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cheryl passed away on saturday and cheryl was a business advisor with the small business development center. he has worked with oewd as a neighborhood marketplace manager. most recently he was working on the establishment of a community benefits district on poe. he is past president of the north beach business association. ~ polk street he's given a lot of his time to small businesses and [speaker not understood] a few time. he really, really devoted a lot of time to small business necessarition. and he's also a dear friend of commissioner dooley's. so, i would like to close this meeting in memory of hal thomas. can i get a motion for that? >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? meeting adjourned. thank you, everybody. >> meeting adjourned at 3:23 p.m. [adjourned] leaders. >> hi everyone i'm patrick the director of earthquake safety forever for the stoifbl and we have the ryan white fair to teach people about the made sure soft story ordinance and connect them with the services they need you can save thousands of lives and if those buildings are r

remember, we make "your business" our business.impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members connect and share ideas to make smart business decisions. if you mess up, fess up. be your partners best partner. we built it for our members, but it's open for everyone. there's not one way to do something. no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. at the website of the iranian state-run media company called press tv, they've got a special news section just for news about the united states. so it's basically the news about america from iran. and so according to iran's state-run media, these are the top stories in the united states right now. number one, obviously the story that has transfixed america, congress staffer arrested on gun charge. that's the very top story. second story, u.s. foreign aid clobbers third world. also, they've go

popcorn does more business. it has more profits. but you're in the crepe business?> you're correct. >> look, the bulk of the earnings are coming from the popcorn business, but she continues to be distracted with funnel cakes and crepes. if she just focuses on the popcorn business and nothing else, she will make money immediately. >> this is thy kitchen. this is where we make popcorn. >> when you have a cash business, you better have tight inventory controls. in this kitchen, i see inventory everywhere, bags of popcorn with no codes on them, no tracking mechanism so i know what we have and what we don't have. see, they look at it as popcorn, but i look at it as bags of money. >> my mother works here, sharry. >> hi, sharry. i'm marcus. >> i'm so happy to meet you. >> nice to meet you. how much money has she borrowed from you? >> oh, i took a-- >> she took a second out on her house, and the total was about 100,000. >> well, i don't know. i owed 125,000 on my home, and now i owe 250-something. >> so that's more than 100. >> and then she owes me 10,000 from my personal a

information on the front end as businesses are applying to do business in san francisco. those agencies are providing information about san francisco labor laws and i see that the office of small business is here today and perhaps she'll talk to you more about that. we do partner with though agencies for those purposes. we have -- we do an annual mailing with notices to every registered business. we are featured in the new business portal that's being developed by the office of small business. and we're certainly open to any other suggestions about how to do that in our community. >> well, i assume that whatever you send out to the businesses would be done bilingually or tri lingually? >> six languages. >> supervisor mar. >> why you yes, i just wanted to thank you for the presentation and the task force for the hard work over the year. at some point i'd like information about the culture of compliance and what industries comply and what the barriers to break that noncompliance culture. and also i know the multi-lingual capabilities of the six community based organizations

it's assumed that this is almost a business model of some sort and very costly for businesses to be in compliance. and what makes it even more difficult is the permit process that san francisco has here in the city. so, a difficulty that businesses have is they are trying to navigate through this process upon layer that they have to comply both wcda and ada. that being said, i want to move on to title 3 and the actual language of the act. so, there are two standards. one for existing structures and the other for new structures. the most relevant to our case is for existing structures and the act states that an alteration must be made if it's readily achievable. as you know most of the buildings in san francisco are over 50 years old. the one i reside in is 100. so it's almost a century. it not a public accommodation but it gives you an idea of how old the structures are here. readily achievable. what does that mean? it wasn't the intent to have a very specific hard line definition. but the cfr does provide some hint as to what that means. so as i mentioned it's not precise, but it does

to be a distinction between what is a small business i speak on behalf of the small businesses they don't have the ability to capitalized to my more than one business we say still have families we give credit to and we start our pay is far beyond minimum wage so thank you >> (calling names). >> i think i so-called your name and good evening katherine north beach association first, i want to say out outrage for the planning department to through this clause into the decision its it clearly not the spirit of working together to work things out just closing the door. as someone in north beach we have to say we've benefited from the limitation and we don't actually have no changes in our neighborhood and stealing successful designation we're in no way seeing the ccii process should be abandon it's been successful and 75 percent of the cruz that come in front of you are approved we depends on why we need to raise the threshold to 11. in our neighborhood i know phil is a lovely company but we have a lot of coffee shops to allow that opening of that many more to be allowed into the neighbo

so far, this business has done $13,000 today. that's almost a 30% increase in business.e progress. and there's a clear standout. marina's doing a great job. >> and i think it's terrific. >> you do? >> i do. it's bright. >> right. >> it's cheerful. >> she's really taking this leadership role seriously. she's interacting with customers. >> thanks for coming in. >> you're welcome. >> take care. >> she's doing all the things that, quite frankly, hank should be doing. have you seen hank? >> i saw hank not too long ago. >> a successful business owner subscribes to one theory. they show up first, and they leave last. do you know where hank is? >> i don't know. i don't know if he's gone home or what. >> i cannot believe he left. not only is it disrespectful to the employees, it's disrespectful to all the customers who are coming here today. he really left? like, he's gone? >> as far as i know. >> he literally disappeared. i'm pissed. oh, hey, hank. where'd you go, buddy? we have a grand opening. hank, i don't understand why you left. this is [bleep] ridiculous. you need to [blee

remember, we make your business our business.part one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members connect and share ideas to make smart business decisions. if you mess up, fess up. be your partners best partner. we built it for our members, but it's open for everyone. there's not one way to do something. no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. >>> there are reports of bodies being moved to an uchb disclosed location from the malaysian airlines crash site. >>> good, thanks forgetion up with us early this sunday morning. there's a lot of news we want to get to this morning. the biggest story right now continues to be the effort to investigate the crime scene of the malaysia airlines passenger jet that crashed in ukraine. breaking news at this hour is rescue workers say pro-russian separatist rebels have seized all 196 bodies recently r

in our local business here. thank you. >> thank you. i'll call a few more names (calling names). >> i retire already but i do anything i feel have manage in chinatown so the stores will be for many senior citizens their, their safety. >> hello, i'm isaac richard the director of the san francisco center we work with the university of the california and all our funding comes from small businesses and individuals i'm concerned about the proposal and appreciate the assessment that we're 99 percent agreement and all we have to do is tweak but it misses a larger picture the small businesses in san francisco are closings down we're losing our small business community i know i tall call them up and ask for money they say their closing down this is not something i'm imagineing you've got the increased vacancy and i disagree with the assessment that expanding the formula retail basis is going to not have an impact on the small business and rent. there's a demographic that's changing that's also increasing the residential

do business. and who's there to commit a crime. for nightly business report, i'm ayman jabbers in washington. >>> placing a bid on fine art will soon be a click away. ebay and sotheby's are teaming up to make it easier to buy collectibles online. they plan to broadcast live auctions from sotheby's new york headquarters that way you can bid live in realtime from anywhere in the world. the terms of the deal not disclosed despite the news. shares of ebay were down slightly today. sotheby's was up 1% to $40.9. >>> shares of riverbed technology tumbled after the company blamed lower sales in north america because of a delay in closing some of its larger deals. following the announcement, the hedge fund reaffirmed its bid to buy that company, the stock nevertheless down 8.5% at $18.60. >>> home depot will start selling statuses 3-d printers in stores beginning today. they will have the product in 12 of its locations in california, illinois and new york. customers can use the printers to create parts lik

bigger business. you know, i don't think that -- and i think a lot of these people that are going to benefit are, in fact, going to move out of the city and be people that come in from the outside. so, it's unfortunate that san francisco ultimately will not benefit from this rise in minimum wage in a way that we would hope. >> thank you. all right. commissioner tour-sarkissian. >> thank you, mr. eagan. i have a question about the remi simulation. i'm referring to your slide number 19, which you report that an estimation of 1500 -- 15,270 private sector jobs will be lost by 2019. first, i would like you to explain to me what the remi simulation is and whether it takes into account -- into account all the increases in cost of operation in the city, benefits, sick leave, that may not have been in place in 2004 that are in 2014 or 2014 to 2019. curious to find out whether that was included as well, could have further increased the loss or simulation loss of jobs. >> so, the remi model is basically a syste

no business tax. and no sales tax. which means more growth for your business, and more jobs.s not just business as usual. see how new york can help your business grow, at startup.ny.gov >> following up on the war on women. pushing legislation to demand equal pay for women, saying that if women want those wages they need to work for them. our fox business all-stars are here. or are you saying that there is no inequality in this here? >> absolutely agree that there is not parity in the world of business for women and the way that they get paid. and i think what americans are aware of, they try to move forward. so in the world of suppliers and doing business with them to corporate america, many corporations are very involved in our organization, specifically looking to do business with women business suppliers and it's not a hand out, it's been helping with resources that enter the capacity and the skill set are such that they can actually compete for the business. so it's all about competition and performance in all about this. >> whatever type of person i would just make the c

it impacting business? is it business as normal or something different?really a tale of two cities, i'm afraid. you look behind me, you see the other picture of israel, the normal picture of the tel aviv skyline and our beautiful seashore. other than the fact that this morning there was an alert where i had to go seek shelter for about three minutes in the middle of a business meeting, the impact on the business scene here in tel aviv and the rest of israel has been minor. there are two parts of our economy that have been hit hard. tourism and hospitality. planes and hotels and retail is down. israel's economy is a high-tech economy. based on trade. about 80% is import/export based. it is business vurble for the bulk of israel's economy. the best indicator of this is the tel aviv stock exchange, the ta 28. you probably reported to your listeners and viewers, actually the israeli stock market is up, believe it or not since the outbreak of hostilities. this would be rather remarkable had it not been this kind of pattern over the last 10 years each time we s

in small businesses our small business served 125 small businesses out of city hall. that's complemented by the fact we have two job squads throughout the city providing direct business assistance to more than 5400 businesses so far this year. over the past year our office has been working closely with the office of small business as well as the department of technology to deploy and implement the online business portal first phase of the online business portal which is scheduled to be launched later this fall. in addition as the treasurer just mentioned oewd is work, closely with dtx to do business outreach around the change to the gross receipts tax in addition to the website and outreach to business groups and mailings to businesses. in film we continue to see a surge in film in san francisco increasing the number of permits issued and increasing the number of permits obviously and the number of shoot days in san francisco. [speaker not understood] oewd continues to work on development projects such as roadblock and [speaker not understood] program. oewd is working

with their entire business model.ause they are set up in order to actually make money off of these middle on her franchises that pay up to the parent company. and this is becoming the ground zero of the minimum wage today. >> now we can actually say that there's a moral argument that has been enhanced. so you can no longer save your attacking a small business and it will just hurt your bottom line. >> they came out and represented these franchises to buy these companies. they set it up 1.7% in 2014, the third straight year. before that it was down for three years. so they are concerned that this will discourage people from wanting to be a part of this. >> we talk about immigrants that come to this country and they start owning franchises oftentimes. so what will this do for the immigrants that come in here wanting a job? >> one in three people started off with some sort of small restaurant. >> we have the big corporations. as you mentioned you're going up to the franchisee and the business. so there of work. charles:

a lot of businesses have to compete on that. wages factor in a lot of businesses. it's something to look at. batting around $15 we should say what it really is. a much higher wage. thank you. >> great. thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? do we have any other comments or questions? commissioner dwight? >> just one comment, i do want to, having been very involved in this process myself, i want to thank the mayor and you jason and the other members of your team who worked very hard on this over the last several months. this is a tough issue and i think that for all the discussion that's on going and will continue, i think it should be recognized that the mayor's office worked very hard to get a better solution than was on the table. so with the sciu proposal. the fact that we reached a negotiated proposal, a single proposal on the ballot and one favor able to the one that had been proposed is a victory if even a small victory for small business. so i appreciate everything that you have done, jason. >> any o

business has a role to play. .ly we cannot be of this size and magnitude and walk away from some of these responsibilities. victor frankel said when they the statue ofld liberty, they forgot to build the statue of response ability. i agree. >> many have discussed what your secession might look like. who might take your place. how much has it upset you personally -- what is the plan with alan? my tbd designate -- my tbd designate? he be the designate? >> we are very pleased. at the same time, we have spent a lot of time building a deep talented bench. we have a lot of people in the company. a greatortunate he has track record and is taking the important job of leading the personal care unit. he will do very well. we are blessed with a lot of good leaders and the company. otherwise, i could not do my job. we have seen 3.8% increase in sales. i the second half would see an improvement. do stand by the talent pool? >> we don't run our business versus analysts expectations. we run it against the real economy. we think i

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day today those zoning controls amend did business sign intended to identify signage to the business in which it's connected and the products in the business those serve to dish a particular business between a general sign sloops as a billboard this is hat notice been updated since 1965 since then the practices are challenge we have seen links like loopholes that have been identified businesses turn business signs in effect the billboards that will close the loophole the voters have over and over again voted in large majorities stating they don't want billboards in san francisco this is inconsistent with the preferences dedicated by the voters at the election time. so those controls will close that loophole to make sure the business sign is connected to the products being sold in the business as opposed to a billboard. so we have dan here from the planning department and mr. cannabis dispensary i want to give you the opportunities to make racks >> he's here to respond to questions. >> supervisor kim has a question. >> thank you, mr. cider good to see you i want to say i'm completely

and are planning to target business travelers and the business community so edward what's going on here what can you tell me about this and why are they going after business consumers well. so you're for your second question i think they're going after business consumers because that's where the money is basically you know when it comes to pay more business customers always are going to be able to pay more so when you want to build your brand in your market unless you get volume out of the consumers definitely you want to go with the business so that's definitely why they're doing it and another thing i think that's really interesting and actually good about the way they're going about this is you know the integration into how expenses are made and so forth if you think about like american express in terms of business consumers the reason american express is so integrated in is because they make it so easy to expense you know they have the reports etc and so forth so they they're working with a third party to make it so that they can have your travel expenses can go directly into your b

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had 39 small businesses, 13 minority-owned businesses, 14 women-owned businesses. we are proud of these businesses owned by women because we still contend that when women succeed, america succeeds. the export-import bank is on the agenda to help women succeed. i would add that there are businesses that have indicated that they are supportive and i have a letter from the company in houston, the style of it is the south coast products company. i just shall read an excerpt from their letter. i have many letter to read but i shall pick a few and just read excerpts this one reads, and it's addressed to the honorable maxine waters, we are a small manufacturer in texas that exports thread and valve lubricants, primarily to the oil and gas industry. we have used export-import bank's export credit insurance for 13 year. -- years. during that time, our export business has grown by a factor of 15 because of the security offered by our policy with export-import. i shall go to the last paragraph which reads, please, emphasize to your colleagues that ex-im bank is not corporate

and remember, we make your business our business.can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members connect and share ideas to make smart business decisions. if you mess up, fess up. be your partners best partner. we built it for our members, but it's open for everyone. there's not one way to do something. no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. >>> something weird happen in the capitol today. a genuine real life bill signing happening in our congress. it wasn't a major bill or big ticket reform. just a small jobs packet with small funding for job training. still, though, if you follow politics, if you like the idea of our government working, it's a welcomed sight. it's not what we usually get from this republican house. this is a body that has settled on being against everything obama no matter what. >> this week we're passing t

for my $750,000, i will own 50% of the business. you will own 50% of the business. i have no problem giving you back your original investment of $2,000 at 5% interest, but you will get no equity, because you haven't put enough in the business to deserve it. there's no justification for it. you will be 100% commission. if you perform like you've told me you're capable of performing, you will earn 5% equity a year up to 15%, and both of us will contribute to that pot. >> there just has to be some accountability. >> he'll be accountable to me... and that's not easy. >> i could go forward with that. >> that's not really an attractive offer for my personal interest. >> dane, you put $2,000 in the business. >> i mean, i would--i would feel more comfortable selling everything at once-- the building, the shares. >> not gonna happen. you know, dane's just being greedy. he wants equity with no effort, and now he's trying to get me to buy his building. he just wants me to give him money like a handout. if you don't agree to this, they leave. and whether it's in this building o

that's what this hearing is all about today. >> we're work with small businesses and the small business administration. >> up just talked about how important it was and how big a problem it was and still you didn't go back what you were suppose dodd which was to determine the impacts based on the effects of it. i see my time is over. stunning. absolutely stunning. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to submit for the record a letter from the waters advocacy coalition. it is signed by 39 different organizations, among those the american farm bureau, the american gas association, foundation for environmental and economic progress, national association of home builders, many others. the basic content of the letter is objecting to the insufficient analysis offered by the epa on the impacts that this rule will have. >> without objection. submitted. >> thank you. mr. perciasepe, i'm sorry. okay, bob. as the letter that i'm just referencing from the waters advocacy coalition is noting the agency certified waters of the united states rule as one that will not have significant impact on a s

businesses often less than 20 people, 80 percent in the twitters or the pg&e. it's the folks who have put themselves open the lineup to put a business together and make employment available that are impacted by this the most so our concerns as a business origins to make sure that the process when was agreed to in the compromised reflected their concerns from a business prospective which means whatever the amount had to be phased in it had to be within the means of people who to afford as business owners 0 write paychecks to people who work in san francisco. we've arrived at the at a that venture and up to the people of san francisco but we're pleased many the consensus is reached and the work of mayor ed lee and the work of the supervisor kim and the other supervisors and entities within san francisco that are pushing the issues and we look forward to november. thank you very much (clapping) >> you know, as i said early consensus building is not a easy task i want to shout out to someone on my staff that's been working extra extra hours to keep my texts and pho

protection act but also small business leaders and the accreditation that will be with the board of supervisors as we move forward feel strongly that san francisco has to protect the small business credit cards in 1962 when i he was born wal-mart was born with their super store i draw this from the researchers that look at chain stores and their impact on the small business corridors and one book talks about the rise of the chain stores and big box stores a lot of the piece of this legislation has costuming come from the budget analysis about two years ago they look at the food box retail that going into a central part of the city after the year one of the wal-mart going in about 3 hundred retail stores 0 would close within one year and two years it's doubling or more i think the economic impacts are critical so part of the legislation i proposed has an economic impact report but i hope you look at that. and also two years ago as other supervisors were looking at the formula retail erroneous i pass the ordinance that included banks as one that was left out as formula retail use and

more than 80 percent of those businesses went out of the business. the same thank will happen in the office conversion is underway. the san francisco had the lowest conversions but it's already a fragile pdr economy. what the landmark designation know our businesses are under seize you can't operate with this level of risk extend over a period of time. uncertainty by itself will eventually force a undesirable outcome in the 090 percent occupied revenue for $10 million a year the design center brings a compliment to each other and it's hard to break that system that may not recover and as lawmakers you'll keep in mind the true intent of the labored and i urge you to vote no >> thank you very much. next speaker. . good afternoon. i've been a tenant in the showcase building for 15 years now i hold to my comments i'm in favor of this project. i'm confident that it will revitalizes the design district. our describing industry is changing and the recession on the web just about do us in when the energy is starting to die in the building people don't feel g

so that business is, actually, the first business.ounder, 128 years ago invented the thermostat, is we're actually getting back to our core. the heating and ventilation, cooling business is one that particularly today around sustainability, the ability to have green energy is in a sweet spot for macro trends. and in new york the empire state building is a good example. we retrofitted in order to save energy, it's really an icon for us, for our customers and for the world, so it's a pretty proud opportunity and project for us. we just acquired another company that serves the market called adti. mostly north american based, and it complements our current business, gives us more channels to market, also gives us more products. lori: you gave us some great trivia. will johnson invented the thermostat. that's fantastic. >> there you go. lori: i'm enriched. what a great chat. alex, pleasure meeting you. we'll be following the company, for sure. >> nice to talk to you, lori. lori: coming up, ralph nader, consumer advocate and author of the n

and then business locations means each business essentially that use he point of sale stations. the fee structure here is important for the local ordinance. each, each business is charged $75 and plus $14 for every point of sale system they have and this cannot exceed $773 per each locationedthv and what what really interesting about doing research on the fee structure is that local counties, surrounding counties have different price structures, and san francisco actually fell a little bit lower than some of these, but we also looked at state levels, too, and chicago was very insightful, gave a different perspective. and then we go into that. chicago, it doesn't allow the registration or it doesn't require registration for retail businesses that individually mark each item with the price in their store. and that's not something currently that san francisco has and might be something good to look into for the smaller businesses that have less item and then they just mark, mark their goods. it's less likely to [speaker not understood] consumers going into the store, everything is

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to try and identify business opportunities for small and local businesses, the two being not necessarily the same. and, so, they have a presentation. i think we should reach out to them and ask them to come -- may or may not be keith bruce, but someone from his office, and hopefully we can get -- do a little bit better than we did with the america's cup on this one. so, it's a big event and it's not too far away. >> all right. [speaker not understood]. >> any other new business? >> also we need contact information. >> i think you already did. >> seeing none, next item. >> all right, item number 11 is adjournment. do we have -- >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> and it is 3:25. the meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority. monthly meeting i'm scott wiener the vice chair of the transportation authority i'll be chairing today's meeting because our chair supervisor avalos was unable to be here our clerk is erica chang >> thank you to jessie larson and jennifer lowe. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor

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frankly, i think that it's just another way that we're taxing businesses, especially small businesses for things that are so routine today and actually things that you would not be a small business person if you didn't employ these technologies. and i think it's a disservice to small business. i think it's a disservice to innovation because it says, oh, another innovation, another opportunity to tax. and taxation, fear of taxation should not be an impediment to innovation. and fear of taxation should not be an impediment to making our businesses more efficient so that we can deal with things like rising minimum wages, rising real estate prices and increases in other taxes that are perhaps more legit. and, so, and it gives rise to a government that when it starts employing people to go out and see if people are violating these ridiculous things, right, rather than focusing on the major tax he that we already have and kind of accept the taxes we should be charging. so, you know, i think that simply taxing something that looks at a database and reports a price is an absurd thing when the

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this business is a fantastic business because they are doing to retail kind of what cell phones did to land lines in emerging markets. they leap frogged. so the same thing if you don't have to put the infrastructure in place, they put together a great management team, the best behind alibaba and put together this plan to become tjmaxx of china. $40 billion company. they have higher margins and population and go up a lot. >> you mentioned the energy sector. >> in the gold rush, who got rich? levi, california, so i was in texas tuesday, wednesday, meeting with some energy folks and one of the things they talked about is to get the oil out of the ground, the gas out of the ground, you have to drill more holes longer laterals than the horizontal drilling, more fracking sand. you have to do more to get it out because the decline rates are so high. so a company like halliburton which specializes in people drilling holes will make a lot of money. >> your last one, quickly, is horizon pharmaceuticals, a couple sentences. >> the bottom line is specialty pharmacy is the big companies, big compan

and a lot of long-time business owners are going to go out of business. we can just write it off to darwinian economics if we want, but they're never going to come back when we have a recession. once you move, you're not coming back. it's done, moved on. i'm over it. and, so, i think, you know, it's going to change the complexion of san francisco. i think it's inevitable. it may not be lamental. it's going to be lamental for those who get forced out of business. i think it's just foolish to think that's not going to happen. and, so, we can do all of the prognostication that we want, but i know on the ground that business owners are planning on how this is going to affect them and those plans include closing up or moving out. and, so, i am concerned as a small business commission that, you know, we're going to sit by and watch it happen. and i don't think there is any changing this freight train's direction. it's coming, it's going to pass, we all know it, and it's -- so, you know, it's informative to read the studies and consider the prognostications, but