came to our office in 2010 and we connected them with la cacina and the opportunity fund. they started out with just a cart in justin her man plaza and now they have a store front. they're going to be opening their second store front. they're not a recipient of the revolving loan fund and they have plans in which they want to franchise. anyway, they're one of our -- i wanted to bring to your attention -- one of the businesses we've helped that's taking off and started out from a food cart, you know. that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> next item please. >> i'm number nine, the president's report, this is a discussion item. >> in november we only have one meeting on november 18, a 2 o'clock meeting. i decided since we have veteran's day on the 11th and thanks giving is at the end of the month i figured one meeting next month because i didn't think you guys wanted to meet two weeks in a row so if everybody's fine with that we'll hold on to that /skel /skwraoud. schedule. other than that i don't have anything else to report. >> thank you mr. president, that takes us to

help small businesses access loading zones so we have situations -- we had a recent situation with la cacina where they put in a loading zone in front of there, but because their businesses are small businesses, they don't have commercial vehicles or can't get commercial tags for their vehicles so therefore started getting ticketed. that is more of a state legislation, but, you know, i think part of the thing that we may want to present to the sfmta board is we would like to see some creative ideas and staff work on some solutions to help all of our small businesses. does the sfmta do an assessment or analysis of green zone use and the impact of removing the green zones when designing a project area. does there need to be an economic impact report where impact will create a significant change. using polk street as an example, how do certain areas of a city get factor /spwaod a plan especially when you have both sides of an area which will have significant dedication to bicycle lanes. sometimes these things seem to be in conflict and we have other initiatives that also utilize that space and