. >> thank you, we have a director from oewd for this item. >> hello, john halpin. so this is a flexible funding. we received grant from california employment department for disability employment initiative last year. there was supplemental funding in amount of $100,000 added to the grant. flexible funding can help us provide services to our clients with disabilities served at the one-stop centers, so this grant is primarily going to be a subcontract to community vocational enterprises, as well as some travel expenses for oewd staff for mandatory national meetings for disability employment initiative. >> this is a piece adding to the existing grant? >> yes. >> in addition, no matching fund required? >> no. >> okay, thank you. why don't we go to the members of the public who would like to speak on this item. are there any members of public who wish to speak in seeing none, this is closed. send this forward. >> with recommendation. >> we will do that without objection, thank you. item 3. >> resolution authorizing office of district attorney to accept and expend grant

so, our office has convened a meeting with dph, mta, sfpd, dpw, and oewd to start developing one, first, kind of a policy perspective on what we're going to do with this. and then right now there isn't any permit structure for these entities because dpw handles mobile [speaker not understood]. police department has a pedaler's permit but doesn't permit any operation out on the streets or in trucks out on the streets for retail. and retail has -- retail can go many which ways, good, you know, honest retail and not honest retail. so, how do we -- >> [speaker not understood]? >> drive by retail. >> that's been out for awhile. >> which one? >> letruck. >> oh, yeah. >> there are a couple retail clothing -- i've seen the clothing because the one clothing where she opens up the back door and the ramp comes down and you can go up in there. >> right. >> i think, director, it's important that we take some cues from the mobile foods. be mindful of the fact that the brick and mortar businesses who have substantially more overhead costs and pay a lot more into their community don't end up with a big

oewd website. the hubs if you are trying to go to blue grass, here is the 5 l, or if you are going to fleet week, here is the 47 l, where the buses are. >> the con see erj is going to have a brochure. they can print and give them a copy, whether it is bike or transit and what we like is that you just have a great time in san francisco that weekend. i think that people are going to sample a little bit of everything and that is exactly what we want them to do. >> okay tu, very much. >> thank you, and everyone who put so much time and effort into this. >> thank you. >> item 9 b, information presentation on the progress from plans to projects for the 69-acre pier 70 site located near the intersection of 20th and illinois streets. >> thank you. >> deputy director of planning and development i have it as cuing up the powerpoint. let me take this moment to just explain how we are going to present this information. we will give you a little bit of history on the pier 70 as well as going through the plan it

but, honestly, oewd will play a key role in bringing in the city departments into those negotiations. >> public trusts, they are, pier 70 is a patch work of trust and non-trust lands that will need to be realigned to make for implementation of a plan that you just saw, there was recent legislation there was state legislation passed that creates a pathway to that. burr it is going to involve, in addition to the ports that the city attorney, the state lands commission staff, of course our development partners, again, there will be important coordination that will need to go on there. and infrastructure, financing, we will be working since 2006 and the direction and brad with brad benson's support and developing the financing tools for the public infrastructure. and in particular, the financing districts and the ability to capture tax increment. and to actually put those tools in the play is going to involve working closely with a city's budget and finance department. and departments such as the controller office and the staff such as the public utilities commission. and we believe that

as needs are discovered, oewd will use the tool s available. there are fixed resources available for community development work and the needs are great, whether they are streetscape improvements, ada improvements, grants for facade enhancements, small business loans or technical assistance. a holistic approach that addresses the diverse needs of merchants and neighborhoods is one that is going to be more likely to be successful and i know you will agree with me when i saw that we want our commercial corridors to be successful. access to healthy food is something that is important to all san franciscans and i want to express to you my commitment to addressing this need as part of the invest in neighborhoods initiative. thank you. >> i will ask the next question. and this is a question that is often posed to many of us frequently which is the fact that our city is facing a $4 billion retiree health care liability, mr. mayor, what is your administration doing to address this challenge? >> thank you, supervisor chiu and thank you for raising this i

commission of such skills and dedicated folks, a staff in the office of small business, a staff working in oewd doing neighborhood economic development that could be counted on to be the front lines. so, it's very heartening to receive this recognition for the larger kind of policy work that i try to help shepherd. and while i'm now focused on three larger scale projects, there will be opportunities for small business to influence the development of those projects and some of the priorities. and i look forward to continuing to work with you in the months and years ahead. thank you very, very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >> next item. >> next item, item number 3, introduction of office of economic and workforce development director todd rufo. director, did you have any opening comments? >> i'd like to introduce you to todd rufo who has taken over for the director of office of economic and workforce development. and since many of you -- we became very familiar with jennifer matz when she was the director and deputy director because she was before the commission, remember, as she s

having individuals like -- one of the board members spoke earlier about having oewd focusing on this. all this matters when you're trying to work collaborative late. part of the problem in the past has been people working in individual silos and not sharing information and focusing collectively on what we are trying to get done. we want to grow the numbers. we want and i like to understand it -- to understand. i think it is great that so many people are here, that we have invigorated leadership from the and bigger -- the entertainment commission and the work that king is doing. i looked out in the audience and i see alcohol and beverage control here. all of the players are at the table in order to move the ball forward. i am encouraged, and the mayor personally wanted to welcome all of you here, and hope that the work continues to get done so that we could continue to make san francisco the premier city that people want to come to to visit, to shop, to spend money, to eat, and to be entertained. he wanted me to personally mention that he enjoys all of the activities associated particu

is really on -- what we are anticipating as a city in terms of how -- what our appropriation from oewd for -- we are anticipating we would have 2.4 for cash collateral and another one million plus for insurance or is this a new expenditure that we hadn't anticipated? >> supervisor, i will take a first shot at answering that and go from there. we anticipated the cost for security when we came before you in march n. the current appropriation we feel there is capacity to make these payments as required, as proposed in the resolution. we are not looking for new authority but strictly folding it in with what's already been reviewed. >> so then when we had made the appropriation for the office of economic workforce development was there an actually line item that referred to these expenditures and others? >> there was not a specific line item that said cash collateral and security. it was appropriated as a $10 million amount broadly for event purposes. >> is there any risk of something else not being covered by this expenditure being done? have we over extended, you know, how this $10 millio

have to interface with to open their business, and asking for their support to work with the mayor's oewd, moci, which is the mayor's office of civic innovation, and our office to work on developing this online business portal because we need from them a lot of information for us to be able to create it, to develop the road maps for this. so, what i have for you, i'm not going to go into great detail about it right now and one element that is being worked on that we haven't had a presentation with and we will get is the enterprise zone we have our license 1, 2, 3. and that, our license 1, 2, 3, we have had to extend the timeline, but we are scheduled to have that go live january 2013. so, right now jane is is doing q/a testing and then mid november we're going to beta test it at our counter. so, have jane, christian and martha use it while they're working with business clients. mid december do a soft launch, and then in january 2013 do an official launch. while that's happening -- so, with this meeting with the department heads, what we have asked for them is to help -- for them -- the fi

in that we can begin to start that dialogue between the planning department and the port staff, and oewd and the developers and so, yes, that coordination is going on. >> okay, we are clearly pier 70 is a very, very important development for the port and it is obviously a combination of things, open space, historic buildings and the forecity development and so we will be watching it and hearing the progress rment report and how we will go forward with a lot of interest. >> i want to say that this is a very exciting project and there will be a lot of work that has to go into it, but i want to make sure that we take the dae into consideration and make sure whatever they are doing there they are in line with because our ship repair is very important to us. but this is exciting, it is going to be a whole new community and i am looking forward to working with everyone. >> thank you. >> okay. >> item 9 c, request approval of a fightal mitigated negative declaration and aden um, and the jefferson street, phase one project, authorizing the department of public works to construct a street and sid

online business portal and the mayor was very, very supportive of this concept and wanting to work with oewd, osb and omoci. this is all part of a 17-point jobs plan and, you know, this is to make government more responsive and effective. and i mean, it seatxv like he wanted to spend the money and let's do it now which i was very, very pleased about. then we went around the room talking about other items. you know, the noticing and approval of park [speaker not understood] and bicycle corrals was discussed. both use parking spaces and it's different how each one is noticed. so, perhaps utilizing a 311 for notification or planning to adopt a dpw-type notification procedures. give small businesses in neighborhood districts more advance notices to businesses on infrastructure projects. and then there was also -- this came up, discuss, you know, shop local, give support for local business initiatives were discussed. and the mayor wants to lead a campaign targeting city employees to redirect 10% of their spending to local businesses. getting city departments to purchase local. create a shop local

and also the mayor's office of housing, oewd and dpw work together, again, shared responsibility for the accounting on these funds going forward. thanks so much. >>> thank you, supervisors. my name is david schner, director for [speaker not understood]. we were developers of parcel g which was mentioned. we appreciate your acknowledgment of the national and international recognition the building has gotten. you can see the building from city hall. i'd like to second peter cohan's comments about concerns about the drop in the amount of money to be repaid to affordable housing purposes. there is a continued need for affordable housing throughout the city including in the central freeway parcels, parcels o and u will likely both require city resources from general city affordable housing sources. so, to see the amount of money being repaid dropping from 17 to 13.2 and now to $9.8 million is certainly a concern. i'm glad to note that the agreement is that if there should be more than $9.8 million left over the additional funds will go back to the mayor's office of housing. should the oth