spaghetti place i hope to be here a while we'll see how it goes we everyone is a friend we're hoping you'll be a . >> the this is a meeting of the san francisco port commission for february 25th 2025. call president kimberly brandon here. vice president gil gilman present commissioner willie adams. commissioner steven ingram here. commissioner steven lee here. item two is the approval of minutes for the february 11th, 2025 port commission meeting. >> so moved. circuit we have a motion and a

second all in favor. all right. any opposed motion passes? item three is the land acknowledgment for san francisco port commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the raw material owning 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 materials we 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. 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 raw material only community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. item four is announcements. please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item

unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. public comments must be in respect to the current agenda item. the commission will take in-person and remote public comment on each item beginning with commenters in person. for remote public comment dial 14156550001 and enter access code (266) 364-1341 4 pound pound. then dial star three to raise your hand to comment on the item being discussed. an audio prompt will signal when it is your turn to speak. if you are watching this meeting on tv there is a short broadcasting delay to not miss your chance to comment. please dial on the item you want to comment on as announced . mute your device and listen to the meeting from your telephone which has no delay. item five is public comment on items not listed on the agenda. thank you. we will now take public comment on items not listed on the

agenda. is there any public comment in the room? if not, do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes there is one call for public comment. opening the first line now. thank you. >> hello commission. this is great shampoo. i was hoping you could comment on the current status of the courts in the us. ac is drought san francisco flood study. there were two points. my understanding was it was to go to congress in the fourth quarter of this year for approval and possible funding. and then since then given sb 272, both bcbc and the california coastal commission issued the what they call rcp, which is a sea level rise planning guidelines which may impact what was our flood study recommendations. could you comment on that at all please? >> thank you for your call but

unfortunately because it's not on the agenda we cannot comment on it but i'm sure we will have an item on it in the near future. thank you for calling. thank you. are there any other callers? there are no other callers for public comment at this time. thank you. public comment is closed. next item please. item six is the executive directors report. for callers who wish to make public comments on this item, please dial four three to raise your hand to comment. good afternoon president brandon vice president gilman members of the commission, members of the public and port staff. i am elaine forbes, the executive director. over the past few weeks the port has been the center of dynamic and high profile events that have not only showcased our incredible waterfront but also demonstrated the hard, hard work and dedication of our team.

i'm excited to share the latest updates on our economic vitality, equity initiatives and key sustainability projects . first on economic vitality. earlier this month the nba all-star tournament and chinese lunar new year celebrate brought hundreds and thousands of residents and visitors. and the port was able to shine. our waterfront was safe, clean and vibrant thanks in large part to the terrific preparations executed by our maintenance and security staff in the days leading up to the events held at chase center and pier 48. port staff collaborated internally and with our counterparts in city departments to ensure permitting and safety needs were handled and that everyone was welcome to our waterfront. as you know, big crowds can bring unpermitted and unpermitted activity and our security department with the s.f. pd worked very collaboratively to ensure that unpermitted food and sales of

counterfeit items were handled and tackled and that we had a very safe waterfront. there are many hours put into the event and the eyes and the region were on san francisco and our staff stepped up. we will continue this momentum with coming events too. we have the 47th lunar new year run that will take place on the embarcadero on sunday march 2nd. this is an annual fundraiser benefiting the chinatown ymca physical education program and community center which serves 1600 youth and families in chinatown. the run will begin at grant avenue in sacramento street at 8 a.m. but the route crosses the embarcadero at north point street and at washington street and our streets will be closed for 30 minutes prior to the race time and open when the runners and walkers have finished. another exciting event is sailgp and its returning to san francisco for racing on march 22nd and 23rd.

sailgp is a global sailing championship where national teams race and high tech high speed 50 foot catamarans with speeds above 60mph. the race takes place in iconic international venues around the world and it's no surprise that they've chosen san francisco again for the race. we continue to be a wonderful location to enjoy sailing. we will also be hosting a base camp the fourth year in a row on our southern waterfront and this base camp saw approximately city kids 60 kids per day last year in a program called inspire learning. this this learning program is emerging as an educational program that teaches sailing and also teaches stem science technology and engineering art and math. with the goal to leave a positive legacy on local communities and build a sustainable future.

thank you to our maritime team as they ensure that opportunities for our youth and for all are at the forefront in all events and efforts that you lead. and more great news for economic vibrancy in our fisherman's wharf neighborhood . on tuesday, february 18th i joined the mayor's office for a tour to see firsthand the changes that the port and our partners specifically the community benefits district have accomplished in the area. we're excited to showcase the progress of the area and look forward to working with the mayor's office to continue our efforts to a vibrant and economically strong fisherman's wharf for generations to come. one last item on economic vitality. commissioners upon request from president brandon at the last commission meeting you were offered a briefing of the port's two year capital plan i'm sorry ten year capital plan and we are happy to report that commissioner angouleme had excellent input on how to

refine the document and we are working on those refinements and port staff requests to bring an updated plan to march 11th for review and final approval. beyond economic vitality we are continued. we are committed to fostering an inclusive waterfront. let me now turn to our efforts in advancing equity. i like to highlight the black digital art collection collective in partnership with hudson properties art exhibit on the second floor here in the ferry building. we are also excited to host the eighth year of our renowned port contract open house which is an annual event and excellent opportunity for diverse small businesses to learn about the opportunities we have in contract ing and also to meet other firms that they can partner with. as we look ahead to the future we're deeply engaged in projects that will shape our long term resilience and sustainability. i'd like to report on offshore

wind today. michael martin, assistant port director and chief operating officer, has returned from an offshore wind conference in long beach that took place last week, thursday and friday. he joined lieutenant governor kounalakis former port commissioner and david hochschild, chair of the california energy commission and many others at the conference. the conference was an opportunity for ports, state and local governments and private industry stakeholders to come together and reaffirm the state's goals to 25gw of offshore wind floating energy generation and to further mitigate air admissions and climate change impacts of california's energy portfolio. while there is some uncertainty, the conference attendees expressed broad support for the public and private partnerships that will be collaborating on addressing the many challenging aspects of this development. during mike's panel discussion he expressed our interest in moving forward and what we will

take what it will take to pursue strategies to bring the investments we need and the capital upgrades to our marine terminals to prepare for offshore wind. the write off policy commissioners consistent with the write off policy adopted adopted pursuant to resolution 22 dash 11 port staff provided a report summarizing three accounts which are recommended for write off this month. you will have 30 days to review before we process if anyone has a concern. please let me know. in closing it was a it's with a heavy heart that i report that ethics crowley passed away february 11th. commissioner francis x x crowley was a labor relations consultant helping labor unions and businesses collaborate on resolving differences. he spent 30 years with the international alliance of theatrical stage employees

local 16 in san francisco. he performed valuable service to the city serving on three commissions including civil service, our port commission and the sfp. u.s. across 15 years. commissioner crowley served as our port commissioner from 2010 to 2012. many of us had the privilege of working with him specifically on the maritime preservation policy which continues to protect critical waterfront assets and jobs. today i respectfully request that we adjourn today's port commission in his honor and as we move forward commissioners, i'm inspired and dedicated by the dedication of our team, the vision of our commissioner and the resilience of our waterfront community. thank you for your leadership. it remains an honor to serve alongside you during this pivotal time for the port and san francisco. that concludes my report. thank you. thank you.

great report. we will now open it up for public comment. is there any public comment in the room on the executive directors report seeing them? do we have anyone on the phone ? >> at this time there are no callers for public comment. thank you. >> commissioner lee nothing really to say other than i'm glad we're moving along as spring time is coming. i just you know with the new ferry dock, you know, to bring more busses down there i think is going to be quite fun to catch it at the ferry building and go that way or catch it at the. at the blue and white. i mean will they be able to pick it up down at the north site as well to head over to chase it? maybe in the future. >> does anybody know? may we get back to you on that?

>> okay. yeah. but other than that great report. thank you, lily. thank you. commissioner englander. thank you, director forbes for the report. i struck by you know how when we talk about these events are really great reminders that how we're delivering for the city's priorities? and i think what would be very helpful i think i read in the chronicle that that just that single mba event added $350 million economic impact for the city and drew 10,000 people to the city. so i think just as a good reminder for ourselves like just like every time anybody reads anything about stuff happening at the port that we remind ourselves like right now in a time of economic you know, priorities we talk about impact, we talk about job creation and visitor accounts, that sort of thing because i think if we help people understand that we're the

headline you know that this this is this is why it's important, right? so that's the only thing i would say and i don't know about the sailing event like if there's a way that we can, you know, highlight that whenever we're putting out digestible bullet points about that kind of economic impact. and and thank you for letting us know about commissioner crowley. it's a good good bit of history. thank you. thank you, commissioner evans. president brendan no comment. vice president coleman thank you for your forbes for a great report and i want to just echo commissioner emlen. i think it's really important that we remind you that as an enterprise department we actually every day contribute to the economic base and the general fund in san francisco by having a clean, safe and vibrant waterfront and bringing visitors. and i actually think we should be punching that up wherever we can. it's not every enterprise department has that direct throughline and how it contributes by having its own

enterprise perform well within its envelope or dollars. it then generates dollars out there in san francisco and i think with everything in the mayor's priorities that's something that we should always remind the citizens of san francisco about. and i just do really also want to commend you on our ongoing equity work as someone for the six and half years i've been on this commission. it's something i know that president brannan championed early on when she joined and i just think it is so important particularly in these times that we continue to focus on that and to have a place both for our contractors through the open contracting house that we're having but also for our staff that they feel heard welcome and included. and so i just really want to commend you for all your work on that. that concludes my comments. thank you, elaine. thank you so much for a great report and i agree with my fellow commissioners that, you know, the port does an outstanding job in helping the

city prepare and execute events but we really don't get a lot of the credit and just the fact that there was so many people here for the all-star game for the new year's eve, the lunar new year parade and so many other events and i think it went flawlessly. i thought the city just did an outstanding job overall managing that many people at one time and so many of them were here on our waterfront and enjoying our waterfront. so again, i want to congrats to staff because they do an amazing job in making the city look good along with our beautiful waterfront. i think it's absolutely wonderful that we're partners that mike participated in the offshore wind conference because i think that would be a big opportunity for us and i think it's good that we have to let the state and everyone else know that we're interested and

we're ready and we're prepared. so thank you so much for your participation and it's so sad to hear about x. i did have an opportunity to serve with him and he was a great commission. i'm definitely going to keep his family in our prayers and well we definitely want to close the meeting in his memory . thank you. next item please. item seven is the consent calendar for callers who wish to make public comment on the consent calendar. please dial star three to raise your hand to comment seven. requests authorization to issue a request for qualifications for as needed environmental and planning services for three contracts each in an amount not to exceed $6 million with a term of five years and creation of a pre-qualified pool for a term of two years. this is resolution 2508 item seven b requests authorization to issue a request for qualifications for as needed

engineering and related services for four contracts each in an amount not to exceed $5 million with a term of five years and creation of a pre-qualified pool for a term of two years. this is resolution 2509 and item seven c requests authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract number 2878. mission bay ferry landing phase two a marine demolition and mattress for an anticipated contract amount of $8,500,000. this is a resolution 2510. thank you. is there a motion to approve the consent calendar? i move the consent calendar second. thank you. we have rebecca gross. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is rebecca groves. i'm a resident of dogpatch, a board member of the green benefit district and an active

member of the dogpatch neighborhood association. i want to express my deepest gratitude for you for building crane cove park. i and recently opening the public restrooms the ymca and dogpatch paddle in building 54 making not only the shoreline but the water of the bay accessible to rec creators in the southern waterfront. i have a seven year old daughter for whom crane cove has been a life long favorite destination and where she's learned to scoot bike roller skate hunt for crabs and accompany me on paddle board rides. this year she's finally old enough to learn to paddleboard herself at dogpatch paddle summer camp and she couldn't be more thrilled about that. we're also thrilled about the addition of the new electric ferry terminal in mission bay which will open up many more shoreline adventures to our family and we hope might even allow my wife to commute to commute across the bay by ferry on her teaching days at uc berkeley. >> i realize that planning for the mission bay ferry has long been underway and represents a tremendous effort by the port over many years. >> however it is greatly concerning to me and to many

other parents and local business owners i've talked to that the terminal and path of the high speed ferry is currently planned to be within a couple hundred feet of the agua vista public fishing pier and less than a quarter mile from the crane cove on water recreation area pier 54 roughly equidistant from chase stadium on the north side as agua vista park is to the south has recently been vacated of the businesses occupying it and would offer a superior location for the new ferry service from multiple perspectives. >> it would one avoid endangering kayakers and paddlers in and around crane cove to respect and preserve public fishing at our vista pier. three restore the existing bay fill structure at pier 54 to public productive public use. and four as pier 54 is much bigger than the proposed structure at agua vista. it could also provide additional space for business opportunities fees to service ferry passengers and bayfront park visitors. i understand that relocating the terminal to pier 54 would

require adjustments to existing plans. however, the long term benefits to safety, recreation, access and commercial opportunity justifies this reconsideration. i respectfully urge the commission to conduct a safety and feasibility assessment of the pier 54 alternative and present these findings to the public before proceeding with construction. thank you for your consideration of this vital community safety and access issue. >> thank you. is there any other public comment in the room? do we have anyone on the phone? >> at this time there are no callers for public comment. public comment is closed. okay. we have a motion and a second. is there any comment or request ? we already have a motion. yes, we have a motion.

sorry. can you i must have missed the motion. we made a motion to move the consent agenda which opened it up for public comment. oh, okay. got it. it's okay. i was listening to the comments so i wasn't sure if that is related. >> thank you. all in favor? i i i i. the mission the consent calendar passes resolution 2508 2509 and 2510 are adopted. i would like to ask. yes i was thinking when i heard the public comment that i wanted to connect the commenter to david beaupre, our planning director who is here who has done quite a bit of work on both the park and the ferry and to have further discussions and you can look at the work we performed to date and we'd like to be in dialog with you. thank you. next item please.

item eight a request for approval of a proposed new lease with everett and jones barbecue a second for national llc, a california limited liability company for approximately 4363ft2 of a two story restaurant space located at 300 jefferson street for a term of ten years with two five year options to renew subject to board of supervisors approval. this is resolution 2511 and for colleagues who wish to make public comment on this item please dial star three to raise your hand to comment. hi commissioners. i'm don cavanaugh, senior property manager for the port of san francisco. i'm bringing the next evolution but not the last i hope of the of a new lease at fisherman's wharf with everton jones. so a little bit of history ever 300 jefferson street was lou's crab shack. they closed in 2020 in the pandemic and in august of 2023

we terminated that lease by november. can you fax the slide? thank you. by november of 2023 we hired marvin commercial to list not only lou's crab shack but also the next door restaurant palm pays for 90 jefferson and eight alioto. today we're focused on lou's crab shack. so by early 2024 marvin undertook an extensive marketing campaign which involved sending out three more than 2000 email solicitations to the retail brokerage community operators and others. they proactively reached out to more than 100 restaurateurs who they have contacts with. there are social media postings and they ultimately conducted about 35 tours of the property where some people come in more than once.

as as as of the end of this process we received five viable letters of intent. one was everton jones. one was for a fast casual chicken restaurant. there was a nightlife venue with theater and full bar southern cajun cruising and an entertainment bar with robots. so we convened a panel in may of 2023 which was comprised of two port staff members, neither of which were involved in the process or the portfolio and an outside consultant that was recommended by alain. so that panel convened reviewed all the proposals and and unanimously selected everton jones as the leading prospect. so next slide. thank you. >> so there's more information about ever jones on the slide but but generally everton jones is a well-known barbecue restaurant in jack london square. they have another location in

oakland and another one in antioch. and and the flagship location in oakland is jack london square as well known as a community gathering point. in jones awful also offers music at that location which brings a sense of community. so then everton jones satisfies several strategic plan elements including economic recovery because there's new revenue economic growth because the improvements in the property will add value to the asset equity because everyone jones is a black owned business and it's bringing a new food concept with music that we think will attract tourists and locals alike. the essential business terms of the lease. so this is going to be a ten year lease with two five year options. they have 180 days of free rent . the first year is 5% of gross revenues or $10,000 but are no less than $10,000. it goes up in year 2 to 13,000 and the percentage rent goes to

6%. year three the rent goes up to 14,005 still at 6% at 3% increases thereafter. the 3% increase increases we continue into each option period. we also have what's called a minimum gross sales threshold because we want to ensure that the restaurant succeeds and if they don't succeed we want to have the option of shaking hands and and being able to go our own ways. we don't think that's going to happen but we built it in just in case the port is going to survive an $800,000 tenant improvements allowance which is a dollar $183 a square foot. the bulk of that money is going to go towards improvements that are required by the department of public health for a permit. the allowance will be paid directly to the tenant upon receipt of copies of invoices from the contractor. so we're providing the money to

everton jones to then pay the contractor. aaron jones had to go through a process to become a city vendor to be eligible to receive payments. so next slide. so our report staff recommend support commission accept everton jones as the successful proposal for 300 jefferson authorize the executive director to forward the lease to the board for approval and upon such approval authorize the executive director to execute the lease. and so i also want to note that both santino de dee rose from avon commercial and dorsey are white from everton jones are here in case you have questions for them. but now i stand ready to answer questions. thank you so much, tom. do either one of you want to say anything before we open it up to public comment? excuse. >> hello i'm dorsey, a white

third generation legacy business. >> my grandmother started this business 73. my mother took it to another level when she opened the first sit down in 1999 and i've been her right hand woman from the time she opened up four years ago. my beloved mother passed away. she passed the torch. i'm ready to take it to the next level. i feel like san francisco would be a great fit for us. we were here in san francisco in 89 right before the earthquake happened in 89 and that's how our building was destroyed and we left san francisco. i'd love to be back here and just continue my family's legacy. thank you for the opportunity.

thank you. thank you very much. okay. is there any public comment? can i have a motion? i have a motion to move the item second. thank you. is there any public comment in the room scene and do we have anyone on the phone? >> at this time there are no callers for public comment. thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner adams i support this resolution and it could even be more fitting that as we're in the last week of a black history month and black history is every day but to have that and to have you here and to talk about your lane and your legacy and you're going to continue to pass the torch on. you have my full support and best of luck. thank you. commissioner lee. well, i think the lease it's a

very good opportunity. i think the best kind of deal i've seen, you know, for small businesses on the port and i think you're very lucky. this is something that i've been, you know, wanting staff to encourage other small businesspeople to do. but i have some questions for the operator. can i ask a few things? >> so you have a couple of other restaurants outside the city. are you going to be here on site a lot of the times to get it ramped up and kind of greet your old customers from 89 to come visit? >> great question. so it's a me along with my four and three sisters who'll be running it. i currently run the jack london location and they've decided that i'd be the person to run the san francisco so i'll be here day to day. okay. >> and i mean the food and the food concept is perfect for that look, especially the

building the way it looks. are you planning to bring entertainment also? >> yes. we we our concept has always been barbecue beer and blues music. perfect. and so loses are really blues. when we went into the building it just felt like earth already. so i was actually perfectly in the i used to go to lose a lot and one of my employees loved it there and it has such a reputation but i think it's been gone so long that you're going to have to rebuild it all over again. i think with the food and everything. so i don't really have any other things other than if you need some support from me because i'm an entertainment guy, you know? wow. yes. so and a small business so if you need some help for me i love to give you some hand if you need some local you know people to help you with the sound or whatever because when i when i walk through the place

when it was empty i mean some things were still there. i don't think you have to do a whole lot. some things are there right? so i wish you a lot of luck and and again you are very lucky. this is a very in my opinion anyway far beyond poor and i would love to have this kind of deal but and i hope more people out there will come up and talk to staff to get let's get let's get that area going again. i think you're going to have a great, great opportunity. >> so i support this. thank you so much. thank you. commissioner ingram. i just have one more question before you sit down. i think for sharing your family history with us. i'm just curious where was your restaurant in 19 before the earthquake in san francisco on the third little girl but it was on third i think kind of by candlestick because i remember there was a middle in the middle right there. yeah. the third. okay, thanks. i don't have any other questions but good luck. thank you. vice president gilman i just

want to say i think we're all really excited for this opportunity and i really just want to also say it's so exciting to see that our broker policy is really bringing in businesses like that. you know, i think with the panel with the fact that we had a slate of folks that the commission was able to give you parameters and we were able to do this in a process that was probably less intensive and more friendly to small local businesses which is exactly what we want to get on the waterfront. we don't need you know, another i don't know do they even still have applebee's? we don't need that on the waterfront. what we need are these local homegrown bay area businesses and i really think our leasing strategy of using brokers with guardrails is really achieving that. so i'm really wanting to congratulate the real estate team and even for for bringing us this opportunity and to the owner i think we will all be there for you when on opening night you know we have i'm i

don't think they call it i know in the south they call it you know i want three bones and a slide so i can't wait to have have that and we anyway we can help elevate your business or announce it to the public. i live on the northeast waterfront and you're near that area. i think people will be locals will be really, really excited . there is nothing like that in north beach or that section of town. so i wish you lots of luck and we're excited to see you open. thank you. thank you so much for the report and this is an exciting opportunity. i think this is our first restaurant opening and i don't know how long but definitely since the pandemic. so for you to take the risk to move to the waterfront and expand your locations i think i've been to every one of them so i can testify how good everything jones is. but for you to come to the waterfront is an exciting opportunity for you and for the port and so we all encourage

you to do well and will be there of course on opening night plus afterwards and wishing you much best. all in favor? i any oppose some resolution to 511 is adopted. item nine is new business i recorded one item for new business which is an update on the flood study which goes over in particular and the impacts from the sea level rise planning work that bccdc is doing among other updates is there any other new business? i just kind of from my own personal information in the future when when we do these scoring you know i see the breakdown but i don't know if that's even necessary but just for my own thing maybe to add like i kind of like to know you

have four different restaurants here and where were their strength was was it less an operation? what's it less an equity? i kind of kind of like to know where the operator is coming from as far as somebody is not just financial is whether or not they run a good business or not. i kind of like to know that so i don't know in future reports we could have a little paragraph on that. any other new business. i was hoping that we could possibly schedule two. i know we have to work around my schedule commissioner lees and fisherman's worth revitalize but i think with all this action happening at the waterfront in nicer weather i think we getting up early. commissioner lee i think we had pledged that we were going to go see i don't know when when salmon season starts i want to hit it when there's actually a lot of work happening but we're going to go tour and see the fishers at work i think at like 5 a.m. or something so we could see the impacts of it so i just

wanted to remind the maritime staff since i saw them in the audience that we wanted to have that talk. is there any other new business that's not can i have a motion to adjourn in memory of ex crawley so moved second all in favor i the motion passes i think this is the shortest meeting ever but a great meeting so thank you. thank

[♪♪] fisherman's wharf, this is a working wharf and it's part of the beauty of the san francisco area. >> before the restaurant, before the t-shirt shops. >> at first the fishermen would go out and do the harvesting. they process the crab. >> it really is industrial. it is fish processors. >> it's a working, living, breathing place. and it's a great place to visit and there's a lot of history. >> i'm a third generation italian fisherman. we're one of the oldest fishing families at fishermen's wharf.

my family's been working here since 1908. my boat's called the lovely martha. sport fishing means when you come out and catch your own fish on the boat. commercial fishermen come out, catch fish, it gets processed and they sell it to a store. they're selling crab off the boat. there's nothing more fresh than a crab. our crab are sweeter and better tasting. the meat is firmer. >> more crab. >> we love crab. we love the people out on the boats. they're awesome. >> what a good meal tonight. >> we just barely got down here in time. we would have come earlier if we knew how much fun it was. >> this is the place to get crab if you're looking for it. >> some of these boats have salmon permits. so every boat kind of does a different thing. you can come down here and have wild caught salmon that was just caught that morning or the night before and there's nothing fresher than that.

>> that's the whole thing of coming out on a party boat. you can catch your own crab, lock cod, halibut, salmon, you can't get that kind of fish. >> now the consumer can just buy here if they want to and take it home which is great. or they can buy it here and take it to one of the restaurants and they can have a glass of wine and enjoy the crab we just brought in for them. >> come on over. it's great. nice and beautiful here in san francisco and the port. definitely come. >> our fishermen are super excited. it's great to have the public come down here and interact. >> it's a whole experience for the family, where they bring the kids and interact and say wow, the crab's alive. it's going to claw me and everything. >> they really get excited they're coming down here and posting their recipes or pictures of the food. or their kids picking up the crab. they're making a whole experience out of it.

>> it is going to give the locals a part of san francisco that was taken away from them. >> now i have a reason to come back. >> i had a guy the other day come and say he hasn't been down to fisherman's wharf in 10 years. he said i'm going to come down here every weekend. i forgottoday. >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and

festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater

bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool.

>> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really

great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to

gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot to

>> i, my name is peat. independent books on clement street in san francisco. green apple is a locally owned independent book store in the richmond district since 1967. the store has grown from 1150 square feet to 5 thousand. we have hundred thousand books. new, used, children books, all subjects. there is lots of stairs and nooks and crannies so lots of places to get lost and discover things you might not know existed. we go out of the way in new books to support small presses and bring university press books into the store and just corky things not every store may have. used books we see books from

the community that we get all our books over the counter downstair s so it is reflection of what people are reading. brings they bring to sell us are in the community so we can buy them and recycle them in the community. the good parts of having a small business in san francisco are really the customers and people who live here are curious, interested in a wide variety of topics and ideas. they come from all over the country and world, so it is really whatever serving or goods you are providing there is probably a customer for it in san francisco.

>> my name is nina the owner of the - really inspired me to open my own company i was 250ird of working for something else and we have columbia and any menu for any occasions. >> the menu is inspiring everything when i was a kid growing up with my family they also wanted to create and so i learned how to do a lot of things my family is in involved in the beginning hi first started by myself i call on my friends and family and i will tell him i need a hand little by

this i started retiring from the beginning and then my kids can a filling work for me now so i have the too oldist working here and later on when i married um, my husband i - he needs to come and work for me and are the national will columbia rise and beans and beef and tourette's and breakfast and eggs and avocados our base is the - sold them from 8 clock in the morning and created for the community cost of living chicken and beef and made with potatoes and we opened for lunch and dinner we

attended local events with schools and also with oat businesses. >> please come and visit us we're no vision that's the valley and with our catering business find on the website and all diverse menus for any . >> yeah. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. okay. i'm okay. i'm doing better. i am 98% okay. >> yeah, that'll be great. we are ready to start. >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the san francisco arts