commissioner dooley: -- upper market. commissioner dooley: thank you. i believe this is responsive to the way businesses are operating now and the growth in new industries. we have light manufacturing would like to combine with retail. we have food service that needs catering. we are doing combined kitchens, combined businesses in larger spaces. this is an opportunity for some of those incubator food businesses to locate out in the neighborhoods, so the neighborhoods have more services. i think it is very responsive to emerging business models. it is nice to see we are making room for those emerging business models in neighborhoods that really want them. i would like to thank you for that from the small business community. thank you. president o'brien: seeing no other commissioners to talk, i will open it up to public comment. >> leslie lenhart, union street association. we feel this is very good and we support it. i do of a question i would like to ask this gentleman. on page four, there is a typo or i am not quite understanding what this means. if you

president o'brien: commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i was wondering about the part of the legislation that says it's 10:00 p.m. for the first year and then they can apply to be open until midnight. my only hesitation with that is that i feel like midnight is heading toward late night again and i would feel that some of the neighborhood residents will feel like it's easier to accept if it's strictly 10:00 p.m. i just wondered why you had that kind of gray zone there. >> it's up until 10:00 p.m. commissioner dooley: but it says after the first year it can be extended till midnight. >> well, i think based on good behavior, i was looking for an incentive in the fact that it could be renewed but we were looking to incentivize. that's something that, you know, you think would somewhat counteract, i think, the corpus of this and i'm open to that. commissioner dooley: or at least maybe allowing districts to keep the line at 10:00 while others would be o.k. with continuing until midnight. >> all right. so duly noted. i'll k

president o'brien: commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i just want to reemphasize what some of my fellow commissioners said, which is you can't keep going to the same group over and over again. the small businesses in particular. you know, they don't have a strong advocacy behind them except for us, and there are a lot of folks out there that are not paying their fair share, and i feel like while we will support this as an emergency thing, i just cannot emphasize more strongly that these other folks have to share the burden too and, you know, we're kind of tired of them paying no sales taxes. that is just wrong. that then other folks are burdened with a higher tax burden. i really would like to hear from the mayor that those other possibilities are actively being explored, because i think that's extremely important. my other comment is i'm still very uncomfortable with the one-year -- you know, if the state doesn't do it in one year. i would like to hear you go back and extend that for a much longer period of time. if

commissioner clyde: yes. >> commissioner dooley. commissioner dooley: yes. >> commissioner kasselman. commissioner kasselman: yes. >> commissioner o'brine: president o'brien: yes. >> commissioner riley. president riley: yes. >> that item passes. item number six, discussion and possible action to make recommendation to the board of supervisors. file number 101497. police code prohibiting the use of open top buses. amending section 46 to clarify that the definition in that section does not include open top tour buses. amending to clarify that noise restrictions do not apply to city agencies, adding a new section for the use of amplified sound on seeing buses in san francisco, except where sound is only audible to individual users. we have a presentation by a legislative aid to supervisor david chiu. >> good evening, i am here representing the office of supervisor david chiu, the sponsor of the legislation before you. supervisor chiu introduced this offensive coordinator nance several months ago in order to address noise concerns from

>commissioner dooley: no, you. >> you are talking about the medical reimbursement account. commissioner dooley: i just wanted to know how many complaints have been filed for violation. >> i think you want matthew. >> won distinction or confusion is which agency is responsible for what function. essentially it is the office of labor standards enforcement that enforces this requirement. one of the methods for meeting the requirement is to speak to tangerine at healthy san francisco. in the three years the law has been in place, we have initiated a little over 300 enforcement investigations. there are different ways to look at bat. we have received hundreds of inquiries and have worked with employees and employers informally to ensure that employers are meeting the requirements of the law and employees are getting the benefits that are required. some complaints do not rise to the level of investigation. with respect to the enforcement law -- enforcement arm, between 304 hundred cases have been opened during this process.

commissioner dooley: when are we going to see the legislation? >> it would be drafted by the city attorney's office. all will have to provide more text. in our presentation to the commission, we will do that to clarify some things and make sure we are not leaving the ambiguous statement mentioned earlier, being more specific about that. president o'brien: anybody else? during the outreach, were there any negative comments from any party, in the neighborhood representative? >> by far, most people have been very supportive. there has been some questions about what the change would do two specific neighborhood commercial districts, and i have for -- and they have worked hard to maintain a certain image in their neighborhood. we are trying to reassure them that our intent is not to get rid of those controls, but just to make it -- someone said micromanaging. cannot micromanage how business operates so much. president o'brien: it is not an action item, necessarily. >> it is not an action item. if there is any comment or suggestion you want to direct t

commissioner dooley: yes. president o'brien: no. commissioner yee riley: no. >> commissioners, that fails 3- 2. president o'brien: ok. next item, please. >> that will be reflected as a no recommendation. is that correct? president o'brien: in its current form, yes. >> i just want to say that i think the department of the environment for working really hard to make something that was actually doable and amenable to both the industry as well as the retailers and the general public. i think they worked very, very hard, and i would like to remind everyone that this is an industry that took the opportunity to show its displeasure with san francisco by pulling a major contention out of san francisco the moment this was -- convention out of san francisco the mom and this was announced. i think that did more damage than it helped. we will still be working on this. i do want to thank the department. >> you are now on item 8, discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisorsn

commissioner dooley: is that a lifetime benefit? >> as written, yes. help savings accounts work the same way. that money is held in trust by a bank. it is yours in perpetuity, regardless of where you live. commissioner kasselman: i have to follow up on that. what about members of healthy san francisco that leave the city? >> if a medical reimbursement is established for an employee and that employee moves, it does not matter if they reside in san francisco or another county. that account is still eligible to be withdrawn by that employee. they can go online in any state or county they live in and pulled down the information and submit a form for reimbursement respective of the county they live in. commissioner kasselman: and the hillary ronen -- healthy san francisco portion of your program? >> that is only available for individuals who reside in san francisco. if they move outside of the county but are still working for that employer, what will happen is that any future deposits on behalf of that employee will be subject to a newly created -- will be

i'm kathleen dooley. we feel the pain of having all of those visitors coming in not knowing how to get to our lovely commercial district. we were very active with this community development plan and are kind of creating the new corridors that would bring not only tourists, people from the terminals, and our neighborhood has a real lack of recreation. we would love to be able to find a way to get our neighborhood people to come down and more easily utilize the waterfront. we just want to add our enthusiastic support. we do reflect a large, broad groups of people and the northeast waterfront. >> i don't want to waste time talking about my background, but i was around the waterfront before some of these people were born. one thing that i want to focus a bit more on today, that is the unfinished business following the demolition of the freeway. that being traffic, transit, and parking. there have been numerous failed attempts over the years to produce a comprehensive study of these issues along with a plan to

i think commissioners -- thanks commissioners adams and dooley for speaking to supervisors and with that approach we were able to get that position added back in. i think our simple but targeted approach worked. there will be plenty of other opportunities for commissioner participation. we do want to expect -- express appreciation on that and. i am awaiting confirmation for when i can place the position of the job posting for announcement, which i anticipate will probably happen in the next couple of weeks. i want to provide a quick legislative update. i am going to summarize some of them. i am not going to speak to all of them. the ordinance, which we have a hearing on last month -- i think because of the hearing, the initial schedule date for this item to be heard at the government audits and oversight committee was on june 23. that did get extended out for more time and input from the business community. this item has now been scheduled for july 14 at government audit and oversight. at this time, we do not have indication there is going to be in the amendment or modification. limited

dooley from the small business commission.sure if you'd like to address us at all, at this point. >> good evening, commissioners, kathleen deal, small business commission. at this point i want to talk briefly more about that it's really time for us to get together and discuss formula retail and the controls, talk about what's working, what's not working. things have changed in different ways and i think that we would all be kind of tweak what we have so there isn't a constant running battle between small businesses and big box stores. we are very concerned about the cvs prototype. we're also concerned with the pet stores, the predatory pricing. they are just a beast of another kind. in fact, we just recently heard information that the denial of the pet food express on lombard, we are hearing that they've continued to lease the space and will be coming in front of you again and reapplying for that same space despite thesoi outpouring from the community on that. so i just really want to request from our commission to your commis

so melissa allen has turned to another inmate, megan dooley, for help. >> i'm not embarrassed when sheps me. i sit there and listen to her because i know she's not judging me and stuff. >> i treat people how i want them to treat me. math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with f that's easy for me, if i can help her with it, it's not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? >> 30, 40, 50 -- yes. >> melissa sees learning math as a step towards getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i looked like a dam fool. ky see myself now out there. i looked like a damn fool. running around like [ bleep ] probably smelled like one. i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we're the allens. we're better than that, you know? i feel like they following

and they decided that commodore dooley would lead the american fleet into ma knell i can't harbor. the u.s. lost a single sailor from heat exhaustion. i think we killed about 400 spaniards, sent their fleet to the bottom. our ships suffered nothing but superficial damage. that was the first engagement of war and excited the american public tremendously. >> why did we annex, or how did we annex, or both, hawaii? >> hawaii was seen as an important stop on the way to the pacific. mckinley was thinking at this time it would be nice to hold a port in the philippines. not so much that we would have a foothold on philippines itself but because of china. this was seen as an american hong kong. just a couple of days' sail from the chinese coast. and china was -- for a lot of people it was almost a panacea for economic ills of the country. but we needed to have a port until the philippines where our merchant ships and naval ships could repair and take on fuel. but you needed stepping stones in those days. so hawaii had been eager to become part of the united states for some time. mckinley ob