places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] i five hybrid in-person and virtual meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. my name is zin wang and i'm the commission's vice president. >> we will start with announcements we'd like to start the meeting with the land acknowledgment we are the san francisco entertainment

commission and acknowledge that we are on the unceded we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramakrishna loney who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw material only 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 elders and relatives of the romantic community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. this meeting is being held in hybrid format with the meeting occurring in person in city hall room for one six broadcast live on tv and available to view on zoom or listen to by calling 16699006833 using meeting id 89837844725.

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>> present commissioner davis present commissioner perez here. commissioner podium. >> president bush lander is on his way and commissioner thomas is also on her way and president bowman is excused. >> all right. the next item on the agenda is agenda item number two general public comment and here comes commissioner thomas. >> are there any public comments for items not listed on the agenda? no public comment. all right. seeing none public comment is closed. next item on the agenda is item number three approval of the minutes for the february fourth ,2024 commission meeting. do we have a motion on this motion to approve the minutes of the last meeting? >> second, any public comments

on the minutes? >> no public comment. all right. >> public comment is now closed. commission secretary, please take a vote. >> vice president wong i. commissioner davis i. commissioner perez i. commissioner podio. i. commissioner salander is still not here yet and commissioner thomas i. >> all right. meeting minutes have been approved. next item is agenda item number four report from the executive director. >> good evening, vice president wong. good evening, commissioners. i would like to share the beginning of my executive director report with ben van houten from the office of economic and workforce development who is here with us this evening and is going to provide a little feedback around s.f. music week and its first week ever. let that occur last week or

first year ever. we're really excited to share about this so thanks for joining us. >> thank you. thank you, director weiland. good evening, commissioners. nice to see you all again. you know, we're still i think, you know, thinking about outcomes and lessons learned from music week. but you know, having just concluded on sunday, i think we really feel very positive that it was a really successful effort all week long at a number of the convenings that i attended. folks were saying oh when can we do this again? we should do this more often which i feel like is a a good indicator of the success of this sort of you know, first year first year effort. we said that, you know, from a city perspective the kickoff event at empire studios, the industry summit on friday, the the happy hour event monday night at harlem records and then artists development day at music city, san francisco where they sort of flagship public

facing offerings that were all really great in their own respective ways. it was great to have the mayor speak at the summit and then also attend the happy hour. a lot of great, great conversations throughout the week. the kickoff event you can see that conversation about the history of hip hop in the bay area with gazi and dan the automator. it's entirely on youtube and it's really stellar as it both a conversation about sort of the history of hip hop in the bay area but also about what motivates the independent spirit and why people do creative work music work here and why it's important to them in addition to those events was really fortunate to facilitate a meeting that the san francisco venue coalition held in city hall on monday afternoon. the commissioner davis thank you for being a part of that conversation of venue owners really trying to take the temperature of where the venue landscape is right now coming out of the pandemic.

and one of the strengths one of the challenges where there opportunity is you know, like the other convenings that i spoke about, you know, i think there was a really collaborative positive spirit that all the venues brought to it and certainly a lot of good ideas that we were hoping to continue those sorts of conversations with venues in a group like that in the future. so looking forward to to doing that as well. >> a number of great partner events throughout the week i was able to attend some of them was not able to attend all of them. i know that commissioner schlanger was on a panel at iheart radio about filipinos and event promotion that i heard report was a really great another really great conversation. but but yeah so really just that appreciative of all the support and getting the word out about music week thanks to our partners at that noise pop and plant agency for truly tireless efforts to make it happen and yeah hopefully it's the start of more work to

support our local music ecosystem from venues to studios to labels and you know there's clearly a lot of folks who are doing very creative work and that are really fired up about being part of solutions to sustain and grow that ecosystem. and thank you to commissioner perez for being there all day on friday and and and to so many folks from the team. >> yeah, happy to field any questions if it makes sense or come back at a later date once we've had a little bit more time to wrap our head around some of the some of the learnings. >> anyone have any questions for ben? >> i have a question just a comment. just congratulations. thank you so much for calling on this amazing event yet disallowed great dialog between performing arts venue operators and promoters from the summit that i went to. so congratulations i'm looking forward to working with you on future events. >> thank you. >> fabulous. anything else?

well we are very proud of you and your colleagues in iwd and noise pop for standing us up and for all of the partnership that went into it and all of the venues that participated and i for 1 a.m. really excited to be a part of all of the future events related to this work. >> so congratulations. thank you. thanks for coming. sure. >> a couple more updates for you within the directors report item. i just wanted to share a reminder with everybody as a save the date for our annual nightlife and entertainment summit on may 12th and this is occurring at 49 south fan us so not quite as fun of a venue as swedish american cafe du nord however we're really looking forward to it. we started building out our panels and our executive leadership group all share just a little bit again about what we're looking out for that day

. so the event will run from 12 to 4. we'll have a resource fair again and the lobby which we're looking to expand a little bit this year working with workforce team at iwd potentially making it a little bit more of a job fair tbd on that but that's something that mission secretary liang is working on right now and beyond that we'll have presentations and sessions from 1 to 4. so we're trimming down the summit hours just a little bit this year we'll still have our beginning portion where you'll hear from executive leadership. now we are inviting mayor lurie and then will go into two different panels. the first panel discussion that will have is where the did all the customers go and how do we get them back? so that is our focus for that session. we have ideas on panelists.

we started to reach out to some commissioners for feedback around that. if anything jumps to mind for folks that you might want to have as a part of that, please let us know we are inviting commissioner slander to be on that panel to represent an event promoter who's really successful in getting folks out to events. so we're going to have a perspective from a venue as well and that's undecided so far. we also want to invite somebody who might be representative of gen z potentially an influencer or somebody who can share a little bit more wisdom on what might get the younger generations out and enjoying my life here in san francisco. we'll also be inviting somebody from s.f. travel. so if you have any ideas and you want to chime in on that please reach out to me directly and then the second panel is going to be a town hall. and so that's really going to

be leadership myself included president and vice president wong i will be inviting a representative from the mayor's office to be on that panel where folks can ask us questions directly from the audience. we really felt like from the last couple of years the feedback that we've received from folks that have attended our summit that that's something that might be lacking is a little bit more engaged meant back and forth with folks in the audience and we want to provide an opportunity for that. in addition to that as ben mentioned just last week we hosted a roundtable which commissioner davis was a part of where we were able to have some of that dialog back and forth. that's something that we want to continue to participate in as well so that we can foster more of that communication with our music venues or our event promoters. so if you have any ideas for the summit and you want to

reach out please let us know it is getting pretty cooked at this point we all are. >> we are also trying to figure out our happy hour venue so just noting that for everybody if there's an idea of someplace local to hear that you want to pitch to me, please let me know. we cannot go to permitted venues so that definitely limits us quite a bit which is a good thing in our world that so many places have permits finally and i'll take questions at the end on these two items i just wanted to update you all on an appeal. so at our previous hearing that you i can't remember which of you were in attendance at we heard habib lounge for their place of entertainment and extended hours premises permits and they did appeal the commission's decision on that determination and just as a reminder they were only given a conditional grant of those permits that evening because they still had to complete required inspections and a

couple other things they appealed the decision and last wednesday deputy director as a veto represent and the entertainment commission at the board of appeals hearing and she won which won on behalf of the entertainment commission so upheld the decision that you made. so we wanted to let you all know about that and just a little more details about that . you all had made a decision to impose a 2 a.m. cutoff time for indoor entertainment rather than the applicant's 3:30 a.m. requested and time just and of note for you all the business owner did not attend the hearing but his representative the architect who was here at this hearing was present at the hearing and spoke on behalf of the venue overall the hearing went well as you can hear deputy director as a veto won that. but just an update for you all on some of the things that

they're still missing in order to obtain those permits. the business has not completed their dba and fire inspections and they still have other outstanding paperwork. they need to submit so that we can issue those permits. so that's still outstanding. and we'll also just add that the last sound complaint we received about the business was on january 26th and we had inspectors go by during the late night shift at 3 a.m. the following weekend on february 2nd and the business was closed . so if you have any questions about either our summit or the appeal, let me know. >> all right. thank you for the update. executive director any public comments on that report or any comments from my fellow commissioners? >> i just have a comment. just wanted to thank the staff, thank caitlin, thank maggie. that was i watched the appeal. i watched every minute of it and it was very professionally done and i know that you could tell a lot of preparation went in on that many hours of preparation.

so thank you for representing us professionally in front of that appeals board. thank you. any public comments? all right. >> seeing them there's none. thank you. public comment is now closed. >> next item is agenda item number five report from the senior inspector. thank you. good evening, commissioners. we have received 91 311 complaints since our last commission hearing on february fourth. i have a few updates below. please let me know if you have any questions. my first update is about heron arts located at seven heron street who does not hold any permits from our office on saturday february 15th at 12:45 a.m.. inspector young rice responding to a complaint submitted earlier that evening on friday february 14th at 10:45 p.m.. upon arrival he spoke with management and their sound engineer who claimed that the

music was not coming from a deejay and denied the inspector entry into the business. after inspector yung rice explained what constitutes a deejay. he noted that management ultimately agreed that a deejay was performing inside and they were able to lower internal volumes. management also noticed that that entertainment was scheduled to end at 4 a.m.. e c staff has have received 6311 complaints starting in june of 2024 resulting in several visits by e c inspectors where they were able to provide onsite education to management on the necessity for permitting when hosting entertainment. management also corresponded with via email. where do you see staff about permitting requirements as such? heron arts was issued a notice of violation on february 20th for operating entertainment without a permit. since the issuance the business owner has been in touch with e c staff acknowledging that they will apply for one time permits for their occasional entertainment and have also

expressed great interest in being put in touch with their neighbors directly. i emailed the neighbor last week to see if they were comfortable with me sharing their contact information with heron arts and i'm still awaiting a reply. my next update is about music city located at 1355 bush street who holds a poem with our office on friday february 14th at 9:05 p.m.. inspector young rice responded to a complaint submitted earlier that evening at 6:05 p.m.. when he arrived he noted that the front door was closed but there was outdoor prerecorded music in operation. >> inside he took a non-compliant sound measurement of the band at 92.8 db a and 103.5 dbc while the approved sound limit is 90 dba and 98 dbc inspector young i spoke with the manager and sound engineer about the reason for his visit and explained that outdoor amplified sound is not currently included on music city's popi permit.

additionally, he reeducated the owner and sound engineer how to monitor internal volumes to ensure compliance with the approved sound limit. on february 20th music city was issued a notice of violation for having unpermitted outdoor amplified sound and exceeding their allowable sound limit. my next update is about barbie's located at 4541 mission street who does not hold a permit with our office? on friday february 7th we received a311 sound complaint about barbies at 8 p.m.. inspector young writes responded quickly at 8:30 p.m. and upon arrival he noted that the front door was open and the internal sound curtain was partially closed and the music from the bar was quite loud and could be heard outside. inside inspector young i saw a dj performing. he noted in his report that he noticed the owner have the dj stop when he noticed the inspector entered the business. the business has been educated on permitting requirements in person and through email correspondence. barbie's was issued a citation

on february 11th for hosting entertainment without a permit from our office. the business has since applied for a one time permit. >> my next update is about rampant bottle and bar located at 3516 balboa street who does not host entertainment or hold any permits from our office. since june 2024 we have received 54311 complaints about the business. of the five submitted complaints, inspectors have responded in real time on three occasions and once retroactively in response to two consecutive complaints. during these four visits the business was found to be compliant as they do not host any indoor entertainment or outdoor amplified sound. namely the complaints we are receiving are about regular operations and pantry patron noise before 10 p.m. when the business closes. additionally management has informed inspectors that on one recent occasion the complainant harassed the business's staff and patrons and refused to

leave the premises until as a pd was called. management also informed inspectors that s.f. pd has visited the business twice and since your door d prioritized pd response based on the lack of evidence that they were doing anything wrong. ac staff are asking for your guidance tonight and d prioritizing complaint response at the business does not as the business does not need a permit from our office at this time. >> thank you. all right. thank you. >> commissioner's comments. >> so it sounds like our combined all-star weekend and lunar new year managed okay without too many complaints. so congratulations everyone. >> but that said, thank you for what still was a pretty high volume of considering a very busy weekend a very busy weekend.

>> i think low is hanging fruit here. the rampant bar. it's it's it's pretty easy to provide guidance to deprioritized since it doesn't sound like they're out of compliance and they don't need a permit. >> would you all agree with that? yes. yes. >> yes. okay. if you like a motion maybe or do we need a motion for that? >> yes. okay. yep. >> okay. motions i'd like to make a motion to direct our inspectors to prioritize responding to concerns from the rampant rampant bottle and bar. >> second second. that's fine. okay. um. vice president wong i. commissioner davis. all right. commissioner perez. hi. commissioner poggioli. i. commissioner salander. and commissioner thomas.

i regarding the other two that really stood out, herren seemed particularly problematic in that they didn't allow an inspector indoors to inspect. >> is that something they've been educated on? generally, yes. yes. we've had multiple opportunity needs to educate the management and though the complaints are relatively few and far between we have experienced the same thing multiple times and this time i believe deputy director has a veto was able to get them to apply for a permit in the most recent correspondence correct. >> the business owner just agreed to pull one times moving forward. was the response to that a.b.? i do have a problem issuing even when times.

for businesses that are going to be hostile to our staff and not allow them to inspect. >> i agree. second, how would you like us to. can you give us guidance on that for future applications that are submitted in the one time through the one time portal? >> so we would i think what are the options? yeah, i think we might need to get back to you quite honestly and once. dylan you might have a response on that but we would probably have to okay we would probably have to research code just a little bit around denial and grounds for denial. okay. so and that's something that we can administratively do. >> so even if we're not going to deny would like an opportunity to speak to them so that they can under. sure. yeah but the landscape is. yeah, that can be our aim. >> yeah. establishing a protocol for

that would i think time and time again i think would be really helpful. >> okay. all right. we'll probably be reporting back to you at our next hearing on that. >> thank you. yeah, because that wasn't even the only one reported in the in the inspectors report where the inspectors were denied entry. >> mm hmm. it happens, you know, and then we have to go and educate and other ways. >> so that was also the case with barbie's or in in that situation it looks like inspector young rice was allowed in. >> yes, he was allowed in in that instance. i believe what you're referring to is the fact that they once they noticed his presence they ended entertainment operations

for which they were cited for. right. >> okay. >> well, in that instance at least they were cited and it sounds like they're in the process of now getting their implants. okay. >> do we have any public comment on the report from the senior inspector? >> there is none. >> mm hmm. okay. public comment is now closed. >> next item on the agenda is item number six hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commissioner. >> deputy director, would you like to introduce the permit application on the consent agenda? >> thanks. vice president long good evening commissioners. we just have one permit agenda item on consent tonight and it's for an lp permit for bambu restaurant on polk street.

there was no opposition for this permit and sf pd northern station had no added concerns so the safaricom's intention is to approve the permit. with the staff recommendations listed on your memo. >> okay great. thank you. just a quick show of hands is anyone here to give public comment on this item? no. okay. great. okay. okay. in that case public comment or any there's no public comments on this permit application either. >> okay. public comment is closed. >> commissioners, do we have a motion to approve this permit? i move approval of the consent calendar. second. >> okay. vice president wong. hi, commissioner davis. all right. commissioner perez high commissioner podio. i am sure slander. all right. and commissioner thomas i. all right. bamboo restaurant folks your permit application is conditionally granted.

please follow up with deputy director as a veto. >> thank you. thank you. >> deputy director, would you like to introduce the first permit app on the regular agenda? >> the first item on the regular agenda. i'm actually going to request continuance for. it's for an llp permit that i'm working with the applicant on. so i'd like to request continuance please. >> okay. motion i'd like to make a motion to continue the permit for the black feather back to back application. >> second. all right. do we need also to ask for public comment on this? any public comment on this? >> there is none. oh, i'm sorry. >> okay. then this will be continued. >> we have to vote. vice president wong okay i. commissioner davis.

all right, mr. perez. high commissioner po jo. all right. commissioner slater. >> all right. commissioner thomas i. >> all right. all right. second permit application project and communication manager rice. >> would you like to introduce it? yes. thank you. good evening, commissioners. the next item on the regular agenda is a one time outdoor event permit from the mid-market foundation to host basket, a music series that features local musicians playing busking sets on market street between fifth street and eighth street as well as adjacent locations at taylor street and mcallister street. >> the goal of the series is to bring joy and to change the experience on market street by hiring local talent and highlighting small businesses. >> now in its second year basket will feature street performer style performances over nine months from march 10th through december 20th of this year. these curated performances will

happen at a dozen locations on the sidewalk and private patios at businesses such as saloon clasico bakery, la cuisine café sam's diner, holey stitch and others along the market street corridor. >> each set will last two hours and will occur around lunchtime or the end of the day commute. >> the total hours of entertainment are amplified sound will not exceed six hours per day. >> the applicant is requesting the daily hours of 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. so they have more flexibility with scheduling musicians as you'll see in your folder. >> their permit application, their neighborhood outreach letter and map the permission letters from the participating businesses and a copy of their slide deck presentation which mr. ready will be showing shortly. >> the applicant conducted neighborhood outreach and we did not receive any opposition from neighbors for this permit. >> s.f. pd tenderloin station

did not respond with any recommendations with the within the response window so we assume they have no concerns with the permit. >> staff are recommending approval with the good neighbor policy and the conditions you see listed in the memo here to speak with you this evening is rob reddy on behalf of the mid-market foundation. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners and thank you for your consideration and thanks to staff dillon and may in particular. >> we're always hopeful that calming. >> my name is rob reddy and tonight i'm speaking on behalf of the mid-market business association and foundation urging your support for a one time outdoor event permit for a free live music program basket . give me a stick here for me, babe. okay. a work eventually probably.

i'll come down there right? yeah. there's, you know, fun stuff in here. here we go. okay. so mba and f51c6 and c three is collective vision of a safe and clean business setting that fosters a sense of community inclusion and contribution by and for everyone. to that end, our main project is market street arts a neighborhood economic recovery strategy that capitalizes on the area's creative infrastructure while creating community and awareness and building a world class arts and entertainment district in the heart of san francisco. >> we do this by fostering community amongst world-class arts orgs in the area filling vacant spaces with new

businesses or pop ups creating signature events and of course marketing all these cool projects and people. tonight we're here for one of those signature events. basket a free live music program in which we are local artists to play to our sidewalk sets in front of partner businesses like hotel arts, school bakery, the red tail beer and wine bar or mo greens to name a few. all for the joy of passers by or folks sitting and eating at cafes or people who like venerated pop star robin just keep dancing on their own. >> last year's program was incredibly successful. we paid out over $150,000 to local artists directly hired 150 130 different musicians brought customers and good vibes to local businesses, generated positive press coverage for the neighborhood and supplied 550 hours of free live music to the general public. here's some photos you can see of just kind of what it looks

like. it's exactly what it sounds like really excellent san francisco bay area musicians playing free live music of all different stripes for anyone who wants to hear it . with those results we humbly ask that the commission once again approve a one time outdoor entertainment permit for busking. thank you so much and i yield my time to thank you rob and thank you for doing this good work just hearing you talk about the mission of building a world class arts and entertainment district, i mean we could not be more aligned obviously. >> yeah. >> commissioners, any comments ? this looks like a fantastic project an area that needs revitalization and also just getting the money right to the artists of it. yeah, incredible stuff. >> oh yeah. also congratulations. i remember you guys coming last

year so this was really exciting. so you say you expanded the programing to is it more venues and more or is it longer footprint? >> i think we added a couple of addresses to this year's permit of folks who expressed interest that might actually not be true. it might just be about the same but it's still focused. the partner businesses are you know there's a couple of hotels, there's a couple of cafes. there's the red two oh yeah the red tail beer wine bar which is a new business as of september of 2020 four which we helped to open. >> holistic is part of that. that's another new business on market street which we helped open. namely filling vacant vacant spaces with new and interesting businesses that kind of support the work that we're doing. the major expansion was probably just in types of artists and people that we

hired to help come down and play music. but it's a very similar program to what happened last year. >> and our aim is to keep it going. all right. >> be you being right next to the soma filipino cultural heritage district i noticed that on your photo you had my friend lenny ukulele. yeah. i'm glad to see that he was participating. >> so this is a great friend of mine and a collaborator. i've played with him before and he's a of a musician. >> awesome. so do you remember any particular complaints from the neighbors or any hurdles that you had to it's been remarkably smooth. to be honest there was i think we got one email from a resident who worked i think he worked nights and so he was and he was a little annoyed once about the like noon set at our

cycle during the day which is, you know reasonable but right beyond that we have heard and to be honest nothing else. >> all right. and you expanding the time this year or so at least did you say nine months? yes. i think we're we're trying to go from march through about mid-december is the goal and part of that was to be able to put we worked with mr. tipples to put out musicians like jazz musicians in front of the different theaters during their holiday programing that seem to be really successful. so we wanted to extend that a little bit into december. awesome. thank you and good luck. >> thank you. >> yeah, i think you can take a seat now. thank you. are there any public comments on the permit application? no comments.

>> all right. do we have a permit? i do have a motion to approve the permit. >> motion to approve a second vice president wong. hi, commissioner davis. hi, commissioner perez. hi, commissioner podio. i. >> commissioner lander and commissioner thomas i. >> your permit application is conditionally granted. please follow up with project and comms manager rice for next steps. >> thanks rob. >> i buy things from. all right. the last item on the regular agenda is an amendment to a one time outdoor event permit for live music on the hayes street shared space the hayes valley neighborhood association is producing this free series of music performances on the block of hayes street between octavia and goff to activate the shared space with arts and culture and encourage pedestrian traffic to

local businesses. they plan to host a variety of programing like solo musicians, bands, deejays as well as dance performances and classes. >> the series launched in 2023 with occasional programing on fridays and saturdays and in 2025 they would like to expand their programing to include every friday and saturday from march seventh through november 22nd. >> on fridays they would like to host music from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.. note that they will not exceed six hours total per day of outdoor entertainment or amplified sound you'll see in their folder their original permit application and the amendment request. you'll see their neighborhood outreach letter and map the applicant conducted neighborhood outreach from the neighbors. >> we received one letter of opposition and five letters in support and just today we received a letter of support

from supervisor bilal mahmood. >> these are all located in your folder and we also gave you a hard copy of the letter from the supervisor. >> sfp northern station did not respond with any recommendations within this response window so we assume they have no concerns with the permit. staff are recommending approval with the good neighbor policy and the conditions you see listed in the memo here to speak with you this evening is andrew senior from our assigner excuse me from hayes valley neighborhood association. >> thanks, dylan. that pretty much sums it up. i'll be really quick. thanks so much. my name is andrew signature. i'm representing the hayes valley neighborhood association. applying for this permit i'm going to go through really quick a little bit of history of our program the activations we've done and the neighborhood support that we've gotten. so this is part of a street closure one block of history that goes back to a covid era

program that we've been running for the last five years. i've been involved in these one time permits for amplified sound for the last two ish years and through a lot of help from dylan and may dealing with this kind of amending the permit and trying to get it as dates change trying to make adjustments. y'all have been extremely accommodating. we're here today based on recommendation from working with you all to hopefully make that process a little smoother so we can kind of plan out longer term programs without having to come back to you every time. so really quick just going through some of the types of events we've done i should say all of these events are free to the public. it provides a space for people of all backgrounds to enjoy life music. we do we pay all of our musicians and we take donations and that all goes to permits and musicians and that's it. >> we ran a ten concert music series a while back.

>> we do an event every year a holiday stroll that brings thousands of people to the neighborhood. we also in partnership with into the streets ran a four event program called saturdays in the city last summer. we're hoping to do that again this summer. this just gives kind of a quick vibe check on on what the what the event looks like. >> sometimes pretty low key but but great for kind of everybody to come on out. >> we also did a series of art walks in partnership with the s.f. arts commission. the artists came in and you know, sold their wares and then we paid musicians to kind of complement the event. >> we do a carnival every year. this is another event that brings thousands of people to to our neighborhood. and then on the endorsement side, this isn't specific to the sound permit but we've been collecting support to make this whole program permanent like the way we activate it and having events like this. we've gotten over 2500 neighbors to to sign it.

and then on the merchant side there are 23 merchants on the block where we hold these events. of those 21 are in support of making this program permanent too. we haven't gotten a response yet. so the support is is quite broad among all the merchants that are along there. that's it. so thank you so much for your consideration. >> very cool. >> thank you. any comments from my fellow commissioners? >> can you just. it said it was an expansion or an amendment. will you just. i'm sorry. i know this is probably in your application. what is it? expand it to like what are the the change of hours or days? >> it's really we've been working off of the the permits that allow like 12 days like like specified ahead of time and this would allow us to kind of pick and choose as needed the days that we want to have live music. >> i see. yeah i can also help clarify so he wanted to do a11 off event

as a part of the series in january and so he applied for the permit and then he requested to meet amend the permit through an extension of the series so i explained to him because it it it triggered a hearing, you know, the number of days he wanted that you know, he would have to do the outreach for the amendment. >> oh i see. yeah. okay. thank you. and just a notice there's a public comment letter of concern about this or i guess opposition but one of their concerns is that they are unable to get to their car and to their garage. that does seem like a pretty significant accessibility and safety issue. >> so i'm wondering if you have a plan or some way to to mitigate the hardship for that individual. yeah, that relates to our s.f. mta shared spaces permit.

so i saw that letter that was unfortunately that's the first i've heard of this. we have a site plan with s.f. mta that maintains the 20 foot fire lane down the middle and also maintains access to that one. there's one driveway on the block and we always ensure that people can drive in and out of of that driveway to get building access. i feel bad that this person was not able to get out. i don't know which event this happened at. i met the vast majority of events and it's it's known among our volunteers there that if somebody is coming in or out that needs that driveway, they always have access. so it's probably on me to go back and make sure that like every single volunteer understands that. but unfortunately this is the very first i've heard of it that it well it sounds like possibly communication with the residents of that building whatever whoever has access to that garage also might be

needed to. thank you. it seemed like there should be a plan in place so it's good to know that there is a plan in place. >> yeah, i. i used to live in a neighborhood so this is great news and you know, congratulations and continue the great work. yeah, i just want to say congratulations also and thanking thank you for making this initiative to bring joy and vibrancy during neighborhoods and it's a lot of work. so thank you. >> any public comments? >> good evening commissioners and staff. my name is david robinson and i'm a resident and homeowner in hayes valley. i'm also the president hayes valley neighborhood association. i can't say much more than andrew's already covered. he has put blood, sweat and tears into this program and they started as he said during covid when we originally were

allowed to close off a portion of of the block at the 400 block of hayes and really made took lemons and made lemonade out of it. and since then have progressed with different activations through the last five years. he mentioned our big events of course holiday stroll and the carnival but all the other events we have there such as the saturdays and the street, the art walks it's it's it's become especially on a really nice weekend sort of our front yard of hayes valley and we've got people from all over the community to visit not just the neighborhood and it's become sort of our our our our source of pride in the city so again can't say anything much more than andrew just said. >> so hopefully we can proceed with this and go forward. >> thank you so much for your time. you thank you. any other we have one hand

raised on zoom. initials h. >> j. >> hello everyone. my name is heather jackson. i'm also commenting in support of this permit and that is the end of my public comment. thank you. >> thank you very much. okay. >> and there are no other hands raised on zoom. >> all right. public comment is now closed. do we have a motion to approve the permit? >> i'm going to make a motion to approve the permit. second faster than me tonight. >> okay. vice president wang. hi, commissioner davis. hi, commissioner perez. i. commissioner poggio high commissioner lander. all right. commissioner thomas i. all right. your permit application is

conditionally granted. please follow up with project incomes manager rice for next steps. >> the next item on the agenda is item number seven commissioner comments and questions and commissioners. >> just so happy all-star weekend is over to go. i have a comment please save the date. we're going to have our class photos taken. >> thank you on may 18th and that meeting maybe two weeks from today? >> yes. so 4:30 p.m. the call time here. so right before our regular hearing. >> oh, so that make sure get your haircut beautified whatever you want to do. >> the photos will be used for our i guess we're everything. so everything for everything every appointment right before

that. >> that's perfect. yeah, it'll be it's for our annual report on there'll be a staff photo and commission photo individual and maybe also the group photos. >> so head shots as well. yeah. gosh, thank you so much for all that you and your friend and and then we discussed too but we can take offline but i think we'll probably do the head shots like on the fourth floor just because it's so pretty though natural light coming in and then we'll do group photos may maybe there but i mean yeah yeah yeah so we'll do all kinds. >> we'll click on all the wedding folks. >> yeah. yes. yeah so please try out plan to be on time so that we can maximize the one hour that we have to get as many types of photo combinations that we can do. >> oh that was my question. do you need us all here at 430 because i have a bunch of work for you. >> you'll get an email from may. >> so she's going to do a whole schedule and put it together. i'll be in a meeting with the mayor's office from 4 to 5. >> so i imagine we'll probably

schedule all the headshots from four 3035 and then we'll do group shots. >> maybe you can be on the tail . yeah i can be. yeah. yeah, that's we can totally we'll schedule it out. yeah yeah you can be at or be at the same time as me right at the end. >> yeah. maybe just show up in business casual or whatever. >> yeah. that's one way to represent yourself. i don't know if ben will do that, but we'll try this before go. >> we're still televised. okay. his version. >> cool. yeah, i'll be fine. thank you. i'll last for that. thank you. i'll okay. >> please just cool. all right. all right. any public comments on this item? >> no public comments. all right. seeing none is public comments closed and this meeting is adjourned at 6:26 p.m.. >> all right. all right. >> all right

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>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the

construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city.

>> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process.

some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony

was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different

departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

four of the 5 p.m. and 5:30f. p.m. weeknight newscasts at nbc bay area. she's been awarded three emmys for her live anchor coverage of breaking news. please give it up for janelle wang of nbc news bay area. okay. joining me now. hi everyone. good morning. oh, our nbc bay area photographer is here. >> yay. hi, ethan. how are you? we're going to put this on the news tonight because it is a big day here in san francisco. an exciting day. i'm janelle wang, your host and emcee for today's city breakfast brought to you by the chamber of commerce, the san francisco chamber of commerce. it's a beautiful day here at pier 27. i spoke to one of our meteorologists at nbc bay area

and she confirmed today will be the best day of the week weather wise here in san francisco. it will be seven hitting 80 degrees in some parts of the city. if you're inland more not by the coast. that's the forecast. so it's going to be a great day here in the city. a perfect way to celebrate 175 years legacy here in san francisco a truly remarkable milestone for our city and the chamber of commerce. and as we look around we are reminded of the resilience it's the innovation and diversity that have defied, said san francisco for nearly two centuries. it's incredible to think about all the progress that we've made and to be part of today's celebration is truly an honor. and we have an exciting lineup today including unveiling poll results by united airlines. yes, i got a sneak peek.

very fascinating. an address from mayor daniel luria. >> he's here. economic insights from chief economist jeff krzanich at fifth third bank and a special guest brady stewart, a ceo of bay fc which is about to start their second season. so we're going to get started and to start our day let's welcome the president and ceo of the san francisco chamber of commerce rodney fong. good morning everybody and welcome to the san francisco chamber of commerce 2025 city beat breakfast. i'm so delighted to have everybody here this morning as we celebrate 175 years in this beautiful space here in san francisco. this is not just an anniversary

reflects the history but it's really an opportunity for us to look ahead at the exciting future of san francisco. now things to you may look a little bit different the lapel pins, some coffee mugs on your table, maybe some of this backdrop. we've taken this opportunity to have a transformational moment and rebrand the san francisco chamber of commerce for its 175th anniversary. i want to quickly kind of go back to a couple of things and want to point out a company called general creative which is right over here. give them a big hand. remember that name general creative. >> they really stepped up and helped us rethink what the chamber of commerce means to the city, what it means to you ,what it means to the members and what it means outside of san francisco. so we really kind of step back and if you take a moment and look at our full logo package the color of fog call actually made it into our brand. as you know, the san francisco

flag says golden peace, iron and war. and so gold is brought into the element i earned the color of irons brought into alignment. and of course orange red vermillion is used representing in the san fran at the golden gate bridge. so we are very excited to have this new look and feel. i think it is a cornerstone of what san francisco chamber stands for. and we've been here for so long and going to be here for a very, very long time so thank you for that. now i'd like to thank our speakers and take a moment our plan sponsor united airlines. >> give them a big hand, please. thank you. want to thank our innovative sponsors fifth third bank and amazon for their participation . yes, give them a big hand. also want to thank our lead sponsor waymo and our connecting sponsors. yes. give waymo a huge hand as a car outside and we have a short film for you today and those

connecting sponsors are just we really couldn't done it without i want to thank bank of america gensler kpmg recology waymo again and wells fargo banks give them a big hands please. so this sounds kind of crazy but the chamber of commerce has over 60 board members. these are dedicated board members who help the chamber and make many decisions. i could ask board members of the chamber of commerce to please stand up for a second. a lot of them thank you. you know, most of them have been with us for the last five years through covid and said they really helped the organization and me make some great decisions and guidance. so i want to appreciate that. thank you very much from the bottom my heart appreciate it. i want to thank our event partners metro events who is operator of this lovely beautiful venue, the cruise

ship terminal. also want to thank our media partners at nbc bay area emcee janelle wang for participating and on your table from the san francisco business times we begin to partner again with the business times and they printed this beautiful 175 anniversary booklet so take a look through it. it's it's our program today but also an opportunity to take a look at and make reference to the many things we're talking about today. we are thrilled to have so many government representatives here and i'm going to go through a list. maybe you can hold your applause. but we have mayor daniel here today. we have assessor recorder i'm sorry district attorney brook jenkins assessor recorder joaquin torres for the supervisors president rafael mandolin supervisor dennis souder. matt dorsey is here. sherman walton, thank you so much for coming. brand new supervisor sharon chen thank you very much for coming. assistant s.f. pd chief david lazarus thank you david.

>> the newly appointed mta s.f. mta director julie cushman is here and thank you very much. >> w director sarah dennis phillips and director of business development of entities. thank you very much all for coming. these people do a wonderful job. it is hard work and i appreciate all of their efforts going forward. okay so i want to point out one initiative inside the chamber of commerce that is called leadership san francisco leadership, san francisco or l.a. has been around for 40 years and they continue to turn out different cohorts every single year. it's really sort of a behind the scenes opportunity to see how san francisco works on the front of the house and the back of the house. so if i could ask all of the nsf current class and alumni to please stand up be fantastic, i see some hands up there. yes. give em a big hand this is

really the face of this the future of san francisco leadership. so thank you so much for coming. this is probably the most important thing and for me to thank our staff the chamber of commerce all year long but this event with our staff is an incredible, incredible tag team ragtag team of experts and individuals who do a lot for the chamber of commerce and love for the city. it is in their heart honestly what they do and they want to help the city so much. so please give the chamber of commerce staff a huge hand. okay now it's time for us to thank alfredo pedroza of wells fargo bank, our past chair this year. alfredo has been a strong advocate leader in the business community. alfredo is a native of san francisco and has served this community and passion and dedication over over three decades in government and community relations experience. alfredo has had key roles in the san francisco neighborhood parks council the trust for public land and the equality

california all while advocating for lgbt, latino and people of color politics. please help me welcome alfredo if you can make it to the stage that'd be great. alfredo pedroza alfredo we have something a little token of our appreciation that is your own cable car bell and thank you, janelle. we have an opportunity if you'd like to ring this for the yeah and make a wish maybe i'll try again. all right. thank you. thank you, rodney when was the cbn bonilla subsidy be it's an incredible honor to stand before you today not just as your outgoing chair of the san francisco chamber of commerce but as a san franciscan who has witnessed and been a part of san francisco's remarkable resurgence over the past year.

first i want to thank my parents domingo and ross for their love sacrifice and resilience laid the foundation for everything that i achieved a year ago i stood here sharing their story and today i stand as a testament to their dreams realized though they couldn't be here today. let's get on with joe this time last year we stood at a crossroads. we knew san francisco's history was one of reinvention and we committed to writing the next bold chapter and together we did. we didn't just hope for a comeback. we built it in that time we have expanded our s.f. offices providing businesses with streamed line support, cutting through red tape and making it easier than ever to start and grow. in san francisco we have seen a historic shift in leadership electing leaders committed to tackling public safety, homelessness and government inefficiency head on. >> we have doubled down on making san francisco one of the best entertainment capitals bringing major concerts,

events, festivals and sporting showcases back to our city proving that san francisco is where the world comes to perform, compete and celebrate . we pass critical tax reform sending a clear message to businesses and investors that san francisco is turning the page and is open for business by yes by creating a fairer and more competitive tax structure we are attracting new companies keeping jobs here and ensuring a stronger economic future for all. >> it's not perfect but it's a start. >> we are reshaping our local government to be more effective ensuring businesses, residents and visitors experience a city that is responsive, responsible and ready for the future. we have prioritized safety and cleanliness, working tirelessly to restore confidence in our city streets and public spaces.

>> we have strengthened partnerships across industries ensuring that san francisco remains a beacon for innovation, inclusion and economic opportunity. >> and through it all our san francisco chamber of commerce has remained at the center of it advocating, connecting and leading with unwavering commitment to a better, more resilient san francisco. >> now none of this would have been possible without the dedication of so many. i want to thank our past chairs, many of whom are in the room here today our ceo rodney fong, the chamber's incredible staff and my fellow san francisco chamber of commerce board members for their relentless work in making our vision a reality. >> to my colleagues at wells fargo, your commitment to empowering our customers, small businesses and our diverse communities has strengthened the very fabric of our city. your leadership in presenting san francisco small business week for three years running and vacant to vibrant where we have helped to revitalize our downtown corridors filling

vacant spaces with diverse community driven businesses and our investments in the sunnydale neighborhood and the long time support of s.f. have all been transformational to my husband wayne. >> 25 years ago we began building a life together and every milestone is sweeter because of you. >> i love you to those nourishing thank you and to those nourishing our bodies and our souls with the food in front of you the farmworkers, cooks and servers let them know you're grateful. >> a year ago i spoke of a san francisco of san francisco's unique ability to reinvent itself. today i can say with certainty we are not just rebounding. we are leading as i have stated before. >> san franciscans have never waited for permission to be

bold, audacious or groundbreaking. we forged coalitions, take to the streets and do the hard work and rise again and again. this past year has proven that a renaissance is not just possible it's already happening. >> now we double down as others retreat. we center our next phase on equity inclusion, fun and most importantly love. we make sure this comeback is for everyone from the bayview to the presidio, chinatown to park more said the mission to the sunset. and every neighborhood in between. >> but as we celebrate our progress, we must also recognize that our work is far from over. in fact, our obstacles are even greater than they were just a few months ago. but resilience is in our dna. we turn challenges into opportunities. san francisco's strength, its resilience, its innovation, its cultural richness has always

come from its people. immigrants are the lifeblood of our economy. they are the dreamers and the doers, the entrepreneurs and essential workers, the artists and the builders. they are not just part of our history. they are part of the fabric of our present and the foundation for our future. and we cannot build a stronger economy by shutting people out. >> the power of our economy comes from unlocking everyone's potential not by taking away rights but by expanding them so that everyone brings their full selves to the table. when we empower workers, invest in small businesses and we remove barriers to opportunity, we just don't lift individuals. we lift entire communities, economies and our nation as business leaders we have a responsibility not just to our bottom lines but to our

workforce, our customers and the communities we serve. the san fran the future of san francisco will not be written by those who resist change or hoard opportunity. it will be built by those who embrace progress champion equity and understand that our city's success is measured not by how well the most privileged are doing but how many but by how many doors we open for everyone. san francisco has always been a city of possibility a place where people come to chase big dreams, build new industries and shape the future. >> that spirit is alive and well. so let's get to work. let's build an economy that works for all of us. let's fight for policies that make our city more inclusive, more innovative, more efficient and more just. let's make sure that when people come to san francisco they don't just leave their hearts here. they find their futures here too.

>> thank you. >> it is now my absolute pleasure to introduce the next chair of the san francisco chamber of commerce cami blackstone. >> cami is no stranger to this to san francisco. she has spent her career deeply embedded in the fabric of this city whether it was through her years as a beloved local radio personality, her dedicated service in government or her tireless advocacy for businesses and communities across san francisco. she understands what makes this city special and more importantly she knows what it takes to keep it thriving all while looking fabulous and setting the fashion bar high as a proven leader and bridge builder. not yet. i have more to say about you as a proven leader and bridge builder, cami brings the perfect blend of experience, passion and vision to this role. she has championed small businesses work to create a

more vibrant and inclusive economy and understands that san francisco strength lies in its people, its entrepreneurs, its workforce and its communities. at a time when our city is undergoing a bold transfer mission. i can think of no one better to lead the chamber into its next chapter. >> please join me in welcoming the next chair of the san francisco chamber of commerce board of directors cami blackstone. thank you alfredo. >> my goodness. thank you so much. good morning everyone and happy 175 years to the san francisco chamber of commerce. i'm cami blackstone and i'm the director of external affairs for at&t in san francisco. and this year i have the amazing privilege to be chair of the san francisco chamber's board of directors. i want to start by first to

extend my heartfelt gratitude to the immediate past board chair alfredo a treasurer to san francisco and our ceo rodney fong. also a treasure. and i'd also like to thank the chamber staff and my fellow chamber board members for all their incredible work and dedication. it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to this year's city beat event and it is a really big year at at&t where i work. our motto is connecting people to greater possibility and in many ways that's what the chamber's been doing for san francisco business for almost two centuries. >> i think at&t has actually been with the chamber that long but i will not do the math. >> i will just say thank you. thank you all for being here at this sold out event. your presence speaks volumes about your dedication to our business community and the shared optimism we all have for san francisco. as i look out at these stunning views today, i'm reminded of why i fell in love with

san francisco, why i came here, why i invested my heart here and why i've stuck it out through thick and thin because i moved to the city in 1981 just as it was emerging from the turbulence and tragedy of the late 70s and on the brink of the aids crisis which profoundly shaped the next several decades. one of my first jobs was at a record store in the castro and we had customers who would frequently visit until they didn't. and as i watched a generation of san francisco disappear, it was it was hard. years later when working in radio i hovered over the shattered city just days after the 1989 earthquake and we all wonder just how were we going to build back from this? in the decades since i have watched san francisco go through more twists and turns than lombard street or vermont street which is actually the city's crooked history. >> i've seen the city navigate moments of loss and rebuilding.com booms and busts the world series parades, super bowl super bowl victories and

too many heartbreaks. >> so and so many times when the world counted san francisco out. but if history has taught us anything it's this. san francisco always rises. >> the last five years have tested us for sure through a pandemic social justice reckonings, crime, economic uncertainty and the never ending blows of having our city's reputation dragged through the mud, the plagues just kept coming and at times i thought all we were missing were a swarm of locusts. but like we're still here. we're still here. the businesses in this room are still here. we are committed to this city and the chamber is still here celebrating 175 years of championing san francisco's business community. and if you've been paying attention, there's a buzz in the air right now a renewed sense of hope, excitement and possibility.

already in 2025, san francisco's hosted incredible street party in chinatown. thank you mayor lurie hugely successful jp morgan chase conference sketch fest nba all-star weekend lunar new year celebrations and even celebrity pickleball. and we're just getting started because still to come we have outside lands night markets entertainment zones and next year both the super bowl and fifa world cup are coming to our backyard. so yes, san francisco is rising again. but let's be honest we do have challenges. the city is facing a significant budget deficit. our bay area transit agencies are struggling and downtown has yet to fully recover. but even with these obstacles it feels like we're on the cusp of a new golden age for san francisco. and it won't happen without you. it won't happen without business and it will only happen if each of us invests our hearts back into this city.

coming out of the pandemic when things were the most bleak, i made a personal challenge to find every day a new reason to fall back in love with san francisco. i did not want to buy into the doom spiral dominating the headlines. and for the past three years i found a new reason almost every single day. and it may sound idealistic but i truly believe that if we all invest our hearts back into this city we can change the narrative. we can open our eyes to all of the possibilities. support the businesses large and small that make san francisco so magical. >> so i challenge you. go up hike twin peaks and taking the view. dig through vinyl at amoeba records on haight street. catch a drag show at the oasis. get an irish coffee to go from winter vista cafe and stroll along the waterfront. >> go roller disco ing and golden gate park or take in a full moon water ritual at the indy basin. you can also sip a cookie monster latte in chinatown, sing along at the piano bar at martinis and then dine your way

through the classics in north beach, the mission or clement street. >> or try something new downtown like the portuguese egg tarts at holy night or breakfast sandwiches at devil's deep bakery or my favorite the martini cart at the holbrook house. san francisco is not perfect but it never has been. >> it is though a true original. >> it's exciting. it's beautiful. it's mysterious. it's mercurial and it's magnificent. >> and all that magic the same magic that drew me here in 1981 is still here. and once you start looking for it, you'll find it everywhere. san francisco is rising again and the san francisco chamber of commerce is here to make your make sure your businesses, your employees and your families rise with it. so now it's my pleasure to bring back the man that's going to make it all happen. >> our ceo and president rodney fong explained.

>> thank you cam. you can see why kennedy is going to be a great chef. she's a lot of fun to hang out with and we're looking to spend some time together at this time. >> i have a great pleasure of cueing a video for you and this video is really a compilation of so many people that love san francisco just like you and i. >> and so if you could please cue the video. >> there's two gentlemen. hi, my name is captain. one more announcement. this is the 175th anniversary story of the chamber of commerce of santa cisco san franciscans whether by birth or by migration.

i've never asked permission to do what's great to do, what's audacious to do what's good, what's just. we've always led the way. we have always marched the march, the path. what has been transformative for san francisco but also the world? there's a feeling here that i can't be replicated frankly any city in the united states. the one thing that i've learned over the years is that anything's possible in san francisco and you can get things done. few people i know have regretted the big bets on san francisco. we think differently in san francisco we move differently. we surround ourselves with people from all over the world companies and the economy here moves in a different pace than it does in other parts of the country. and i think the bay area is where people dream big and have the talent here to actually achieve what we've set out to do. there's just a strong entrepreneurial spirit, a sort

of drive to to do more and to do better. a lot of innovation for the company and the industry has started here in san francisco. everything that goes into the blue can that goes to our processing facility up to 96 that's the latest and greatest technology we can actually reuse up to 95% of a building's water. we are changing how cities have been designed for the last 250 years. >> what i love about doing business in san francisco is that it is complicated. but what's so great is people are willing to work together and figure out how to make things happen. this city more than any other really wants to figure out a way forward and solutions. the san francisco chamber brings everybody together. they're that glue, that conduit the liaison to make sure that businesses always have a voice. we would not have been able to build this company anywhere else but san francisco because of all of the ways that they have enabled us to succeed. they represent such big companies but they actually

show me a lot of research that i'm sure i am willing to take risks and build businesses here. san francisco chamber of commerce reached out to collab on the s.f. project and the usf collaboration between red bay coffee has really sparked something really special and has exposed our company to new opportunities and new audiences. they want what the community wants and also kind of the community wants to support local businesses and local leadership to help make the best decisions for san francisco. we are seeing an opportunity for meeting the moment for recognizing that there has been an era shift post-pandemic in our world and here in san francisco and in union square we get to meet that moment. i really enjoy the spirit that we have now because i see us as

once again rebounding and coming back. when i say regularly to people seeking public office san francisco should be a place where you should be as creative as you possibly can when san francisco is at its best we are the greatest city in the world. it's a new day in san francisco and the one thing that i want to be crystal clear about is that this city is open for business again. the supervisors and my mayoral administration are collaborating in a way that hasn't been seen here in decades. there's a culture shift happening not only in this building but in this city. and that is one of unity. realizing that we're in a moment of time where we all need to work together. and when we do that we can overcome any challenge that is in our way. please welcome to the stage the

46th mayor of san francisco, daniel murray. >> mr.. oh wow. wow. thank you. i appreciate that. we'll see if you do that next year. it's like a day. >> i was i was i asked our friends who i was sitting with look up the weather in new york city. actually it's only it's like low 50s there. so but it's going to be 70 plus degrees here in san francisco. >> look at this spot. this is the greatest city in the world when we're at our best there's not a question in my mind.

it's it's incredible to be with you all here this morning to celebrate 175 years of the san francisco chamber of commerce. alfredo, i hope i don't have to run against you. >> that was a great speech. and cami blackstone, iraq. i look forward to working with all of you. we are here to acknowledge our history as the birthplace of innovation from cutting edge technology and culinary excellence to groundbreaking medical care and social progress. san francisco is known for solving problems that others can't or won't. the last few years we've risked taking that for granted. and it's my job as your mayor to ensure that we create the conditions for success once again. my eyes are really bad. i'm sorry.

>> you all voted for accountability and change in november. and i am proud to say it is a new day in san francisco. >> and in a dramatic dramatic reversal, i'm showing one poll number that you all will see in a minute. today's polling shows that 43% of san francisco think our city is headed in the right direction. >> up from just 22% last year. now we want to keep going higher but it's a good first step. there is also a 28% increase in those who feel positive really about the quality of life in san francisco. crime rates fail drug overdoses and the number of street encampments are dropping. our leasing activity is up. we're seeing a 30% increase in the number of events at moscone

center and a 60% increase in related hotel bookings. and just last week the world got to know what we all know. we were named the culinary capital of the united states. >> as cammy said, we had the jpmorgan conference lunar new year and the nba all star game. we got hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars back to san francisco just last weekend. the streets were packed. our restaurants and bars were full and people were shopping. powell street was hopping. it was amazing. but to get our economy going again at full strength, we need to invest in permanent solutions that make it easier. not harder for businesses to set up shop in san francisco. san franciscans

. they want us to focus on our downtown revitalization. small business reform and safe and clean streets. your priorities are our priorities, liz. >> oh, thank you. i'll take that up front. for those of you in the back they were clapping up front over the power just to in this

room. it goes way back. i have friends in the back next year. we'll try to move you up front. over just the past two weeks. my administration has launched permit s.f. which will streamline the city's permitting process and help new small businesses open faster. we signed yes, we signed the federal state of emergency ordinance and announced plans for a 24 seven police friendly stabilization center so people can get the treatment they need and police officers can get back on patrol faster. we created the speedy hospitality zone task force with dedicated resources to increase the police presence not only around union square but also moscone center and yerba buena center gardens. we partner with the board of supervisors to make it easier and more financially feasible to convert empty office buildings into new homes. that was passed yesterday by a 9 to 2 vote at the board of supervisors and we announced yesterday we are bringing all city workers back to the office so taxpayers can get this services they deserve from governments and in addition to clean and safe streets, we know that a world class well-functioning transit system is critical to our economic recovery and neighborhoods across this city. and that's exactly what we are going to have under the leadership of julie kirschbaum

. >> for too long for far too long the barrier to entry for businesses large and small has been too high. but the message from this administration is loud and clear. san francisco is open for business. if you're a business owner this is the moment to double down and lead. if you've kept your distance, now is the time to come back and invest in everything our city has to offer in return. miami's situation will work

hard every single day to deliver the experience. everyone who comes to san francisco deserves. we are here to partner with you and to work across sectors to and ensure the trends we are seeing today are the turning point. we will remember in the years to come. i'm inviting all of you as industry leaders not just to witness our comeback but to be part of it. thank you all very much. san francisco is on the rise. have a great day. let's bring back the president and ceo of the san francisco chamber of commerce, rodney fong. >> thank you very much. and give our mayor a huge hand . mary laurie certainly knows how to get big things done and we are looking forward to working with him very closely. >> i'm honored here to celebrate 175 years it's been mentioned several times today but this is a real milestone and one that reflects opportunity, resilience and transformation. you think about 135 years i think about legacy but it's a song about the chamber of commerce legacy. it's really about the collective impacts of every

single business owner, every single leader, every single entrepreneur after over all of those years all helping to shape and make a better, more prosperous san francisco. so no one shapes that more that legacy more than you and today you are the driving force of what we're going to get accomplished and what we're going to get accomplished in the future. so give yourselves a big hand and thank you for joining us here today. just a few years ago san francisco didn't feel like it was on the right track. and at the start of 2022, nearly 80% of san franciscans felt the city was moving in the wrong direction. our poll results cited concerns over public safety, homelessness, street cleanliness and the economy and more than data it was a noticeable unease that all of us felt san franciscans felt unheard. disillusioned, maybe even disconnected from our leadership.

and most of all they felt like they were at odds with the city's own potential. so all of us rolled up our sleeves and took action. >> now i'm not here to declare that mission is accomplished. far from it. but today with our proposal it's what you're here in a minute. we are seeing significant results of that work with our collective efforts new leadership across city hall, a new commitment to delivering on the basics of running a city and the shift towards real progress starting with a police department that has increased staffing now and technology a district attorney's office who has a stand first a firm stance against retail theft. a mayor who's attracting new investment in san francisco. and a board of supervisors who prioritizes outcomes over ideology. all of this pushes forward on key policy wins including investment in public safety, cleanliness and through proposition m which you all voted on in this last fall.

we brought tax relief to restaurants, retail, hospitality and the arts along with some of our larger employers. and yes you deserve a have for that. >> we're finding creative solutions throughout the city code that changes what's allowable in the widest possible range of uses for our downtown. and now this change. our challenge right now is to continue this momentum that we all feel this all this energy we feel. our work is cut out for us and we must prove that san francisco is up to the task. we know that everyone needs to pull on this rope in the same direction. >> safe streets tourism business attraction transportation and technology and workforce. it all comes together to that fabric of a vibrant san francisco we all know. and downtown remains critical to supporting that vibrance throughout the city. and all of us know the challenges we are facing right now downtown seem daunting.

but i'd like to tell you what i am personally seeing in the downtown and why i feel optimistic about the future. and it really all starts with what i've seen at the usf program. in 2023 the chamber of commerce partnered with deloitte, salesforce, citibank and the world economic forum to launch usf an urban sustainability challenge calling on innovators to propose solutions for a greener downtown here in san francisco. the response absolutely incredible from green roof startups to ev chargers to energy storage solutions. the usf top innovators are helping drive sustainable urban sustainability efforts that can help san francisco become a role model city for other green cities. from that success we launched a sustainable innovators network a platform supporting local startups to deploy sustainable

solutions in san francisco right here. >> and just six months ago we opened a brick and mortar store called the yes s.f. headquarters on the corner of montgomery and bush street. how many of you been in that space? yes. thank you very much. this is a beautiful space that is really designed by gensler to connect inspired, activate ideas about the city's future. and so when i go in in the morning i get a cup of coffee. i just kind of listen and i hear conversations. i see interviews happen. i see people talking about fresh ideas. i see entrepreneurs meeting with investors all of them pushing the conversation that is going to move san francisco forward. and i know that we are not just bringing san francisco back but we are truly, truly making san francisco a better place. >> if there's one thing i've learned in studying the chambers 175 year history it's that bold ideas are something that we do best. and because we're not focused just on the day to day, we want

a thriving downtown. we want a thriving city. we must think beyond recovery and we must innovate. you've heard that word a lot. but putting action is really important right now. first we need more residents in the downtown and some of our government leaders. many are here today have been working hard and the mayor made reference to a passage yesterday that allows for office tourism conversion to happen more smoothly. this is important to put people in the downtown. we also need to prioritize on the next generation of san franciscans. we can and must educate and equipped our youth to demands of the new workforce. >> the future of downtown should include education. >> imagine a primary care right next to a cluster of universities in the heart of the city bringing students ideas, energy and to explore this. the chamber partnered with slm architects and jll to assess the potential for an academic

campus in the downtown. that's how that study found two potential locations. one the transbay sansom corridor. and two the fifth mission market corridor. both clusters could accommodate tens of thousands of students injecting vitality into vacant spaces, leveraging on cultural amenities like all the museum's transportation infrastructure like bart. and establishing a regional synergy for education could nexus. we look forward to the future. we also have this incredible opportunity that many, many peaveentioned today and that is the power of sports. in the next 18 months alone, san francisco will host the ncaa march madness regionals, super bowl 60 fifa world cup sailgp the laver tennis cup. all of this is going to happen and this is on the heels of a

tremendous nba all-star weekend. these are not just sporting events. these are economic engines driving tourism, creating jobs not just for san francisco for the entire bay area showcasing our city on the world stage. and so i want you to join me on a little imaginary four block walk. you can close your eyes. >> i'm going to keep my eyes open. no one's going to take your coffee mug. but imagine all of us are standing outside of mosconi center on howard street and we're going to take a left hand turn down howard and we're going to go to fifth street. we're going to get one more block up to mission and fifth and you find ourselves in the center of an academic campus in the old chronicle printing plant just across the street, the old mint imagined students are gathered there exchanging ideas fueling the future of workforce. and across from that the san francisco center, also known as westfield imagine a downtown stadium and a civic gathering space in that location.

the chamber partnered with gensler architects to study the potential of that vision and it's incredibly exciting and a dynamic hub of sports concerts and community gathering all in the center of the city. just one more block to go. you look further north and across market street and you see how plaza and you see the cable car turn around renovated leading up to powell street and you see tourists eagerly lining up and experiencing the city. and one of our iconic landmarks at that very moment you can imagine everything pulses around you the energy students, visitors, locals converging and playing a part of the vibrant ecosystem that's the kind of kind of dynamic and interconnecting future we're building for san francisco a place for education, sports, culture, tourism all come together, thrive in creating a global destination once again

if you like that idea in your head to take a look at some of the photos on page nine in the insert that the business times created for us to visualize some of those things. okay, so i took you to that exercise. appreciate it. i want us to think about one more thing that's even bigger. >> i'd like to talk about one thing that is a long lasting vision for the future and one that's inspired by the past. we can talk about san francisco's history without talking about the 1906 earthquake. and in the wake of that disaster in 1911, the san francisco chamber of commerce probably at an annual breakfast just like this proposed a bold vision and that was to host the 1915 panama pacific international exposition, that exposition world's fair was the catalyst for the recovery transforming the northern waterfront and proving to the world that

san francisco was back. and today we have a similar opportunity in front of us. this is why the chamber is leading a delegation to osaka, japan in the spring to explore bringing the 20 35 expo to san francisco. unlocking and transformation unlocking a transformation this time of the southeast waterfront and positioning ourselves as a global leader in innovation sustainability and culture. we we've enlisted architects to help us bring that to life and the results will not disappoint . >> now these ideas may seem far fetched but this is our north star at the chamber of commerce. and throughout 175 years it's been frankly moonshots like this that define san francisco's legacy. so the future for san francisco is bright. the city is bursting with energy connection, opportunity . and i know that no one there's

no one particular hero or one particular project that will get us through. but we've never seen the business committee work so closely together frankly in helping each other and being champions and advocates for the growth of the city. so i want to leave you with a thank you for all of the hard work that you guys have all done individually to contribute to the cities with the companies that you work for have done to contribute. and really, really looking forward to seeing what the future brings for all of us here in san francisco. thank you very much for coming today. i want to thank the mayor for being here and rodney for getting us excited for the future. san francisco is looking so bright and that video we saw earlier that was amazing. a special thanks to all the participants, the interviewees, the crew and the award winning san francisco native cinematographer and producer

ruben o'malley. so thank you for that video and putting it together. >> next i'm delighted to introduce peter greenlee, senior vice president and region head of the greater bay area at fifth third bank. he served on the san francisco chamber of commerce chamber of commerce board for 18 years and is a former board chair. >> please welcome peter greenleaf and good morning. what a what a great morning beautiful san francisco chamber of commerce day to go with 175 years of the chamber of commerce. so fantastic. thank you all for being here this morning. i'd like to thank the san francisco chamber of commerce for being such a valued partner of ours. we're excited to be an innovator sponsor of the city beat this year to help bring this crucial information to the city, its leaders, residents

and businesses. for those of you who aren't familiar with fifth third bank we've been around for nearly 170 years as well offering insights and custom solutions to business owners to help them reach their unique goals. fifth third brought our middle market banking team into california in 2017 we opened our san francisco bay area office in 2020 and we recently expanded our coverage into the central valley adding the team in bakersfield which is our sixth commercial banking office in california fifth third is bank that is long on innovation is as long on innovation as it is its history since 1858 we've been helping individuals families, businesses, communities grow through smart financial services that improve lives. our list of firsts is extensive and it's one that continues continues to expand as we explore the intersection of tech driven innovation, dedicate an to people and

focused on community impact. >> we are proud to announce fifth third has been recently named us best super regional bank by euromoney in 2024. we're also known for one of the most world's most ethical companies list for multiple years one of only a handful of banks worldwide to receive this recognition with our commitment to taking care of our customers, employees, communities and shareholders. our ambition is not only to be the nation's highest performing regional bank but to be the bank that people most value and trust. i'm delighted to introduce jeff corzine, chief economist for fifth third bank. in his role jeff provides research and analysis impacts the bank's key markets business leaders, policymakers throughout the country. he's an award winning author whose writings have been featured in the harvard business review. i guess that's a big deal. forbes many other national and regional publications. jeff has appeared regularly on

cnbc, bloomberg and fox business news. policymakers have sought his expertise on a variety of topics leading him to testify in front of the state legislature and on capitol hill here in both a bachelor's degree in economics he earned a bachelor's degree in economics at princeton university. he also serves as a member of the board of advisors of the peabody essex museum. and most importantly, i want to know what his walk up music is today. is it pocketful of sunshine or enter sandman? with that jeff krzanich good morning everyone. i'm delighted to be back at city beat breakfast for those of you who followed our work no we like to kind of wrap our presentations and themes. i thought this year are five insights for 25. i'm going to be a very bad storyteller and give away the end of the story. share those insights right up front.

but i also want to let you know where they stand relative to industry expectations because i think that's important. our primary belief is that the us economy will continue to grow. that's well within consensus expectations. we'll only spend a little bit of time on that. we'll spend some more time on why we believe inflation will persist. this is an area that we've held firm over well over a year and the industry has moved to our belief in this case for why growth will persist. we are a consumer oriented economy and the consumer in aggregate and that's an important qualification the consumer in aggregate it is in good shape. the chart you see before you shows the level the burden of debt upon consumers the lower this line the less debt burden upon consumers. this goes back to 1980 periods of of recession are shown in gray here and what you'll see is we are close to and my screen went out i hope your

screen has not gone out there we go. you'll see we're close to multigenerational lows in terms of debt payments as a percentage of income. this means consumers still have a lot of firepower but i have to give a little bit of caution here because our economy is being carried by wealthier consumers, not all consumers. and in fact the latest statistics are out the 10% top 10% of earners are responsible for now 50% of all consumption. ultimately that may not be sustainable nor desirable but for now it's strong enough to keep the economy moving forward. however, there are a lower end consumers particularly the bottom third of income earners who are increasingly stressed. they've been ravaged by inflation. you see different measures of inflation here for food and for shelter and for energy. all of those things have really eaten away at the power of

lower end consumers. so we're starting to see things like rising delinquencies for auto loans and credit card debts so the consumer will continue to move forward this year but probably at a slower pace. fortunately some of this slack is being picked up by the goods producing and industrial side of the economy. the reason for that and i should caution i'm going to talk a little bit about policy there is no policy endorsement. there's no political endorsement inherent here. this is just the facts and what they mean for the economy. what you see before you is the relationship between business confidence and capital expenditure. capital expenditures. sure. while not as big a component of economic growth as consumers is an extraordinarily important one because it drives productivity which drives societal wealth and you'll see this relationship is pretty close. the blue line is consumer is business confidence, not consumer confidence. the green line is capital expenditure when businesses are

more confident about the future they're more likely to invest for the future. that just makes sense. we've circled towards the center of this chart the results of the 2016 election and there was soaring business confidence. we see a repeat of that confidence following the most recent presidential election result of a couple of things but but continuation of the tax code more more likely a continuation of the 2017 tax bill when there provisions sunset that boost confidence lower regulation again i speak as an economist not as a citizen. there's good and bad to all of these things but it does drive capital investment. so this high confidence that we see post the 20 2224 election we believe will translate into more demand for capital goods, more demand for technol technology all of that bodes well for the economy both in supporting any shortfall due to

a weaker consumer and also in driving driving productivity longer term. in fact we think that this capex boom or at least pick up will be enough to lift manufacture hiring sector out of the doldrums. manufacturing is a fairly small part of the economy but it's a very, very important part because it has what economists call a high multiplier effect. so for instance, each new job in manufacturing tends to drive up 5 or 6 new jobs elsewhere in the economy very, very powerful component of their economy. but manufacturing has been in the doldrums. the line you see here is an index known as the purchasing managers index for manufacturing essentially survey a survey of purchasing managers in that's in the industrial economy who are asked along a number of different measures are conditions better this month in preceding months the percent that answer yes things are better gives you the index value so anything over 50% over

that 50 line, that horizontal line is associated with an expansion of the industrial sector. anything below 50 with a with a contraction and that green line that's leading is the u.s. index and you see that we have now north of 50%. we think this will continue and be very supportive. the line down below it just for reference is the global manufacturing index. and then just by contrast that laggard down on the bottom is the eurozone which is still struggling in in a large number of ways. but this will help the u.s. economy even if we have a segment of the consumer that's weakening. the challenge here is a growing continuous growth in the economy is a challenge for a fed that's trying to control inflation. and while the fed has won many battles in bringing inflation down, they haven't won the war. their target 2% is represented by the horizontal line you see to measures that the fed

focuses on personal consumption expenditure actually core personal consumption expenditure which removes certain volatile components are both on a three month moving average which is the blue line and on a year over year basis are still above the fed's target. the fed hasn't won its battle against inflation yet and in fact their progress seems to be stalling at fifth third our conjecture is that the fed has actually set the wrong target and that by year end may be forced to backtrack a little bit. not to say that 4% inflation is the new target or even 3% but to qualify it and we economists are very good at that economic gobbledygook and masking what we're really trying to say. but we think well fed will change its tune or has the possibility of changing its to away from a hard 2% inflation target and more so for something two ish no matter how they they they couched that

language. why do we think inflation is so persistent? well, for one we have very low inflation in the preceding decades because we had the advantages of globalization. globalization is stalling. it's not going to go away. >> but the incredible vast capacity and cheapness of manufacturing that was represented by china and most of asia in the early 2000s it's gone. there's still places where it's cheaper to manufacture but not to the degree. and what we're seeing is this stalling out at least as represented by this particular swiss globalization index a stalling aid out of advancement in globalization. that's not a bad thing. it simply represents ation of the loss of the vast cheapness of say a china in 2003. and in fact it has some very good possibilities for the u.s. to bring more manufacturing jobs back to the u.s. so so there's a certainly a silver lining here but it does mean

that our ability to import deflation super cheap goods is waning and that it's going to be an upward lift to baseline inflation in the united states. even more importantly and i think this is something that has a lot of ramifications particularly for the bay area is our belief and this is an out of consensus belief that the labor shortage is going to continue you see going back to 2010 two lines these represent the contrast between job openings and job seekers where you see a blue shaded area that's an above and labor market that's a surplus of labor. that's where you had more jobs seekers than job openings. as employers we love abundant labor. you have an open position, you get multiple applicants, you don't have to pay up for them. you don't have to let them work from home. you don't have to put a ping pong table in the break room. you know it just works really

well for employers not always working so well for your employees but it works well for employers. by 2018 we had shifted because of demographic changes in the united states. we simply stopped having enough children 20 and 30 years ago and as the baby boomers retired, the labor markets tightened up and that period of green here is where you have a shortage of labor where you have where you have fewer job seekers than job openings and you can see with the interruption of covid that big spike we came out of covid with a big labor shortage in 2022 there was a period in middle of 2022 where we had over 12 million job openings and fewer than 6 million job seekers. that's a big labor shortage and you can see that shortage has closed and is almost about to come in balance and the consensus view is it will come in balance but we're going to

push back on that. our belief is the labor shortage is going to start being felt again and the reason is large reason for that least structural in nature when you don't have enough births 20 and 30 years ago when you have the baby boomers retiring, when a baby boomer retires, they don't start stop being a consumer who's left who's left to work to provide the goods and services that the total population will demand. well, one way of looking at a starting point is who's even of working age what economists generally define as 18 to 65 year olds and how large is that population of potential workers relative to the total population this is this is projections from the census bureau the pool of available labor relative to the size of the population is shrinking and you go from 61% to 59% of your total population of consumers is even if working age 2%

doesn't sound like much but it's relative to this whole size of the population. so although our workforce will keep growing for a while relative to the size of the population, it's going to shrink by 6 or 7 million people. that's an embedded structural labor shortage. so with this this headwind to our labor markets, how have we been able to patch things up over the last couple of years? well, for one the fed has successfully slowed the economy from some of the headier days in 2122 coming out of the coming out of the pandemic. but we've also patched it up with immigration of all legal varieties. and what the data before you shows is data collected by the census bureau. they knock on doors and ask how many people in this household are employed and then they also ask are they native born or foreign born and they don't try to define the legal status of foreign born because they like people to actually answer their

surveys. and what you see is in the foreign born population which is the blue bar in additions to the workforce since 2020 they have generally outpaced native born. some of this was inevitable any way down the line because of u.s. birth rates were slowing but not this fast and in fact when you start adding up the numbers since 2021 5.7 million foreign born workers have been added to the workforce. >> here's the problem and i say this i'm the son of a war refugee and my father's parents were traditional immigrants. so this is not a pro or anti immigration policy simply a statement of how reliant we have become on immigrant labor or foreign born labor. >> five point 7 million have been added traditionally legal immigration the multiyear tortuous process with lotteries and things like that probably only accounts for 1 million to

1 million and a half. so how did we get to 5.7 million? some are here on what i would call nontraditional legal status asylum seekers who haven't had their asylum status adjudicated yet refugees. but then there's a whole bunch who are non who are unauthorized who do not have work authorization and i'm here to tell you that california according to research done by the burning glass institute, a workforce think tank california has become more reliant on unauthorized immigrant labor than any other state about 12% of the california workforce. it's particularly hard felt in areas like construction that's the industry nationally that's most reliant on unauthorized immigrant labor. i think inside just wasn't speaking in southern california yesterday with the rebuild after the fires in l.a. the reliance on the construction industry there's going to be a problem ahead. that's going to be a real challenge. but this is a national

challenge. our reliance on immigrant labor even without deportations i think it's had a chilling effect. we can look at that. this is customs and border patrol data that is a number of interceptions and counters at the southwest land border. you can see it went it's soaring over the last couple of years and has come back to kind of pre-covid levels. so the flow with the inflow of immigrant labor has has largely stopped. i think there's a risk of self-deportation people who decide to just leave voluntarily rather than risk being believe or told or being escorted out of the country. there's a whole lot of risk to our workforce. this i talked about globalization. there's a tariff risk we believe in fifth third that immigration policy is the single largest risk to economic growth in the year and years ahead. all of this a tighter labor

market, persistent inflation and continued growth is not the recipe for lower interest rates and in fact expects cautions the chart you see before you for fed cuts have have have fallen precipitously this is the number of 25 basis points quarter point cuts that are expected in calendar year 2025. it's gone from at one point people were expecting ten cuts. so big, big drop in interest rates. it's now down to 1 or 2. i think that's about right. fed policy is still somewhat restrictive and the fed would like to normalize it if they can get comfortable enough but no big drops in short term interest rates, long term interest rates. the ten year treasury is the benchmark yield there. it's trading around 4.34.4 today percent. we think that's about right. that tends to be fair fairly valued when it reflects both long term growth prospects and long term inflation prospects. long term growth prospects for the u.s. are just under 2%.

we think inflation won't be the fed's target of two but maybe 2.5%. so at 4.5% we consider that fairly valued. the problem is and the risk that we see to higher interest rates is that even though that might be the forward looking appropriate valuation market participants tend to look backward. in fact they look and the line you see represented here is blue line is the ten year yield green line is a four year moving average of growth plus inflation. we've come out of a very high inflation environment and also pretty pretty good growth environment over the last four years that says that the risk here is to the ten year yield maybe moving higher from where we are today not disastrously so but still an important thing but that's the national picture. what does that mean for local economies and regional economies? >> last year we had fifth third launched a partnership with the kenan institute for private

enterprise at the university of north carolina at chapel hill where we model not just the national economy but we look at the economy as the sum of 150 micro economies 50 large cities, 100 mid-sized and smaller cities and the surrounding counties that are tied to them economically. so the great error bay area is represented as far north is as santa rosa, as far south as santa cruz and reflect the performance and the performance the economic performance gdp growth varies enormously. i'd invite you by the way to look at our website empowering american cities.com this is under the dashboard tab and this is the past ten years of growth of these 150 micro economies and what we believe is increasingly where you are will matter more in terms of economic growth and we are ready in the past ten years have a great deal of disparity. you have those red dots were

actually negative growth areas. hickory, north carolina and peoria, illinois actually shrunk hickory was the worst performer over the last ten years, lost one or shrunk 1.2% a year on average for the last ten years. terrible tragic. on the flip side, austin, texas grew 5.8% a year. san francisco was not far behind. so that's the past. how about the future? and i think this points to some of the challenges ahead. you'll see san francisco i'm happy to report for the year ahead is bright green. that's one of our top five performing areas and i wish i could say thank you and sit down now but it's important to understand the structure of growth across the country and growth in the greater bay area. >> growth is built on two factors and really two factors alone how fast can you grow your workforce and how fast can

you grow the productivity of your workforce? san francisco thrives in this model and in reality because you are tied to such high productivity growth industries because of the incredible culture and ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship that i have built here i travel around the country. >> there is nowhere else like this but that's just one factor. the other factor is workforce growth and some of this of course is as rodney mentioned, making sure you foster your existing workforce. but we think workforce growth is going to be a real challenge. nash only right, which is tight labor market and it's compounded by the fact that we americans don't move as much as we used to this is brookings institution data on annual migration rates how much do people move in a year? and it used to be way back in post-world war two america about a fifth of all households about 20% of all households

would move every year. you can see that's fallen precipitously. have a so you had a short environment where people don't move as much. we think this is flipped the paradigm on corporate relocations. it used to be that companies would move locations would move their headquarters or open new facilities for a whole variety of reasons tax incentives for instance, i lived in chicago when boeing was considering moving out of seattle. the inside scoop was that the ceo ceo preference is part of the ceo of boeing. besides building airplanes had two great passion sailing and ballet. chicago was the only one of the target cities or potential cities that had both and lo and behold boeing moved to chicago. the new ceo of boeing must love lobbying because they move to washington now but but here's the here's the issue if in a labor short environment where people don't move much, what's got to be a top considered

option? businesses have to move where the workforce will move and this is going to be a challenge for the state of california and for the bay area one that i have no doubt the business community and the civic leaders of san francisco are up for but one that i think requires a laser focus if you look at in-migration. so excluding immigration from foreign countries, many of the other states that are thriving have thrived because they can attract workforce. calif has not been able to attract workforces actually at the bottom of the list of in-migration by the way, we don't have something against california and we need them. you'll see on this list number 51 or 50 states there's d.c. is kind of in the middle in a truncated area. so but these are the numbers doesn't include migration for foreign countries. but that's a complicated issue under current current or upcoming administration policies. so it's got to be about

ensuring that you can not only develop your existing workforce, retain your existing workforce but make sure that you have the quality of life public order of some of the many of the things that the mayor talked about that continue to attract workforce to this spectacular city. that is the challenge before all of us and one that i have no doubt that this audience and the civic leaders are up for. thank you very much. thank you so much, jeff for your 2025 insights and thank you to fifth third bank next we are all excited for this year's city beat poll results. >> so let's bring to the stage the managing director for state and local government affairs at united airlines and the chair of the chamber's public policy committee poppea gamblin will

be good morning. i'm really excited about this poll result that i'm going to share with you today and so more so than last year let's you're going to hear some optimism. you're going to see here some positivity. so today when you hear something positive do a little fist bump to your neighbor, throw a smile or a wink if you want to play a drinking game, there's plenty of water or coffee. do something good today. be kind. it's a really, really positive experience that you'll have over this next ten minutes. it's my pleasure to be here presenting the key findings of the united airlines city poll and to share with you how san franciscans are feeling about our city and where it is headed. the city beat poll helps us take the pulse of our city and

provides critical data to policymakers, the business community and the public about the top concerns of south san franciscans over the past several years. the chamber commissioned a poll with the well-respected firm emc research the firm's survey surveys san francisco voters opinions on many issues and spotlights those that are of greatest concern. the poll asks many of the same questions year to year so that the findings can be used to identify the shifts in opinions and attitudes. now this data is more important than ever san francisco has and will continue to go through change as we tackle our biggest challenges and the city poll gives us insight into what san francisco voters want. let's start with some high level takeaways. i'm pleased to share that our poll reveals a notable shift. san franciscans are feeling more optimistic than they have in the past five years amidst a very challenging time in our

country. this renewed sense of optimism stands out and uncertain one day looms nationally. here in san francisco people are recognizing real progress and positive change in their communities. they see momentum building and it's giving them hope for the future. while the top concerns remain the same, there's a growing sense that progress is being made. people are beginning to see movement in the right direction. >> we'll also take a closer look at how san francisco envisions the future of downtown the key areas where they believe investment is most needed. one thing is clear downtown remains the top priority for a strong majority of our voters. every year we ask san francisco voters if they feel that things in san francisco are going in the right direction or if they are in the wrong there are on the wrong track. >> we can see here that voters who think san francisco is on

the right track have doubled since last year. while voters do remain somewhat critical overall our perception around quality of life have improved a net 18 points since last year. the top concerns from voters remain unchanged with homelessness crime and drug use continuing to be the most pressing issues. at the same time concerns about affordability, housing, the cost of living and the economy are becoming increasingly top of mind for san franciscans. despite these challenges there are encouraging signs of progress perceptions of crime, homelessness, street behavior and overall cleanliness have shown some improvement. this year reflects a shift in how residents view the city's conditions. most notably there's been a five fold increase in the number of san franciscans who believe crime has improved compared to 2022. this is significant shift in

public perception. in that year back in 2020 to a turning point for both the city and the chamber in response to widespread concerns voters took decisive action to recall key officials and bring new leadership to city hall. >> the chamber played a pivotal role in this effort helping to shape the conversation advocate for accountability and support a new direction for san francisco. there was also a fourfold increase number of san franciscans who say that homelessness and street behavior has gotten better compared to 2022. >> there's also been a two and a half fold increase in the number of san franciscans who say that street cleanliness has gotten better compared to 2022. while concern about the economy is softening, it remains high especially compared to prepend data point. however, we are seeing an

increase in those who feel it is getting better. voters express a need for improvement in the environment for small business. while we see overwhelming support for small businesses, nearly 80% 62% say that the environment for small businesses has gotten worse. similar to and i know that's probably a downer but there's a way more cool things coming. similar to last year we asked voters to share how frequently they visit downtown and their perceptions. what we are seeing around the same number of weekly visitors 38% to the downtown area. when asked what comes to mind when they think about downtown san franciscans still share concerns around key issues. however of those who report visiting downtown at least monthly over 60% share that they enjoy visiting downtown. almost 7 in 10 69% feel safe visiting downtown during the

day which is higher than previously measured. overall voters recognize the value of downtown san francisco but are split on whether the downtown economy is making progress. a large majority 89% believe that a thriving downtown san francisco is critical to our region's economy and 48% believe san francisco is making progress on the downtown economy with new events. conventions and businesses. this year's poll clearly shows that we are moving in the right direction. yet we have work to do. voters want the city to invest in downtown. with 83% saying it is a priority including 50% who say it is a very high priority. we then asked voters about priorities for downtown investment. over 80% say transforming underused mall stores,

attracting more businesses and expanding arts culture and entertainment offerings are priorities. 70% or more prioritize bringing more events and activities, improving public transportation and providing financial incentives for housing development. over 60% highlighted the importance of creating and enhancing parks and plazas as well as increasing the number of restaurants bars in the downtown san francisco and are not only ready to invest in a better future downtown. they are optimistic about the future. for the first time since 2021, voters optimism about the economic future exceeds their pessimism. the that optimism is not unfounded. it is earned. it reflects the hard work, resilience and deep commitment of the city, its people and every single one of you in this room. we know the challenge we face.

homelessness, crime drug addiction is not unique to san francisco. cities across the country are grappling with these same complex issues. but if there is one place that has the vision, the creativity, the moxie, the determination, the just the badass people everywhere here in this room and in this city it is san francisco. our city poll makes it clear san franciscans believe in this city. they are ready to be back. bold, meaningful solutions that will move us forward. and with their overwhelming support we have a mandate not just to act but to lead. >> we have to put in the work. we are seeing the momentum. so we have to get it done. there's still more to do but we should be proud of the path we are forging and together we

will continue to push forward. setting an example for the cities across the nation. thank you. thank you so much, poppy, for that optimistic poll and the results. >> we appreciate it so much. we are now going to bring up our next speaker. and it's my pleasure to introduce sally kay, senior manager of external affairs and public policy for amazon. sally specializes in state and municipal legislation impacting technology companies and has a decade of experience at the intersection of innovation and policy. >> please welcome sally kay. >> thank you janelle. i'd like to start by congratulate the chamber on their 175th anniversary.

you know, seeing how darlene smiles at her husband rodney, our ceo gives us a good indication we've got a great leader. congratulations to rodney and the incredible staff of s.f. chamber. >> we have so much to celebrate together. those of us in this room who have been working together and alongside the chamber's steady vision through the pandemic and towards recovery. we always knew we couldn't be held back for long no matter what. san francisco has too much to protect and too many of us who are committed to protecting it. we have too much beauty, talent, individuality and spirit. history, cuisine and the thing i've been struck by the last few years is that we've been protecting it together. we've been working together for success whether it's in union square downtown or through our neighborhood. merchant walks his valley western edition the mission stone's town. we have big business small

business startups, neighborhood coalitions, community organizations and our committed public servants and we're all working together toward the success of the people and the places we love. as reflected in the polling results, it's a time of optimism here in san francisco and we all heard from the mayor that he is committed to be focused on problem solving. and what i want to remind us here today is that we are all part of solving the problems. we don't just sit back or wait or complain. san francisco jumps in and we do it together. amazon was founded in seattle and for over 20 years we were very active in that community as our hometown. but in 2020 when so much disparity was made visible through the pandemic, food insecurity, racism, discrimination, the digital divide artists and restaurants struggling. the amazon leadership directed us to make investments and

commitments in san francisco and 15 other cities across the us as our home towns. >> since then we've embedded ourselves here in san francisco with dozens of community partners to lift up those in need, celebrate beautiful music and theater together, support neighborhood vibrancy and festivals, deliver food on behalf of food banks and provide backpacks and school supplies and bring workers back to office. we did just bring a few thousand folks back to downtown in january 5th days a week. so let's give a hand for all those employers bringing workers back to downtown. my daughter sent me a tech talk recently from the pov of someone crossing the golden gate bridge. the sun was setting on the gorgeous cityscape beautiful music playing and the caption said you're telling me out of anywhere in the world my parents made this my home. >> wow. and that's the feeling our city gives us. it captures your heart with

stunning vistas, excites your brain with endless opportunities to hear, see taste and we fall in love forever. >> and it is that love that will drive us all to be part of the solutions making san francisco the best we can be. consider this your invitation to approach any of us on stage today or anyone from the chamber to see how you can be part of that. now i'm going to introduce you to someone who is bringing us to the top of our game. it's my pleasure to introduce the ceo of bay fc. bay fc is the first w nwsl team in the bay area. they were co-founded by four u.s. women's national team legends and had their inaugural season in march 2024. brady stewart is the ceo of bfc and is leading the club's mission to become an iconic mission driven global sports franchise. before we welcome brady to the stage, let's take a moment to watch this exciting promotion video from bfc

. well hello. good morning. as a san franciscan who has lived here since 1999 and is raising my family here it is such an honor to be here with this group. thank you so much for welcoming bfc to the community. i'm here to talk to you about bay fc and where we are in our journey. as you heard we just had our first season last year our inaugural season and i think we all know that san francisco and the bay area is one of the best places in the world to be a sports team. and i should say that our first season did definitely bear that out. we had the most successful inaugural season in the history of the sport. and thank you.

it was truly a thrilling season. we were the winningest ever expansion team. >> we made the playoffs and we posted a ton of success and first driven by our support from the fans in the bay area and the support of the business community which is what i'm here to talk about. >> so i first have to thank our sponsors and it shouldn't surprise you that some of our sponsors are here in this room today. we had sutter health who yes. >> sutter sutter health is our kids sponsor and when they signed our deal with us it was the largest front of kid sponsorship in the league. we also have visa as a founding partner of ours. visa is an incredibly yeah visa visa helped us sign an incredibly innovative partnership deal where visa and bfc together are committed to helping our players both on and off the pitch. and that's really aligned with our values and with visa's values.

we also have bank of america in the house today. bank of america came in with us as a founding partner as well. >> and what makes this important is what we saw is the bay area business community got behind bfc while we were still an idea, right? they didn't know we were going to have the best ever inaugural season. they didn't know that we were going to have our sold out home opener. they didn't know that we were going to run number three in the league attendance in our first year or that our merchandise was going to sell more merchandise than any other nwsl sports team in our first season. so hopefully you see bay fc gear across the bay area and you see our fans supporting us but the business community came behind us and supported us and we're deeply appreciative of that. bfc is also founded on the value of supporting the communities that we're a part of.

so in our first season we welcomed over 75 community groups to our games and brought through 5000 fans who are members of those community groups to experience bay fc. and in our second season we're only going to continue doing that. it's incredibly important to us to be tied to the communities that we're a part of and giving back to those communities. one of the communities that we're going to be prioritizing in 2025 is treasure island. the reason we're doing that is because we have announced that we are going to be building a state of the art training facility on treasure island. it is going to be open for yes, it is thrilling. it's such an exciting announcement because it is one of the few dedicated women's centric training facilities for sports in the world. >> it will be not only the home

for our players and the heart and soul of our club but also a destination for high performance women's sports. globe and we're doing it right here in the bay in san francisco. i should also say that we have offices in downtown san francisco that we're in five days a week so we are very supportive of downtown san francisco and being there. >> what was really interesting about our treasure island evolution is not only is treasure island an iconic destination for what will soon be an iconic sports team but we needed to get our training facility approved and in construction at lightspeed. we needed to we needed to basically do it get it approved starting from august to november and people said no way can you do that in san francisco. but you know what? we sure did and we did it with the support of the mayor's office. i want to thank mayor mayor

and his team. we did it with the support of our incredible supervisors. i want to thank supervisor men super city supervisor professor doran and supervisor söder who are all here today and have been big supporters of ours. and of course we did it with the incredible office of workforce and economic development who have been our true partners going hand in hand with us from the very beginning as we sought to truly create this groundbreaking facility on treasure island. so i am here to say you know, this is san francisco's moment. this is also bfc moment, our home opener is on march 22nd at pay pal park. please come join us and cheer on the team we're told. we have one of the most electric in-stadium fan experiences. other teams are scared to come and play against us so come see what that's all about with our bay area fans. but this is bay off season moment.

>> this is san francisco's moment and we're thrilled to be here with you. thank you. thank you for oc. thank you so much sally kay. and i want to remind you i want to thank our sponsors. they are so great. they're listed at the back of the program. and if you are interested in joining the chamber there is a qr code here in your program and i just want to say congratulations again to the san francisco chamber of commerce for 175 years. the commemorative mug the pin that you guys see. did you see the mugs there and the booklet all keepsakes for you to bring home? and again check out the qr code and i just got another update from our meteorologist.

these 70 degree temps will continue into tomorrow. then slight cooling and showers will be returning on sunday. so enjoy the day. enjoy the weekend. thank you so much for being here . >> s.f. gov tv san francisco gogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogo

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program

manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the

garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant

designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye

, but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face.

with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me.

usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving

to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. aculous way. i'm living proof that treatment works. >> every day i use was a form of suicide. i just didn't die. the methadone program saved my life. i love my life. my recovery is the best thing that ever happened to me. if you want your life back, methadone works. you are to let it work. i'm living proof.

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond.

>> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the

neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home.

i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going

to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world

has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants.

belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed

that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping

our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at

the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music] the city of offer a prom

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