this came up with shares spaces about pop and use and

cohosting is liability in permitting and if there is a incident at an event, the granulearity of who is responsible. (inaudible)

>> going back to the contention between the brick and mortar and vendors. i think through this program, the

vendors and mobile vendors who want to become legitimate and feeling-on the road to entrepreneurship and engage and want to do it the right way, i feel them and brick and mortar are feeling undermined not operating legally or legitimately so o thinning the heard and getting rid of bad actors it will create a better environment for the more legitimate businesses to pursue a permit, secure spaces. also, in terms of data tracking and project evaluations, those are things we floated up to the mayor office to determine whether there is something they want us to track more so then the number of complaints received. the average days

within which we responded to complaint and how quickly they were resolved. that sort of thing, so it is still being developed for metrix and tracking, but we appreciate the suggestions and dont know if it necessarily public works we are happy to track the data, record it and when we do inspections, but some of the policy makers and those on the forefront of the legislation we look to them what they are looking for data tracks and reporting out and are if the information you are interested in and aligns with what you are looking for we can track it but we are still in the getting up and running mode. >> great thank you. three quick questions. how

would somebody make a street vendor set up and they were set up obviously inappropriately or not displaying a permit. how would they make a complaint 311 or other alternate methods? >> 311 is always the best option. we have request pending where we are creating new categories of complaints that are specific to vendor related issues. and then we are working out internal policies to track (inaudible) in a timely manner as well. 311 is always a good reference because then you have a tracking number that you can use to get updates and follow the issue from inception to conclusion. >> next question. all is 8 feet of clearance

required on either side of the mobile vendor, correct? >> is there a legislation in the width of the vendor that they are allowed to have? >> i did not see anything. greg- >> there is no regulation but one of the requirements is that it has to be a movable facility you are vending from. something that in the event we got a call, fire is pulling up and need the ladder and they can be easily moved. so if you toll me you are takeic up a gigantic place it is challengeic to move that. there is regulations that santa cruz implemented for exact dimensions and again

when folks submit their stationary vending application we are asking them for the dimensions. what they submitted to us was so large that-stationary vendors have to be able to remove. short enough to movep. >> that seems i guess a bit ambiguous. to the extent that the rule making is still crafted. you may i guess-it sounds like you have looked what santa cruz suggested. i don't want to be overly prescriptive but thinking about the typical store front, 20 feet, 24 feet wide so if somebody had 4 feet 5 feet in the middle and 8 feet

of clearance on either side you could have one vendor and that leads to the next question, is there anything that prohibit a brick and mortar vendor from getting a street permit? >> if there was art vendors who are two own the same business frontage maybe you would run into conflict with 8 foot rule. and if a business wants to occupy their frontage, i know they have the traditional display merchandise permit which allow for pretty much the same thing, display and selling of goods on the sidewalk so that is one way to occupy the space and also limit the amount of useable space that is

available to others, so if (inaudible) path of travel is required still and you put a 2 foot display merchandise, preta preta -i don't think there are too many mobile (inaudible) layered on and applied. but i don't know what the utility would be of getting the mobile permit if you have display murchen dize in one location but if you a ice cream shop and invest in a cart i imagine a business is able to pull multiple permits to to account for the full scope of operations. >> it isn't in scope and context but thirng it is interesting to look at the cost of the various permits

and it makes me wonder whether brick and mortar are potentially-either paying more potentially having a opportunity for easier path to have access to in front of their store front, but it is not in the scope, it more just general curiosity now. with that, that is for my questions. director tang you had a couple questions. >> thank you. i'll try to bubble this down to just a few here. this might sound like a simple question but i want to confirm with dpw you will have available your application and outreach materials in different languages. roilth now the office assist many entrepreneur with the various programs in existence and lot of the materials are not available in the languages for the communities we are trying to serve so i want to confirm that first of all. >> this is gregory

slokem. confirm (inaudible) digital service they have a great translation team in the course of creating the application, they will be able to do translation for the application. the outreach materials for the commercial team we translated in 3 languages english spanish and chinese for cafe tables (inaudible) as we produce the materials we seek to roll out accordingly. per the legislation leveraging the utility of the local non profit of economic development is hopefully we get engagement and complinesh and makes the sense to make this the most successful program. >> okay, great. because right now there are materials we are struggling. secondly, there was exchange about street artest that i think got

confused by. that program is still remaining independent of the street vendor program because the way it was talked about earlier it sounded it would be rolled into it so i want to confirm the street artist program is different. >> great clarifying question. the street artist program is going to be absorbed by this program, however the regulation for proximity among vendor we took from the street vendor program and why it was mentioned today the 8 feet clearance. one thing we try to do is use the preexisting standards and there are clearance (inaudible) the way this program is created, anyone with participate with merchandise, art, dry goods as long as they have the ability to sell or proof of ownership. >> thank you. i will stop here for interest of time. >> thank you. commissioner huie. >> just one follow-up

question to that. f if somebody is vending and got permit then they do need the street vendor permit or do not need the street vendor permit? >> they do not need the street vendor permit if they are permitted on (inaudible) and if i have a street vendor permit it does not enable me to vend at (inaudible) if that makes sense or is clear. >> that makes sense. i wnder about people invited to vend, they wouldn't need to get this in addition. >> that is correct i believe. >> okay, great. thank you so much. >> okay, gentleman thank you so much for answering all the questions. we don't see any other questions from the commissioners, so we will check with public comment now. >> if anybody has public comment s in person you can come up to the mic. looks like

we have no callers on the line. >> okay. i don't see anything, so public comment is closed. gentleman, you mentioned this is coming soon to a block near you this fall. i think i can speak for a lot of the small business community that we do not want to see this particular project get delayed to next spring so whatever we can do to help or facilitate this project moving forward, please feel free to reach out to us and we thank you very much for your time and all our questions, but this is is a program of intense interest as i'm sure you can tell and we appreciate all the work you are doing for it for the city so thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next item, please. >> item 4, shared spaces program update. this is discussion item.

(inaudible) including granth opportunities outreach and program timelines. presenting today is robin (inaudible) >> thank you. commissioners, good evening. (inaudible) san francisco shared spaces program joined by deputy program manager monica (inaudible) and lieutenant si from san francisco fire department. fire marshal ken costlen could not be here this evening and staff from other departments are here to answer questions. just wanted to salute our colleagues street use of mapping dpw presented. they are a huge part of making shared spaces the success it and as evidenced by the last

item they are dealing with a lot of regulatory implementation issues so shout of gratitude to friend gregory mike and nico. i will hand it off to monica (inaudible) and will be back to talk about content in the presentation. >> great. >> great. good evening commissioners, can you hear me okay? >> hi. i will kick us off--sorry about that. so, i will cover at first a bit about social media and promotion and marketing and robin will get into more specifics equity grants program and i'll talk about regulations and some in effect now and the timeline of what is next to come.

so, our heroes program if you haven't heard of this is encourage you to follow on social media, a great way to spot light diverse business owners across the city. that information is on the side if you have and like to nominate we are always looking for new folks. also, wanted to have a call out for our social media shared spaces of the week. this is a opportunity to highlight the various users from restaurants to retail to community organizations on the street and parklet sidewalks on public lots or various activation of shared spaces so a wonderful way to highlight this and all the great work in our community. so, sort of that kind of sets the tone of who are the small businesses trying to highlight online through a survey that we did last year you all know this probably better then anyone but

(inaudible) they are 86 percent overwhelmingly depend on residents and 69 percent depend on neighborhood specifically, so in 65 percent have 25 or fewer employees so this demonstrates how vulnerable our small businesses are in san francisco and how vital for a program like shared spaces to support these who are really reliant on their community. another survey and ongoing survey to look more into who are the operators themselves, about 51 percent are women owned. about 34 percent immigrant owned and 39 minority owned so a great way. we are collecting the data all the time to get a picture of the diversity of operators within shared spaces. and just to show talk about who

the operators are and are just general framework what shared spaces are, they are anything on the sidewalk, the curblane, the roadway and on parcels and they could be non commercial activities mostly illustrated (inaudible) personal triangle, turk street safe passage and showing different types of commercial shared spaced on the sidewalk curblane, (inaudible) represent a host of activities to activate the public realm. now kick it back over to robening robin to talk about grants. >> thank you monica. i will discuss upcoming grant opportunities available through the shared spaces program and economic and work force development. there are a suite of assistance programs in place

now that can help shared space operators deal with existing compliance issues, which we'll talk about more in detail later. make sure to gain ada compatibility and access and also get design support and technical support. for any of your constituents out there watching this presentation, please avail of the resources that are shown here on the slide. sf.gov/sf/shines or sf.gov/shared/spaces/eq uity. we just rond 2 of compliance grants for shared spaces. primarily targeted at small businesses operating parklets. these are some of the most complex sites to design appropriately and also make sure our accessible as well as safe. we will be opening another round, rond 3 later this summer targeted at the particular operators

focused on bringing sites into ada and fire safety compliance. these will cover things like capital expenses and soft cost may be associated with design but a lot of materials that would be needed to make appropriate modifications to sites. this is part of a large and sort of diverse array of assistance the program inception has tried to make available to the various different shared space sponsors monica had shown earlier in the slide grid. thanks in large part to mayor breed adding another $1.4 million in the upcoming fiscal year budget earmarked for shared spaces we are able to expand all the areas more. round 3 specific to parklets are announced later the summer and also working with the arts commission and entertainment commission on a grant program that is specific to supporting our arts

and entertain eco system. performance and others finding difficulty places to perform and deliver their magic to communities, shared spaces is perfect venue for partnership working with artists and performers. also working with partner live (inaudible) office of economic and work force development. this will help larger group operated and public interest minded orientsed shared spaces like the larger roadway closure or the parking lot closures like we have seen at the lilack lot on 24 street or the community hub operated by the

castro lgbgtq. all technical assistance go to helping the community serving activations in the coming year. the pdf we provided to the commission for posting on the website is now fully translated so just cycling through a couple slides. same content but in english and chinese. just a little more detail about the grants i talked about, upcoming cycle 4 and 5 arts and culture activation grants and technical assistance grants. these are targeted at folks who of course have a shared spaces permit. in the case of wanting to do amplified sound or provide other entertainment they also have corresponding appropriate permits from the entertainment commission for example the (inaudible) our team is here also in partnership with the

entertainment commission to get the permit to leverage this grant opportunity. we are also very interested in making sure activations are reoccurring and they are regular part for maybe a season if not longer of activities at that site so trying not to fund one time events but neighborhood appropriate activations that add the extralayer to the shared spaces. we are also focused on making sure that the funding ends up in the hands and pockets of local bay artist and musicians so not grants to bring in folks all over the state to focus on the local arts entertainment eco system and folks who work in those industries. i talked about the technical assistance grants. these are services we provides through the non profit

partners to do things like help communities do scoping and community outreach to come up with a activation plan. putting together safety and ambassador plans. it is also important we found with the roadway for intersections to be sponsored by ambassadors. folks who may need to drive to a closed porz portion of the street are escorted. they may need to access a residential driveway on the block and assist with emergency response vehicles as they might need to enter the closed area in order to service the call. we also want to acknowledge-continually acknowledge there is a lot of need out there. we are still in a pandemic and our small business community and others are still reeling from the effect of that and

that economic hardship will continue to linger. there is no getting away from the fact it is hard and will continue to be hard for our small business sector. we are also very transparent the funding is limited. we had generous allocations from mayor breed as well as different members of the board of supervisors in add hadf backs over the couple years we can never pay for everything everyone needs to be compliant. our team has adopted certain metrix that help guide our selection of awardees. we are looking at geography that have been disadvantages, areas of vulnerability. this is developed by department of public health we used in housing implementation. these are looking at geography with high population of vulnerable folks whether youth,

senior, higher proportion of immigrants to the city. also looks at hardest hit by covid-19 so the highest fatalities, the highest number of insdants occurred. putting the two together helps us see where we focus funding. everybody neighborhood gets a grant, every supervisor district gets a grant. it is where we think where to concentrate we want to work with communities historically disadvantaged. again, the same content but in spanish and chinese. i wont belabor too much, but the grants program is very active as you saw from the previous timeline over a year and a half now. monica reported on folks accessing the shared spaces permit and benefiting so i think we are proud of the metrix we have in terms of participation as well as who we have been able to direct additional

funding towards. i will hand it over to monica in a second, but i also want to mention i meant to put a slide or 2 in here but for h forgotten but this is accompanied by a very robust communication and strategy-communication marketing and public education strategy (inaudible) and the mission merchants association coorganized a sidewalk merchant walk in collaboration with small business. director tang was there with us walking the corridor with experts from different city departmentss, meeting with merchants and getting some quality face time with folks trying to figure how they can change their shared spaces, modify before march 2023 to make compliant with ada and safety regulations in particular. we are deeply

grateful to mission merchants association and (inaudible) we will be doing similar walks in other neighborhoods. we did one in the bay view so looking for the commission to help market that and feedback you might have about corridors we want to have in-person interaction with. so, that concludes my portion of the presentation and will hand it back to monica to talk about compliance and then be back up for questions. >> thanks for bearing can us. so, right robin just (inaudible) i want to talk with how folks may be using those resources, what they are addressing with the parklets. on the slide we are highlighting the 3 key areas that are enforceable now high priority called out in the legislation that cannot wait to the permit program next year but can be enforceable now while we are still operating the pandemic program

and that is areas aroungd accessibility, emergency access and sight line at intersection. to talk about what that looks like in more detail, this slide has a bunch of images but that is more of what we mean when we talk about the 3 areas enforceable now. the top left shows the clear path of travel we require a minimum of 6 feet. 8 feet where possible on the sidewalk between tables and chairs. there is a required 3 foot access gap for every 20feet of parklet. a really important one to insure emergency responders can access sidewalk, view a building and the case of emergency and not be impeded and that clear path of travel as well as the clear sight line shown on the top right. some really low hanging fruit but important things for

visibility like reflectors, addresses on the outside of parklets. propane at least 5 feet away from a flammable source and then that bottom right is is a quick image what we mean by visibility at cross walks so like to see 20 feet near side entry of intersection, 8 feet on far side so looking at all these things now and enforcing because they have pretty serious safety and public health issues. that is not the only requirement the program has. pretty robust and comprehensive manual i encourage reading online but has great images and diagrams what would be required for the permit program next year and best practice for parklets not just waiting to next year, but all that is demonstrated and highlighted in that

wonderful manual but just wanted to cover what is in particular we are enforcing. this is a wonderful new resource many months ing the making across departments so that a business receiving compliant notice a business with a parklet that wants to continue into the permit program they receive something that has information from public works, fire department, mta, all the jurisdiction in one place and site the appropriate place in the manual page to reference so this had a lot of back end-all the departments have different it and software and crazy systems but this is bringing all that together to have the benefit and better communicate to sponsors and businesses, so something that we can have when we do inspection visit, something we can send

to businesses asking wndering what is up with my site if i want to continue in the program what do i need to fix, this is wonderful resource moving forward. just quickly on timeline, there is a lot on this slide, but the key things to highlight on the top there obviously we are still issuing pandemic permits, they are still in effect until next spring. people can apply now for their permanent program if they are ready to go in the mean time agencies are doing inspection visits for the high priority things i called out issuing bills of health and going through the ladders of escalation if needed. a big year ahead as we transition and stabilize to the permanent program. and with that, that concludes our presentation. thank you so much commissioners. we are here to answer any questions. >> great. thank you very much appreciate you and your everybody else making

time for us to give an update on the critical program that has been a literal life hp line to the small business community. commissioner ortez. >> thank you both for the presentation and are thank you both, particularly you two because you have been amazing throughout this program. i mean, this program didn't exist and overnight you had to put it together and deal with all the agencies, all us in the community and you always responded, you always got back and had patience and just appreciate because it made this program the success it and lifeline we needed during the pandemic so thank you both. appreciate you. the data is awesome. i love data and i love this data and that you are using the data to apportion resources to the most effected in our community so thank you again for your efforts. >> thank you. along

the same lines, i wanted to commend providing multiple translations in the presentation packet. i don't know i have seen that before come before the commission, so that's really thoughtful and shows your commitment to equity and supporting everybody in the city and entire small business community and something this commission advocated for at every step and turn so absolutely wnderful to see this in the presentation document as well. i also wanted to echo, amplify what commissioner ortez said about the diversity of who is being served by the parklet program. just off memory i remember see half were women, little more then a third i

think were minorities. that also matched up i wanted to add roughly, we will double check with the survey that this commission did, small business community and seems to be yet another data point indicated how diverse the small business community is in san francisco and can again, how crittle and important it is to protect this community and make sure that it has opportunities to thrive and succeed while making the city vibrant and with beautiful, which by in large i think the parklet program has been incredible at. also, i as a former professional musician love love to see the emphasis on arts and culture. we are are seeing that in multiple different aspects of city policy. i think that will be really critical getting people

to visit downtown again, to helping our economy recover, so that stuff is also very much appreciated. also want to thank you. i know this is starting to sond like a little bit over the top without complementary we are, but i know how vigiously you have advocated for grant programs to help some of these smaller micro-businesses hang on to parklets, rebuild them, comply with the new regulations which are certainly a big change in many businesses. wndered whether or not they are able to continue with the program or continue with the business themselves, but to the extent that we have been able to get grants to help them with that, i agree with the very thoughtful manner in which you have tried to triage which businesses should be

prioritized with respect to communities that are historically disadvantaged or vulnerable. i thought it was helpful how you wnt with about that. couple quick questions, one, the bill of health, is that something that is available now and if not, do we have an eta? >> yes, it is available now. there were some technical issues we continue to work through, but and i understand it is fresh off the press we are (inaudible) providing them. >> would it be bad if i volunteered you for doing this for all of small businesses issues? [laughter] >> providing to all- >> are all permits, everything recollect all of it. >> (inaudible) our scope. we dont get paid enough for that. >> would it be bad if i expanded your scope a

little bit? no--it is very welcome, it is refreshing, it is nice to not have to check 10 billion different websites or documents or look through mail or e-mail. it is really just remarkable to have it all in one place, laid out cleanly. again, excellent job. casual curious question, is that bill of health available to the public? >> robin-it is not available to the public at this time. our team is working through of course how to make all data transparent and available not only to help individual businesses but anyone who wants to know the true scope and magnitude of the complexity we are dealing with. we are contemplating in addition to handing-snding each business their own custom bill of health, creating a portal for businesses to go and

print one themselves so that takes some technical roll-out. what i can share with the commission in which the commission and anyone can access is the tracker at sf.gov/shared-spaces-tr acker. that is realtime map of all the shared spaces permits in the city. you can click on each location, it gives basic details about the data permit issue and if there are any 311 cases or investigations that are open investigations don't mean there is fault just means somebody reported there might be a problem. those are also accessible via the shared spaces tracker. so, that doesn't represent the universe of issues for each site, but if folks are curious it does help again provide transparency and access into the complex data set. >> and then robin while i got

you, one last question with regards to accessibility fire safety and sight line violations, who is administering that is that dpw? >> for parklets public works is the lead agency so we just heard from mike lennon who said the head of that function the department of street use mapping but it is very much in close coordination with what we call the sort of compliance task force and this is a task force a little t not capital comprised of mta, staff from the fire department and public works. so, it is our goal any time we have interaction with a small business owner that they get 360 information that they have access to all of the technical expertise that they might need to have their questions answered so the single bill of health you saw on screen has contact information for each person in the department who is handling

their case so trying to close the loops and make sure folks have present (inaudible) they are not visiting a million web sites or calling a million phone numbers, we are trying to centralize the way we provide that support. >> for the public, when they see again for local business and the public, when they see what appears to be a safety issue you recommend they call 311? >> yes, please. that is the number one way for both this program as well as the last program that was before you in the previous agenda item for us to have a public record of what we suspect might be issue that triggers a procedure of routing the inquiry to the appropriate department to come out and investigate. if there is a issue then we can follow up with the appropriate measure whether that's conversation or citation. each department is required to respond in a specific way depending on the issue so 311 remains the best

way for folks out there to let us know if they have a concern with a particular site. >> one last question for me-sorry. with respect to in-bound 311 complaints or issues, do you feel you're sufficiently staffed or resourced to address complaints in a reasonably timely manner? how do you feel with respect to your stance with resources available to you? >> i mean, i think you know, it is evident how large the program-how popular the program is. before covid we had 60 packlets in streets and now clocking over 1200, so the populearity and volume is immense and that comes with strain on resources and capacity we do have, so we do our best to respond

especially as the most urgent safety concerns first. that is always the first principal for our team in terms of treauging who we respond to (inaudible) we try to get to everyone with quality information but remains a ongoing challenge and the same is true for many other pandemic programs the city spun up over night. >> thank you. >> thank you robin and monica, we really appreciate you being here and i know it is said but you are setting a precedent for the fluid type of government we need to respond to the workforce needs and economic needs of the time so thank you for setting the precedent for other departments.

and wanted to ask two questions. one, do you have data on retail verse sit down parklets? i would love to see even if there is is a more detailed breakdown of what type of retail. we discussed you know, public space being for everyone as a big thing on our commission too and during the pandemic we did see disproportionate enforcement on people hanging out in front of certain businesses whereas other businesses were not that loitering want criminalized it was legalized so i love to see if there is you know, a breakdown of retail or neighborhood serving businesses we truationally haven't seeng parklets in front of if that data is available and secondly, i know that we transitioned the drop off pickup zone

permitting. can you remind where that stands now, if there is also feedback you have gotten as you have gotten rid of that certain type of drop off pickup zone if that is a particular interest still of retail for businesses or if it's everybody moving with the new scheme you have for that type of utility if you could speak to that. thank you. >> yes, thank you vice president. i can take the first question and i think monica can take the second question regarding the what we call general loading zones. we don't have any authoritative statistics of business or sponsor types so we should do analysis around that. my insinkt tells me without looking at the numbers at present majority of curb side parklet operators are

food service establishments so cafe or restaurant. a minority or retail and other neighborhood small business so we do want to encourage broader usership. the parklet can do so many more things then just a place to eat. pre-covid we did see a lot of interesting sponsors come forward, arts institution, youth development organizations, even middle and high schools to create parklets and those are meaningful community projects and there is still space for the experimentation and rel evance in the parklet program. we can take a look at that and get back to the commission in terms of stats but yes, the overwhelming number of at least parklet shared space s are food operation. monica showed a chart of the other type of shared spaces so they can happen on vacant parking lots

or predevelopment parcels involve closing down the street for certain number of days and hours over the week on reoccurring basis. there is lot more diversity with the roadway and private lot shared spaces in terms who is operating them. typically these are group or jointly operated sites. often times they are operated by say a community benefit district or cultural district, so the technical assistants grants opening up later this year focus on those type of shared spaces because the broader public impact we see beyond folks coming to dine or the business that happens to be sponsoring the parklet. i can pause if you have follow-up or hand to monica to address the question about general loading zone. >> i was just specifically referring to like corner stores

and delis that maybe are not truationally thinking they have the opportunity for a space like that but have been criminalized in the past years with laws not allowing people to gather outside their space. how can we kind of as a equity measure make sure that those type of retail establishments that do have people hanging out outside have the opportunity to not be criminalized doing that and have the opportunity to be like hey, you can actually have the opportunity to have a parklet, whereas they may not know that is even available to them. so, that's particularly the sector i was thinking about, neighborhoods where people hang out but not a formalized way is the demo graphic i was interested to see if you have retail parklets in that sector, but that was the only clarification

there. happy to have you answer the rest. >> maybe offering a couple things before we address the general loading zone question. we have seen incredible successes during the current pandemic phase of the program with more then one business operating a parklet site and so one of my favorite examples i like to talk about is there is like the neighborhood bar and then there is the pet food store next door and so during the day time the pet food store had puppy play time and doing retail and activities in the parklet and at night time the neighbors take over and set up tables and chairs and folks come out and have a drink. inconclusive how we can better incentivize those kind of cooperative parklets. it is great to brainstorm with the commission on this and with director tang and director (inaudible) staff. it is is a little harder as gregory mentioned earlier when he was

presenting on the vendor regulation scheme. there are issues of who holds liability. currently our code framework doesn't allow more then one person or entity to share liability, so but if there could be agreement between neighbors and operators to do that i think we can also see good layering of activation of a site through more of the day and week versus just at peak time for that particular business. so, and then i also just want to acknowledge what you called out in terms of maybe certain businesses not knowing this is is a opportunity for them. also maybe facing perception or social realties about how their clientele might be treated is something we should somehow think more about. there is no immediate solution that come to meend but it is realty. >> your question about value asset general loading zone and pickup zone. the reasoning pickup zones lumped into the

shared spaces is the city didn't have a mechanism to permit that type of use that high turn over use. we have green zones. my agency (inaudible) 15 minutes that is like for an hour. that isn't high turn over, so pickup zones transitioned into what was legislated as general loading zones so didn't go away just became a tool box of color curb zones. previously hung a hat on the (inaudible) when we wnt through legislation we established the new category so it is now operated like a white zone green zone yellow zone. now there is a general loading zone typology so it goes through the permitting and application fee process so segmented out of the shared spaces umbrella but it is still around. you asked about feedback. i think it is still widely used. i don't think we saw a one for one, everyone with a pickup zone transition over once it was a fee

or maybe just not needed like it was at the height of the pandemic but it is still around and operating well today. >> thank you. can i ask a quick follow up since this may-maybe you can e-mail us later but this. i feel mta is still collecting data around curb usage. >> yes. >> i think that is of interest in the conversation too just because we track supply chain stuff and deliveries and supply chain have slowed down a lot for businesses and i'm just curious if there is data that might help us in that process that shared spaces and mta might be collecting too. >> sure. yes, we have-(inaudible) i'm glad you further clarified. we did collect general loading zone data collection and are continuing more this summer as part of the transition into-to understand the usage

and use needs so we have not every pickup zone, but we have data and happy to share on general loading zones and curb management, yes my agency has gone out and walked every commercial corridor to collect information where the parklets are and intersection and are color cub zones when they are in bus zones, the various condition for every block of san francisco and commercial district, so different type of data collection, but we have a lot of data and if you have a specific question i would be happy to share off-line. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. seeing no other commissioner comments, is there any public comment? >> there is none. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. robin, monica, sfd staff, ben, everyone

online, thank you so very very much for all your fantastic work. appreciate this update. sounds like we are making great progress. i believe this is the first permanent parklet program in the use, am i right about that or did somebody beat us to the punch? >> commissioner we were the first in 2016 to pass a place making ordinance for places for people which establish the framework for parklet so continue to lead. >> continue to lead, so it is very cool and then this is what success looks like, a lot of hard work and iteration and figuring what the problems are and working them out one by one so thank you very much. alright. next item, please. >> item 5, office of small business budget update. this is discussion item. the commission will hear discuss

update on the 2022-23 office of small business budget and presenting today we have director katie tang office of small business and (inaudible) >> i like to formally welcome director (inaudible) of the office of economic and work force development to the commission. i wanted to welcome you when you walked in, but--couple hours later here we are. >> thank you commissioners. this is second part follow up to the initial budget update i presented. since then quite a lot changed and i have to thank director (inaudible) just as reminder our budget is part of oewd budget. she had quite a lovely time in the budget committee hearings. probably got the most questions asked out of all department heads so in the name of economic recovery and all the work together, just want to

appreciate her and thank her for fighter for all the resources we collectively need to get the city back on track. with that said i thought i would have her here today to go over what she is able to secure for the fiscal year. >> great. so, with permission, kelly if you wouldn't mind advancing-carrie. been a long day. >> the presentation is also under tab 5 in the binders. >> i will go through it quickly. this is the same presentation we used at the first budget hearing and then really try to open up to questions at the end. so, starting with our vision it is our shared vision of course across oewd, which as director tang well explained is

inclusive of office of small business to build a thriving resilient economy where prosperity is shared equitably by all and equity is a key theme to this year's budget. a lot of questions we had are really trying to work out how we balance our continued need to invest in our neighborhoods (inaudible) small business while at the same time recognize the economy of a major u.s. city is interwoven and we needs to pay attention to a part of the city i think many took advantage and that is economic core downtown so a incredibly fascinating moment in time to walk and chew gum at the same time and we need to continue to sustain recovery efforts to small business and individuals who lost

their jobs or who had health issues or in many cases both that economic recovery starts with the recovery of individual families and businesses we are not done yet with the pandemic, so i think a lot really has gone into some of the vibrant discussions we had at budget this year. next one. 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. [meeting adjourned]

dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying

attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still

a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft, and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments

where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming.

at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech

companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and

twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our

digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer? and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him.

through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> my name is sylvia and i'm the owner of the mexican bistro. we have been in business for 18 years and we first opened on garry street in san francisco, and now we are located in a beautiful historic building. and we are part of the historical building founded in 1776. at the same time as the mission delores in san francisco. (♪♪) our specialty food is food from central mexico. it's a high-end mexican food based on quality and fresh ingredients. we have an amazing chef from yucatán and we specialize on molotov, that are made with pumpkin seeds.

and we're also known for handmade tortillas and we make our own fresh salsa. and we have cocktails, and we have many in the bar. we have specialty drinks and they are very flavorrable and very authentic. some of them are spicy, some are sour, but, again, we offer high-quality ingredients on our drinks as well. (♪♪) we have been in san francisco for 27 years, and our hearts are here. we are from mexico, but after 27 years, we feel part of the community of san francisco. it is very important for us to be the change, the positive change that is happening in san francisco. the presidio in particular, they're doing great efforts to

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the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of july 19, 2022.