>> president laguana: i second. >> director: seconded by commissioner laguana. roll call. [roll call] that motion passes 7-0. the meeting is adjourned at 7:27. >> president laguana: thank you all. >> director: thank you, commissioners. and thank you for putting up with a meeting that had a lot of hick ups. >> president laguana: we appreciate you, director. >> director: thank you. >> the hon. london breed: we are here today to sign legislation which will provide an additional $10.9 million in grant resources for small businesses throughout san francisco. and let me tell you why that is so significant. when we first closed down over a year ago, people who had businesses like hair salons, nail salons, night life venues, places like a lot of these locations here in japantown, they basically had to close and figure out how they were going to close and figure out how they were going to pay their rent, they had to figure out how they were going to support and feed their families. it took us a while to get it together to make sure that we are in a where people were -- people were

>> president laguana: i second. >> director: seconded by commissioner laguana. roll call. [roll call] that motion passes 7-0. the meeting is adjourned at 7:27. >> president laguana: thank you all. >> director: thank you,

laguana, you made the initial motion.ou willing to accept commissioner zouzounis' recommendation? >> i do accept them, and i am thankful for them. >> okay. so we have a motion by commissioner laguana, seconded by -- >> commissioner dooley. >> by commissioner dooley, and i will now go into roll call. [roll call] >> that motion passes, 7-0. >> all right. thank you. thank you, ian. >> thank you for your time and your feedback. >> all right. next item, please. >> item number 5 is a resolution drk-small business resolution 003-2012 ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement statement. the resolution complies with the city's racial equity action plan to have boards and commissions read a statement acknowledging the ramaytush ohlone community at each small business commission meeting and to amend the rules of order to reflect this mandate. this resolution is part of the office of small business -- >> excuse me, director, i apologize. in my notes, i have legacy business as being the next item. >> so sorry. i've really lost it today. p

>> president laguana: i second. >> director: seconded by commissioner laguana. roll call. [roll call] that motion passes 7-0. the meeting is adjourned at 7:27. >> president laguana: thank you all. >> director: thank you, commissioners. and thank you for putting up with a meeting that had a lot of hick ups. >> president laguana: we appreciate you, director. >> director: thank you. >>> hi everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and it has been a very, very challenging year for all of us in san francisco, but i've got to tell you, we're coming alive again. we're starting to open the city again. i see you urban alkamine. thank you for all the work you do to keep us safe out here. we are here today because we are taking an additional step further to get the city re-opened. i'm joined by a number of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they

>> president laguana: i second. >> director: seconded by commissioner laguana. roll call. [roll call] that motion passes 7-0. the meeting is adjourned at 7:27. >> president laguana: thank you all. >> director: thank you, commissioners. and thank you for putting up with a meeting that had a lot of hick ups. >> president laguana: we appreciate you, director. >> director: thank you. >>> hi everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and it has been a very, very challenging year for all of us in san francisco, but i've got to tell you, we're coming alive again. we're starting to open the city again. i see you urban alkamine. thank you for all the work you do to keep us safe out here. we are here today because we are taking an additional step further to get the city re-opened. i'm joined by a number of our city department heads including our city administrator car men chiu and our librarian michael lambert. and, let me tell you, michael has not only been running this library, he and so many of our librarians and the people who work for the library here in san francisco, they

i forgot one other thing pardon me, president laguana. the state, there's the disability access fund. the state requires san francisco to collect $4 with each business registration. this will be in place for one more year. this disability access fund is to go to offset certification and recertification for city employees for there to be certified access specialist. in addition, up until covid, we were utilizing these funds to help offset past inspections and had started a grant program to help offset costs, should a business be rared by the property owner to do the remediation for the entryway. the entity that we had contracted with to help manage this program, that contract ended during covid. we're in the process of having to redo that contract those grant funds aren't available right now. with that, i will now turn it over to you president laguana. >> thank you, director dick-endrizzi. excellent presentation and really appreciate all the information that you provided and deeply appreciate all the work that o.s.b. does. i like to thank

. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. a company called vandigo van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely sh

this is naoni laguana and i'm the chairman of the parent council. and our coordinator is unable to be here, but we just wanted to support dianna. we were the ones to interview her and feel like she's the right fit for the position. we feel really lucky to have her. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 1. >> clerk: that was the last caller in the queue to speak. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed. and, colleagues, if there's no objection, i would like to make a motion to send ms. cavagnaro to the full board for seat 15. and there's nobody in the chat box which i'm sure john c. fixed last week. so on that motion, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. could you please read our second and final item. and, we'll see you at the full board next week. >> clerk: yes. item number two is consider appointing one member term ending january 31, two thousand twenty-three, and

. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. a company called vandigo van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely sh

this is sharky laguana. i know you've been hearing a lot of calls from a lot of folks and i know you agree with me, we all agree that shared spaces has brought a lot of life and vibrancy to san francisco and that's a good thing and, you know, i think as time goes by, we're going to continue to work and refine and improve this program and i'm concerned here that an effort to come out of the gate with something perfect is going to wind up to be an enemy of the good it establishes how much the permit will be. it doesn't say what the rules are specifically for the permits that's decided by m.t.a. and those are rules that can be worked on and evaluated very quickly, rules and regulations as we all know is a much faster and more efficient way to deal with the problems that come up. i agree on access and accessibility. i couldn't walk for several years, i'm very sensitive to that. there's more work that needs to be done there, absolutely. but what businesses need right now more than anything else is certainty after

this is sharky laguana.i know you've been hearing a lot of calls from a lot of folks and i know you agree with me, we all agree that shared spaces has brought a lot of life and vibrancy to san francisco and that's a good thing and, you know, i think as time goes by, we're going to continue to work and refine and improve this program and i'm concerned here that an effort to come out of the gate with something perfect is going to wind up to be an enemy of the good it establishes how much the permit will be. it doesn't say what the rules are specifically for the permits that's decided by m.t.a. and those are rules that can be worked on and evaluated very quickly, rules and regulations as we all know is a much faster and more efficient way to deal with the problems that come up. i agree on access and accessibility. i couldn't walk for several years, i'm very sensitive to that. there's more work that needs to be done there, absolutely. but what businesses need right now more than anything else is certainty after

. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. a company called vandigo van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely sh

. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. company called vandigo van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely shut

thank you to sharky laguana, the president of the san francisco small business commission, for takingwith it. thank you so much to mayor breed for our tireless support of small businesses for the last 1.5 years, for getting it up and passed, and helping our retail and small business establishments survive, for finding $1.75 million for grants for our small businesses. thank you to assemblyman chiu for fighting for small businesses in the california state assembly. and thank you to everyone who will, for the next 30 days, will take the challenge and say, for the next 30 days, i pledge to only shop at small businesses and help san francisco small businesses emerge out of this pandemic. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, manny, and we'll take questions at this time. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: you know, san francisco has really been very conservative in its reopening efforts, so even though the state has given us permission to go into the orange tier, we did not allow all of what was allowed under california state law to happen. we've proceeded with caution, and now with

. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. a company called vandigo van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely sh

my name is naomi laguana, and i am the parent advisory council chair, third year on the p.a.c.d first year as chair. it's been an interesting year, so i'm going to start with our acknowledgements and appreciation? the p.a.c. would like to honor that may is pacific asian american heritage month while also acknowledging there is a growing movement not to consolidate these groups of people with a wide range of heritage. the p.a.c. would like to acknowledge and appreciate the hard work, dedication, and commitment of all of our educators, staff, and volunteers who are helping to reopen our schools and get as many of our students back into the classrooms before the end of the school year. we want to specifically acknowledge the role that the central office staff has played in providing much needed help at the school site. danisha? >> we were having a little trouble getting danisha linked in. let's see if we can get her linked on. if not, i can read her portion of the report. >> so i don't see her on. she was on earlier, and i did promote her to panelist, but i don't see her any longe