those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

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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.

[trolley bells] >> where the heck are we? >> also, when the heck where r we? >> who cares, we are here. >> we are here union square in the city of saint francis; what do we do first? >> let's go shopping. >> who is paying? no! [music] >> my gosh, we have so many present isn't this wonderful >> yeah. >> let's take these to saint

francis. >> welcome to saint francis, can i take your bag? >> we have lots of shopping for you. thank you so much. >> that's for you. thank you very much. what a awe inspiring view! >> wait mr. scrouge. eme i'm getting hungry again. come on, wake up. wake up. get your wallet out. come on. >> i have already eaton. >> my gosh, there is so much amazing food on this menu. i want to get everything. >> yeah. >> guess [indiscernible] >> alright. >> let's get it all! >> yeah! >> look at the-- hurry hurry!

>> see you. >> this holiday season, shop and dine in union square! and don't miss the world premier of, a premier of, a hi, i'm chris and you are watching san francisco rising. this is about rebuilding and reimaging the city. we will talk about

revitalizing downtown. >> thank you for having me. >> the initiatives in the downtown area and enjoy businesses. perhaps you can tell us about your plan. >> yeah, sure. well, you know, first i'd like to acknowledge we are here visiting union scare. this is the heart of the city and people come to celebrate life's greatest moments whether it's the holidays or buying your prom dress or getting married. you always think about union square as a place to celebrate. we would like to continue in that celebration especially postpandemic. this is a great place to celebrate life. we want to be creative getting people outdoors. we are still coming out of the pandemic and enjoying what we have to offer think about the

beautiful hotel and historic district. we have world class shopping destinations and theater here we are using our strike thattic plan there was a time when weus people want r want a bit of everything appeared experience. one of the newest initiatives is union square. in you come down you will see blooms cascading from hotel awnings and blooms on historic building fronts. you will see them on bus stops. you can go to many of our restaurants and they have cocktails. they have food and of course, being connected withification

we have our bloom gown that's behind me. so, a announcement f ways to celebrate blooms. this is another great time of year for union square we are kickoff the holiday celebrations. they bring out the animal window. we have ice skating. music is another great way to come and enjoy union scare. we are a recipient of the latest grant. this is bringing it into the public life. we are doing it here.

this is in our park. it's really show this is great when it comes to music. >> we have been ignoring the fact for the districts it's a pretty common place across the country and opportunity to transform our spaces. >> yeah, i agree with you 100%. >> we have 13,000 hotel rooms. what if we had a school or soccer this is something we couldn't do before. our rates prior to the pandemic was under10%. we are higher now.

>> we have businesses like cable car a lot of history and innovation here as well. we want to be ready for the opportunities. this is where some office spaces will come. we are seeing office leases in union square. the cable car comes through it. why not come to work in a vibrant space. >> a lot of the businesses have been remarkably resilient. can you share success stories and talk about how they have been supporting them. >> this aligned with what i just said about historic neighborhoods. they have seen everything from the great depression on. in fact, the earthquake of 1906. we have been around for hundreds of years. celebrating 116th birthday. open to the public in

october. they are not gone. they are just down the street a beautiful store where people find great fabrics. contemrare just here on powell street. a lot of the luxury retailers are expanding neighborhood print. >> we talk about the area with a rich history. what about the spaces and stronger sense of community. >> yeah, you know. i have to say these challenging times brought the community together. we had a unique opportunity here. was an opportunity to look at the district and assess where

we might need something. we need a bit more of everything. we broke it down into different categories. we looked at economic development and change offering. people were accessing, you know, nightlife, food, or shopping differently out of the pandemic. we wanted to look at marketing and what it meant to get the news out about what we were doing in the district. looking at our own organize as well and what we would need to get that out there. also creating a safe space. we are creating a safe and secure area. our locals in particular you can go shopping anywhere in the bay area. any of those places will look like any other place. in san francisco, you are

somewhere special. this is a unique place and we needed to get it right. we have done that work and continue to support our district and see different ways to do business here. to be creative and innovative. we were able to change the planning code to make it more flexible to do business here. we are the c3r. we have three floors of retail maybe today we don't want two levels maybe we just want one level instead of too much retail we need a school or something else. very exciting times and really interesting people and ideas. >> that's great. >> so, i guess, finally, what

do you have for san francisco residents and businesses to be apart of this. >> this is the gateway of san francisco. it only drives. right now, we are so many and still love our great city and what we would like to see. this is san francisco and the residents. look around, have a coffee. listen to music on the weekends. we have so much to offer union square. with that, support these businesses. we have a number of openings, a number of businesses betting on union square. in fact, we have a new hotel. the owner is from back of house, that's the name of the

organize. they brought us several other residents and now this wonderful restaurant, i italian restaurant. this is on top of the old restaurant. it will have a rooftop and one of the largest in san francisco. it's a london based business abdomen and betting on n square. we have a great bar scene popping up and speak easy and pch. hawthorne, school. this is the place to come down and enjoy. come, don't forget union square is the place to be. certainly in the years to come. a very difficult time of course for any major city. we are dealing with the same thing. explore and support our businesses here. we'll continue to thrive.

come on down, you will be wildly, also surprised at how beautiful it is since we are still blooming. >> thank you, that's great. it's great to hear your optimistic outlook on restoring this part of time. >> thank you for having me and taking a little time to showcase our heart of san francisco. >> thanks again. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another one shortly. thank you for watching. >> i'm sabrina, i own vintage in north beach san francisco. i started 7 years ago online selling vintage clothing and 9 months ago i opened my brick and mortar in san francisco. i have always been passionate about

vintage clothing. always just been so passionate about what i do and i felt it was the right time after 7 years online. i think it is what north beach needed. especially because vintage cloing is so good for the environment as well. very anti--i think it is great and a opportunity to be here. we have everything from the 20 to 90. i personally like to create more towards the 60 and 70 as you can tell. there is something for everyone. i just always want everyone to feel very welcome in here. i want to treat everyone like a guest in my apartment. i want everyone to have a good time in here and just enjoy all this very clothing. (music).

>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one

of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately

and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can

watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this

building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we

change the >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco entertainment commission meeting this afternoon at 5:30 pm., tuesday, december 17, 2024. my name is vice president wang and start with announcements. >> we'd like to to start with the the land