that's $15 for the online clas. >> chair adams: mission or dooley. >> commissioner dooley: it said noipping allowed. was wondering why. >> we want to make sure that there are direct sales. the whole thing is that this is a local business kind of thing; it was not intended to the sale out-of-state. can take internet sales requests but the operator has to do the delivery directly to that person, so we know there is a direct sale. >> chair adams: commissioner ortiz. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: are those certification classes multi-lingual? >> i know it is in chinese and spanish, and i think in several other languages too, the two- hour class.classes we give, are in chinese and spanish. >> chair adams: let's take public comment. any public comment on item four? seeing none, public comment is now closed. commissioners. i like this. i know in your classes, if you work at safeway you have to take those classes, and the emergence of farmers market in the city a lot of those locals want to participate in those markets. you say they are not refrigerated, this is great. thank you for this.

. >> chair adams: commissioner dooley >> commissioner dooley: when i met with a number of you folks at the beginning of the year, i was very familiar with this process having gone through this in north beachwhere mta is planning to dig up columbus avenue for two years, which would have pretty much destroyed the entire merchant corridor. once again there was no outreach. we battled and eventually we convinced them to do something different. what i think is the bottom line was his problem is the fact that mta deals with -- they spend a lot of time on these project planning them. the pipeline is a very long time. however they don't tend to involve anyone in the neighborhoods that they will affect until they finish the plan and they are bringing it forward to you. which is a wrong time to be doing that. these are things that seriously affect our neighborhoods and there needs to be amended participation right from the beginning. i know these projects -- they have been working on for years but this is something that we need , to convince them that people who are working and living in these n

. >> commissioner dooley? >> i think that an issue that has been coming up is when mta has long term projects that they are starting to plan, and also, a large infrastructure projects that take many years to complete, is that we know that the small businesses, the people, the owners don't have that kind of attention span, and i know what happened in my neighborhood of north beach, all of a sudden it is going to start and you are like oh, my gosh, what, what, what? and everyone goes crazy. i am wondering if mta to consider having someone on their staff that was a well respected small business leader that could have a role of sort of being the out reach on a longer term basis? you know that would meet with different neighborhoods, their merchants and say, we are starting planning now, and it is going to take us four years, or whatever to get to a point of implementation. but that there would be some kind of a regular out reach to those businesses. even if it was just via e-mail updates, so that it would not come

. >> commissioner dooley. >> here. >> commissioner dwight. >> here. >> it commissioner o'brien. >> here. >> commissioner oritz-caragena. >> here. >> commissioner irene yee riley. >> he. >> for the commission on status of women president julie soo will join us shortly. commissioner kirshner-rodriguez. >> here. >> and commissioner sherter. >> here. >> we have another commissioner joining us shortly did you do you have any remarks? >> this meeting is overdue and welcome. this is an exciting meeting tonight because women in small business play a very important role here in san francisco. you know we have -- i want to acknowledge commissioner dooley and commissioner white of the small business commission. their contributions that they have made and commissioner riley in business, and we got some very cool presentations, and i really want to welcome the commission in this joint meeting today. >> thank you. i have several agenda announcements. under section a new business -- section a for starting your business item four la cocina will be moved to item number one. for item number three regreen

. >> commissioner dooley. >> another question, i just wondering about what are your plans for areas that are very dense with workers, many who drive, that are extremely under served by public transportation? i'm thinking, of course, about levi's plaza is it is all built up there. but there is no, the fline is completely packed at all time, are you thinking about putting more things on-line to encourage people to use the public transportation. >> absolutely. >> as i state at the start if we are going to make any of this stuff work we need paem to have good options to choose from. >> because the latest for many people right now for many trips opening in your car and driving is the best alternative. >> and so we need to change that. >> we tried to keep up with development in terms of the new development on the water front as i mentioned we are very kind of actively engaged. and managing the assessment of the transportation needs. and hope to cut and come out of it and using the private sector for a big part of that to get funding for the right level of service for the different modes of tra

commissioner white, when isinger dooley. >> dwight. >> o'brien. >> ortiz-cartagena. >> rilely? she had a prior commitment. i would like to ask the members of the public to silence or turn off all cell phones or portable device and we would like to take this opportunity to thank sfgov tv and the media to all media services for the continued support of our meetings. >> to move on to item number two, mr. president. >> yes. commissioners, you are now in item number two,

commissioner white, when isinger dooley. >> dwight. >> o'brien. >> ortiz-cartagena. >> rilely? she had a prior commitment. i would like to ask the members of the public to silence or turn off all cell phones or portable device and we would like to take this opportunity to thank sfgov tv and the media to all media services for the continued support of our meetings. >> to move on to item number two, mr. president. >> yes. commissioners, you are now in item number two, presentation of the small business commission certificate of honor recognizing the city employee treasurer as part of the city employee recognition program, this is a discussion item. >> commissioners, director of the office of small business. and we have with us, richard simons, our tax and treasurers, and pauline marks from the tax and treasurer's office and it is great pleasure and some what sadness and pleasure to honor him for his service and 13 and a half years with the tax and treasurer's office and he has worked very closely with our office and our staff and when we opened the office of small business, provi

. >> commissioner dooley. >> i just wanted to thank you for the presentation and say i certainly wish you were around when i opened my business. you certainly described a lot of the pitfalls that i fell right into and i also wanted to mention it's so important for the small businesses to get support. we are constantly being inundated with chain stores, out of area companies, and we need to keep our neighborhood corridors with our local neighbors and especially as women owners i know that we serve more than just what we're selling. we're there to meet people's children after work. there is a real community feeling that you cannot get any other way, so thank you for working towards that goal in our neighborhoods. >> i have a question. you serve a lot of people, and where is your funding coming from and what's the size of your staff? >> oh great question. where does our funding not come from? we get a little bit of government funding. we get city of san francisco funding. we get funding from san francisco foundation. many corporations and banks in particular have an interest in funding w

>> commissioner dooley? >> i think that is seems pretty clear that there is a big ask out there to have representation at mta. for small businesses, be it business out reach employee, i think that it would solve a lot of the problems that we are hearing and help to solve some headaches for mta and for small businesses. the out reach has not been adequate for many different reasons and not all of them mta's fault and but it is still out there that it is not just adequate. to help out and serve the small businesses who are really busy people, and you know they need someone as an advocate and looking after their interest and communicating with them on a regular basis. >> thank you. >> commissioner ortiz? >> thank you for all of the small business owners that came out here today. with the small business providing about 50 percent of the jobs in san francisco, bike lanes to eliminate those jobs and have no need for bike lanes any more with no people in the city. but, i think that this is a intoed time, this is ju

. >> commissioner dooley i wanted to make a comment on something that commissioner o'brien said about the parking garages it seems to me that the thinking that if we are going to be seeing an increase in our population, that what is going to happen is if we don't build any more parking lots or add on or whatever, parking structures it actually making what is over time, less and less parking available. because this there is going to are more people and even if a percentage part, are driving, if there is a lot more people in our city done, they are going to need to park somewhere. and i want to echo what commissioner o'brien said that i think that should not be off the table. because frankly we are just not going to be able to fill all of those new people that are moving into the city by just what we have right now. >> commissioner o'brien. thank you, that is exactly the points that i wanted to make. and the last item that i was trying to think of was i think that it would be good to put the messages back on the transportation and again i believe that the solution is one of every mode o

. >> commissioner dooley? >> i think that an issue that

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. >> we the verdict dooley i'm panelled and sworn upon our both do find the defendant guilty of firstnning development just minutes after the this verdict, jodi arias telling a phoenix television station she would rather get the death penalty than life in prison. this prompted authorities to put her on suicide watch this morning. cnn's ted rolands is live with that shocking interview. i can't believe it happened. >> yeah, it is hard to believe that the sheriff's departmental loued it to happen and that her lawyers allowed it to happen when she still has the death penalty phase ahead of her in this trial. but this has been a bizarre trial from the beginning and that is just the lightest twist. she says that she was surprised by this verdict. as you mentioned, she said she would rather be executed than live the rest of her life in jail. >> do find the defendant as to count one first degree murder guilty. >> reporter: jodi arias had very little reaction in the courtroom to the guilty verdict, but minutes later, she did an interview with phoenix television station ksaz. arias says she und

. >> we the jury dooley i'm pal nelled and sworn upon our oaths do find that the aggravating factor speciallyorter: jodi arias sat solemnly as the jury decided she is eligible for a death sentence. that after a mini trial known as the aggravating factor phase of a process that will ultimately determine arias' sentence. even before prosecutor war ran martinez called his first witness the county medical examiner, family and friends of victim travis alexander, fought back tears in anticipation of what was to come. martinez displayed graphic images of alexander's body on giant screens enveloping the courtroom. they showed dozens of stab wounds including one so deep that it punctured a vein going into his heart that produced a gusher of blood and several to the head that dented his school. >> she made sure that she killed him by stabbing him over and over and over again and then finishing him off. >> reporter: then came the most horrific image, gaping wound to alexander's throat, sliced open nearly ear to ear. it remained on the screen for what seemed an eternity, as many in court, his sisters, ar

. >> we the jury dooley i'm panelled and sworn in the above entitled action upon our oaths do find the defendant as to count one first degree murder guilty. >> so the verdict was one thing, but then there was a stunning development just minutes after the verdict, jodi arias tells a phoenix television station she would rather get the death penalty than life in prison, prompting authorities to put her on suicide watch. cnn's ted rowlands is live in phoenix with more on that really shocking interview, ted. i simply can't believe it happened at all. >> yeah. it's hard to imagine that the jail allowed her to do it. the courthouse, the sheriff's department, and her lawyers allowed her to talk when she still has yet to be sentenced and facing a possible death sentence. it's just the latest twist in this bizarre sort of made for tv case that continues. she will be back in court later today as the death penalty phase begins here. but she says she was shocked by the guilty verdict the first degree murder guilty verdict. >> do find the defendant as to count one first degree murder guilty. >> jodi

nixon was having lunch with tom dooley. they were blocking checkers along fifth avenue.tricia and julie were going to the school. in february 64. >> i can still see it. "the new york times" reporter was impressed by nixon's civil rights. in february 64, randy got tickets for julia tricia to see the beatles on the ed sullivan sold. and suddenly ken can be a scaled. he was already meeting with the national republican senator. he told roscoe drummond and a columnist for the herald tribune i'm not going to run again in 1864. i won't run in 68 or 72. anyone who thinks i'm going to seek public office again is out of his mind. he meant it. he would've been bored, restless, but he would've have had a normal prosperous aldersgate in my. >> and he was in dallas. [inaudible] i'm not suggesting that. just because i'm wearing black doesn't mean i'm going to go into that wormhole. but he gives the press conference in dallas before the assassination and criticizes kennedy's leadership. that is strange for somebody who enjoys walking his dog in new york. >> he was going to be big spokes

nixon was having lunch with tom dooley. they were blocking checkers along fifth avenue. tricia and julie were going to the school. in february 64. >> i can still see it. "the new york times" reporter was impressed by nixon's civil rights. in february 64, randy got tickets for julia tricia to see the beatles on the ed sullivan sold. and suddenly ken can be a scaled. he was already meeting with the national republican senator. he told roscoe drummond and a columnist for the herald tribune i'm not going to run again in 1864. i won't run in 68 or 72. anyone who thinks i'm going to seek public office again is out of his mind. he meant it. he would've been bored, restless, but he would've have had a normal prosperous aldersgate in my. >> and he was in dallas. [inaudible] i'm not suggesting that. just because i'm wearing black doesn't mean i'm going to go into that wormhole. but he gives the press conference in dallas before the assassination and criticizes kennedy's leadership. that is strange for somebody who enjoys walking his dog in new york. >> he was going to be big spoke

. >> commissioner dooley: here >> commissioner dwight is absent. >> commissioner o'brien: here >> commissioneriz-cartagena: here. >> commissioner riley: here >> commissioner white: here. we have a quorum. you are in general public comment. allowing members of the public to comment on matters within the commissions purview. this is a discussion item. >> chair adams: do we have any members of the outlook here who would like to make a comment on any item other than what is on today's agenda. seeing none the only comment is seeing none the only comment is closed. 3. discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file no. 130284 [planning, building codes - fee waiver program - small business month, may 2013] ordinance recognizing small business month in may 2013; amending the planning code, sections 302, 355(a), and 355(e); and amending building code, tables 1a-a, and 1a-e, to waive fees for the month of may for certain façade improvements; and making findings, including environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general p