>> this meeting is held in person in city hall room 400 and

broadcast on sfgovtv. the small business thanks media services and sfgovtv. we welcome public participation in person during public comment periods. there will be a opportunity for general public comment at the end of the meeting and there will be a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item. public comment is limited to three minutes per speaker. an alarm sounds once time finished. speakers are requested but not require to state their name. sfgovtv, please show the office of small business slide. the small business commission is the public forum to voice decisions and concerns that effect economic vitality of small brz in san francisco. please call item 1. >> item 1, roll call.

commissioner benitez. commissioner cornet. commissioner huie is absent. [indiscernible] you have a quorum. >> thank you. the san francisco small business commission and office of small business staff, we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. please call item 2.

>> item 2, approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions. this is discussion and action item. the commission will discuss and possibly take action to approve registry applications. presenting is richard kurylo program manager with office of small business. >> thank you richard. >> good afternoon president huie, vice president zouzounis, commissioners, city staff, members of the public. richard kurylo, legacy business program manager. i like to acknowledge michelle reynold in the office of small business who provides assistance to the legacy business program. sfgovtv, i have a power point presentation. before you today are three applications for consideration for the legacy business registry. each application includes a staff report, draft resolution, the application itself and documents from the planning department. the application were submitted

to planning september 18 and heard by historic preservation commission october 16. item 2 a is oscar's photo lab. the business is a photo lab established in 1982 in the south of market neighborhood. specialize in preserving precious memories for tailors to your needs. there are specialties include professional film processing, printing service, film scanning, photo lab services, high quality photo mounting and restoration and retouching services. to make things more convenient they do film processing by mail. oscar's photo lab is dedicated to safeguarding moments that matter most to you. the core feature tradition to remain on the legacy business registry is photography services.

item 2b is pact. plan of action for challenging times. the non profit organization was founded in 1963 and established in 1964 and headquartered in divisadero. founding during the civil right movement pact inc. provides low income youth and young adults with tools to help achieve goals of going to college and securing economic stability. pact inc. promotes community empowerment increasing access to higher education. the vision is provide the best educational services and best advice, the best place to work and the best work environment for educating, inspiring and motivating others. the core feature tradition the business must maintain is services for youth. item 2c is shaw shoes. the business is a shoe store

established in 1970 and located in cal hallow. shaw shoes is second generation family business selling shoes for every occasion sourced from italy and beyond. they are the oldest retail store on union street in cal hollow neighborhood. shaw shoes specialize in high italian foot wear and most imported from italy using own transporters and importers. buy unique italian shoes. the core feature business must maintain is shoe store. all the businesses met the criteria and all received positive recommendation from the historic preservation commission. legacy business program staff recommends adding the businesses to the registry and drafted a resolution for each business for your consideration. a motion in support of the

business should frame in favor of the resolutions. thank you. this concludes my presentation and happy to answer questions. there are business representatives present who may wish to speak on behalf of the businesses during public comment. >> thank you very much rick. commissioners, any questions? seeing no questions at this time, we like to open up for public comment. you can come forward to the mic if you like to speak. >> hi, everyone. my name is annette bennett and excited to be here today on behalf of plan of action for challenging times. known as pact inc. short name. we are local community based non profit organization and i want to say thank you so much for everyone who helped bring us to this point in the process. it is truly a honor and we are excited for what comes next.

pact started in 1963 when mr. everett the first stock broker and henry lucas a prominent dentist joined forces to increase black emappointment in downtown san francisco. recognizing the job market was [indiscernible] pact started helping high school students and young adults to get into college with financial aid and in 1965 pact became one of the first organizations on the west coast to receive federal funding. you might have heard of upward bound grants, educationing talent served so we received those since 1965. these help low income first generation college students, high school and middle school students get into college. throughout the 61 years, pact served 60 thousand young students and placed approximately 40 thousand in college. at the peak, pact served about 20schools in san francisco,

including james lick, willie brown, [naming schools] we have a proven tract record impacting under served communities, however we are under strict federal income guidelines which do not match san francisco cost of living. we want to be able to serve san francisco youth. we know that bay area cost of living is much much higher and the reality is, there are low income families not able to be served through our programs through the federal guidelines. we are hoping with the legacy registry it opens up doors more community local partnerships and we'll be able to empath the community and continue the legacy. we thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you very much. any other speakers?

>> good afternoon. my name is--i represent oscar's photo lab. family business. started in 1982. we served the community, the photo community. we have been taking care of a lot of what the photographers, artists in the city is needed-have needed for a long time. a lot of times i feel like what we do is taken for granted, but then there's certain things that happen whether it is a birth, whether it is a funeral. we are there to take care to keep people's memories alive. take care of what they need. i'm not great at speaking, but you know, my father started this business

back in 1982. i worked with him one day after school, my mom said, your father needs help. i was 13. i was at hoover middle school and then i went to lincoln high school where you supported us, so go mustangs and then san francisco state, so go gators. thinking about what i was going to say today,eme i'm a son of the city. i grew up in this city. my father started a business in this city. and i was looking through some of what we had and one thing i came across today and you can't see it, but this was the original business tax registration certificate that my father paid for. in case anybody knows, i don't know who it is, but the original-not

original, but the tax collector was tad brown back in 1982. we have been around a long time. we supported this city. we helped build the city. we have been through god, go back, covid, earthquakes, all sorts of things. we are the fabric of the city. thank you for recognizing that. thank you for giving us a opportunity to help us keep that. just thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioners

and staff. my name is shaw degen, and i'm honored to be here. i opened shaw shoes in 1970, the same year i graduated from university of san francisco. it has been a great success. we have numerous movie stars, celebrities and made columns. if you-some of you may know who he was. three times it was a honor. because he came to the store and was

very impressed. i handed down the store 10 years ago to my daughter, caroline working only part time helping her. what pleases me the most is the second and third generation customers that a grand daughter tells me her mom and grand mother has been my customers for years. a mother came in with a baby on the stroller, quite a few times as a customer and 20 years later that baby in the stroller became the manager of shaw shoes. i am honored to be part of the

legacy store in san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hello everyone. good afternoon san francisco commissioners and community members. my name is kim. thank you for the opportunity to briefly speak in support of oscar's photo lab with the legacy award. oscar's photo lab has been cherished san francisco institution for 42 years. established in 1982, by new bar [indiscernible] a lebanese immigrant who built with hard work dedication and true passion for photography, and also happens to be my fath er in law. for over 20 years his son worked alongside his father and carried on his father's legacy making oscar's one of

it the long-est standing photo labs in the city and one of the only photo labs standing. starting with a simple store front thin tenderloin over four decades ago, oscar's provided invaluable service to professional photographers, artist local residents and many hobbyists preserving memories and creating high quality tangible art. this legacy is more then the business, it is about the family commitment to san francisco, to their craft and to the thousands of local customers who relied on their work to capture life most important moments. and changing city where small family owned businesses are finding it harder and harder to thrive and survive, and a era where photos are not as in demand as what they used to be, oscar's photo lab continues to stand as a powerful reminder of what makes san francisco unique. by awarding them this legacy

being part of the legacy rej stree, we are not celebrating a business, we are honoring a community pillar and supporting the preservation of our city culture and entrepreneurial spirit. thank you for considering the recognition of oscar's photo lab, a true san francisco legacy. i know newbar is smiling down on all of us today. >> thank you. any other public comment? sure. yeah. >> thank you. >> sure. >> good afternoon members of the san francisco small business commission. i am honored to speak recognition for pact on the legacy business registry. we founded pact in 1963 inspired by the vision of dr. carlton goodlett,

jr. legacy honored here at city hall. we wanted to see more minority businesses join the vibrant tapestry of san francisco small business community, contributesing to charm and fame of our city. to make this vision a reality, we raised funds, build a dedicated staff and secured grants from the federal small business administration. we even inaugerated the 6 by 6 by 6 loan program offering $6 thousand for 6 years at 6 percent interest rates to support local entrepreneurs. we began the journey on second and market street and moved to divisadero in 1970 and sparked the street merchant association to launch a beautification program bringing the city's signature stone garbage containers from california to haight street. we advocated for city parking and provided financial backing for local businesses by guaranteeing loans to the local wells fargo bank. our cofounder is dr. henry

lucas and dr. daniel collin ran a thriving dental practice and developed into primary college advising service implementing talent search and upward bound. today we continue to occupy our beloved victorian building on divisadero near al me park and aspire to become a legacy monument in the western addition. we are deeply grateful for the endorsement from supervisor preston and hopeful for your support achieving our status on the legacy business registry as recommended by the historic preservation commission. this recognition means the world to us. it reflects our commitment to san francisco rich history and we are proud to be a part of this incredible community. thank you for your consideration and for making this honor possible. our deepest thanks. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment in the

room? thank you very much for all your public comment. seeing no further public comment, public comment is closed. commissioners, questions, comments? commissioner benitez. >> really great job. i love hearing all these stories. this is one of the favorite things i love to do starting with the meetings and hearing about all the stories about how you came to be and everything like that. i have just comments and then one question at the very end. for shaw shoes, i love that you are a family owned business multigenerational. my wife and i also own a small business. not seeing families yet, but many first dates, marriages and divorces so hopefully soon maybe eventually see families coming in so love hearing that story. we also have adaughter and dont know if he will run the business but

hopefully teaching good responsibility and if she wants to take it on she can. hopefully she learns good responsibility being at the store. for pact, i am on deviz all the time and dizant realize you are across the street from our store above the skate shot? shop? i can't wait to make it toward your area across the street so say hi and hello. love the building. a lot ask about it had all the time and shawn too from sf skate. lastly, for oscar's, i was reading your application. i love to hear quickly the story about the rosa parks photo in the smithsonian, is it still there or how did it come to be? >> [indiscernible] so, we had a client that had had the opportunity to photograph her. a long time client.

she had asked us to make a silver gelatin print from it. it was one of those things where you get a once in a life time opportunity, so i took that on myself. i remember the evening very well. closed down the store, turned on the radio, went into the dark room and knocked out 6 versions of it for her and she picked her favorite one. the proud moment for me. proud moment for me. yeah, thank you for asking. that's-thank you for notice that and asking that. very special. >> thank you. any other commissioners? commissioner herbert.

>> i just want to say such a pleasure to sit up here and see so many great businesses and so many stories. you guys just make us who we are as a city, so thank you for coming forward and telling us your stories. it is really a pleasure to be here. to hear them. >> vice president zouzounis. >> thank you to our legacy businesses for making time to come today. we know that you all work very hard and so we appreciate you coming to city hall and yes, i love hearing the multigenerational businesses and i think it is just a beautiful thing how we as businesses are so intertwined and i love that we have a south of market business and that's been intertwined with my family, so thank you for representing and for being here.

>> commissioner ortiz. >> i want to thank the businesses pact, non profit, shaw, oscar's labs. born and raised in san francisco makes me proud and it also gives me inspiration because i want my business to be generational and your devotion to the city through your businesses and your family, i mean, that is what makes san francisco what it is. i'm just proud and honored to even be here and learn about your businesses and about the hard work and everything and pact, i went to high school here, so i definitely know the program, so i'm just proud. this really makes me happy. this makes it all worth while so thank you for coming up and sharing your stories. >> yes. thank you very much for all that you have done to build and continue your family businesses as well as like the mission driven work.

you all really do. i realized over the many years of owning my small business, owning a small business today is very much a mission driven endeavor and now that my children are a little older and i can see like how proud i would be if my child wanted to do what i was doing and i come from also like an in-law of a family owned business as well and it is like to be able to see-to be able to see generations of your family being taken care of by this thing that somebody you know started at one point in time that was probably really hard and really scary for that person, has now been able to kind of feed so many branches of your family. it is really incredible. yeah, this just like what

everybody else said, one of my favorite and parts of being a small business commissioner. i know when i walk around the city and i see those legacy business plaques, i'm always like, oh my gosh, there is another legacy business. it is like i get so excited to see them around, and i realize what history our city actually is built on, and you kind of forget about that when you see so many shiny new things around you all the time. without the businesses you built, we would not have all those shiny new things all around us. i really appreciate all the work and all the heart and soul you put into all your businesses. i encourage you to you know, think of yourselves as part of the legacy business kind of club, and for you to you know, consider yourselves a part of a very exclusive club that is

an important part of the city. thank you very much for all that you've done. i am going to go ahead and leave it up for us to make a motion, and have a feeling it will be a good motion. [laughter] we have one more public comment. is that okay? >> [indiscernible] >> thank you. >> thank you. >> well, let's see--should we take a motion? >> i second the motion. i make the motion. >> would you like to make the motion? >> i make it.

to adopt all the legacy businesses. is there a second? >> i'll second. >> i'll second. >> seconded by commissioner carnet. [roll call] >> motion passes. congratulations. [applause] >> thank you. next item, please. >> item 3, board of supervisor file 240982, disability access emprovements for places of public accommodation. discussion and action item.

the commission will discuss and may take action on an ordinance amending the building, administrative, and public works codes to remove the local requirement for existing buildings with a place of public accommodation to have all primary entries and paths of travel into the building accessible to persons with disabilities or to receive a city determination of equivalent facilitation, technical infeasibility, or unreasonable hardship; and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act.today we have supervisor mandelman presenting this item. welcome. >> welcome supervisor mandelman. >> hello. president huie, vice president zouzounis, commissioners. good to see you. the item before you is a simple but i think important ordinance that will do two things. first, it will sunset enforcement of the accessible business entrance program. a program i suspect that at least some of-i think i know some of the members of the commission are painfully familiar with, and then secondly, it will formalize and require

reporting of office of small business, mayor office of disability and department of building inspection on a new collaborative initiative that i'm calling, beyond the front door. in 2016, at a time when many hundreds of small businesses were getting hit with a d a lawsuits, then supervisor k a ty tang established the program to push business and property owners to comply with federal and state laws related to front entrance access. the program has actually been quite successful. with more then 16 thousand businesses having come into compliance, and another 2,000 more having submitted abe checklist, a step on the path to compliance and that meant a lot for folks with disabilities in san francisco accessing those locations. however, nearly 10 years later

roughly another 4,000 businesses have gone unheard from, and the city extended the program deadlines multiple times at this point. executive director then supervisor tang authored a 6 month extension of the deadline for submission of the compliance check list to january 1, 2019, with a commensurate extension in other compliance deadlines. then supervisor norman yee or he was probably president yee at the time, further pushed the compliance check list back to december 1, 2020 and mayor breed pushed those deadlines back to june 30, 2022. and then i authored the first of two extensions earlier in the year taking the deadline to june 30 of this year, and then put in another one which pushed back to december 31 this

year, but this can only go on so long. when my staff brought the last extension to building commission may 15, the members made clear they were not inclined to approve any further extensions to the program deadlines. so, these 6,000 businesses that have not complied or yet complied present a conundrum and choice for our city government. we could double down on enforcement of the abe program as originally passed and are i don't think that is a good idea. i think it presents at least three problems i can think of. first, it would require allocating significant scarce dbi and other city resources to chasing down citing and enforcing against these businesses and property owners and some might think in a moment of housing crisis, department

of building inspection, maximizing efficiency and other things, this isn't the best use of those resources. i are think that is especially true given a second point, which that many of these businesses and property owners are extremely sympathetic cases. my office has heard lots of stories. you may have heard some as well. small business owners who not withstanding efforts to come into compliance have run into any number of obstacles. some fallen pray to unscrupulous consultant who perform unnecessary and costly work resulting in thousands in fees. others found the required invest in upgrades would simply exceed capacity and put them out of business. one owner reported that the upgrades would cost $30 thousand. thirdly, we have learned in conversations with the disability community that access at the

front door is critically important, it isn't the only barrier and sometimes not the only barrier to access to local businesses for members that community. so, i felt that we have needed to come up with something better and i do want to express a whole bunch of gratitude. i'll name namess in a minute. small business, mayor office of disability and dbi agreed to come up with something better and after many months of discussion, formally proposed what i think is a better way. this little concept paper is on attached to the file as it appears for the board of supervisors, but i don't know if you all got it. you have it? they have it? i'll leave a bunch here in case they don't. as i said, the legislation before you partially implements recommendations in here. again, by sunsetting

enforcement of abe and requiring reporting back on beyond the front door. dbi made many commitments hiring a new certified access specialist inspector performing higher level of inspections out in the field. working with osb to craelt materials that better inform business owners about obligations under federal and state law and the obligations will continue. the fact we are taking the city out of the business of chasing folks down around the front entrance does not mean that people should feel they don't have to comply with those laws. dbi is still looking at those things as they permit new businesses coming into spaces, so this is not saying that the law doesn't aplay, it is just saying as we allocate resources we are not going to focus on going after these business owners and property owners. lastly, osb and mayor office of

disability are committing to work with community members to create a best practice guide for accessibility and going to engage in campaigns to raise awareness about other types of disability access issues, including those impacting those with digital hearing and cognitive impairments. as i said, lots and lots of people helped get us here and no particular order. i do want to thank your director katy tang, [indiscernible] michelle reynolds from osb. dbi has been eager to have this happen and very helpful thinking how to better serve folks in the disability community and small business so thank you director patrick oreardon and [indiscernible] and can answer any questions i don't know about on the dbi side. and then we had great help from the mayor's office, mayor office on disability. former director nicole bonn who

was very helpful and the current director debbie kaplan as well as members of the mayor's disability council and then in the city administrator office, jennifer johnston, sophie hayward and angela yip all were important contributors. we have help from city office [indiscernible] vicky wong and calvin ho. in my office did lots and lots of cat herding to get us here and then many many thanks to small business and disbability community advocates who gave us their time and attention and good thinking and i can try to answer any questions or make t a te hannah come up and address them. >> thank you very much supervisor. let's see, are there any comments or questions? from commissioners? i'll give it a second. i want to appreciate you for

tackling this situation in a different kind of with a different lens. i feel this is something that i know we talked a lot about obviously with businesses individually as well as collectively to figure how to make the landscape less fear based and scary and check box driven, but really to think about accessibility and disability in much broader terms, because those terms actually apply to many more people and many more you know experiences i think then we actually are always-that we are aware of. so, i think thinking about how we can you know, change the conversation into something more positive and more incentivized is a wonderful step ahead, so i really appreciate that work. >> thank you. that's what we are trying to do. [laughter]

>> vice president zouzounis. >> thank you supervisor and team for coming today and bringing this-you know we love streamlining legislation and i think this process as much as our good legislators have had to try to consulidate our offerings and really where the city can play a role in this, it has been a little confusing for small businesses to you know, be only told you have to find a list from this list we can't tell you exactly what to do, but you need to find somebody who can do that work like a inspection. and kind of refer it back to the private sector, so i want to understand if-i think it was helpful in the legislation when it did lay out the

order of operations that exist now with dbi and if a business is not responsive, but if you could help me understand where this step of now having an appeal commission for access plays in, if that is a existing clause or an existing-- >> tell me where you are? >> the section 105 a. section 3. >> the access appeals commission? >> yeah. >> that's sticking around i believe for things not related to the abe program. basically, any compliance obligations under the abe program are kind of going away with this.

we are grateful to those who complied. we hope this helps them avoid lawsuits, but we are saying, we have done this for 8 years and will stop doing this. i don't what the access appeals commission does, but it will not be doing--it hears access appeals related to building stuff and there is still enforcement happening around access. that would be on the front end as new businesses come in, as property owners do things to their property, but it won't be for existing currently operating businesses that somebody is coming after you or property owners have a current business that the city is coming after you. everybody again, be aware, there are people out there interested in bringing lawsuits against small businesses, but it won't be your city government doing that to you. >> thank you. >> if i can add and also dbi,

feel free to jump in if not saying this correctly. the access appeals commission is in existence because if you do tenant improvements and especially if you reach a certain threshold you are required to set aside a certain dollar amount for these accessibility improvements and so, there has always been and will remain a pathway for people to go through the access appeals commission for certain appeals of the project scopes for example, or potential infeasibility review, but again, i differ to dbi to further explain that. >> i think the supervisor captured it well. the access appeals commission will remain in place. as supervisor mandelman laid out, there are numerous access requirements that are bake under to the building code. you still have to meet those when you build a new building and doing major renovations so san francisco unique with this program being proactive. no other jurisdiction in

california i'm aware of had a proactive approach so we are removing the proactive access but you are still required to meet accessibility requirement for new buildings and renovation jz the access appeals commission remains in place to adjudicate issues with those processes. >> okay, thank you. so, when we are telling small businesses , after you do your accessible infrastructure changes, get a cast inspection to make sure you are covered, right? how is it reflected once they are-is it reflected with the state and federal law once they are certified with their property owner there is no notice to the city? >> the city is still inspecting the properties and looking for accessibility metrics, so if you are not complying that could be a violation on city level. not sure if you are talking about a private cast inspector checking, but we would be doing inspections if

you are constructing a new business place or new building with a storefront on ground floor, we inspect and make sure the counter is a appropriate height level, the point of sale system is accessible. as mentioned in the legislation we are trying to add another cast inspector and expand the capability in the department to be more proactive so when the new building is constructed we are up in front of it saying this needs to be down a couple inches to make sthur is accessible to folks or make sure it is up front once put in place, bolted down and cost to change things on the back end. >> okay, thank you for the clarification. >> commissioner herb rlt. >> i have a question. say you are going into a existing space that is up for rent or up for sale and are the bathrooms are not a d a compliant but it is an old

building, will the new tenant be required to make those compliant or-? >> that gets complicated. it depends on the scale of renovation. that is the trigger. that is difference between the a b program and other jurisdictions. this is constant proactive trigger and other a certain scale of renovation trigger looking at the accessibility requirements. the other difficulty thing here is we can't speak to private contracts between a landlord and the tenant. that landlord may put in the contract that the tenant is required to pay for or responsible for accessible upgrades. there is a state law that requires the contract signer to be aware that. the person that writes the contract has to notify that is new requirement in the contract, but that would be between two private entities. that is outside our scope. >> okay, thank you. and, i just wanted to say thank you to rafael mandelman because it

seems this legislation is going to prevent businesses and people who need a d a compliance stop pitting them against each other and that is really important. i have a family member who recently needs a d a everywhere she goes and i become a lot more aware of what's needed and i would hate to see anybody with special needs feeling uncomfortable or like the bad guy when they come into a place. it seems like this could help with that so thank you. >> that is something we heard from folks on the mayor disability council. there are hosts of disability community needs. they did not want to be perceived or set up in the sort of going to be in opposition to small business community and there is reason why some of the folks were supportive of this

legislation. again, i think it is important we do this. i don't want to see the city spend the next 2 or 3 years chasing down these 6,000 properties. i think that would be a bad for the city and bad for those folks, but it doesn't mean again the a d a doesn't apply. when people are trying to do upgrades to those spaces that they do not have to get compliant. at some point, there will be a point when all 6,000 of those spaces are going to be compliant with the a d a. it is just we are not as a matter of city priority going to get-insist everybody get it done by the end of next year. at this point it happens as it happens and with the caveat that you are all at risk if you don't do this, because of the potential lawsuit. not from us, but from private parties.

>> commissioner ortiz. >> first i want to thank you supervisor mandelman for common sense of this and thinking globally about the city and how to use our pressure resources, so appreciate that. and also director tang, for initiating the program, because initially i wasn't necessarily too sold on it, but i will be honest now i'm on the street you made the boogie man dpoe away. a lot of small businesses we just ignore d this. it brought to the forefront in a positive way and in addition to the resources behind the program. i think we did a lot of good work in the community and i don't want to jinx us. from the optics on the ground i see less of the drive by or google lawsuits because i think the small businesses are more away, plus the state legislation that makes you be aware what you are signing and what you potentially could be liable for doing so. i want to thank you for that,

because initially like i said, i wasn't necessary [indiscernible] lastly, i had a question. not necessarily pertaining exactly to this, but in a current location what's the dollar threshold amounts on tenant improvement that requires a d a upgrades? is it a buck 50? i remember- >> i don't recall the threshold, so i apologize. >> i think it is somewhere under $200 thousand, but it does change every year, so i can look that up. i recall it is slightly under 200. [multiple speakers] >> i'm helping a couple businesses and telling them, be careful because if you go over-board you will open another can of worms. that's it. thank you. thank you everybody.

>> i wanted to also appreciate director tang's work on the abe program. that is something we talk about every few weeks or so, but looking at this number here, 16.505 out of 23.504 businesses, that is a lot of businesses. over 82 percent of businesses have now made improvements that perhaps were not incentivized to make improvements before, and so that's a huge feat in the city that has incredibly old infrastructure. one of the things i guess i'm curious about-maybe this is more a rhetorical question, but like, you know, how does our city fair in terms of like its you know, welcomeness and how

inviting are we to somebody who is traveling with and has a disability or experiences life with disability? like how does our city look to somebody like who may not be able to access entryway to begin with and like, what are other things we can do? i'm really excited to see how you engage traveller communities, local communities to find what we can do as small businesses to make things better. i think you know, my ask would be that, as you engage with more communities and as you engage with this piece of legislation and have these conversations to be able to really share with us many of those best practices. i know you have some listed here already, but fwr a small business to be able to go on a site and be able to get inspired by how they can make

their spaces better, that would be really interesting to me. even if it was just like a gallery like a photo gallery on a website or something like that. just as business owners we want to do the best that we can and we want to do you know, like whatever it is to make things better for everyone around us, and i think sometimes what we are missing is time and inspiration because we are so heads down, so if there was a way that while you are learning to be able to share those learnings with us, i think we would be happy to share with our small business communities as well and hopefully through that we can kind of create a generative change within our city. >> thank you for that invitation. i think the city certainly is a better city for folks with disabilities accessing those spaces because of the abe program, so thank you president huie and commissioner ortiz for

acknowledging that a lot of good work has been done under that program. i also think there is really an opportunity now and i think interest in all these departments in collaborating on the kind of thing you are talking about and getting you know, whatever resources we can to small businesses, because i think they want to be open and accessible and there are some win wins here and more communication and more the kind of examples of your sharing with putting stuff on web sites and easy for people to see. raising issues someone might not think about and wouldn't be that hard as they set up a new business or adapting the existing business to make it more welcoming. i think we will have those conversations over the next year. i think we will get reports. i think you may want to do conversation here at this commission as that work going forward and either hear about it or inform it or however we do it.

i think there is opportunities for this going forward. >> great. thank you very much. one more comment from director tang. >> thank you. i just wanted to first just get back to commissioner ortiz about the threshold that amount that trigger certain types of accessibility requirements. as mentioned, it does change every year and for 2024 it is a little above $200 thousand. last year it was a little under $200 thousand. just to also reiterate that our team, especially our permitting team but all our business counselors will continue to advise all businesses seeking permits for any improvements to their storefront that they should be aware of all the federally mandated accessibility requirements, point to resources like the grant we offer for accessible barrier removal and

others, so that work will continue and be ongoing. >> great. thank you very much. any other commissioner questions, comments? seeing none, we'll open up for public comment. any public comment on this agenda item? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. i think that's it. right? we dont have to make a motion or anything, right? no, we do. >> you can recommend it. >> okay. does anybody since it is action item. >> move to recommend. in support. >> motion in support of the legislation by commissioner ortiz, is there a second? >> second. >> second by commissioner herbert. commissioner benitez. commissioner cornet. commissioner dickerson is absent. commissioner herbert, yes.

presidents huie, yes. commissioner ortiz, yes. vice president zouzounis, yes. motion passes. >> thank you. thank you very much. next item, please. >> item 4, board of supervisors file 240926. fee elimination and administrative provision. discussion and action. the commission will hear and possibly take action on an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code, administrative code, health code, police code, and public works code to make the following changes if the voters approve proposition m in the november 5, 2024, election: 1) eliminate certain fees beginning in 2026, and 2) increase the gross receipts threshold from $2,500,000 to $5,000,000 for reductions to annual curbside shared spaces fees beginning in 2026; and to make the following additional changes regardless

of whether the voters approve proposition m: 3) extend indefinitely the waiver of business location and device fees for businesses with taximeter devices; 4) extend indefinitely the suspension of the registration certificate and fee requirements for taxi drivers and drivers for transportation network companies; 5) authorize the tax collector to collect certain additional license fees on the unified license bill; and 6) amend the delinquency date and penalty provisions and add interest provisions relating to license fees collected on the unified license bill. >> manda [indiscernible] office of treasurer tax collector. thanks for having me back again. this is a kind of a final piece about license fees that we have been talking about together for a couple years now and it is a exciting step. with the support of the mayor, president peskin, and supervisor mandelman, as part of the business tax package on the ballot that is prop m, there was an agreement to wave up to $10 million in annual fees that hit small businesses, but pay generally these are regulatory license fees that are paid to departments like public health, police, fire, entertainment, et cetera. they are the ones businesses will recognize come on a annual bill from the tax collector. it is a very popular bill. everyone really love s it. it puts all your charges together once a year with really steep penalities if you forget to pay it. if prop m passes, next week, $10 million of these fees will be waived

and the benefit all most entirely goes to small businesses. this will happen in 2026, so i do want to say clearly, folks regardless of what happens next week, people will still get their bills january or february of next year, but that will be the last time they get these bills. and, if these fees are waived, the benefits are primarily felt by restaurants, so 91 percent of restaurants in san francisco will no longer get a bill from our office. this unified license bill at all. every fee they pay will be waived and for night life businesses, 87 percent of those bills are entirely gone. now, there are many other small businesses that will also benefit, but that's where-those are the two industries that pay the most now, so they will feel the biggest benefit from this legislation. as reminder, the reason this

came to be was through a lot of advocacy by folks like director tang and others about these bills, and saying this is really a lot for small businesses to pay every year, so back in the late teens, i think 2018, 2019, our office actually looked at the impact of these bills. if you add up how much a small business pays and you add up the license fees with their taxes, the cumulative burden is higher then bigger businesses, so our smallest businesses actually are paying the most. i know this isn't a surprise to anybody here, but actually showing that was helpful for policy makers. so, what we did to figure out which license fees to wave was, we first looked at the license fees that were predominantly paid by restaurants, entertainment and night life. again, because we know they are bearing the brunt of these regulatory

fees primarily through dph fees, health fees. we worked closely with the office of small business and with departments to kind of go down the list and say are the right fees, the ones with most impact. we started with data and had to talk to people who knew what these different fees minute meant and what they did and figured out, how much revenue is the city collecting each year. how businesses are paying them and what would that look for departments ongoing. there were a few types of license fees that we decided to add on that didn't-that were not our typical ones on our bill. those include tables and chairs fees. the merchandise display fees and point of sale fees so those fees are included as well. the way this will work is it will not-businesses will not have to

do anything to get this benefit. if this legislation passes at the board, these fees will actually be set to zero dollars, so it is not based on your individual business gross receipts and you have to tell us something every year, the city will stop charging them all together, zero dollars for each of these fees and are departments will recoup the revenue from the general fund through general tax revenue. for businesses you stop getting a bill or a bill with much less on it and that is why. it is because of this legislation. couple other things to note in the legislation. there is a lot grouped in here. we are also seeking to increase the small business exsemption threshold for the shared spaces waver, so for businesses that are getting parklets, right now if you get below 2 and a half

million dollars in gross receipts you pay-you get a 50 percent haircut on your shared spaces fee. if prop m passes, that 2 and a half million dollars raises to 5 million dollars because that is what is happen in the tax-the small exemption threshold goes up, so that will help a number of businesses as well. it is also extending a couple things that keep happening at the board and we said, let's do this once and for all. that is these location and device fees for taxies. the point of sale for taxis and suspension of the registration certificate and fee requirements for taxi and ride share drivers. again, this is something we have to go to the board every five years to reauthorize, so we said let's put it in here and make it clear. and then we are also, this is important because this is regardless what happens with prop m, we are amending some of

the penalty and interest provisions lt. we heard loud and clear we now charge 10 percent as soon as you are late on the bill and it is very difficult. we will align with all the other business taxes we have on the penalities, which start at 5 percent. so, if you are still getting this bill for whatever reason, and you pay late, it isn't quite as big of a penalty off the bat and it grows with time. and then these bills will be due earlier in the year if prop m passes to give a preview, so when you go to renew your registration, which will happen towards the beginning of the year, the end of february, you will be able to see, i willow polk license fees and this is how much i owe and you have a month to pay those. we are trying to pull everything together to make it easier and get to have less contact with our office, because everyone loves the tax collector. and that's all for me. happy to take any questions.

>> thank you very much. commissioner herbert. >> well, i wanted to say as a restaurant owner, yeah! jumping for joy because there are a lot of fees. i can probably speak for all other restaurant owners too when i say thank you. so, february we'll get notice just to clarify of the fees and then have a month to pay them? >> starting in 2026. >> 2026. still have table and chair fees and all that thing. >> right. the fee waver, this legislation is at the board the hearing is in a couple weeks, and much of what i talked about only goes into effect if prop m passes. some thingz like the deadline going into effect no matter what. >> thank you.

>> commissioner ortiz. >> thank you amanda for the presentation and i love this because it's bringing our city into the right direction. this is the spirit of how we can simplify and help small business. common sense approaches and really helping our restaurant and night life business. i just love it. i hope it passes. even the part that dont pass, still streamlining the deadline andpenalities. it kills you for a small business like that 10 percent. it is like street tax. appreciate that. really. thank you. >> i think you find most small businesses are going to be in favor of reducing fees. i mean, i think one thing that now seeing how city hall works, versus how we operate in our small businesses is

that, like, i think the things that you think are common sense are totally not common sense to the rest of us often times, so when i get a bill in the mail, i'm entirely confused whether i got that same bill last week or if this is from the same department. is this about the same thing. for many of us it is very challenging to kind of figure out how our entire fee picture looks so i think the city has done a great job trying to streamline that and trying to streamline and remove it is wonderful step for all of us. hopefully this helps small business find not so intimidating to start a small business in san francisco. vice president zouzounis. >> thank you so much for coming and for working with us all these years. i think we were talking about

fee streamlining before it had any glimmer of hope in the legislative realm so this is really exciting for our commission and for some of the newcomers, we played a big part in this work and we are really thankful to our current leadership and our past leadership for supporting this narrative of reducing fees. i in addition to kind of all these conversations and crowd sourcing from the small business community, what fees you know were burdensome, was there any technical or data driven tools you all used? i know fees are based on nexus reports and studies and i know that there is a lot of outdated ones that haven't had the reporting that haven't been in compliance for reporting and nexus studies and curious if you

started from ones that like that and if there were any that you think could be added in but need more support? >> great question. i think these fees in particular are more of the one size fits all annual license fees that departments charge, so not the ones really that have the nexus study per se. and the way we approached it at first was really to look at-we looked at tax data to see how big are the businesses playing these and how many businesses are paying and tried to find the biggest thing for our buck. we want ed to get of fees with mostly small businesses paying, a lot of small businesses and paying and we focused on the zero bill concept because everyone likes reduction, but the best is if we can make sure our business just

stops getting the bill all together and so with we got down, that is where we were looking at okay, what could we do and the last stragglers and maybe it only has 50 businesses paying but that means 50 restaurants won't get this bill at all. i think there are a number of other fees out there that everyone would very much like to tackle, but i think in terms of the license fee realm, we are severely reducing the number of licenses we will collect. >> okay. yeah. what do you feel was the-i was always told the fees balance our budget, so what is the political rational that allowed them our legislators to be confident reducing? >> i think for this pairing with the business tax over-haul was the right timing. it was we are taking a big look at how we need to reframe business

taxes overall in this huge amount of revenue, and so as long as we are adjusting billions of dollars really, this is $10 million of 1 is and a half billion dollar collection for gross receipts taxes so it came into perspective this is relatively small amount. i say there is still work to do between the controller's office and individual departments to understand how to operationalize this for their budgets to make sure that they continue-they are still doing the same work so it isn't like you have to get a permit and not get inspected. all that work is still going to continue, you just don't have to pay for anymore. it is replacing who pays for that work, not getting rid of the work itself. >> that's is really helpful. thank you for helping me visualize that decision. >> any other questions?

seeing no other questions, any public comment? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. and i guess are we making-this was action item, so we have to make a motion. any commissioner-- >> [indiscernible] >> motion to approve to support the legislation, commissioner ortiz, seconded by commissioner benitez. [roll call] commissioner herbert, yes. presidents huie, yes. commissioner ortiz, yes. vice president zouzounis, yes. motion passes. >> thank you so much amanda. next item, please. >> item 5, approval of draft meelting minutes. this is discussion and action

item. >> commissioners, any comments or questions about the draft meeting minutes? no questions. any public comment? no public comment. public comment is closed. commissioner, anybody want to make a motion to approve the draft meeting minutes? >> i will make a motion to approve the draft meeting minutes. is there a second? >> i second. >> motion by president huie, seconded by commissioner herbert. [difficulty hearing commissioners] president huie, yes. commissioner ortiz, yes. vice president zouzounis, yes. motion passes. >> thank you. next item. >> item 6, general public comment. this is discussion item allowing members to comment generally on matters within the small business commission jurisdiction but not on today's

calendar and suggest new agenda item s for future consideration. >> any public comment? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 7, director's report. this is discussion item. >> good evening commissioners. i know that two of the update were covered under the legislation discussed earlier today, so just sharing that recently additional piece of legislation that may be of interest to you, there was legislation introduced by supervisor walton recently regarding third street and the alcohol restricted use district. this new legislation which is still pending at the board of supervisors allow type 42 establishments to open within the third street alcohol restricted use district in the bayview with conditional use authorization. currently this is not permitted.

the second one that was introduced by supervisor mandelman is he is removing from the police department the police code, the police department role and regulating public bath houses and so it will still public bath houses still have other requirements they have to go through, for example through department building inspection, however the police department is no longer regulating. i think those were the two legislative updates. i wanted to give and also just wanted to remind commissioners about new ethics regulations that took effect, so proposition d which was adapted by voters in november last year is taking effect this month. it was mid-october and it sets additional standards for things like gifts that we can receive or prohibited

receiving from restricted sources. so, there are lots of resources available whether online or even through the city attorney's office or ethics commission if any have you questions about these new additional regulations, and for example, our department will need to start posting when we receive department gifts like tickets to events on our website on a monthly basis, but if any of you have any particular questions pertaining to your specific role as a commissioner, please let me or kerry know and we can connect with resources or people to help you clarify these questions. so, those are all of my updates, and--sorry, i should also note that on behalf of rick, inviting you to the upcoming heritage happy hour, the next is november 14 at butter at 354 11th street in district 6. that's it.

thank you. >> great. thank you. any questions? no questions. any public comment? no public comment. public comment is closed. thank you very much director tang for your report. next item, please. >> item 8, commissioner discussion and new business. this is discussion item. >> commissioner ortiz cartagena. >> i have two items. one is around again, compact mobile food. i mentioned in the last meeting. i mentioned it in several meetings. i need urgency on this. it is really effecting especially the mission districates. we have a ton of curb-side street food vendser looks for pathways to legitimacy and without direction there is explosion especially otnight that compete with brick and mortar and you are pitting community against one another. it is the mobile food against

brick and mortar and the mobile food because there is a pathway for that, so i need dph, dpw. i know they probably have thing in place but i need this rolled out. i need urgency on this, because it is really really having a negative impact in my community. i ask director if you could talk to both department heads and bring them here and get clarity on it. what really bothers me more is, we have done lot of ground work. l a has the program rolled out. they have compact mobile food courts in place. they have given grants and one, i hate la is better then us in anything on a personal level, but two, there is precedent and they have strict health code laws like ours, so we need to get this done. it is really now starting like-i have been saying for 2 or 3 years now, so i

like those department heads to come present to us. the second one is, regarding supplier numbers with the city. so, to do business with the city you must have supplier id to get the supplier id you must open a portal t. is a free process, however, it is a complicated process and i believe it is unnecessary complicated process. it is a good way for our smalls business and restaurants or whom ever to do business with the city just to generate revenue. they have all the departments across the city that have lurch, there is very limited suppliers so to order lunch you need a supplier id and it is really hard especially to the small businesses and our mono lingual or not as tech savvy because there is no transparency on why the path takes so long or gets like paused. i'll give you a example, we

helped one business and knew where the pause was, it was in the department and took 15 hours for the whole process. that's a lot of hours a small business won't do and can't afford a consultant or expediter. another business took 23 hours and that even the actual departments all the paperwork was submitted and it was all most it nobody could give a answer why this process was held up. so, it is just little things like this that makes it so hard to engage and do business in the city and doing business with the actual city of san francisco is a huge boom. especially for restaurants. again, think about all the multiple departments that have luncheons and really they only buy from a very select few that knew how to do the process. i want to have-is it-what department is that director? >> it is multiple departments.

we did reach out to the city administrator's office to see if we could line up all the various staff that could have a say in improving the process. >> okay. thank you. >> i feel like something we talked about a while ago on the commission is having more forum like opportunities here, so maybe this is one where we can-when we have it agendize that there will be staff that are at every step of this process and we can invite small businesses so they have order of operations kind of presentation too. just a thought. >> [indiscernible] they had a supplier number, right? you dad? >> yeah, but i have crazy stories about like- >> how hard?

>> yeah. the insurance-there are so many hold-ups, you have to have certain types of paperwork to submit and sometimes the third parties involved dont know exactly what the city is requesting on that. there is definitely i feel like opportunities to do best practices or like how to's on- >> i don't want to beat anybody up, because it isn't one department head, there is nobody-it is just something that is easy, low hanging fruit we can clear up and trust me it is boom for a small business. even if it a $300ordser, that is 300 they don't have. >> one thing i note over time as you know when laws are layered on top of each other, it contributed to challenges. one year our legislators decision makers say we want to make sure everyone has equal benefits, every

employee that is hired by a company in the city, they must have equal benefits. another year we say, we care about this other issue and here goes another piece of legislation, so it is layered and layered upon over time so it does take effort legislatively to unpackage all that. we like to wave our wands and make it easier right now, we probably need to go through some legislative process to undo some of those things and get the support of people to to so. i want to say, it is maybe not as easy as we all hoped, but it is built up over time. >> somebody recently put forth legislation regarding requirements for city contracting and trying to take some out. >> i think that had to do with our restriction on allowing contracts with companies based in certain states that

didn't support i think same sex marriage for example, so and that was rolled back, because again, it was actually very prohibitive for certain things that the city to purchase. that is one example of how-and that was one law rolled back, but there are many others. >> are those in the charter or just in contracting? >> i believe it is in administrative code. >> administrative code. got it. thank you. >> one last thing just again, everybody in those officethhave been amazing to work with. it isn't the people, it is just like you said the layer of bureaucracy throughout the years, because they have been our partner in getting the supplier id's to businesses so i want to highlight, they go above and beyond with customer services, so i want to put that as a note.

>> vice president zouzounis, did you have any--? i can share that we have been having these block parties in china town on waverly and our last one this year will be november-forget what it is. november-next friday. the one after-it is like the november 8. sorry. got confused. november 8 will be our last block party for the year and we are excited about the activation. i think it has been an opportunity to bring people further into chinatown to understand the kind of like what else is beyond grant and you know, i think going forward next year it will be interesting to see how we kind

of do more activations if they look different. this year is the year of night markets and night time activations. i love to see if we can figure how to get people further into the communities like at night, but also like throughout the year. i'm really excited and excited that there's energy. i think there has been a bunch of other things happening but cant remember all now. one thing i want to look into is kind of like all the other things that businesses-i for me like our overhead has been creeping up and like certain things like internet,

electricity, recology, we have to pay for all those things, but i noticed from having my past business and then now the new business the cost of business greatly increased, so one of those being you know, just the trash bills and things like that. i am kind of interested in what that looks like for our small businesses and how we can kind of support and just like basic understanding of what it takes to open a business. so, yeah, those are some of the things that i'm working on right now. alright. anybody else? i thought you were coming with half hour presentations here. we are ready for a 4 hour meeting. [laughter brash ]. next time.

seeing no other questions or comment up here, any public comment? you don't want to comment on all of the exciting-- [laughter] i want to appreciate you all for sitting and being here. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 9, adjournment. sfgotv please show the office of small business slide. >> we will end with reminder that the small business commission is a official public forum to voice opinions and concerns about policies that effect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters reach out to office of small business. meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

>> we have been without a major seismic event for over 20 years now. will happen at a moment's notice [♪♪♪] >> today we are practising the activation of our department emergency operations center. >> this is really an exercise for us to train, and we are using fleet week and the entire -- the italian heritage festival as the exercise. we have four different sections that are working today. there is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. they are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems, they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources.

they will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if additional resources need to be happening over a long-term timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our logistics staff. the logistic staff logistics staff is the one that will order labor, materials, they will do that, first of all, looking within our own organization, then if we don't have that within our own organization, they will contact the p.o.c. and then they will look at getting resources to us. and then last but importantly as our finance staff. and they are here to make sure that we first of all fill out all the paperwork so in an actual event, when the federal government will be reimbursing s., then we are following the proper protocol, and they are also making sure the money is there in place. >> today in the field we have the environmental service is following the parade, and doing the final cleanup of the parade. and an emergency situation, they

would likely be doing something similar to this, only with debris. also in the field is the inspectors from the mapping. they are doing some live streaming. >> there is an intersection of beach making sure that everything is safe for our public, our visitors, and everyone participating in the event. >> there will be so many different departments working during a seismic event or any other kind of emergency. they will all have a separate action plan, and we are here making sure that for public works the action plan for that emergency event is actually followed through. >> engineers will likely be doing damage assessment of roads , bridges, overhead passes, architects and engineers as well would be doing damage assessment of facilities and buildings. building repair it would

probably be doing some immediate repairs to make facilities operational, especially things like shelters, street and sewer repair, as the urban forestry crew also has big equipment that can help clear the roadways. [♪♪♪] >> we have been without a major seismic event for over 20 years now, so it is important that we are ready, we know the roles that we need to play, and we are able to act quickly because it will happen at a moment's notice so that is one of the reasons why we do this, and again, the more comfortable we feel in our roles, then the better we can respond quickly to emergencies. >> for an emergency planning communication is very important, and so i can't stress enough the importance of figuring out a communication plan for your family, and for the department. that is why we are practising today how we communicate and interact with each other, how we

share information, and how we use that information, and then for the city as a whole, so that the city as a halt knows what is going on as well.

>> i never met anyone who recovered from the drugs i was using. i know i was not living the life i wanted to lichb, but didn't know how to get back on track. buprenorphine gave me the life and space to take life one step at a time. i have a life, a life beyond what i could ever dream. a life that includes a relationship with my son. i know anyone can recover. i'm living proof >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more

resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they

should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so

that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces. >> good morning and welcome to the 2024 resource fair. good to is have you guys here. hopefully this is the first of many. >> we are here today to look for lbe and dbe and minority business across the different classification, and also looking for top notch talent. >> there are real ea great opportunities for individuals all most every table had opportunities for jobs, all most every table had opportunities for businesses. you have fooget out there and network and is the best place to do it. >> please make the most of your time, engage with exhibitors, attend one of the two break-out sessions, and take advantage of

networking. >> i learned about contracting opportunity in the break-out sessions so all i came what i came for. >> people get what they need. >> there are plenty job opportunities for people in the city. i believe there is a space for everyone. >> i'm trying to find a connection, find collaborative work and getting to where i fit in. >> there is a lot of employers in one place i wouldn't known were hiring. >> i'm proud to work asfo because the values we hold drive us to seek inclusive equitable outcomes. we believe in eliminating systemic barriers and understand, this is necessary for continued invasion and business success. >> if you want to learn what the qualifications for contracting at the airport, this is quhie you want to come to these events. >> we are lbe subcontractor and here to find more

opportunities. >> this has been amazing. it is so hard to believe that this is the first one. so well run, so many people. i think that the talent we are meeting is great, and then the range of businesses has been incredible. >> so pleasantly surprised how many are here engaging and interacting and making the connections they need to try to grow their businesses and opportunities and jobs available to them. >> thank you so much to our exhibitors, this wouldn't be possible without you, so city partners, our primes, our first tier subcontractors, our concessions, tenant employers, community based organizations, all in the room, thank you so much for taking time and willing ness to support us and

>> making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits small business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months engagement. >> i think san francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. >> i'm hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza. vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could have gotten into pre-pandemic. we thought about opening downtown but couldn't afford it and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in

here. >> the agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. i'm victor gonzalez the founder of gcs agency. thes program is especially important for small business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. it is allowed small businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully unaccessible or just out of budget. vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of economic workforce development that was part of the mayor's economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non profit partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces.

>> [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure. >> vacant to ibvooerant is a important program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. it is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and office vacancy to talking about the amazing network of small scale entrepreneur, [indiscernible] >> this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible.

>> big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. there are a lot of people in san francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just don't have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and small businesses. >> this was a great program for us. it has [indiscernible] opening the site. we benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it. >> my name is andrew england the owner and collector at real old paper.

i'm a native to the bay areaismt grew up in oakland, spent high school years here and lived in hawaii about 10 years. moved back shortly. been in san francisco proper now for about 8 years. when i realized i wasn't a dealer anymore in san francisco, i found openings and decided to opening my own store in north beach in 2016. north beach was a great place to start. i got a neighborhood feel from it. i got involved in the community, but as far as business turnover, fisherman's wharf is 2 fold, 3 fold because there are so many more people here. we have been here going on 3 and a half years. i started as a hobbyist. i started collecting movie posters in high school. not originals. just favorite. when i mouved to hawaii there was a gallery that specialized in

viptage posters and that taught me about the variables beyond movies and that is where this is my career path and what iment to do. i with irked for them for 8 years, took a portion of pay in store credit so i built a collection basically and turned it into a brz. business. hobby turns business and forch int. i got bitten by the poster bug it spiraled out of control and i needed to a store to outlet my collection. san francisco has always had a viptage poster dating with 1970 with chicago new york and paris san francisco is a city with a area to buy vintage posters so people appreciate the time capsule and history. all are vintage. most in the store is at least 40 plus years old, some back to the 1800s so we have some 140 years old. they are advertisement,b war

propaganda from world war 1 and 2. movie and with travel posters and alcohol and tobaccos. thin pieces of paper meant to last maybe a mujt or 6 weeks. the lowest point was the pandemic. having to close the gallery so i didsant have a web store biltd or outlet and barely a instagram and told all the customers don't buy on line. can't be sure they are authentic or true colors or size or condition. it was very frustrating. it was a struggle until this opportunity presented itself and when i moved into this location on the wharf, there was still nobody here yet. we hadn't officially reopened but i rolled the dice, spent everything i had left to build this place out, and give it one last shot. it worked out very well. it worked out very well. >> here we have the 1971 for

the fight. ali and frazier first meeting. the one first professional loss. there is a lot that appreciate the story and understand the esthetic and message and nuances within the graphic. the champagne [indiscernible] wonderful piece. it carries both styles. it has the [indiscernible] in his garb. he has shoes and fits the earlier periods, but done in the style of art deco and that is what we offer and part of the experience knhing into the store. we will walk through the purchase and explain how we preserved it, what are the imperfections and what does the imagery mean. you have the older story and the newer story, pasted over the top. we will give you all that information. about everything. it may not be your favorite piece until you heard the story. i are think i always had in the back of my mind a second location outside the state. i dream is tokyo, but i do a

lot of consulting in las vegas with pon stars group so thought about opening a shop in las vegas. we like to branch out at some point. we are from here and where the company started and where we'll stay, we may just also open another store. i love being here. this is where my family is, this is where i was raised and not ready to leave that behind cht yes, people are looking for this store and there are fewer and fewer store fronts, brick and mortar like ours that outlet this thing. we offer the experience. i think it is very desirable collective subject matter because we are less and less acustoms. you can pick it while looking at it. examining the flaws and scale and color. you know what you are getting because you get that exact one. poster art is my area of expertise and i have affinity for. poster art especially they are not meant to last are under appreciateated.

real paper, the vintage gallery is 777 beach street, tuesday-saturday 11-5 and monday 12-5. >> the wild type is cultivated sea food company, meaning we create directly from the cells, fish and other

sea food animals. there is so much around conservation of salmon. there used to be so many salmon and now all most done. none. we care about creating a food product that is nutritious, that is free of all contaminants that are unfortunately found in all our sea food today. so, where we where right now is in what we call the fishery, so right behind us is a sushi bar. this used to be a brewery we did miner upgrades so soon we will be able to serve diners here so they can try wild salmon. right over there shoulders they are able to see where it came from. if you are one of the people that likes having super fresh sea food, this is about as fresh as it gets. we want guests to interact with the people who create it, get to know them and be part of this movement is

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>> acknowledging ancestors elders of the ramaytush ohlone community and by aif he wering rights as first peoples. >> please. [inaudible]. item 2 approval of legacy business reasonablingistry application and resolutions a discussion and action item. commission will discuss and take action to approve rej tree applications. presenting today patricia legacy program manager with office of small buildings. welcome. >> good afternoon.

vice president and commissioners. city staff and the public. i'm richard revving legacy business program manager like on acknowledge michelle my clothe who provides assistance to the legacy business program. sfgovtv i have a power point presentation. >> before you today are 6 applications for your consideration for legacy business registry. each application includes a staff report. draft resolution, application itself. and documents from the planning department. 2 applications were submitted to planning on october 9 and heard by historic preservation on november 6. >> 4 applications submitted to machining on november 6 and heard by h pc on december 4. item two a ace mailing. the business a full service

direct marketing company taxicabed in 1977 and locate instead the mission district. ace mailing offers printing, graphic design, e mail and postsal mail services list acquisition, did thea base creation, management and maintenance. creative services fulfillment and warehousing. clointss include small businesses, large firms, nonprofits and government entities. at ace mailing you receive reliability, service and knowledge you can trust. the core tradition the business must maintain on registry is marketing and communication services. item 2b is applicant american shakespeare company. the nonprofit found in the 1994 and incorporate in the 95.

african-american shakespeare company opens classic theatre and provide an opportunity and place for actors of color to hone skills and mastering the greatest classical roles. they do this producing work from the classical theatre including shakespeare and great american and world play rights that is lively, entertaining and relevant. core tradition the business maintain is theatre. item 2c is geary print shop. business is print shop establish in the 78 and located in laurel heights makered it. provides reproduction services and printing. copying, graphic design and promotional productless. they are an experienced group of printers strive for quality and efficiency in their production methods. >> tailor services to meet deadlines and budgeting needs.

core feature tradition business must maintain is printing. upon item 2d is jay's laundry. the business is a wash and dry in the mission providing services since 1986. jay's lawn rew coin operator manslaughter for clothes, blankets and towel and wills folding tables to fold each load. giant wash are minutes are the finest washers to best serve their loyal customerers. the core feature tradition the business maintain to remain on the registry is laundry services. 2e german supports a store dedicated to german goods in noe valley and established in 1974. features a selection of traditional unique and seasonal

products including imported groceries and confections and beverages cosmetics and magazines. offer a variety of festive items for easter. oktoberfest and christmas. they have something for sxefrn look forward to welcome you and sharing the joy of german excellence. core feature tradition the business maintain is grocery store featuring german goods. item 2f is walter adams framing a custom art framing company in 1978 with 3 locations low are pacific heights. presidio and westportal. walter framing specialized in conversation framing. shadow bok. custom frame mirror acrylic boxes and photo frames. understand the impact of art can be dramatically affect the by the quality of the frip and high quality framing is unmatched.

whether vauth oil or photo of a loved 1, walter adams has the expertise to give you the perfect tasteful touch the core tradition business maintain is picture frame store. businesses met the 3 criteria required for the registry all received i positive recommend algsz from historic preservation commission. legacy business program staff recommends adding them and drafted a resolution for each business for your consideration. a motion support of the buildings should be framed a motion in favor of resolutions. >> thank you. >> this conclusd my presentation i am happy to answer question and representatives who wish to speak on applications during public comment. >> thank you, rich afterward. commissioners any questions or comments before we go to the

public? >> all right. we will open for public comment. and please, don't be shy we love to hear fru. come on up. >> people want to form a line to my left and your right. or feel free to come up. >> i'm at an age i need reading glasses. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. for offering the tune and for the recognizing role of legacy business in shaping the februaryric of san francisco. we are deeply honored to payment in this process. the african manner shakespeare company more then and there a theatre it has been an historic pill are in our community. a space where stories are told. voice amplifyd and lives are trans forms. for dkdz decades we brought the classics to life.

wave with a lens that reflects diversity of audience. through partnerships we had the privilege of positively impacting lives of individuals from aspiring students to a love of the arts in audiences of all ages. we are doing sindz irrelevanta starting december 20. so, be my guest. san francisco has always been our home. it is more then and there our location it is a heart beat this drives our work. we are committed to a boekon for the arts and underrepresents voices and source of inspiration for generation its come. our dedication to the city is unwaivering we know art is essential to the life and heritage of any community. and ours prud low represents remarkable spirit of san francisco. we hope our legacy resonates with you deeply as with you we

carry responsibility of preserving and cultural history in our city and grateful for opportunity to expand this work. thank you so much for your time. >> good afternoon director and our commission members. supervisor mandelman's office on d8 team. i'm here to speak in support of germ an specialities. we jumped at the opportunity to get it started when she is doing is inspiring. invigorated the area of church and 28. you may know, laurels announce the closure after 48 years of operating in november of 2022. and hannah in the audience was a

loyal customer and an x pam of germany and worked on a business transition plan and to the joy of the neighborhood reopen in the november and has since been an anchor for this part of community and upper no and he we could not be more proud of humana and her team and business and we are grateful they are in d 8. thank you for the opportunity. >> hello, rick that was a great presentation of all the legacy businesses. hope everyone gets it. shakespeare is great i like shakespeare that is awesome and want to start by saying thank you i'm the manager of jay's laundry. my grandfather -- sorry.

it is emotional for me. but he was running a grocery store next across the street from the jay's laundry it was not laundry at the time had an idea of building the laundry mat and got the permits, proved and -- he passed away during construction. my father, john had to step in and take over the business and he -- got the business up and going and approved and has been a great landry mat since 1986. i have been work there since i was 10. went to college and graduated and came back and work 7 days a week for many years throughout the business. one great story i had was it is

interacting of customers and talking about our lives and i just goal is to keep the laundry over the past 3-5 years the business has gone down but our goal we are committed to keeping the laundry going strong for generations to come. i want to say by saying the program is really the spirit of america. and the blood line of san francisco. entrepreneurship. everyone is a legend to someone in this world. it is difficult to be famous but it is truly other people that tell your story and i think this program does a great job. thank you. and i appreciate the time and consideration. >> thanked. >> thank you.

i'm gwen caplin with my mourth foundedis mailing in 1977 and our grand jury in north beach. special from there we moved out of this garage we were there a year. and in we moved to fortmason where we were support service to the nonprofit groups. in building a at the same time as green's restaurant and an was off there until 93. and in 83, we moved the mission. at 720 york and in 1986 bought our warehouse on folsom and harrison and been there ever since. we -- i am proud to be here not only by representing myself and my mother and my husband who was also a great help with his

brains and braun and opening a business that was still is -- tollly mail dominated. however i'm prud to see my two sons here who are the third generation now our business is male dominated also. they are fifth generation san franciscans through my husband's sifted family. they not everweapon to school up the hill at sacred heart. we are delighted and proud to be here and appreciate the recognition and at this time, when we are all emphasizing resilience. we are emphasizing relil resilience, thank you very much. >> good afternoon i'm lloyd i'm a reds dent and business owner

in san francisco. representing waler framing about two years ago my partner keith and i received i felony call from the then owners of walt are adams saying we want to retire. we know this this business had been around for since 1978. and we saw it as an opportunity because if they retired the business would close. and this is a long standing respected business and felt the town for growth for us also would extend and prosecute longing the business and not. losing another potentially important business in the city. when we took over the company we had 3 full-time employees we now have 9. we are on a growth plan. first part of the spln the business that legacy business status this we are honored to be here today. we see walter as nextingly important in as a diverse

employer and service provider for our communities not only in the local districts of our shops but all overnight bay area. so, we had great applications that we heard from today. we hope on everybody's behalf you have a yes vote for everybody and move forward, thank you very much. >> i'm hannah wong. i'm from [inaudible]. my father started the business in 1978. and finished college he got i job in united way. so pass it to me in 1984. you can imagine mag how many years the business i have been in. i'm mainly the [inaudible] and the [inaudible] area.

and it is a tough business. not easy to survive. there are upon 7 print shops during the past 35 years that were in the neighborhood. now, we're the only one. and it is in the easy because everything is expensive. the paper price went up twice sense pandemic. labor gone up. used to be young people willing to in in and try out in this trade. now they it is hard to find. so, the only attraction i want to be in legacy business is because. [inaudible]. you know my father started 1978, the rent is only 425 dollars. but when they raise the rents and want to [inaudible]. raise it to 3 thousand dollars.

we have to move, to another location. this is same thing. after years the landlord remember raise the price temperature is hard to survive in this business. i need the support from the city in when i heard about this program, it is important. because -- the last print shop [inaudible] luckily i have a very nice landlord. the problem is he is trying to sell his business. building. because the apparently with today's economy, i'm afraid that if he did sell his business i'm going through the cycle of

increasing rents. so the thing is obviously i'm happy to be part of the program i can get lots. support from the city. and then my with all the years of experience i [inaudible] the community. like right now there are lots of activities going on they need support. i support all the small business. over there. and [inaudible]. than i can continue to [inaudible]. i support the city. [inaudible]. print stuff for the city. thank you. >> thank you to everyone who spoke. if that's it for the audience

then public comment is closed. and commissioners any thoughts or motions on the floor. commissioner william i appreciate everyone here i say it all the time you make san francisco in the neighborhood outside of the scope of being a business owner. you are always add vo say kate for example other small businesses. jays i knew your grand pai remember the store i am from the mission. all this area. you know i mean to see generational growth like that i love it. the african-american shakespeare you give san francisco flavor only in san francisco you know. things like this can flourish and nourish and i love what you are doing in the communities. you bring something this culture

and that known for in the city. i know you can be working on your business in your business there are other things the holidays i appreciate for y'all coming out and i'm honored, thank you. >> commissioner? >> hello. working? okay. i want to thank everybody for coming through and love hearing the stories my favorite parts of the meeting. i want to congratulate you all on the success and the longevity you credited and established here in san francisco. like chris saidure the heart beat of the city. there are things i relate to especially it jay's laundry. knowing that dollar is multigenerationalism own a small business and have a 10 year old she is 9. hangs out at the shop when she is board she is at the nail salon. i ask her when she does and

tells people po come to the store. i love seeing that stays within the family as best it can you continue on the legacy. the other thing you want to talk about that struck me was it is african-american shakespeare company last night with the kennedy center honors. that was going on one thing this stuck with me, the power the arts redeem in the nation. keep doing what you are doing. and lastly. want to leave it i'm a man of quotes. one thing i stuck out like we had two stores the end we don't build stores we build stories. that's what everybody does. people when come through. you see first dates and books and pictures things like this. and people come become. you have stories to tell, keep doing what you are doing and thank you.

>> commissioner dick arer dickerson thank you for being here this is the highlights when we do as a commission and i always like to reminds you all as well that off the commissioners herure small business owners. so every time you all are getting up and telling your stories trust me t is relatable he were. and we wanted say, i will put it this way. we celebrate you thank you for resilience and when you have begin to the city we would not sit here had not been for the true legacy status of you all with your perseverance and love for you. yes, challenges are there. yes, it can be difficult. and yes, it can make you question when you do but it is buzz of your endurance and push

through we are grateful you are here and so i want to celebrate everyone of you and i say every meeting trust me you don't see me i will check you all out. congratulations and thank you for all you have done. >> thank you. i will say a couple things before we enengage in a motion as well. thank you all for coming and for being in the audience tonight and coming and up speaking and representing your businesses. i love this we get some nonprofit in here as well. and the arts are something that intersect with small businesses. we love to feel see that. shout tout ethnic inspect grocery stores and mull eye generational family businesses. working with your parents and grand parents is not easy sometimes. coming from a family business

but the most rewarding work and -- of course, thank you for being here you are already before this vote a legacy. as a woman in small business community you supported me and many other small business representatives. so, thank you. yea. brit? thanks for putting together an amazing presentation and for those of the you businesses that are struggling and need extra marketing support this program offers so much. please issue don't hesitate to roach out to us and all the materials that the legacy business program presents are very useful. and i hope it can support you all watch that, do we have any motions on the floor. for the adoption of the small buildings i megz for the adoption of each legacy business

today. >> anybody have a second. >> second that motion. >> right. motion to approve legacy business application. i will read the roll. >> [inaudible]. >> commissioner dickerson. >> here >> commissioner cart hanea. >> yes >> motion pass congratulations. [applause]. congratulations, thank you.

>> thank you and yea we will call item 3. welcome, our oh , okay, great. director. thank you for being here.

welcome. >> item 3 fiscal year 25/26 budget instructions. this is [inaudible]. instructions for the upcoming fiscal years presentlying today director sarah dennis phillips thank you for joining us. >> commissioners. thank you for having me today. >> hello. you are close to me i don't know fineed this. and i'm going to be less prepared than mirric who is our budget director will have a conflict and could not be here today. you know it is interesting where the wt left item in legacy businesses the changes many small businesses are having. in the same vairn that's when we will talk about with the budget not great news. you know and some of you may have read in the paper busy the mayor's budget direction.

i will may be walk you through you know what we learned so you have the same information. and we can flip through some of it. so the fitsal out look is in the good. many of us were expecting this. it puts color on it. we are expecting almost 900 million dollars two year deficit. over 253 million deficit in this pending fiscal year coming. combh another over sick 25 million in year two 26/27. the reason for this is our expenditures as a city based on labor and costs will far surpass or revenue growth that is projected to continue for about 5 years. at least as far as we look forward. so, the big take away we gallon in details why, on going

permanent spending reductions of 15% starting with the budget we are preparing for the city. the board of supervisors and the mayor elect this summer for the start of fy25/26. and you know, just to give youa i sense of where this is coming from. this is a chart of our revenues over expend tours shows how the deficit is projected to grow the next 5 years. and that's the context we are looking in. >> we this gives more color to on the business shifts we see partially because of the upon adoption of prop m. which the voters helped in november. but also other changes through business tax businesses close and fy26. hotel tax receipts are down. fees will see loss in fees, part

of the benefit for small businesses of prop m was reduction of dpw, dph and other fees for small business this is come at a cost. and that's a cost that will help add to deficit as well. we are not assuming recession but very modest economic revenue growth. we are not projecting to see an next in major tax ref nows for a time. and again, noose not just due to prop m it is a small business support component that does not help on the ref now side. salaries and benefits are increasing. as well as a rate of return on pension investments. and -- we are seeing cpr growth on nonpersonnel costs. contract and capital expenditures going up as well.

>> but this is what changed. you know there are a couple factors since our last budget of july one 5 montes from that the revenue projections revised down for all the reasons we mentioned. the imflationary pressure on grant and materials and supplies we see that as inflation stabilized an upward trend. roar approved ballot beyond prop m in impact education. housing retirement and staffing cost mandate catharsis add to the burden. >> and -- previous budget this past year fy24-25 did rely on one time sources to balance our

budget we will not have those as a way to save ourselves. the loss of the one time services both covid funds post covid. disaster relief and general fund reserves used to budget previous years we cannot rely on those anymore. >> there are risks beyond the city that we are looking at there is a state budget short fall. that may impact services in san francisco. federal policies under the pending trump presidency of concern and have unknown future impacts to not only the grants we receive if the federal government but changes to medicare and medicaid mean we have to step in. and provide more as a federal government is not. that's the concern as well. assessment appeals are a concern as we look at the transition

downtown and our office buildings are not worth as much as they were. the longer that situation persists the more weave have buildings coming in and requesting reassessment and more we have data where we can't refuse reassessments they request them the city does not reduce property tax but when member makes an appeal we look t at it we lose ref now this way as well. and business tax risks. there are pending tax appeals that threaten over 400 million in business tax revenue our hope that the implementation of prop m from the budget will lead to sethment or removal of those tax appeals and litigation. but we are not sure until it happen its is another risk we need to look at. al rew and benefits if mayor and the city was important to support the city's workforce

that does result in increase of over 900 million in staffing costs the next 5 fiscal years. baseline grows or 200 million can't be used to balance the rest of the budget and citywide operating costs are increasing as we notices and inflation on public healing operating costs and other program growth. shelter are costs and want to make sure to preserve our housing for house dpg homeless for formerly homeless. had is a graph nashoes saul row and benefit growth since 2018. shoes the cost of our health and how of the bench marks move up. and you know remote work affects

the property tax side of things and sales tax revenue holing accyst and convention activity we see happen downtown. we project they will stable ice in the recovery strategies take place and reambition town down to less office focused district. that's not tomorrow this is the next dkdz we see them stabilize. said rip revenue not done well post covid and holing industry is suffering in a big way. we have a number of hotels that are pending bank loans taken back by lenders because of the lack of revenue from the hotel places. so, what is all that money it is

for our budget? it means the mayor set forth she wants to maintain core city services and compleen streets. this we need to not let our foot off the gas on the progress we make in decreasing unsheltered homelessness and making sure we pair that with effective mental health treatment. and there is a priority to improve efficiency a goal i know we share how do we do when we need to do better and more cost effectively in delivering service and in reporting back to our decision makers about the affect of service we can do them. so key priorities but with the priorities we are being directed to reduce general fund upon spending by 15% for every department as we move forward begin nothing fiscal 25-26. long with that, as we propose the budget we should be assessing all of our nonprofit

grants out the door. to make sure they are achieve when we want them to and working efficient low and fund cbo's demonstrating out come. this is partly on our department to be clear that we have metrics we want to meet to help the cbo's meet them and show case to the board to you all on commissions we are meeting those moving forward. in terms of contractual services professional services we hire, there will be a lot of scrutiny. anything not performed by staff look at those we don't have a lot of those osb it is something this is citywide direction. eliminate vacancies on staffing side don't add new ft e's the

hiring we do are replacing positions vacant and everything stable and very hiring freezes no layoffs that is good. but it does mean we will have to work with when we have. basicly on a personnel basis. and there are pending directions and i'm sure we will get more. for now e eliminate redundancy so we make sure across department and it is city level that we are not doing the statement thing in different places. and then this is a not note that does in the mean a lot to the commission when we do nonprofit contracts every year we see cost of living or cost doing business increase of 3 business acided to that. it increases costs to the contract without more service

reduce that from 3 to 2.4% as a minor side of cost savings. don't book travel there is in the a lot of travel going on. we ever focussed on the city. it is city directive. and make sure that grants out the door have performance data. so the board and mir can make strong decisions what they fund. and budget transparency legislation requires 1-2 public meeting before february 14th this is one. with this, and here is just a set of of when will we are going to on a department level be submitting our budgets. we should get an updated 6 among controller's report in february. before we submit the budget inlet february we don't expect

change. that will be one more check to make sure revenues and costs are moving as projected begin the directions. so, not done. what can i answer? . katie i see you director tang do you want to add anything. >> thank you. appreciate you giveing over view for everyone. and we are as you know, the new are commissioners here osb budget is part of oewd's budget i will work with sarah and team to identify the reductions that the mayor's office has requested. but our budget is roughly 3. 7 million dollars. a small piece of the pie here. so we don't have a lot of room most of the funning we provide for people to provide director

service its small business ordinance. tell be challenging but again luck low we are part of a birth department budget and make the conversations together. >> i note we don't expect understanding how the office of small business in the oewd any knowledge the very cost effective work they do with the small and mighty budget we want to preserve this. i think there are other areas we have cb oshg contracts we will see bigger reductions. commissioner. are you on staff? >> good. okay. >> commissioner ortiz. all you >> thank you for this presentation. 2 things one how can we help as commissioners to advocate it is 50% but you pointed out and i want to go on the record is,

this office really does punch up the waechlt roi for the 3 opinion 7 million the services and katie and her team does. i will nut with any department. anything's we can do to make that case. or whatever we want to like put it on the record that roi is big and data shows. straight upper. i think i would dare a most of the cities with agreement will but appreciate that offer. and we will work together to move that forward the biggest lesson for osb or others that

bunch above the weight and support a broad are sector like our small business is preserve that work and let's be restrained when we if there are areas like more legacy business we love to do that this it is a tough time we add more money. but we'll fight to retain it it is having an affect. if well is detail around -- some of state -- and federal funding related to oewd and -- you know the small business service side. i know that small business development centers is come from federal and we have a lot of just workforce funding may be

not this office but the other side i'm trying to understand like if some of this stuff we relied on is -- at risk >> you know. many of the upon grands osb is not rely on the forces outside of spdc i will let tammy speak to that. with regard to workforce this come through fdz and state graf grants we okay for services and programs we initiated urngd the grands it is hard to build a budget that continues those moving forward there is uncertainty there. the other area that may affect small business and keeping an eye on funds about which funds our community economic division and work in someplace our most person corridors.

we have that funding and keeping an eye on it. we'll watch for that. is is that contracted out. >> yes. i know 400 million is larger do we talk about it. who are they the 400 million in business. >> the litigation. we don'ts because that is confidential at this time city attorney's basis on what litigation they received. assume it is large are not a cluster of small are business. no. those are mostly that is related to certain learning taxpayers that -- believe they have found

something this they think is les than legal in the way we impose business tax system or to be correct the way our previous prop m adoption business system was imposed. it was designed to take issues in account. fingers crosses. pay to make money in the city. thank you, other questions, commissioners? we appreciates your time. >> thank you. working through all of that with us. i don't think we need to do

anything with this item except comment. public comment is closed. >> item 4 approval of draft minute this is is a discussion and action item. the commission will discuss and take action it approve the october 28, 2024 draft meeting minutes. >> commissioners any -- questions or motions on our for our minutes or we'll take public comment and a motion? >> public comment? all right >> public comment closed. do we have a motion to adopt the minutes?

>> i motion to approve. >> i'll second. >> okay. great. >> seconded by commissioner dickerson. >> commissioner dickerson. >> yes. why commissioner >> commisioner william ortiz-cartagena:. >> yes >> vice president. >> yes. >> motion. next item. >> item 5 general public comment. no one appeared to request to speak. public comment is close said. item 6 director's report a discussion item. update and report on the office of small business department programs, policy and legislative matters and announcement from thes mayor and regarding small business activities. >> thank you. director. you have the floor >> good evening. i will start with some bad news first is we wing on legislation

to wave impact fees for change. use projects going from production and distribution repair and then switch to nonresidential use. and -- had heard from the business this is we have been working with on permitting about the costs that they pay on top of fees. range from niendz to 100 thousand dollars. and some of types of businesses we worked with include you know may be a chok let make and impact childcare centers. we were not able to get this legislation over the finish line but will explore cost savings for businesses this are trying to start or expand in san francisco. we are going to look at things hol ~ically. get this out of the way and thenmented to share on prdz and saturday we had the holiday pop ups that our office organizes

and thank marian and customer and he michelle from office who helped out this year woeful did something different we have the hell day pop up features over 40 make are in city hall and employees shop well and support local small ebbses with the trouble down tunnel weep want to experiments with an management mall we brought to the san francisco center. in the rotundza. and you know it was mixed reactions there is less foot traffic downtown but it was the year to experiment. so that happened on friday and saturday. and we were thrilled see a lot of other neighborhood holiday markets pop up featuring small business makers as well. we had i think over 70 businesses this time participate which is great. and then -- also good news we wanted share that you may have

deemed this which is this with the passage of prop m. which will be restructuring our business taxes in san francisco that there was legislation this went through the board of supervisors and that was adopted and passed by them. which is great tell wave 49 license fees benefit small businesses on going. annually if you are business paying fees to department of public health. you will will see either your bill be zero or something great low reduced that is irrelevant exciting. and with the adoption of that ordinance tell take affect 2026 this is when people will see of the bills reduced that of the westernful and woeful want it everyone thatting the treasure exterior particular o'clockor. colleagues and the controller's office for this hard work.

and lastly,ment to share something fun. our office was able to tour the new flower market at 16th and mississippi street. and so, about i think 20-30 flower vendors will move there the end of the month and so it is a unique market hope that once it opens in the new location if you want to tour let us know we love to connect i with the executive director there employment to see them thrive it has been challenging. times for them. both due to the pandemic and the development and so we are glad to see they will move very soon. with that happy it answer questions. >> what is the address? >> at the corner of 16th any mississippi. >> our late commissioner will be proud.

>> commissioners questions on the director's report? i would life to know more bottom what happened with the change of use legislation but if it is something to talk off line that is fine >> no , i money i can share here that you know i think some of community members are concerned that this legislation would remutual one of several incentives to replace pdr use. we heard at planing there is roughly 9% pdr vacancies in the city. and also we wanted share. what we want to points out is this there are zoning controlling in place. and that -- actually disincentivize replacement of pdr more impactful in neighborhoods like the bayview

if you are replacing production distribution repair santa fes you replace one for one ratio and some places more. may be other neighborhoods where you are not allowed to build things like housing or office if there was pd r use or c u authorization for something else. we felt strongly zoning controls were disincentive. we understand the communities occurrence this they don't want businesses move out of city. i will say that most of the projects this we have seen and worked on. so they were noted actually dispolicing anyone still trying to be in operation. >> okay. thank you. >> any other questions,

commissioners? okay. >> and seeing none. public comment is closed to had item. next item, >> 7. commissioner discussion and new business a discussion item allowing the president, voip and commissioners to report on recent mall business activities make announce ams of any to the community and inquiries new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. >> thank you. kate. commissioners anybody have update it is. please. commissioner. >> thank you. this saturday we went with office of oewd and we were thrilled open a now business on 24th mission barber shop and highlight this is it is part of all the program this is oewd has

regarding grants the real estate agent is culmination of the programs and the work we do. and continued to that to reduce the store front vacancies, thrilled it was a hard win we negotiated with the property owner to guest this in there. it is really, you know somebody from the neighborhood this kim back and opening his barber shop. another thing i did is i did a walk through with director from dpw the commercial district corridor and addressed the dumping issue this is neighborhood has like along the wipe get massive for a small combheshl corridor we get appliance waste and mat ~ess its is ridiculous. i coordinated but i woong we got

good stuff done it was cool. and lastly for the record. i will bring cfmo. so. you know mow i'm persistent you know how long it to being me to get reports? 7 years i have patience. >> commissioner dickerson. [laughter] >> yea. small business business. for the 21 say i'm really prud it say will be celebrating 5 years in business this year. very grill to say that in 2024. entering 2025. and in this celebration i'm excited to, nouns then 45 lounge now owned by african-american,

wonderful woman. well ton why on 50thly lee land. i will have my event at her space. i wanted, every time i saw her doing the work i thought, machine we have to flood this place when i went in and fwt to talking and it was such good energy and heart is so perfect for this community that space vacant for long. but -- well tonya at 1945 lounge has opened she opened for a month and already booked. i'm really excited make that announce am about that restaurant so, that's what imented to prosecute mote. congratulations latonya.

>> i love it. [laughter] >> any other shout outs from commissioners? >> okay. i have two items i wanted potential low raise for new business or just pose for any feedback, back to the commission. one, i know this our staff and oewd staff has been helping small businesses with a planning code. regarding window coverage. so thank you to director and staff who are -- helping small businesses navigate how to comply with that and particular

i had conversations, too, with supervisor offices that and planning staff this may be think that this may be an opportunity to resunrise the legislation so we can avoid -- path ways of small businesses are forced take in -- accrue a lot of money like getting a variance or something. may be -- this is something this we have case study this is may be we can present become to the commission and invite interested staff or i don't know. see if businesses are fitsing the same issue with this planning code and if you think this it is manage this we motive want it bring to policy

discussion? that was the first thing i want today bring up. and -- we can explain more to everybody when we are talking about if you are in the familiar with this planning code. for example. it is meant to address advertisements not covering windows but some are getting violations because of learning size refrigeration this is blocking windows and creating issues. this is something i wanted raise. the other swon i had a question about when warrants a department city department notifying of businesses landlord? if there is a business violation? if are there times of violations

that require a department to notify a lands lord? because i have seen a business be evicted because dph told them and i did in the know this was something than i could do. yea. this was a question i had as well. >> great. thank you. we can follow and up have a further discussion about the first item window transparency to answer the question. so for certain want dids like public health they notify the business first if than i don't get they might have in cases simultaneous low notify the land lord. i know this dph tries to w william business owner first if than i don't get a response to a notice or so forth they will notify the property owner. what happens is this the departments don't have any leverage when the business this

is don't responded. to violations. and as you all know, when you are renting a space and run your business or do improve ams you neat your property owner permission first. sometimes the notices dot threat of the lien. it is serious. but sometime this is is the only way that some of the city departments able to get a business or the property owner to spond. i do understand it is #but the city has no other tools then if someone is making a violation and in the the city that is the only mechanism. you will see that with case like graffiti the report owners received those from dpw. for building coat violations got on property owner. than i are the ones on the hook for building improve ams.

so -- and even for ad a lawsuits both property owners and small business owners or commercial attentives are if than i have a place of public, commendation are on the hook. so, i don't know if in answers your question. of happy to discuss urth everfurther off line if you need. okay. commissioners. seeing no near commentses from us any comments from the public? this item is closed as well. next item. >> item 8 adjourn am. sfgovtv shows office of small business slide. okay thank you everybody. and we will end with reminder the small business commission is official public forum for voice

opinions and occurrence about policies this affect the economic vitality of small business in san francisco. if you need assistance with matters continue to reach out to the office of small business. and meeting adjourned. thank you.

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