welcome to the small business commission meeting on september 12, 20 twoochl the meet suggest called to order at 4:43 p.m. held in person in city all room 400 and broadcast live on sfgovtv and available to view online or listened by calling 415-554-0001 as authorized by 5493e and the february 2020 emergency proclamation it possible that some members of mall business commission may attend remote. they will participate and vote by video.

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roll call. >> commissioner carter is absent >> commissioner dickerson. >> front. >> commissioner herbert. >> community everpresent german commissioner huie. >> here. >> commissioner cartagena. >> here and we have a quorum. >> the san francisco small business commission and office of mall business staff acknowledges we are on then cest ral home land of the recommend ram the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as stursd of the land the ramaytush ohlone never lost nor forgot responsibilities as caretakers of the place and all people who is reside in the traditional territory. we recognize we benefit from living, working on their home land we wish to pay respects

acknowledging the ancestors of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their rights as first peoples. >> call item 2. >> approval of the legacy business registry applications. a discussion and action item. the commission will discuss and possible low take action to approve applications. presenting today we have richard kurylo with office of small business. >> welcome, richard. >> good afternoon. commissioners. staff and public. i'm richard kurylo program manager. i like to acknowledge michelle reasono who is helped with markets and communications for the office of small business. michelle was instrumental in reruing and process the legacy business registry applications before you today. >> sfgovtv i have a power point.

before you are 5 applications for the legacy business registry includes a staff report. draft resolution, application itself and a case report and resolution from planning. application submitted to planning on july 20 and heard by the historic preservation commission on august 17th. 2a is out post studios the business is inspect post production and recording studio in the embark defero opened in october of 96. out post studios provides affordable recording services for music, pod cast, tv and film. the only fully stage in san francisco the reproduction of every day sound affects are added to films, video and other modia production. jot business is known is

founders advanced audio technology working with larger well known videoed technology companies to refine new audio tools. >> although the accident is in the 30 years old is eligible for listing listing because it prit in the san front for more than 20 years. corrected history and identity of the city and if not included would face risk of displace am. out post lost lease in april of 2022 and moved around the block. the core feature tradition to remain on the business registry is recording studio. item 2b is piedmont boutique the business is a clothing store selling women and pen's clothing accessories and cost unanimous. opened in october of 1972. piedmont boutique carries

shirts, pants, skirts. jackets, jewelry, wigs, hats and costumes for any occasion attracting a diverse group of patrons from san francisco the bay area and beyond. its clothing and accessory are made up of products that are manufactured in the united states. and that are designed by the business itself. piedmont boutique has been the chosen out fitter of the gay men's chorus. san francisco opera, sisters of perpetual and the court of san francisco to name a few. >> a feature of the store front are the legs wearing fish nets and red high heels from a second story window above the store front installed in 1995. core tradition the business must maintain is clothing store.

>> item 2c is po plus. the business is a retail, shipping mail box rental and business services store opened in 1982. where custody yers subelement home offices noterize documents and buy gifts. >> one of the oldest lbgtq owned and operated businesses in the castro, they not only provide neighborhood services but crashes to the 7s community and belonging in the area. known as the gay post office, po plus received mail for 2,000 private mailbox customers. as work from home has been common, customers turned to their computers, fax minutes, scanners to conduct business. in years po plus expanded the gift offerings and card selections to compament the mail

and shipping services. po plus is an essential member of the castro and supporter of numerous communities serving organizations the feature tradition the business must maintain is postal store. item 2d is pop's bar. a local neighborhood bar in the mission found in the 1937. . sells crafted mixed drinks, liquors, beers and other merchandise. pop's bar served communities who lived around this area which includes under ground bar in the 30s. irish post world war bar in the 1940s and 50s. to the latino community in the present. the business has adapted to the community. pop's bar opens 6 a.m. to provide space people working grave yard jobs to decompress after a long shift. bar hosted weddings, memoryiam

services and other themed nights. additionally, pop's bar connects with local artists to create their online clothing store. during the pandemic had artisan designers design and create their out door seating area. the core featured tradition the business must maintain is, bar. item 2e is st. john cold train church the organization is regulars community and jazz organization found in the 1977 roots back to the in bay view hunter's point. john coltrain is patron saint of the church a hub of spiritual life crocker jazz history and advocate for justice. organization holds weekly meditation services on consciousness hosts a radio program and producesanual

concerts celebrating his birthday and ascension. the organization is committed to not only celebrating the revvingacy of john and jazz music in san francisco but supporting the local ecosystem of bay area musicians so jazz can thrive here. church is transitioning from fillmore to a new space in fortmason the feature the business must maintain is faith based organization. all 5 businesses met the criteria required for listing on the registry and all received positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. legacy business staff recommends adding them and drafted 5 resolutions for your consideration. a motion in support of the businesses should be framed a motion in favor of resolutions. >> thank you. this concludes our presentation

and happy to answer questions and there are business representatives in the room who would like to speak on behalf of the applications during comment and possibly some online as well. thank you. commissioners do we have comments or questions we can make comments after. >> yes. >> okay. people hit button its is not popping up. commissioner huie. >> got it. okay. >> good enough. is there public comment? go ahead. come on up >> commenters can come to the front. i am dave nelson owner of out post studios thank you very much. it is an honor and we know live nothing san francisco is a lot

of hard work and i really never expected or asked to be recognized for it but it is emotional i have to stay feel honored. also, i feel amazing that i'm with a church of john coltrain i was a guitar player and heard him play saxophone and i never played guitar again and switched to saxophone there is something about the moment that is not lost on me. so, thank you very much and i love being in san francisco and i think we are newscast best place on earth now. thank you. >> commissioners i'm michael cruise and i'm one of the partners pop's bar and call >> thank you. i'm one of a long line of custodians for the bar it has

been there since 1937. we are doing this for the next custodians down the line. any business whatever you are in that has been around for 85 years deserves another 85 to thrive and integrate in the community, which we tried to do. thank you this is something we need and appreciate and be proud of, thank you. we have one public commenter on the line. >> great. >> please, proceed. commenter, please, proceed. okay. commissioners do we have commissioners do we have

comment. commissioner cartagena. >> thank you president, congratulations to everyone here. thank you for coming out. pop's and the neighborhood bar born and raised. i actually you triggered a memory during the 89 earthquake i was play nothing front of the pop's bar i remember rung and i remember after the earthquake, pop's was like giving refreshments out to passengers that wandered off from 2124th street bar. i have other memories i will not speak on in public comment but that's just what that business has been. friends were part of stewards in the. what i'm saying is it is awe some to see a san francisco business and to demonstrate what community is. big, fun, disasters that's what san francisco is about. thank you.

>> not seeing comments. i will say, as a former musician i'm thrilled to see any kinds of business that can survive 30 plus years focusing on music and certainly recording studios these days and it is a very tough business to stay arc float in and sounds like you had challenges with rent and -- being able to sustain yourself. i'm happy to hear that you have been able to continue. and -- find a way to persevere and that is fantastic. and also speaking as a musician, john coltrain church is absolutely legendary.

you know we used to go there when too many years ago i don't want to talk about but -- back had it was on goth? was it? yea. yea. then it moveed divisidero. may be i'm getting the order mixed up but. just an incredible institution. so great to see that you guys are doing what you do. i love it so much. thank you. >> commissioners do we have a motion? motion. i move to approve all of them. >> i second it. motioned by commissioner cartagena i will read the roll. commissioner carter, commissioner dickerson. >> yes. >> commissioner herbert. >> yes. >> commissioner huie. >> yes. >> if the laguana. >> yes. >> commissioner cartagena.

yes. motion passes. congratulations. >> thank you. [applause] next item. item 3 first year free program update a discussion item. commission will hear an update on the first year free program from office of treasurer and tax collector we have arc upon amanda freed and hafiza salehbhai with office of tax collector. you have the floor. >> thank you. >> i will put up your slide.

good afternoon am everyone i helped manage the free program at the tarrant counties collector's office. >> we are excited share first year free data proposed changes to legislation and the next steps we move in the next phase of first year free. we are grateful for your partnership to make this seamless. the information breaks down the number of permits and fees waived by department.

and july 31st we had a total of 1, 173 first year free enrollments. waived over 377 thousand dollars in fees for over 1100 different types of permit and fees issued by various departments. 30% were businesses in the food industry. enrollment process will remain the same. we are making easy as possible. no extra paperwork or program this is they need to fill out. business opts in. after rej strering business or adding a new location they will get an e mail or letter explaining that they are part of the first year free program of for new businesses they will

enroll through the new business process and business existing businesses enroll through account update when they add a new location. troubleshoot issues experiencing. over all received positive feedback appreciating the program and small businesses. there were many businesses who qualified but did not get costs waved. this happened because the criteria was too limiting. we are very excited share that supervisor ronnin is sponsoring the legislative changes and expect it to be introduced tomorrow. here other changes we proposed to the board.

>> we have proposed amending the program waiving permits, license and business registration retroactive to december 21, 21 to extend the program through june 30 of 23. and increase the maximum gross receipts to questions of law foil for the tax and fee waiver to 5 million instead of 2 million. >> we know there has been confusion the definition of ground floor. like food trucks. we have proposed a change of definition of grounds floor extend to all commercial use locations. this would include food trucks, basements. farm are markets and more. >> here is the table to show projectedents reals and businesses based on gross receipts. we projected additional 1, 627 eligible businesses for first year through june 30 of 23 if we

just extended the time frame and did not change the gross receipt threshold or commends to all commercial locations if we increased the gross receipts to qualify 2 million to 5 million dollars and include those who started november first of 21 through june 30 of 22, the projected over 9 huh eligible businesses. >> question is, how will the proposed changes impact departments. well, for the most part verifies first year free applicants should remain the same of businesses will bring letter or e millennium to permitting agencies like dbi or d ph and say they were enrolled get fees waived on the spot. alternateively they can share business ash count number with staffs standpoint can look them up. the staff do not need to rely on

letter or e mail. because of changeers retroactive november 1 of 21 this will require manual work from staff. departments will also see an increase in refunds requests for businesses that will qualify under the proposed changes. most low for those that have gross receipts 2 to 5 million dollars and those that were not on ground floor. to rule out changes we mroon seth up meetings with departments to do refresh training and update on legislative changes. we will automate the process by identifying businesses that may be eligible based on gross receipts and reaching out to them. we will also update our website, share content and create flyers to let businesses no. >> want to make sure all small businesses owners and a

[inaudible] no other proposed changes and need your help to spread the word. >> we will have out reach materials available for to you distribute. the flyers and social modia content available by neighborhood to make it [inaudible] for different parts of the city. if you don't see your neighborhood or think we are missing, let us know. you can refer people to our website or have them call 311 for more information. >> thank you for your time rely on groups like the small business commission to provide feedback over how the program is work we are grateful for your help reach out and we are happy to take questions. >> next. >> commissioners. >> thank you over all the program on the ground in the

mission district huge success it has been easy in san francisco you know -- we make things difficult and this is not a great program. hi a technical question business asks me. so, say i have a band number and open an additional location. and say they do a build out with dbi, do they get the fee for that new location or not? does that qualify? if they are adding a new location? completely a new like number. >> and if they qualify and meet the criteria they should be able to. >> cool. >> thank you. i love this program and delighteded to work with supervisor ronnin. i guess my understanding is idea came out of conversations with the small business commission. i'm biassed toward is a good program temperature is a good

program. a great program. hai recall from the original presentations is that we were expecting the out liin year one. i think 5 million the original. ownership the number i will say in our upon report to the board we were surprised how little was spent under this program. part of that was there was not good information when we were creating this program that was what we worked together on was why is it hard to figure out how much small businesses are paying to open up a business. and we have seen a lot of insight and partners closely with the office of small business and permit center to understand are there businesses that should be qualifying that are not or are qualified but not getings costings waived. that is happening we are troubleshooting along the way.

but i guess the over all new system good if businesses are spending less than we thought on the costs and we are looking for other ways to provide relief yoochl it was meant as a critique. first, it is awe some we helped 1, 173 businesses. that is amazing. every one of the businesses are local economy needs and people need those jobs temperature is arc mazing that we saved the businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars. that is not an insignificant number. i'm pleased to see that the threshold is increase friday 2 to 3. and i'm 5. >> 5. i think the first slide said 3 but -- no it is going up to 5 million retroactively. i saw the 5 later. great. i love it is going up to 5 and love all businesses are included.

hopefully -- enable us to use a bit more of that money that has been put aside in the budget for facilitating small business growth. i was happy to see the out reach that is happening presumable low in multilanguage support. >> yea. >> okay. if there is anything we can do to help with that out reach and make sure the word gets out i know we will be in00 autobeginning stages of promoting a survey we are doing that communications around the survey can also talk about guide people to the amazing program encouraging people to start and open more businesses. looks like everything is working like we hope it would pan out. good news we have more to do

more for more businesses. we can expand on that going fared that is exciting. >> thank you. >> all right. thank you for coming in and giving the presentation to us. >> is there public comment on item 3 in there are no public commenters. it is closed. >> next item. >> item 4, board of supervisor's file 220 upon 877 administrative code. this is repeeve legacy business registry fees a discussion and action item. commission will discuss and may take action amending the administrative code to remove the >> reporter: to charge a legacy business registration fee. >> okay. >> director tanning are you

presenting this? >> and our staff returned but happy to share that when we were lookingal ways we could support small believeses andmented to start in house. one thing that we noticed is this businesses have to pay a 50 dollar fee to apply to be on the legacy business registry. so this think was included in the original ballot measure that voters passed. we learned that we were able to make this sxharj delete the spee fee through an ordinance at the board of supervisors. . today at the board of supervisor's rule's committee they pass today out unanimously to the full board. so i know it is out of order but given timing we were happy to see that and want to urge your support of this fee removal. >> thank you to staff who worked on this. >> great. >> commissioners, comments? i -- move to support the

administrative code repeal of the fee. >> i second that. >> motion by president laguana and seconded by herbert >> commissioner dickerson. >> yes. >> commissioner herbert. >> yes. >> commissioner huie. >> yes. >> president laguana. >> yes. >> commissioner cartagena. out. >> motion passes. >> great. >> next item. >> item 5 adoption of parental leave policy to commission rules of order a discussion and action item the discussion will discuss and possibly act to article 2 section 6 to include a parental leave policy. you can find the language

thatture adding in the by laws. >> you want to walk us through this came from the city attorney's office advising we include this language that allows members of the commission to take a parental leave of absence and have that not count toward their attendance. >> great. not very controversial. commissioners are there comments or questions? public comment? >> there is none. okay. commissioners do we have a motion? we have a question. a quick clarifying question. if somebody were to take a parental leave, does that like when it come to quorum and other things like the number of members count how does this work? they would i believe they would be absent and the commission

would make quorum without them. >> thank you. >> commissioners do we have a motion? i make a motion to adopt the proposed language for article 2 section 6 in the by laws. >> i second it. motion by commissioner huie seconded by commissioner [inaudible]. sorry i could not missed who seconded. >> laguana. gi will read commissioner carter abcents. commissioner dickerson. >> yes. >> commissioner herbert. >> yes. >> commissioner huie. >> yes. >> president laguana. >> yes. >> commissioner cartagena. >> yes. motion passes. >> great. next item. >> item 6 approval of draft meeting minutes a discussion and action item the commission will

discuss and possibly take action to approve the august 22nd, 22 commission meeting minutes. >> commissioners, i just want to note that staff informed me the draft included in this agenda is incomplete. so i will make a motion to continue it to next meeting. commissioner comments or questions? >> okay. >> public comment? welcome, sir. >> can you set the timer to 3 minutes. >> yes. >> sorry. hold on. >> terrific. hi. i'm michael patrellis. and i'm here to strategyly object to the draft minutes they don't reflect reality. for public comment, there is

just a list of names. there is absolutely nothing there about what we said. the content of our speech has been erased. that is unacceptable. as -- you know, there were many of us here to peek about the resolution regarding another planet. and their plans to ator the integrity of the castro theatre. i'm holding a sign that says safety seats. refers to the orchestra seats in this beautiful theater that another planet wants to rip out so they can flatten the orchestra level and destroy the integrity. this beautiful movie palace. we are going to do all we can to save the seats. i have here a -- 150 word

statement that you are required by law to include in the minutes i will upon hand it to the secretary when i'm through speaking. in this statement i'm addressing how the president of this commission greatly disrespected the members of the castro community waiting until the last minute to put a bog us resolution before you. the comments -- that you are looking at mentioned many you have don't know why that resolution was here again. showing how poorly the leadership was from the commissioner. that is unacceptable. we in the castro community for decades dealt with trauma from a political arc sassination of harvey milk. to aids wiping us out and epidemic of evictions. in january another planet come

in as an interloamer with no connections to the community and says they are our saviors. when it took them 7 months to hold the town hall meeting they didn't tell us they were in cahoots with sharkey laguana but e mails show he had been in communication with another planet at the time of their town hall meeting. shaeshg laguana owes united states an apology for creating more divisions and trauma in the castro community by what he did and how he put it on your agenda and now you have omitted when we said. unacceptable. >> thank you for your comments. is there public comment online? there is none >> public comment is closed. >> commissioners i'm making a motion to continue the minutes until they can be updated.

>> i second. >> motion by president laguana and seconded by commissioner herbert. commissioner dickerson. >> yes. >> commissioner herbert. >> yes. >> commissioner huie. >> yes. >> president laguana. >> yes. >> commissioner cartagena. >> yes. >> motion passes. >> great. thank you. >> next item. >> general public comment a discussion item allowing members to comment on matters that are within the small business commission's jurisdiction but not on today's calendar and suggesting new items for the commission's future consideration. >> thank you. >> would you like to make your public comment. hello michael patrellis again. i'm again holding update sign that reads save the seats. it is the 3 word slogan that we have adopted.

to say will reject another planet's plan to rip out the seats in the orchestra at the castro theater. now i believe that this commission has an interest in helping small businesses. and i'm here to tell you how to do it. put a resolution before yourself calling on greg perlof the ceo of ap e to hold monthly town halls at his theater. you want to bring the community together? it starts with changing another planet. it took them 7 montes to hold their first town hall. and at the ends of that town hall hi asked, when is your next town hall? there was silence. that is in the how you build

confident in the castro to which readically alter that theatre. please, put a resolution before yourself saying greg perlof needs to meet monthly in his theater in a town hall meeting open to all. that would be a start. right now, they are not communicating transparently. it is harming the collective psyche of our community. it is also harming the small businesses today! by the trauma we are going through. now, um -- i want to address plan b. let's say ap e, gets all the permits. they will change the um -- orchestra. and two-year period ensues in

the castro. a mess of 2 years on the castro while all the renovations are taking place and then greg is holding his events. when if no one come? what if there is no trickle down economic benefit as we see at the golden gate theatre and the war field. greg said if he gets his way he will have 120 nights of shows at the castro tloert theater what about the other nights when the theater will be closed that is plan b we are looking at and unacceptable. i am here to say to you and everyone watching, save the seats of the castro theater. thank you. >> thank you for you're comment. is there other public comment? there is none.

>> thank you. >> next item. >> director's report this is a discussion item. >> all right. good evening commissioners. so company updates for you on the economic recovery front. just to keep you posted a couple of things at state level there was an effort to extend alcohol sales in san francisco until 4 o'clock on saturday, sunday and holidays and until 3 a.m. for some of the other days. unfortunately that state bill that was sponsored by senator wiener did in the make it through the state legislator. i'm sure there will be other efforts to try to help with economic recovery in general. the other update that is related to liquor licenses, society abc has announced an upcoming or application window for type 87 liquor license in san francisco. and as a reminder they are full

restaurant liquor licenses for businesses in our outer neighborhood corridors. and while type 47 license are only available in the secondary market in the city now. type 87 licenses are available directly from abc. i guess the prices around 16 thousand dollars. just a note that the licenses for the bay view and tervalstreets have already been claimed. so the new licensing will not be available in the corridors. they are the type 87s are available in excelsior, visitation and ocean avenue. the application windso is from september 19-september 30. alternate application fee is high, unsuccessful applicants have the fees refunded minus 100 service charge employment to

make sure everybody is aware. the application windso from assessment 19-the 30th. >> the other update is shared spaces to make sure everyone understandses what will be happening in the next couple of weeks. there have been changes especially since the last presentation that this commission received when we understand is that the mta will e mail a notice to all shared spaces operators explaining their individual assess ams for each shared space and followed by compliance advisory, which you know of as a single bill of health. and supposed to be in box e mail by october first. there will be 2 things they all go together. and the mt annoy explains in detail what is compliance advisory. as a remindser.

applications for the permanent shared space are due november first. but you do need to submit as part of naapplication -- drawings that don't have to be done by an architect they can be hand drawn. that explains how the new shared space will comply on a permanent bases with the design guidelines and financial assistance is available through equity grants from planning. applications are currently up on the website. and an updated manual will be available soon. so that will contain drawings and check lists to help businesses appropriate for various applications. this is on shared spaces and -- i'm sure that we will hear more on that soon. >> and lastlimented share on you know behalf oawd there is interest in economic core activation and economic recovery

in san francisco. they issued a request for proposal. for activity such as pop up events or other activities that will generate interests. that was 6 million dollars include part of the budget. and that process is under way award letters should go out soon and our office is gearing up to assist with as much as the economic core activation as we can. as well as in other neighborhoods. those other update says from the meeting, thank you. >> thank you. any commissioner comments or questions? public comment? there is none >> public comment is closed. >> item 9 commissioner discussion and new business. this is a discussion item. >> any commissioner new business? commissioner huie. i wanted give an update on the

survey. it went out it was -- like last week. last week and we have gotten a few respondents.

>> great >> we have as of this morning we had 20 sick sponses. that is a lot. i mean given that i can give the numbers for the toll sponses last time. especially when we consider i have not tweeted it yet. >> [laughter] that will blow this survey up. [laughter] hopefully. get ready for 3 more. >> [laughter]. >> last time we had 579. we are pretty good now. >> on our way. >> uh-huh. >> and i think an opportunity that we have now will a couple of opportunity is i think for all of us to hopefully be able to upon send it out to our networks. that was successful last time. and gives us an opportunity to reach out to people that we have not spoken to our been in touch with reasonable. and just to remind them we are here and want to hear how they are doing. and also be able to perhaps schedule time to talk further. >> i think that was a real opportunity for us last time was to reach out to we wanted talk to and had not had the time. >> that's one opportunity as i think harry had sent an e mail already. i can sends one tomorrow so you can forward to people if that is helpful. >> great. >> the other second opportunity is i looked at numbers for last time and we made great efforts both in the original survey and accommodate for different languages. and so last time, the there were 27 that were -- that were responded in spanish. 3 in chinese. two in korean, one in vietnamese

and one in japanese. i think that is an opportunity for us to really consider how do we gauge like the need as well as how do we meet those needs. and you know we can use those types of channels and you know the understanding from it. for future communications as well from our office. so -- i think kerry suggested perhaps pulling out the intro in the language. and using that as an e mail as we you know e mail it out to the communities that we might be personally connected to. which i understand like not all the -- are connected to every, you know. communities so00 eye think knowing who might appreciate it and -- just the intro at least completely in spanish or we can also do that in my network in

schein chinese and see if we can capture more voices. so -- i think those are irrelevant hopeful numbers i'm excited see the information we have. and i want to thank professor chaoedary again. for all of her time and help on this effort. she has been arc maze to work with and has a research assist uponant who has been on it as well. you know they delivered these over the summer. quite early in the fall now. i appreciate her help from san francisco state university. the second piece i have is also that autumn moon festival. saturday night was autumn moon i'm being a bad chinese-american now. questioning it. but you know the season continues and so -- on the west side in the richmond will

celebrate autumn moon on september no 17th. so -- i hope you know you will come out and check it out. this time we have a lot of artists and venders. i think from the local neighborhood as well as others that are like ap i identifying artists and venders. at the festival. so -- that is pret much all i got. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner dickerson. yes. i thought it would be good. to hear me, first. i thought it would be good for you all to know how our retreat went. our annual retreat we have not done it for 3 years due to the

pandemic. what make its a unique experience is 3 nights in nevada city as a conference center. and out of the 50 or the 62 that participated 38 were from bay view. and they were influencers. when i say that i'm talking about doctors and people on staff here. and many influencers that were able to intgreat with even some of the young people in oakdale that are serviced by city of dream who is partnered with you see fit to make surety young people were sponsored and paid for. at the retreat what made this unique and significant to -- the small a small believes in the bay view is is that we took time to -- receive coach.

we would have the sessions that were intense they were able to really let something g. that is underestimated in the bay view and african-american community is the affect of trauma. and the, the inability to deal with it in the masses. which is challenging. in this setting, there was so 19 were able to talk about it in a nonjudgmental atmosphere with people here to get the support. what made it unique they were influencers not just people who you know -- dot november they are people who are in the upon communities who have staff, who are leader, supervisors or business owners that participated at this retreat. i feel honored just not even the

people who attended butt ripple affect television when everything was done. we come home. and there were a number of shootings. one of the young ladies who came to our retreat got shot and we don't know where she is she is not conscious we are waiting to hear from what the doctor will say. the ripple affect of being able to really be hand's on with the people and help them deal with the trauma how they responded was the out reach i got e mails and texts people saying had they not been in that environment they don't know how they'll would have handled the impact of the deaths that took place over the past 2 weeks. there has been 8. i'm not sure you are aware. one of the families there was 4. out of 1 family that lost a

family member. and so my heart is burdened with being able to provide more life coaching health and wellness service for the bay view specifically to specifically address the trauma that goes unnoticed and minimized. and you 3 mitt is willing to it is not comfortable. it is hard and it is the skiendz of work that people don't jump to do. but i believe it is worth it and committed to creating that plan and program. is have 3 other company that is rights commit to the experienceship of this to be available through programs we are work on creating.

have to get people out of their space so they have fresh eyes. we were able to book for next year and we are already booked. that is good t. is a small part and the volume of people in san francisco but i believe it is fluential because it is necessary to bring heeling -- to those that they don'ts know where to go or what to do. it affects everybody on every level. so, i wanted to say you 3 fit retreat was a success. and i'm grateful for the partnerships we have now. and we have 62 at this event. we already have 80 pland that is already on the books. we will do our best.

to do that. and then just how people are finding so grateful for katie bringing acknowledgment to when we dwelt this weekend. had a shooting. and fortunate to be a safe space for families that had been affected bite murder and the victims of the families. so, of course, i'm in support of promoting small business my heart is burdened with the people who need somebody to be there and so -- i'm glad to be there on third and newcome in the heart of the bay view. thank you.

gentleman ahead. thank you for sharing that information it is important for torn hear. thank you. commissioner dickerson. i know you are proud to be there i >> this community is luck tow have you there. i know the work that you are doing and what you are doing to help facilitate the heeling from that trauma. it is critical and it is so important and so meaningful. you know, we know now through science that one of the most meaningful ways to address depression is through exercise. that it can be more effective than any medication. the leadership you are showing

here for community that is in crisis is just absolutely it is beautiful. and they are luck tow have you we are luck tow have you on this commission to and i'm grateful that you are telling us what is going of the truth is i didn't know. now i do. you know, public safety issues have hit a company us. and -- you know i think if we look at the next year going forward, that's probably opportunity that is right for us to look for ways we can play the same constructive role you are playing in your communities now. how can we help heel the city? how can we help get people to a

better place. may be make things a bit better. we can't pass laws or tell anybody what to do but this commission is good at giving good advice and good feedback. and i would like to encourage you to keep sharing that story. i feel honored hear it. and i would like to find a way for this commission help support you in that work. and help amplify that work across all the communes in the city. we all need it. thank you. is there any public comment. why well is none. >> public comment is closed.

>> next item. >> item 10 adjournment. >> sfgovtv show the office of small business slide. we will ends with reminder the small business commission is the official public forum to voice opinions and concerns about the policies that fact the vitality of small believes in san francisco and the office of small believes is the best place to get answers about doing business during the local emergency. if you need assistance with small business matters reach out to the office of small believes. meeting adjourned. .

>> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique

and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming

you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's >> good afternoon, thank you everyone for coming. my name is jeffrey come lin and i'm san francisco's director of transportation. and i'm so grateful to have the secretary, the speaker and the mayor here to celebrate our progress on the central subway. we are joined by local community and i'm grateful to all of you in the local community who who have put up with years of construction and disruption here in the heart of china town but we promise it is going to beth