i have one new business item. so it's my understanding that corporations can sponsor government activities, correct? is there a mechanism for corporations to sponsor things like the legacy business program? >> well, there is. there is a process of doing accept and this happens with specific programs. >> the reason i ask is because one of the things that we could do to accelerate the legacy business program is to get more support on the onboarding side. we have one person who is not his sole responsible to onboard legacy business candidates. and so i think that if we wanted to reach out to a number of the large companies that have expressed interest in preserving small business in san francisco, like airbnb and square, they're making significant donations to activities in the merchant corridors to individual merchant associations as well, that we could outreach to them and others if we had a specific ask. so for example, if we could fund a full-time position to assist with onboarding legacy businesses. i just think

new business. do we have any items for new business? >> director makes a presentation about office of small business and the small business commissioner. so, hopefully we'll get a lot more business. thank you. >> any new business? do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on new business? seeing none public comment is closed. >> sfgovtv show the office of small business slide. it is our customs to begin and end each small business commission meeting with a reminder the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco. the office of small business commission is the official public form to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that effect the effect vitality of small business this is san francisco. if you need assistance with your small business, and any small business matters, it's free and start here at the office of small business. >> had next item. >> item 8 adjournment. action item. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor. aye. >> passes 7-0. meeting is adjou

new business. does anybody have any new business? >> i do. >> would you like me to read it? >> commissioner dooley? >> yeah. i was just recently contacted by art agnos about an issue he was interested in seeing if we'd like to address, which was there was an article about how the owners of la taqueria had to pay $500,000 on labor fines, and if there is something on a yearly basis that we can do to remind these folks that don't always seem to be aware of these regulations, be it a seminar, be it a mailer, to do something to try to ward off this type of situation in the future. >> going to note that for future business. that's a good one. i saw that article. >> yep. >> okay. any other new business? any members of the public that would like to recommend new business? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> clerk: sfgovtv, please show the office of small business slide. >> and again, it is our custom to begin and end each commission meeting with a reminder that the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get

is there any other new business? >> any other new business? >> the answer can come [off mic] i was just curious to see if we take our whole waterfront, if people are cruising on the bay and want to stop and come to the city for restaurants, how many locations could they stop at? >> dock at? that's a good question and we have a good answer. >> [off mic] >> yes. we have been working, actually, a lot internally on our berthing. we have a good answer for you, and i would like to schedule an item on that topic. >> a difference between drop-off versus having to berth for a period of time. somebody's own boat and want to berth for a couple hours. >> yes and we will expand this informational item, to expand opportunities in berth as well. >> great. >> great. any other new business? any public comment on any business? seeing none, could i have a motion to adjourn? >> i make a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> meeting adjourned. [adjourned] - >> san francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where sp

. >> clerk: item 14, new business. >> is there any new business or any public comment on new business? >> i have a couple of items. one is i had requested a while back, and i'm not sure that i saw it on the calendar, in terms of forward topics, that we stood with -- [inaudible] >> -- so i would appreciate if that does get on the schedule so that we understand. and i do have another request. as we sort of approve through consent today the monthly -- i mean, the annual rental schedule and in the staff report that we red at the last commission meeting, we talked about the vacancy report, and i guess we have a new definition of vacant scy, and that numbers stuck in my mind, which is 11%. given that our main revenue source is real estate leasing, in addition, obviously, we do have parking and other sources, but it seems to me, i would like to suggest that we do have a periodic report, maybe every three or four months to tell us where we are in terms of the leasing activity as far as vacancy. and also in terms of what's coming up, and i'd also like to know the time a property has been on th

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now, miriam is back with a new business.ed a way to get children engaged by science and maths, releasing nine card games, all of which she says have sold out online. and she is expanding. the letters are all going to be straight. miriam and her designer are meeting to put the final touches to their latest game. i did not have a lot of resources, i remember, i think that first conversation i said that i do not have a tonne of money but here is my huge dream, right? i admired the fact that she was willing to put everything she had again into this new business. something that is special with miriam is the even though this business had not worked out, she had lost everything, she was not going to let that defeat her. she was ready to start something new and make something great. i am not sure i want so much to be an entrepreneur as i want to change the world, and that might seem like a huge goal with a bunch of card games. but my mother raised me to believe that women, girls can do anything, we can be anything, we can take risks

and now what's trending in the business news this morning. h unions are furious. benjamin smith is the first non—frenchman in the role and has a reputation for tackling unions. on the wall street journal "sec probes tesla over model 3 production disclosures" — it says regulators began investigating last year whether tesla inc misled investors about its model 3 car production problems, according to people familiar with the matter. on the new york times a backlash to microtargeted advertising on facebook is growing. and don't forget, let us know what you are spotting online — use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. that's it for the business briefing this hour. but before we go, here are the markets. a bit of respite with the turkish lira upholding its value slightly. and trade talks between the us and china. more from me in a few minutes. ten of england's most challenging prisons are to be given a total of £10 million to improve security and living conditions, as part of a government drive to tackle drugs and violence in jails. ministers also want to

commission meeting with a reminder that the office of small business is 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 stop when you need to know to find out what you need to do next. best of all, our services are free of charge. small business commission is your official forum to invoices your opinion about matters that affect small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. thank you. >> clerk: item one, call to order and roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. vice president, you have a quorum. >> all right. your next item, please. >> clerk: item 2, general public comment. discussion item. allows members of the public to comment generally on matters that are within the small business commission kaerz jurisdiction and not on today's calendar and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. >> do we have any members of the public that would like to co

stay up—to—date with all of the business news as it happens on the bbc business live page.across the globe and we want to hear from you as well. get involved on the web page. business live, on tv and online. simon is back to look through the papers. simon, let's begin with this story in the guardian about amazon. huge company, posting huge profits, 2.5 billion in the recent quarter. and yet its tax bill is down to 11.5 billion. how does that happen? it's important to separate the headline from the details. that profit number is the us company, this tax bill is purely on the uk logistics and warehouse business. so, that's not even the whole of the uk retail business. there is no suggestion whatsoever here that what is happening is untoward. there is no suggestion that there is any old corporate tax structures in there. 0ne corporate tax structures in there. one of the reasons why there may be a reduction is in terms of how they are paying their staff. there is increased share payback there. it's obviously an unfortunate headline for amazon, at a time when there is a continue

industry, the change with them becoming electric, autonomous cars becoming more relevant, and new businessels, with new brands on the horizon either from china or from the united states. so those are the new challenges. and i would say that, first of all, we are coping with the challenges. >> there was a, from the eu competition commissioner that not all collaboration is collusion. would it it make sense for automakers to pull, for example, r&dtain are and the -- expenditures to not spend a lot of money on the same thing? herbert: we are doing that and we just announced that we are trying, where we are committed to working closer with ford when it comes to commercial vehicles. compaq commercial vehicles. it makes a lot of sense because i would say that we are not really ahead of the economy in scale. you need to deliver vehicles to become electric. and it is driving is relevant. the one-time expenditure development is growing and it makes sense to but of those activities and we are trying to come together with ford, which is an exciting project for us. we have been working together with fo

we begin with the business page of the gulf news. and the lira, which hit a new record low in early asian trading, after more combative words from president erdogan. he gave three speeches on sunday about the crisis. he gave three speeches on sunday about the crisis. moving on to the times, and the news that borisjohnston has landed back in britain and is refusing to apologise over the burqa row that has split the tory party. and now over to china, and a really interesting story on the front page of the new york times. for decades women were restricted to having one child, but now the government wants them to have more, but it's not going well. we'll explain it all. and the daily telegraph online has a picture of the british relay team and star of the show, dina asher—smith, the first british athlete ever to complete a european treble.

coming up at 6am on breakfast, steph mcgovern and naga munchetty will have all the day's news, businessp thousands of people with severe asthma. the procedure uses radio waves to melt muscle tissue in the lungs that can restrict breathing. that's coming up at the top of the hour. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: senatorjohn mccain's body has arrived at andrews air force base in maryland. he's set to lie in state in washington — before being laid to rest. there's been another anti—immigrant protest in the city of chemnitz in eastern germany, after the killing of a german citizen on sunday. more controversy for australia's catholic church — it's rejected laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in confessions. now it's time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with bloomberg online, and us president donald trump who threatened he would pull america out of the world trade organisation unless "it shapes up" and treats the united states better. the guardian also focusses on trade and t

business briefing. i'm ben bland. driving in a new direction: tesla ceo elon musk surprises shareholders by saying he's thinking of taking the electric carmaker to private ownership. shares in snap soar in after hours trade after better—than—expected quarterly revenue, even though daily users fell for the first time in the company's reporting history. asian shares rose on wednesday thanks to firmer wall street earnings while expectations for increased chinese stimulus helped take the edge off wider concerns about the worsening sino—us trade dispute. shares of tesla surged nearly 11% in new york tuesday after elon musk, the company's notoriously erratic chief executive, said he had secured funding to take the company private. in an unusual move, mr musk first made the announcement on twitter rather than via an official regulatory disclosure. he said he had secured funding that would see financiers pay $420 per share of tesla — a 16% premium. shares of the company were then halted on the nasdaq exchange. kim gittleson explains what's be

welcome to the business news. welcome to the business news. has announced its second quarter results today. pre—tax profits rose by 6.3% to £789 million for the period april to june. iag's bottom line was booster by 2.3% rise in passengers. the firm also said its costs excluding fuel fell by 2%. i'm nowjoined by sally gethin, who's the editor of gethin‘s inflight news. sally, thank you forjoining us. firstly, these results came in underestimate, so we did see the share price fall a little this morning, round about 3%. however, they seem to be more concerned about industrial action with air traffic control. yes. obviouslyl industrial action with air traffic control. yes. obviously i ag has a big vested interest in smooth over flights across europe. it is very concerned. france is proving a big sticking point at the moment was not only 83 staff shorter sids, but also action by traffic controllers. this is not just action by traffic controllers. this is notjust disrupting iag, but other carriers. these groups together are starting legal action an

. >> new business. >> submit. >> supervisor peskin: i will submit but i was remiss in item number 37 where i neglected to thank and acknowledge the city attorney's office for all of the work they did on something that we ultimately tabled. [laughter] so i want to thank scott riber and the tax department and kern and deputy city attorney jo john. >> given that it was tabled we won't have you rescind the vote and retable all of that. >> today i am introducing several planning code amendments along mission street. we are promoting small commercial places in new develops and adding a cu requirement for new businesses after a displacement of a legacy business and social service and nonprofit uses on the third floor and above and ensuring a commercial mix by limiting future growth of restaurants and bars. full service restaurants will be vetted through a conditional use process and we are disallowed new type 75 liquor license establishments to expand a brew pub into a full bar. we have included lookbacks at two and five years, so that we can make adjustments if needed to market focus and f

and coming up at 6:00am on breakfast: dan walker and louise minchin will have all the day's news, businessng from bbc news. the latest headlines: venezuela's neighbours say they are struggling to cope as more and more migrants flee the country's economic crisis. the aid operation accelerates in the indian state of kerala. more than a million people are living in relief camps. now it's time to look at the stories making the headlines across the world. we begin with the guardian's website, and british foreign secretaryjeremy hunt's first visit to the us as the country's top diplomat. the headline says mr hunt is expected to call on trump to impose fresh sanctions on russia. the front page of the ft is leading with venezuela's 95% currency devaluation. five zeros were lopped off the updated bolivar, which begins circulating today. on bbcnews.com a warning to those in the uk working in jobs vulnerable to artificial intelligence or ai takeover. the chief economist of the bank of england says britain needs a skills revolution to avoid swathes of people becoming technologically unemployed. and fi

businesses. so it would help, as we get new supervisors, to have some kind of an indoctrination program, a new one, an orientation, why we exists. everyone knows why the planning commission is here, everyone knows why the ethics commission is here, but not everyone knows why the small business commission is here, so that could be something we could look into. >> through the vice president, so i -- in reading this, and this has also been an issue with the round table, as well, or something that was discussed and -- it's -- it's under, i think, item number nine in the first section, insufficient resources for technology needs for small businesses to develop efficient interactions with city agencies. so this could be a commitment that this office can commit to or say that it will take a specific action on and what the time frame period is, but we have had some discussion around working with the tax and treasurer's office to identify alternate e-mails. so -- and this could be something that we work out with the tax and treasurer's office when a business registers so when that business registers, both

there are new businesses, a new fancy hotel, new markets. techel, blues, booze coming back for the first time in four years. techel says there are some projects that havent' fully recovered, such as the post office and courthouse, but there are plans in the works for those. techel. post office bought, it is going to be renovated. and techel says overall business is doing well - considering. she says last years fires araway some crowds, that is always a busy time of year of all. in napa, terisa estacio (grant) next at 5:30... a san jose music teacher is arrested and accused of inappropriately touching his young students. and it happened during private lessons inside the victim's homes. (vicki) plus after the break... we continue to track hurricane lane... as it hits the hawaiian islands... and is already causing flooding and landslides. (grant) landslides.flooding and causing already islands... and is homes. the victim's lessons inside during private happened and it students. young touching his young students. and it happened during private l

we begin with the business page of the guardian here in the uk. it covers our main newsiticism of its boss michael o'leary graffitied on a wall in mallorca. moving on to the new york times, and it details us plans laid out by vice president pence to create a space force as a new branch of the military. let's look at a story on the bbc news website. a video game that was actually dementia research has found men are better navigators than women — but says the reason why is unpleasant — we'll explain it all. we've been asking you about a story from apple insider, and a patent that shows apple might be looking at iphones being used as passports. and the daily mirror in the uk is among many covering new research but should we be taking it with a pinch of salt? researchers say we can actually have more of the seasoning than we'd thought. so let's begin and back with me is lawrence gosling, editor—in—chief of what investment. we spoke about ryanair a little earlier in the programme but the guardian is talking about how the whole model of low—cost airlines are based around how t

jamie is hearing a moment to tell us what is hot and what is not in the business news.t the headlines. england cricketer ben stokes, we hear, mocked two gay men before a fight, the 27—year—old denies the charge. more than 90 people are killed and thousands evacuated after the second earthquake to strike the indonesian island of lombok in a week. and after being found living ina week. and after being found living in a desert compound wearing rags and without food or fresh water, at 11 children in the us state of new mexico are rescued. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live: