seeing none, commissioner dooley. commissioner dooley: i have written a possible motion saying the small business commission, in order to encourage small businesses, urges the city of san francisco to provide a separate set of lower impact fees for the easter neighborhood. anyone want to add anything? we would like to direct staff to develop another set of fees. >> that hits the nail on the head for me. can we have a motion? >> i will second that. >> to be proper, i would go to public comment. on the motion. president o'brien: do we have any public comment on the motion? yeah. seeing, none, that is closed. do we need to take a roll call? any objection? the motion is passed. we will go onto the next item. >> thank you for coming out. we appreciate it. >> are you going to take reservations at your bowling alley? ok, good. >> item 8, director support of a report on the office of small business and the business center. update on a department programs and announcements regarding the small business activities. just to note

commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i am very glad we are having this conversation today and that there is somebody year from small business, and i look forward to work together to make this easier. i do not know where we are on the city with that, but it would be great if we were able to issue some sort of a small test that says service dog or emotional, so that people will not having to be questioning the is. that would be good for the disability community. also for the owners. you do not want to believe you are not being told the truth. sometimes they just want to bring their dog in the bar or whatever, and i think that would be really helpful to clarify that for both sides, and, clearly, and this is the best way to go, so thank you very much for coming in. we certainly look forward to working with you. president o'brien: commissioner clyde? vice president clyde: -- >> there is a narrow definition of service dogs. there is no requirement. it is illegal to ask for a documentation. one of the thing

i know commissioner dooley has expressed interest in being on it as well. >> commissioner adams. commissioner adams: i want to thank the director for coming to the meeting on september 1 and bringing -- we had a presentation for the annual billing. she reiterated ada which was kind of a reminder. and on behalf of that, that triggered a lot of people wanting to get inspections. i want to thank her for coming and speaking at our meeting. >> thank you. commissioner? commissioner riley: it is not a full meeting, just the two presidents and the vice presidents. >> correct. >> any public comment? seeing none, next item. >> item 13. 13a, legislative and policy committee report, allowing the chair to report on recent committee activities and make announcements. >> we have nothing to report that has not been in front ob. discussion and possible action to form an ad hoc committee to meet with members of the planning commission and other persons to discuss formal retail related matters. >> in preparation with the planning commission, if from that meeting will want to initiate one of the top

commissioner dooley: i heard from your cohorts at the outreach committee and i want to say how enthusiastic i am about rolling it out. i think it will be better than previously. i am excited that we have lots of leave time to get out to the merchants and get them participating. i want to thank you for doing such a great job. you have another comment? i was just going to suggest we make a motion. >> the only comment i would like to make is that we participated in small business saturday, and it was very successful and very popular with people. we shared a lot of information with other businesses and people were really enthusiastic about it. it was really well embraced. thank you for continuing that. >> director, you started saying something about support? >> the small business commission will be listed as one of the supporting organizations, and upon your support, we can start providing the information, putting it in our bulletin and making sure that merchants are aware of it. and also, we will work with the city to have a larger city presents. >> if i may suggest we take public comment. pre

commissioner dooley: i am not sure if this is proper but we have another business from the same area.i was wondering if we could call him up to share his experiences. >> i would like to hear another experience that nobody has any objection? please, come forward. >> my name is aben. i completely feel this person's paints. n. we see positive impact of what it is like to have a new business to come to an area. we just opened a new store and we had 16 months of what we -- you went through. it is a very difficult. it is a difficult climate. i agree with you 100%. the focus should be on jobs. the idea is that there are jobs that impact the community is more important than walmart's in neighborhoods. i come from a small business perspective. my experience is that there it -- this is nothing but a positive to the community. there needs to be some waivers and situations that allow small businesses to grow and thrive in a place that was previously empty. we have seen what it is like when you are around empty buildings spending half of your day chasing drug situations. the impact is when a busin

harry truman, thomas dooley and on the far right strom thurmond and on the left you had wallace. if the republican apparatus gets there guys somehow through and it is not the tea party guide is possible the tea party will split off and run their own purse in which the democrats would love to see for the vote but the democrats don't understand there is an equal chance someone on the left thinks that they can't take it anymore. this is not what we voted for and someone from the left may run as an independent candidate. it could happen this time. so you will have four people running which means someone could win with 38% of the vote if the vote is split. we need a preferential voting system. many cities and counties have it where you vote your first choice, second choice or have a run off system. [inaudible] >> we need to go back to the voting system least have which canada has whether the number 2 pencil and a piece of paper. [applause] the canadians have thirty-five million citizens. they have all the votes counted in a few hours. it is the largest land mass on earth next to russi

so melissa allen has turned to another inmate, megan dooley, for help. >> you add 6 to 18, and that will> i'm not embarrassed when she helps 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, if that is easy for me, it won't hurt me to sit down with her 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 look crazy and i feel like a damn fool. i can see myself out there running around looking like a damn fool. running around like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like [ bleep ]. 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 tha

kerry truman, thomas dooley and then on the far right you had strom thurman and on the left you havewallace, good wallace. and you could have, if the republicans -- as the republican apparatus gets their guy somehow through an insipid tea party guy, it's possible the tea party was split off and run their own person, which the democrats would love to see, just split the vote. but the democrats don't understand is the unequal chance someone on the left saying that they just can't take it anymore. this is not what we voted for and someone on the left may run as an independent candidate. and it could happen this time. and so, you're going have for people running, which means someone could win with 30% of the vote if the vote is split. [inaudible] >> yes, we absolutely -- yes, many cities and counties have it where you bought your first choice, second choice would you have a runoff system. it would need to go back to the voting system that canada has come or the user number two pencil and a piece of paper. [applause] the canadians have nearly 35 million citizens. all the votes counted wit

your problem said tom dooley? >> of brent's march. he was not politically smart. >> who would you say? >> stevenson. >> i did not say stevenson. >> we think he would be the smartest? what i said henry clay. >> to of the 14 was not very smart? i know that sounds ok -- who would not have been -- >> it really depends on how you are defining smart. there are people who are very good at running an office but not running for office. there are people who -- which one had the image of not being very smart? you never know. >> wallace. torch wallace. -- george wallace. he exploited street smarts. he had street smarts. >> is a real guy. let me change my answer. cover and is as smart as at the. he is a smart person. you remember he runs one of the dumber campaigns. what does that tell you. >> i nominate hughes as the smartest. >> who is the nastiest? >> henry clay. >> if your african-american you might want to say george wallace. >> that is a different kind of nasty. >> you write for a living, you have done a book on mr. stevenson. if you had to

ind have great confidence in dek dooley. u at they're playing very goodgeora football, and i intend to be in. my usual seats at the georgia game in two weeks. >> madam president? >> the other senator from tennessee. >> madam president, thank you.ns i want to say to my colleague, e have certainly enjoyed your tene comments today and i'm excited for you. i sit very close to you here inu the senate and i'm with you a great deal. i do planh f on keeping a cane r a few days. state i very much appreciate your service and leadership to the republican party here in the united states senate and i think that what you you have done in that position is to bring out the best in all of us.s in the best way that you can. i'm excited for you, and i look at this is a senate, for the united states senate. this is a great day for our country. a this is a great day for the state of tennessee, and i can tell you based on the cumbre stations that we the way that i know you, the united states senate is going to become very quickly a more interesti

>> i tell you what, tom dooley sort of spanned the introduction of television. he ran three times. he ran against f.d.r. in 1944, and of course famously against harry truman in 1948. he had been this great courtroom prosecutor who became famous while still in his 1930's for putting away the likes of lucky luch -- lucciano and others. he was a courtroom performer and that translated superbly well for a television studio. >> let me disagree a little bit. this is a guy that has, and i have to look around to see, he had a moustache who said he had a moustache who said he looks like he's an ornament on a wedding cake. that might be a compliment in terms of some circles, but on the other hand -- >> he was a guy who couldn't be handled. the people who be his handlers said, you have to shave your moustache. it reminds people of charlie chap atlanta and worse, hitler. there was also a big gap between his teeth. he wouldn't fix it. why? his wife liked him like that. that tells you something about personal character if nothing else. but i think it is a persuader. someone who could make the tv

i have great confidence in derek dooley. they're playing very good football and i spend to be in my usual seats at the georgia game in two weeks. >> madam president. >> the other senator from tennessee. >> madam president, thank you. i want to say to my colleague, i certainly enjoyed your comments today, and i'm excited for you. i sit very close to you here in the senate, and i'm with you a great deal. i do plan on keeping a cane out of your reach for a few days. but i very much appreciate your service and leadership of the republican heart peer in the united states senate, and i think what you have done in that position is to bring out the best in all of us, and the best way that you can. i'm excited for you. and i look at this as a great day for the senate. for the united states senate. it's a great day for our country. this is a great day for the state of tennessee. and i can tell you, based on the conversations we have had and the way i know you, united states senate is going to become very quickly a more interesting pla

i have great confidence in derrick dooley, he's a fine football coach at the university of tennessee, they're playing very good football and i intend to be at my usual seats at the georgia game in two weeks. the presiding officer: the other senator from tennessee. mr. corker: madam president, thank you. i want to say to my colleague i certainly enjoyed your comments today. i'm excited for you. i sit very close to you here in the senate and i'm with you a great deal. i do plan on keeping a cane out of your reach for a few days. but i very much appreciate your service and leadership to the republican party here in the united states senate, and i think that what you've done in that position is to bring out the best in all of us in the best way that you can. i'm excited for you and i look at this as a great day for the senate, for the united states senate. it's a great day for our country. this is a great day for the -- for the state of tennessee, and i can tell you paced on the conversations that we've had and the way that i know you the united states senate is going to become very quick