president o'brien: commissioner dooley? the commissioner dooley: i think we should go ahead and do this first. present o'brien: ok, with no further comments from the commissioners, we will open it up for public comment. clerk: public comment will be for three minutes. please state your name clearly. >> i want to congratulate you. this is one of the most are thinking things i have seen you do. the french businesses are businesses that are going to be impacted, i think they might be a lot further than you would think. if you go by polk and lombard, the cars are lined up, trying to go past the crooked streets, and that is four blocks away on a normal day. when they have big events, like fireworks, the impact of cars backing up, the buses cannot move. the cable car. it starts impacting things much further away, so as to have your discussions with whomever, the impact will be more far reaching than you think. again, congratulations for your forward thinking. another thought to go forward is the idea is great. you might want to s

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i will be brief. i attended the meeting about the cvs pharmacy is, and i used the opportunity to bring up some issues around formula retail and the coach, and that prompted the president olague to call for a joint meeting. this brings the merchants, the residence, fire, police, everyone together under one roof, and supervisor chu was the host, and everyone got together and asked him a number of questions about what was the most concern in the neighborhood, is about was the most interesting. on may 4, i attended a meeting on polk street between the owners of a building there regarding ada compliance. two of the tenants were being sued, and it was very refreshing to see them getting together with the owners to see what they could do, and i but that was a very exciting way to deal with a big problem, so that is my report. president o'brien: next item, please. clerk: item number 20, general public comment. president o'brien: next item. clerk: item number 21, new business. president o'brien: any new busine

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i will be brief. i attended the meeting about the cvs pharmacy is, and i used the opportunity to bring up some issues around formula retail and the coach, and that prompted the president olague to call for a joint meeting. this brings the merchants, the residence, fire, police,

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i will be brief. i attended the meeting

president o'brien: commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i prefer the broader citywide. i know in north beach, i personally think it is a little over the top that everything requires a c.u. if you have a small restaurant, in you when one person playing a guitar, you have to have a c.u. with that caveat going into it with this 10:00 p.m. limit, because it makes it harder to protest it. even with the noise, the things that janet talked about, it is still considered acceptable to have moderate noise up to that our, -- hour, so, once again, i would prefer that it be broader. president o'brien: ok, anybody else? are we talking about -- does the project sponsor -- where neighborhood organizations would not be able to opt out of this? if we made it citywide without the conditional use provision at all? >> the commission has had discussions around this. this is what they would like. let me rephrase this. well clearly hear from the commission of this point in time is that you want to make it citywide, and that is the first priority, making it easy, make it citywide. if there are

president o'brie: commissioner dooley? the commissioner dooley: some are skeptical of this, but i think it would be good to remove all of the comments in here that say performance allow until 10:00 p.m.. that should be removed, and then this after one year, they may operate up to midnight. it seems like it kind of money is the waters, which is that this will be until 10:00, mostly in restaurants, cafes. i know myself it would be a much stronger position to come from to say, no, not after one year can they be open until midnight. two years, they could stay open until 1. i think it is better to make it more narrow, so there would be less objection to it. by the possibility of extending later i think is a problem. i think it should go for this type of permits, and they want to go further after they have done this, then i think that their neighborhood track record will be good, and they should go ahead and apply for a regular license. president o'brien: ok, commissioner riley? commissioner yee riley: after one year, they canno

president o'brien: commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i know that they will review those criteria, so we are looking forward to maybe making some changes so that we will not have to keep dealing with these dates. we will deal with it in the beat -- the c.u. process, but i want to thank you because they do not think that process is working very well. president o'brien: commissioner o'conner? commissioner o'conner: what is the location? supervisor mar: it is across from the old alexandria theater. commissioner o'conner: the second is that i just want to show my appreciation that you listen to the voice of the small district -- small-business in your commissioner area. thank you. president o'brien: commissioner? commissioner: i believe that petco did impact is small independent pet stores, and i am very sensitive to predatory pricing by large companies that can offset their higher costs of doing business in san francisco with their lower-cost operations and other jurisdictions, so it is really not a level playing field,

commissioner dooley: i do not think i have anything. >> pardon me, commissioner dooley, i think we will be bringing that in june. commissioner doolely: and we did regret -- request to go from just a few days. sometimes we have now 60-day. president o'brien: that concludes your report? next. clerk: the permitting committee report. commissioner: there is no report. clerk: i number 16, the outreach committee report. commissioner: there is no report. clerk: the president's report. president o'brien: no report. clerk: item number 18, the vice president report. vice president adams: -- president o'brien: next item. clerk: item number 19, commissioner reports. commissioner: manufacturing facilities and parties, so i would recommend looking at that if you are interested. i did attend several meetings this month. one of them with supervisor farrell in the marina, and i would like the commission to know that there were many ways about the licenses it. this is a new condition on abc licenses, and i think there may be some concern to the commission. the small business commission was thanked repeate

commissioner dooley? commissioner kasselman? commissioner o'conner? commissioner yee riley? item number two, the presentation of the small business commission is to begin of honor, recognizing in local small-business. >> is my honor to present -- it is my honor to present ms. petersen so the weekend recognize her with the small business recognition reward. as you know, they have been very active on the divisidero corridor and assisting with the revitalization of that corridor. on this monday, april 11, 2011, the small business commission is proud to the knowledge the contribution of ms. peterson for the vitality of san francisco. mini bar demonstrates how my life and community can come together. the merchants association has become a strong representative of the neighborhood merchants and events, such as the art walk, and how they are helping the neighborhood thrives. her dedication is commendable, and she has felt give a strong foundation it, and it is sure to continue past her tenure as president. there is in collaboration with the office of work force development. it is a

. >> commissioner dooley. >> here. >> commissioner o'brien. >> present. >> commissioner riley. commissioner clyde. >> here. >> commissioner kasselman. >> here. >> commissioner o'connor. so pardon me. president o'brien: item 2, presentation of small business commission certificate of honor to small business intern, mylinh chung. >> good evening, commissioners. don't i want to recognize mylinh chung, who is our small business -- office of small business youth works intern, and mylinh has been with our office since october 12 of 2010 and has worked in the office on the average of 10 hours a week and has really helped us with our getting caught up on our sales force data information. so this week is her last week with us, and then she graduates and goes off to college. so i wanted to thank mylinh for her time at the office of small business and present her with this certificate from the commission on our appreciation. so on this monday, may 9, the small business commission recognizes mylinh chung, the office of small business youth works intern, from october 16, 2010 to may 13, 201

commissioner dooley: thank you. i also want to add my support in congratulations to the small businesses for sticking to your guns and sticking together. i also wanted to comment on the side that as far as i have been apprised, the city attorney -- the legislation has been fully vested for legality. pet could challenge this early in the game. that is not -- petco challenged this early in the game. that is not really an issue and should not be taken into consideration. i want to add that some of what we are looking at today is just a lack of the updating of our planning code. i think that is really, in the future, where we should, as the small business commission, focus a lot of attention -- reviewing how formula retail, for example, works in the code. does it work right now? have there been changes? right now, the cu for formal retail only requires discussion of any impacts for just a few blocks, but we all know these large companies' financial effect is much broader than just what it used to be when those codes wer

. >> commissioner dooley? >> no. >> commissioner o'brien? >> yes. >> commissioner clyde? >> oh, this is hard. i'm going to say no. >> commissioner kasselman? >> yes. >> commissioner o'connor? >> abstain. >> commissioner yee riley? that motion carries, -- >> commissioner riley has not responded yet. commissioner riley: not yet. i'm thinking. i have a little problem approving something without seeing all of the facts. >> pardon me. that motion does not carry. >> commissioners for a point of clarification, are you interested in revisiting supervisor farrell's legislation once -- >> yes. >> so we're not -- i just want to be very clear in terms of we're not supporting, you're not recommending -- or the vote doesn't carry to support it at this point, at this time, but we do want -- the commission does want to revisit supervisor farrell's legislation once the economic report is in? >> yes. i appreciate that, director. the clarification is we're not voting down this measure because we think it's not a good measure to support. we're voting it because we don't know enough facts abo

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and the forward of this book is written by university football coach vince dooley, and that's what appealed to him about it. i interviewed grady caldwell, a few other blacks who came after him and other whites who had to make adjustments in that period and white coaches like harold dean cooke who supported grady and black player that is followed him. one of the themes -- and there are other themes in the book, bun of the themes is that high school sports, specifically football in the deep south, did help for integration in our part of the country. >> and you played on this football team a little bit later than grady caldwell. what was the mood like on the team? did people talk about integration, other black players? what was it like? >> no. and that's a great question. i played for albany high in 1972. and by that point our team was probably 65, 60% white, the rest black. but it was not discussed that just a few years earlier that that was an all-white football team, and the color barrier had been broken in terms of that particular school. um, it wasn't discussed by the players that i playe