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our next item, new business. i think we talked about the construction. >> is there any other new business that the commission has that wasn't addressed under --. >> other than understanding the historical society and other, whatever --. >> whatever we can do to promote small businesses. >> all right. so item no. 14 is now closed and item no. 15 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. we are adjourned. thank you, everybody. (meeting adjourned). . >> the meeting of the commission on the environment. today is tuesday january 27th it is 5: 08 p m. the first item on the agenda is role call. >> commissioner wal. >> here. >> stephenson. >> here. >> chinatown businesses the speakers are donald oliveira and this is an informational presentation and discussion item. >> thank you mr. oliveira and for folks who might be joining us for the first time or not tonight one of the things that's exciting is we get to hear about the work of the department and a communit

our next item, new business. i think we talked about the construction. >> is there any other new business that the commission has that wasn't addressed under --. >> other than understanding the historical society and other, whatever --. >> whatever we can do to promote small businesses. >> all right. so item no. 14 is

back in 2005 when etsy started, it opened up a new business for hand crafters. >> since starting my etsy business i have had to do more managerial tasks at my projects get longer and my client list grows, but i still consider myself an artist at heart. >> while many business owners hate the business side of things they sometimes act like they're allegic to it. carrie says sometimes focusing too much on the time and not enough on the making. >> you need to be able to interact online and need to be able to sell your work online and need to be able to direct people to your online shop which is a whole other set of challenges. >> sitting in her studio and sewing up her newest design anna agrees. >> you need to be comfortable with self-promotion. there's just really no way around it. and it can sometimes be difficult to put yourself out there. >> yet as valuable as it is for you to get customers to hear your message, anna says that she's discovered it's equally important to hear the customers response. >> i've got a lot of feedback saying these sizes are too small, they don't fit me. so i try

. >> item 14, new business. >> any new business? >> may i ask -- we talked about it not necessarily, but i imagine -- what's happening with pier 29-1/2? the bulkhead or whatever or is that something -- >> it's not agendized so i can't answer you, but i can put it on a future calendar to discuss. the short answer is nothing at the moment. >> okay. can we put it on a future calendar? >> sure. >> seeing no other new business, we can adjourn in memoriam, in memory of jeff salter and tarantino. motion? >> second. >> moved. >> in favor? >> aye. >> meeting is adjourned. [your]

association it helps to reduce competition it didn't hurt or effect the current businesses because with the preservation of new licenses the current business owns what the license will be able to continue their sales and over and i transition you'll see a reduction. >> thank you. >> commissioner tour-sarkissian. >> i have two questions about the distinction just the name for a question. >> sure. >> you know the defined tobacco shop and restaurant we first retail food stores under the section it talks about the new radiations it refers to the planning code what's the retail of the food store. >> retail food store. >> did that include the liquor store. >> if the store is offering food or acholic beverages let me see. >> the main purchase of the location to offer food and alcohol sales like liquor for most of their sales then this law kicks in to not allow the issuance of the permit but let me get a clarification my colleague had a last minute issue. >> you're reading from your notes not from the meantime. >> i have a version felt not right here. >> yeah. >> another question about the about the children. >> uh-hu

the motion carries any new business commissioners. >> i want to mention we've within having some quality discussions sourgd our desire to getting gets into an endeavor where we convince to coordinate the career apathies in the southeast sector and appoint not too far in the future i'm going to ask that commissioner president caen put on the agenda and a an item recommended to the combofks maintenance the intrarth post mettle and prepretty sure academy want to have it a little bit more keyed up i want you to be ready and at the right time i'll present that. >> thank you any other new business? this meeting is adjourned at 445@p >> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park mac

changing laws, changing attitudes, and an ever-changing landscape for brand-new business in america. marijuana. >> it's a very young industry chock full of entrepreneurs from all over the country that want to build their lives and careers and their businesses in marijuana. >> we went to colorado the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use to see how entrepreneurs are fairing in this brave new world. >> it's brand-new industry emerging out of black market scenario. regulation helps streamline the system and puts all of the pieces in place for us to maneuver through this safely and also allows the consumer to get a safe, sound product as well. >> the product is pot and under federal law selling, producing, possessing and consuming marijuana is still a crime. that makes for a very complicated business model when you live under the constant threat of a federal crackdown. >> the cannabis industry is the most challenging industry i've ever been involved with. i describe it as crisis management by hour. >> tripp has a widely varied resume including a stint in the reagan admini

. >> roll call for the introduction of new business. >> oh, submit okay. >> supervisor mar. >> submit. >> supervisor tang supervisor wiener madam president that concluded the roll call for new business madam clerk if we could get oh supervisor cowen. >> my apologies supervisor cowen our staff took you off roll call today submit. >> thank you very much. (laughter) madam president >> thank you and now if we can madam clerk go to general public comment. >> the next opportunity is the general public period to speak will matters in the jurisdiction of the board. >> first speaker please. >> good afternoon, members of the board and fell residents first, i want to introduce myself i'm larry blake i've acknowledged in san francisco for 35 years of my life residing in the castro since 19983 and the issue i'm bringing forward i have e-mailed a letter to each the supervisors and the mayor and it regards the program i know my district supervisor supervisor wiener is part of first of all i'd like to read the letter i sent and here it is where does that go. >> sfgovtv please. >> so recently, i recei

business. that's not what we set sea bags up to be. easier to use new material. , well, we call that ll bean. i had those meetings. i left them sick to my stomach, and that was my barometer. >> as the search went on business as usual, the operation never slowed down despite the inevitable changes. >> we kept investing in the business as if we were going to continue to own it in the current structure because that's all we knew how. we had to keep the foot on the gas and grow because we had, at that point, over 30 employees we were proudly responsible for. >> something clicked when she met fran phillip. don oaks set the ball in motion. >> we are both from maine, born and raised here. these thrifty, level headed, and i left saying there's a guy to learn from and work with. >> beth was not looking for investors, but partners and needed bandwidth and people who could work in the business. >> before any formal agreement was signed they got to work. >> we went through heavy, heavy negotiating, and the deal could have broke at any point, but once we knew we wanted to work

our next item, new business. i think we talked about the construction. >> is there any other new business that the commission has that wasn't addressed under --. >> other than understanding the historical society and other, whatever --. >> whatever we can do to promote small businesses. >> all right. so item no. 14 is now closed and item no. 15 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. we are adjourned. thank you, everybody. (meeting adjourned). speaker: welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. we'll begin by taking the role. vice chair reanne >> present. speaker: andrews. speaker: pren. speaker: hur. hayon. speaker: here. speaker: ken. speaker: here. keane. speaker: here. speaker: first is agenda -- speaker: i attended a task force meeting on august 6. at that meeting, a very unpre-possessing young man played a tape recording of your ethics commission meeting. featured in that audio recording was primarily your commission

open to anyone. >> it's part of your information package when you are going in to find out about new business that this is available to you. >> commissioner yee riley. >> i want to know if you have an outreach plan for this new program. >> we don't have a plan yet because it's just a proposal but i think what i'm hearing today is we will. we will develop one, we have an in house information team, if you will, that we're going to put to use. once we are getting toward approval of this, should that be the planning commission's desire, we will absolutely do that. >> and when would planning hear this? >> the thursday, the intent, president adams, is to hear this not this thursday, not next thursday but the following thursday. i'm not sure of the date offhand. the 12th, maybe? >> do you want to take public -- any more questions before we take public comment? do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on item no. 8? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve? >> i move. >> so, commissioners, i know that commissioner dooley had made a comment. so

business owners do. they invoke that type of a clause, because they don't want to hear bad news. to me, if i was running a business where an employee went and put something negative online, that's a massive wake-up call. and i'm the one who has to go and fix something. not the employee. >> but that's where you want them to come to you about that. you do not want -- employees, nonnew yorkable. employees don't get to put negative things up about the company. the company the way you solve that, you have to make a lot of good deposits in your social media bank so if there is a negative one it's overpowered by the good ones. >> neither of you guys are saying that you should have a talk with your employees about here are our guidelines. for the way to use social media. >> that's what i said. i mean, talk to your employees -- >> but your guideline is don't do it, right? >> well, that's the first thing. nonnegotiable. you don't go post things about the company that are negative. then you have a conversation about what they have to say. if you have something to say about my company, if you

. >> any new business at this time? no >> seeing none next item, please. >> item 13 is jaurnt. >> i want to adjourn in memory of jennifer matt and everything she's done. >> all in favor, say i. the meeting is adjourned at 755. >> thank youorder. >>

pay it's about his bills the revenues that are placed to pit those bonds for that purpose any new business line this is a to be self-supportive this is the factor in terms of the documents that are in front of the you again, very similar to what you've seen the two board of supervisors ordinances one additional issue that is more of a general authorization to establish the program it does a lot of definitions of the power and what is a revenue and you know how will again what how are we're going to pay our bills but the other thing that initial ordinance does it asks that we set rates certify for to repie the bills urgent care center u asking us to step up the other ordinances submitting to the board this is another the structure of the documents we'll issue this many bones with this circumstances all the other documents are similar to what we're provided before in terms of next steps after hopefully, we'll receive our approval we'll work on submitting those are ordinances to the board of supervisors this month we'll go to the board of supervisors and present this in january and should we

a lot going on but i'd like to in fairness to you and the spirit of the unfinished business or new business really unfinished business category i hope this board has a concrete proposal to consider by your next board retreat and provides direction on that topic. >> so. >> again you don't have to respond our welcome to. >> i'd be happy to respond we've started the public process for that and should have the legislation for the traffic changes coming to you i think in the spring not sure about february 3rd but give you specific timelines of when it will be coming in the spring at the lastly implementation by the summer. >> board finished business. >> a friend of mine the gps number on the - she said it wasn't working for a long time and i was wondering why do we know why the gps has been disconnected. >> i was unaware that was the case. >> i literally checked that myself. >> today because of the wet weather and all the rain and infrastructure the cars are not running when the cable cars are down but when the cable cars with operating it should be working. >> it was not raining when i checked

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. >> first supervisor to introduce new business is supervisor yee. >> roll call for the introduction of new business. >> submitted. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you madam clerk and colleagues happy new year i appreciate our presence e.r. presence i have a short thing to discuss i'm interested in moving forward on this year as we've been part of san francisco's been part of dealing with an affordability crisis for a number of years i dependent e expect it to ton through this year and building that we need to really support a lot of the fonts outside of city hall were desperately trying to have folks stay in san francisco with policy and i actually would like to see if we can dwaej in another form of a task force to look at that issue perhaps being convened by the controllers or the budget analyst but not driven by anyone in particular office but driven by the great need we have to make sure that our economy can grow and lift all votes and not just a few that are being lifted in the city i want to propose that is something we can engage in i've talked with todd in the controller's of

in addition new businesses like state bird provisions and the sister restaurant, the progress and fat angel, the electrical bicycle super store and the koreanian restaurant joined with several of the long standing establishments to offer entertainment, food, retail and culture to the city and the neighborhood and continues to attract new establishments and a new barbecue establishment that will open at 1325 fillmore street and brooklyn circus, amazing clothing store. we stand by the businesses and the residents in the fillmore and continue the area businesses including through mayor lee's investment and neighborhood's initiative which provides assistance to strengthen existing businesses, improve physical conditions and increase the quality of life in 25 commercial districts approximate in the city. i will work diligently with the mayor and the board of supervisors to welcome new investments to the corridor including the fillmore heritage center site where the city will pursue all options to activate the site while serving community needs to ensiewsh the vitality of that community. th

should we not --. >> we can bring that up under new business. >> maybe bring it to --. >> i got a text today from somebody, you know, who knew i was coming here today and said, okay, i got a problem because of the construction in front of my place and business is down by 40 percent. i know you see a lot --. >> it was on our agenda for january 3rd for north beach. >> mr. president, i think it's fine because you did bring it up under new business for us to discuss it under the director's report because in the past i have had future agenda items. >> thank you for bringing that back up because that's been on my mind. >> february 9th commission meeting is relatively light at this particular point so i could target to ask departments to come before the commission. is that what your interest is to have the departments come before the commission and --. >> yes. like i know, i mean every one of our areas, it's just one great -- i know we need to get stuff fixed and stuff done now, but celtic coffee company right here on mcallister sends me a text, my business is down 40 percent since they've be

the motion carries any new business commissioners. >> i want to mention we've within having some quality discussions sourgd our desire to getting gets into an endeavor where we convince to coordinate the career apathies in the southeast sector and appoint not too far in the future i'm going to ask that commissioner president caen put on the agenda and a an item recommended to the combofks maintenance the intrarth post mettle and prepretty sure academy want to have it a little bit more keyed up i want you to be ready and at the right time i'll present that. >> thank you any other new business? this meeting is adjourned at 445 welcome to north beach. sunny day. thank you everybody for coming out. especially if i if i may special thanks to all of our board of supervisor who are here today. elected officials, our commissioners, police and fire department. people. the city are recreational about our libraries, all of this is is better up here. many of whom i've engaged in many dialogues around the last month. i want to say thank you everyone for getting your input to me. you know, i want to s

many young entrepreneurs have been busy sitting is up new business -- setting up new businesses. and or the them the crisis is a luxury. >> at the height of the crisis it hasn't been easy to borrow money but at least rents are cheap and they hope customers from these lean years will stick with them when better times return. >> the young generation and of course ourselves have to be optimistic. we have to be optimistic because on our idea, give it energy and help it grow. >> outside the finance ministry, another group of women fighting to make a living but there's much less optimism. these office cleaners have been laid off since 2013. they tell me that the economy is getting worse despite what the official statistics say. by a depressed industrial area we find communists campaigning for votes. not many greeks are convinced by them. but they describe why greeks are going into the elections desperate for change. barnaby phillips, athens. >> i suggest this could change everything with regard to greece greece's relationship with europe. what is it proposing the it wins this election?

our next item, new business. i think we talked about the construction. >> is there any other new business that the commission has that wasn't addressed under --. >> other than understanding the historical society and other, whatever --. >> whatever we can do to promote small businesses. >> all right. so item no. 14 is now closed and item no. 15 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion to adjourn? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. we are adjourned. thank you, everybody. (meeting adjourned).present. >> >>at this time i'm going to turn the meeting over to my vice president because i have asthma and i think he can carry through. thank you. >>thank you. richard, would you announce some changes to the treatment of the agenda, please? >>if you all look at page three on the agenda please note that vice president seriina will not be calling the agenda items in that order. >>thank you. >>the items will be called in the following order: item e, item i item j item f item h and item g. with that modification

today due to scheduling conflict. >> do we have any communication or board of directors old or new business? seeing none we'll move to the executive director's report. >> good afternoon everyone and happy new year. we start with some good news today, having to do with our bridge loan that we reported on last moment we will be closing next week, that is a great achievement. also we had reported to the board that we're looking at syndicating the loan. it turns out that we no longer have to do that. golden and wells fargo have committed to fund the entire $171 million, $86 million and $85 million respected [sp*-ebgt/]ively and that is very good news and we're closing next week. i can't tell you what a testament it is to our organizion and the growth of our organization to apply for $171 million loan and close on it. it's a good achievement and i want to thank our ffo and staff for their work. the groundbreak of january 6th in fresno was attended by the governor, labor leaders and business, small businesses, and student leaders. it was a really inspiring event. the governor gave a really good s

a new business out there as we know we have 36 states with cannabis. it was born right here.you know cannabis is not like tobacco that