so it is our custom to begin and end each commission that it's the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop when have you questions about what to do next. all you need to do is find us online or in person here at city hall and our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters start here at the office of small business. next item, please. >> clerk: item 11, adjournment action item. >> commissioner: i would like to move to adjourn this meeting in honor of peter mcgowan who passed away because he built that ballpark in the city, he kept the giants in the city and he took a neighborhood with a bunch of run down railroad yards and turned it into a new neighborhood. i'd like to do that. >> i second that motion. >> clerk: mot

there are three considerations for the small business commission one for each of the registry applicants. note a motion in support should be a motion in favor of the resolution. in the resolutions, please pay close attention to the core physical features that define the business. once approved by the s.b.c. the businesses must maintain these physical features or features in order to remain on the legacy business registry. for the bix restaurant and bar for san francisco supply master it's supplier of food service products, for schubert's bakery, bakery. this concludes my presentation and i'm happy to answer questions. there are business representatives in attendance that would like to speak on behalf of the application. >> commissioner: great. thank you, richard, good job. any questions before we go into public comment? i want to invite supervisor fewer up here here to speak for one of the businesses. welcome, supervisor. >> thank you, very much, commissioners. thank you for hearing me today. i'm here to ask your support for schuer's bakery and moved to the district in 1959 and it's been

commission vice president in accordance with the commissioner's rules of order, article 2 section 3 an election of the vice president must occur at the regular meeting during the second meeting in january of each year. the vice president shall serve a term of one year and shall be elected upon a vote of the commission action item. do we have a nomination. >> i'd like to nominate mayor -- mir yum -- miriam zouzounis. >> i'll second that. >> nominee statements, commissioner twice. -- dwight. >> i'd be honored to return and look forward to continuing. thank you. >> clerk: commissioner zouzounis. >> yeah, i would be honored to serve that role and learn from our current president and continue to learn and produce things on this commission. >> clerk: any additional commissioner discussion? seeing none is there a public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. so roll call for the first nominee. commissioner dwight nominated by commissioner adams and seconded by commissioner corvi. so roll call vote. commissioner adams. >> yes. >> clerk: commissioner corvi. >> yes. >> clerk: commissioner dooley. >> no. >> clerk: commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> no. >> commissioner yee riley. >> yes. >> c

helping in each instance international. the african commission and human rights and ice consider that needed to not in any circumstance. and says sorry have jurisdiction. over it you will let talking about i think come to our friends you are sitting. ok would amnesty international's west and central africa deputy regional director joining us from des casa de gaulle thank you for that. it's to nigeria now where officials have begun announcing the results in the country's presidential election president has taken and early opposition candidates. winning most of the states that have already been declared the country's main opposition party has called the partial results in correction an acceptable and in some parts of the country people say the poll wasn't free and fair correspondent brings us this report from lagos. says this is what is left of them know by a polling station in a quarter of the residents who are still angry show as a mobile phone video from election day a group of thugs attempt to voters and burn down the ballot. this district is c

with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded affn the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. when the number of speakers exceeds 15-minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. i do have a couple of speaker cards. >> president melgar: okay. thank you. ike and georgia and if anybody else wants to come up, please do so. go ahead. okay. >> good afternoon. in the past five years, the commission has not often applied the section 317 relative affordability criterion, because demolitions were disguised as alterations. as the commission moves forward with decisions in the r-zone, the commission must apply this criterion to maintain a balance in the city. this is particularly true in the three r.h. zone districts, which are the largest geographic area of the 49 square miles of san francisco. speculative project whether demolitions or tantamount to demolition or should be tantamount to demolition, do not preserve existing housing and are not relatively affordable. densification throu

condemned the elections where postponed they criticised the electoral commission for it and they blamed eachother basically for trying to fake some things in the elections they didn't go into details it's just the good old blame game that we've also been seeing in their campaigning time without any evidence whatsoever. now what happens next there are any guarantees that the election will actually take place next weekend. well no guarantees but i think it's very likely that they will happen i think is and the electoral commission is under fire right now many people angry and also the whole world is watching there's a lot of journalists in the country a lot of election observers and i do believe that they will really have to make sure that the elections will happen except today all right thank you reporting for us from lagos thanks very much the acclaimed swiss act of bruno has died at the age of seventy seven considered one of the most important contemporary ounces of german language cinema is international breakthrough crate came starring in them venders nine hundred eighty seven movie wings

condemned the elections where postponed they criticised the electoral commission for it and they blamed each other basically for trying to fake some things in the elections they didn't go into details it's just the good old blame game that we've also been seeing in the campaigning time without any evidence whatsoever. now what happens next there are any guarantees that the election will actually take place next weekend. well no guarantees but i think it's very likely that they will happen i think is and the electoral commission is under fire right now many people are angry and also the whole world is watching there's a lot of journalists in the country a lot of election observers and i do believe that they will really have to make sure that the elections will happen next saturday all right thank you for us from lagos thanks so much. now the berlin film festival draws to a close this weekend with the jury deliberating over which films will pick up the coveted silver and the golden bear awards here's a look at some of the film critics favor for the top prizes. just what are these six people th

with them and in there are four draft resolutions for consideration by the small business commission. one for each of the legacy business registry applicants. note that a motion and support of the businesses should be a motion in favor of the resolutions. in the resolutions please pay close attention to the fiscal features that define the business. once approved by the sbc the businesses must maintain their physical features or tradition to stay on the registry. for armstrong linoleum company flooring and coverings and for world market it's eastern european goods and for yuet lee restaurant it features restaurant fare. i'm happy to answer questions. there's business representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the applications. >> thank you, richard. do you guys want to go right into public comment? okay. we'll open this up for public comment. let's hear from some of the business owners. >> the clerk: would supervisor fewer like to begin the public comment? ? have >> commissioner: first, thank you i'd like to recommend new world market. new world market used to be located two

i don't think we have to have the whole commission review each one. we can have two commissioners designated to review m.o.u.s, and as m.o.u.s come in, you can send an e-mail to the commissioners, we have these two m.o.u.s. we can figure it out -- let's not do it here, but let's figure out how it works. >> commissioner dejesus: yeah. i think -- >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner taylor. >> commissioner taylor: i think a list would be helpful because frankly every time you have an m.o.u. for academic research, that would slow down the business and the good work of the department and things that i think most of us don't really care about. so if we could get -- have a list, then, we could decide and agree on what we'd like to see. and as additional m.o.u.s come up, we can supplement the list. >> and if it works for the commission -- >> commissioner dejesus: yeah, that works for me. >> commissioner mazzucco: director henderson, since you've gotten to the commission, you never slow anything down. >> let me just say this is the reflection of a lot of wo

request that we change rule 6 to read that on the second regular meeting of the commission, after the first day of february, each year, the members of the commission shall elect, blah, blah, blah. the number of president and voice president. and the reason i am requesting this is simply because, if i should be in the role of president to go through mr. courtney's service, that would be october. so that's eight months. and then in october, i am, according to not the rules of order but tradition, i would be the candidate for president for the following year. therefore, i would be serving 20 months as president and truthfully, i really would like to just serve one year as stated in our rules. so this is for discussion only. we're not voting on this. that's what i would like to submit. >> i have some thoughts o on th. i remember when we voted this on 2012 to establish october because it is shortly after the terms. it's the beginning the terms for all commissioners or three of the five commissioners. it gave a month for the nominated commissioners to be approved and appointed. when there's a full compliment, there's

each year. i would be happy to answer any questions the commission may have at this time. >> president serina: any comments or questions. >> vice president loo: i'm looking at the schedule, site chart. they are open monday through saturday. we have 52 weeks in a week. but the total number of service days is 150. that's low. >> well, 150 will be the half year. >> vice president loo: okay. >> president serina: over any comments or questions? >> so i have a picture of the program which sounds wonderful. are the people that serving, are they the volunteers who will interact with the young people? how does one example one of the programs work? >> these are new programs. they are not actually working. how it's proposed in their proposal will be that -- the older adults or adults with disabilities, those are the clients. they would -- the people who are volunteering, the younger the youth. those will be the volunteers. but those aren't necessarily the clients. there are clients are the daas clients. >> i'm trying to get a picture of it. if there's a technology class, that's the younger volunteers? >> cor

member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comment on each agenda item unless the commission wants a shorter period on any item. it is strongly advised that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a completed speaker card and submit the card to the commission secretary. the next order is item three, report taken on any commission business, if any. there is no business. the next item is item four, items of unfinished business. there are none. item five, matters consisting of consent and regular agenda. first, a consent agenda. approval of minutes from december 5, 2018 and january 5, 2019. madam chair? >> commissioner mondejar: thank you. madam secretary, do you have any speaker cards on these items? >> clerk: i have no cards. >> commissioner mondejar: i will now close this item, having no request for speaking cards. next item -- oh, do i have a motion? >> i move. >> i second. >> commissioner mondejar: motion by commissioner rosales, seconded by commissioner scott. madam secretary, please take the roll call. >> clerk: commission members, plea please an

at this time, members of the public may address the commission in matters of interest to the public. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. when the number of speakers exceed the 15-minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. i do have two speaker cards. >> commissioner hillis: all right. miss sciutic and mr. ferguson. thank you, miss sciutic. >> i mentioned before i'm a judge over at the p.u.c., and i have to hold a case in -- a hearing in san jose shortly. so i'm taking time out to come here first and then hopping in my car and driving down there to do this immediately. i am also the president of the presidio heights association of neighbors, i've lived in pre d presidio heights for 30 years. this is my second go round. i want to apprise you of the fact that the first go round as president of presidio heights i moved the beautiful hospital that's four blocks north of here from our neighborhood down here. it sits down here much better than it did in the middle of presidio heights. here's what i plan on doing second ti

i myself have asked for my submit to be included at the desk, and i have sent it to each member of the commission. it's not at the desk, and as far as i know, there's no way the public knows that i submitted comments on the public financing thing. that's number one. number two is that when you turn it over to february , you also allow for further amendments as it proceeds, which would be the normal course of business. i took a look at what i think is the most important thing is the purpose of the public financing act is to ensure greater participation by candidates and by a greater sense of trust by the public, and if you take a look at how money is flowing into our campaigns, i look, for example, at independent expenditure committees and campaign committees of candidates, and independent expenditure committees aimed at a specific candidate outmatched what is being available by public dollars by a considerable amount of money. that's the documents that i submit to each of you. the point being that playing around with how the public dollars are allocated without addressing the fact that there's in

each has accused the other of influencing the electoral commission and attempting to rig the vote one major question is over turnout people who travel great distances to vote in their home districts last week may not be able to afford to do so again and this is differ of the extent to which turnout could play for or against either side among the. to the candidates in this election one thing does seem to be a little low turnout and all of this a week long delay could deliver a low turnout well that may well be difficult for the future ruling party in terms of not just its mandate but its ability to go toe to toe al jazeera a boojum now voters in senegal are turning to satire to find out more about the candidates for the presidency the nation goes to the polls on sunday now another african nations comedians making fun of politicians have often found themselves in jail but that's not the case in senegal nicholas reports in the capital dhaka thank you thank you thank you there may be no televised presidential debate but there was a special election coverage. comedian is impersonating all

is required the commission consist of 12 members. three appointed by each of the four senior republican democrat members of the senate and house armed services committee. that includes the current leadership of the armed services committee. in other words, this commission was a serious bipartisan effort led by 12 of our nation's leading national security experts. the statutes asked the commission to review the national defense strategy and make recommendations. that is exactly what the commission did. the classified national defense strategy as well as the unclassified summary completed january 2018. the commission released its report in november. today's event is perfectly timed as we prepare for the administration submission of 2020 defense request in the coming weeks and as congress prepares to develop defense authorization and congress required the commission consists of 12 members, three appointed by each of the four senior republican democrat members of the senate and house armed services committees. that includes the current leadership as well as ran

and we take one nomination at a time, and then, we'll -- the commission will vote each nomination -- vote on each nomination one at a time. yeah, and individuals can also nominate themselves or people who are absent. >> commissioner wald? >> i would like to nominate president bermejo to continue as our president. thank you. i think she's done a fabulous job. her enthusiasm, her energy, her commitment to the department and to the commission have all made -- contributed significantly to this wonderful year that we have just finished talking about, and i'm confident that under her leadership we'll have another great year if she is elected. >> i hope i can count on your vote then. i -- i think i have to say i accept. i humbly accept, and i think this is just a -- the great work of this commission and everything that we do with our director because i think we're like a beautiful orchestra, and we all do really well when we are in sync, and debbie has such a wonderful way of leading us to make us enthusiastic for the work that we do. >> is a second needed on that? >> no, but you can second

country's commission postponed the election by a week, citing difficulties. they each accuse the other of conspiring to rig the election. the pdp is rejecting results and does calling for it to be rerun and for canceled votes to be readmitted to the tally. the delay contributing to the lowest electoral turnout in years. dozens have died with reports of vote buying fueling calls for electoral reform. faces m many challengnges. >> donald trump's planned state of emergency was challenged tuesday by the house controlled controlledcratic house of representatives. the vote is likely to be nothing more than a temporary set back. if republicans did vote against the president, it would not be a done deal as trump has presidential power to veto. joint resolution is passed. blow to the state of emergency. votedmbers of congress blocking it. democrats say american democracy is at stake. >> we would be delinquent in our overturn we did not what the president proposes. he is asking us to turn our backs on the oath of office that we took to the constitution of the united states. appr

no public comments were received before the commission packets were distributed however yesterday there was received a letter was e-mailed to each of the commissioners and to the planning commission secretary. in opposition. it cites for different use and the project meets all applicable requirements of the planning code and the proposed use would fill a basement level commercial space and allow the property owner to relocate his medical office federal gary boulevard which is within a mile of the subject site. this concludes my presentation. i'll be available to any answer questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there a project sponsor? >> president, members of the commission, i'm gerald green. i don't have much to add to the staff's presentation. i do want to provide with a slight background. in 2016, this commission considered a conditional use authorization to allow financial services activity to occupy this space. the lease for that space is coming up. the owner of the space who operates the practice nearby wishes to move into the space. that's why we're here before you. the space is a very difficult space from a retailing

members of the public have up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period of public comment time. item 8, public comments on items not listed on the agenda. public comment is permitted any matter within the port jurisdiction and not limited to an agenda item. non agenda items may be raised during this period. members of the public have three minutes. please fill out a public comment speaker card and hand it to the port commission affairs manager if you have any questions. please connect with the port commission affairs manager. no commissioner action may be taken during this time. however, items brought forward can be scheduled for a later port commission meeting, refer to staff and investigated or respond briefly in a statement made with questions posed to the public by members of the public. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on items not listed on the agenda? we just want to make sure everyone remembers to fill out a speaker card if you are going to speak on any item. if you are speaking on an item that's not listed on t

with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. when the number of speakers exceed the 15-minute limit, general public comment may be moved to the end of the agenda. i have no speaker cards. >> president melgar: we have no speaker cards, but if you can come up for general public comment. go ahead, come on up. okay, anyone else for general public comment, please come up. >> secretary: for items that are not on the agenda. >> items not on the agenda today? >> secretary: right. >> it's possible it could be that way. i am here regarding an item that i'm asking for the item not to be heard today. >> secretary: you should make that request when the item is called. >> okay, thank you. >> president melgar: thank you. anyone else for general public comment for items not on the agenda? okay, well, with that, looks like public comment is now closed. >> secretary: very good, commissioners, that places us under your regular calendar. item 7 was pulled off consent, will be

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