do that. >> on the motion stated boy supervisors melgar and supervisor peskin supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you, i like to make a motion we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a mittee report. >> and on that motion supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you. madam clerk do we have -- that completes the business yoochl thank you we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> malcolm come up here! supervisor preston, come up here! today is a wonderful day. excited to be here with all of us family, friends, partners, community. and john. hi. john! community and john. i am the ceo of tnbc housing and community development organization building and serving community throughout san francisco. i mentioned today is an exciting and important day for us. we are not here to move a bit of dirt. more important low, we are symbolically beginning to create

do that. >> on the motion stated boy supervisors melgar and supervisor peskin supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you, i like to make a motion we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a mittee report. >> and on that motion supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you. madam clerk do we have -- that completes the business yoochl thank you we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> welcome to the small business commission meeting july 24, 2023. the meeting is called to order. this meeting is held in person in city hall and broadcast on sfgovtv and available to you online or by caller 415-655-0001. the small business commission thanks media service and sfgovtv for televising the meeting viewed on sfgovtv 2 or sfgovtv.org. we welcome public comment. there is a opportunity for general public comment at the end of the meeting and opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. for

thank you president supervisor peskin for this ordinance. this was a collaborative ordinance with residents, property owner and businesses and the community benefit districts involved. regarding the tobacco paraphernalia has been prior to the initial controls there was a proliferation in other neighborhoods just outside of our district. this the codify there is a public health safety need. regarding health service this is is a very carefully crafted ordinance ensurety polk and california street remain active use. health services on the side streets it is a pragmatic approach. i urge where you are support. >> thank you. are there other members that would like to speak on item 6? we have zero in the queue >> with that public comment is closed. i would like to thank the lower polk community benefit district for advocacy and going back to 2009 they had my predecessor pass the po backo paraphernalia provisions and with this i would like to make a motion to sends the item to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report for hea

do that. >> on the motion stated boy supervisors melgar and supervisor peskin supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you, i like to make a motion we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a mittee report. >> and on that motion supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you. madam clerk do we have -- that completes the business yoochl thank you we are adjourned. >> thank you. thank you for com today for the budget signing. i know supervisor chan, there were a lot of challenging time and doubt and frustration. when i amur

do that. >> on the motion stated boy supervisors melgar and supervisor peskin supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you, i like to make a motion we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a mittee report. >> and on that motion supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you. madam clerk do we have -- that completes the business yoochl thank you we are adjourned. >> thank you. thank you for com today for the budget signing. i know supervisor chan, there were a lot of challenging time and doubt and frustration. when i am surprised throughout this entire process no are matter what you kept a smile on your face. thank you very much for your heard work and for working with your colleagues and you know getting us through, i know we had to make hard decision in light of 780 million dollars, two year deficit. fact we got through it, and almost record time is pretty surprising. and add moirable. congratulations and thank you to each and

president supervisor peskin? >> looks like we duplicated a lot of stuff on june 12 and amended them and they all appear a month later. this is one of those so like with the awning legislation -- almost all of this has been reviewed by this committee and adopt in the luby the full board of supervisors. but these were a few piece of trailing legislation that set morgue in the digest. these amendments include additional waivers and modifications from the planning code. for off street loading. curve cuts. expansion of the extension from sign controls. that we will talk about in a minute. and -- amendment to raise threshold for larger projects subject to 2-1 commercial torrential use in c30 to 20,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet something that supervisor dorsey added for a specific project. >> that i was not comfortable with until i understood it. thank you are madison tammiful so i'm prepared to move these today with 2 minor tweaks. which is on page 42. remove lines 18 and 19. that is a slight change to article

do that. >> on the motion stated boy supervisors melgar and supervisor peskin supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you, i like to make a motion we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a mittee report. >> and on that motion supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you. madam clerk do we have -- that completes the business yoochl thank you we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, hello. welcome to the ferry building's birthday, yoo hoo! what great weather we have to celebrate. i'm elaine executive director of the port of san francisco and i have the distinct honor of opening up this grand celebration. as the executive director of the port, my team and i have the awesome responsibility of 7 and a half miles of water front and it includes this they majestic building.

do that. >> on the motion stated boy supervisors melgar and supervisor peskin supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you, i like to make a motion we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as a mittee report. >> and on that motion supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> thank you. madam clerk do we have -- that completes the business yoochl thank you we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> my name is marta i'm the management here with public works. it is found in the upon 1997. it is the only public access glass studio in san francisco. we give access to everybody. you don't have to be an experienced artist to take classes we offer beginning level programming. events. fund raisers, it is about giving everyone who is interested in the opportunity to try glass to work with glass and experience mediums. >> i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in japantownful i'm hope to create a destination. not only do we have our huge sele

thank you president supervisor peskin for this ordinance. this was a collaborative ordinance with residents, property owner and businesses and the community benefit districts involved. regarding the tobacco paraphernalia has been prior to the initial controls there was a proliferation in other neighborhoods just outside of our district. this the codify there is a public health safety need. regarding health service this is is a very carefully crafted ordinance ensurety polk and california street remain active use. health services on the side streets it is a pragmatic approach. i urge where you are support. >> thank you. are there other members that would like to speak on item 6? we have zero in the queue >> with that public comment is closed. i would like to thank the lower polk community benefit district for advocacy and going back to 2009 they had my predecessor pass the po backo paraphernalia provisions and with this i would like to make a motion to sends the item to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report for hea

president supervisor peskin. for his amendments and work at my cosponsor joel engardio for thoughtfulness and partnership. thank you very much, colleagues i hope to have your support. >> thank you on item 64 a roll call. >> supervisor chan. >> ayech >> supervisor dorsey. >> aye. >> supervisor engardio. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> there are 11 aye a >> item 65 recommended as a committee report ordinance that amends the planning, build and fire codes to codify the waiver. of awning replace am fees and sign fees applied during the mont of may to wave fees for business signs and new awning installation apply for during may 23 and may 24 and indicate that the planning code building and fire code waivers pertaining to street lights as well as awning replacement and sign fees key to permi

president peskin. i just really wanted to thank you for leading us in this . it was shocking news for me to learn. i just really am grateful for your for larry's leadership and for and he fought the good fight all the way through. and then for the last memory of him that i had was he was still here walking the hall for some of the retired workers pension reform that the voters actually resoundingly approved in san francisco. and that spirit, i would say, continue to live on among all the union members that he had mentored. and for that i am grateful. thank you. thank you. supervisor supervisor melgar. thank you, president peskin, and thank you for that very nice in memoriam. i appreciate the thought that went into it. i got to know larry well through our involvement in the jewish community relations council assembly spending many hours looking at policy issues and discussing what the community stance would be on different things. and i always appreciated larry, his thoughtfulness, but also his sense of

thank you president supervisor peskin. today my pleasure to honor patrick marks on the occasion of his retirement. and to honor the final chapter of his book store the green arcade. patrick, in on up. [applause]. before we give the mic i will say a few words. after contributing to the community culture for decades. patrick is closing the green arcade on market street after 15 years in that location. patrick was a bike messenger in the 1980's landing book store jobs before the green arcade. he started selling books at harsher books on powell street through a friend and continued at codey's books when returning to uc berkeley for school. after a short departure from san francisco to new york. patrick returned for another 20 years until itself closing and that is when the green arcade began its journey. in 2008. patrick opened the green arcade on market at goth hopefully everyone has been there multiple times. in this right smack in the area we discuss when it come to policy make and land use as the hub. this inspect book sto

president supervisor peskin. if a major of this body believes there is excess money for command positions in the budget then i would hope them the discussion was broad are then and there whether we should move that money in other police department positions. fairly significant revelation and funny i voted against the budget because of when i view as massive amounts of money. happy to shrilleda conversation about whether the police department budget is too much but -- will the extend there is too much i don't know the amount. over a million bucks and you know we heard from public commenters food banks cut and we know things in the community therapy cut or not receiving the full funding we allmented them to have. i don't feel i'm equiped vote on this today. i do recognize that policing has changed the last few years and extras it is less efficient. there was a department of justice road map we needed to have a police mission on it and voted for the members. and we have you know -- all said that we passport those ch

president peskin. i just really wanted to thank you for leading us in this . it was shocking news for me to learn. i just really am grateful for your for larry's leadership and for and he fought the good fight all the way through. and then for the last memory of him that i had was he was still here walking the hall for some of the retired workers pension reform that the voters actually resoundingly approved in san francisco. and that spirit, i would say, continue to live on among all the union members that he had mentored. and for that i am grateful. thank you. thank you. supervisor supervisor melgar. thank you, president peskin, and thank you for that very nice in memoriam. i appreciate the thought that went into it. i got to know larry well through our involvement in the jewish community relations council assembly spending many hours looking at policy issues and discussing what the community stance would be on different things. and i always appreciated larry, his thoughtfulness, but also his sense of

thank you president supervisor peskin. today my pleasure to honor patrick marks on the occasion of his retirement. and to honor the final chapter of his book store the green arcade. patrick, in on up. [applause]. before we give the mic i will say a few words. after contributing to the community culture for decades. patrick is closing the green arcade on market street after 15 years in that location. patrick was a bike messenger in the 1980's landing book store jobs before the green arcade. he started selling books at harsher books on powell street through a friend and continued at codey's books when returning to uc berkeley for school. after a short departure from san francisco to new york. patrick returned for another 20 years until itself closing and that is when the green arcade began its journey. in 2008. patrick opened the green arcade on market at goth hopefully everyone has been there multiple times. in this right smack in the area we discuss when it come to policy make and land use as the hub. this inspect book sto

i mean, aaron peskin, you said it was your job. aaron peskin, you said it was your job to make sure the government runs right, whatever to hold to make san francisco safe. does this look safe? and you know the hiring pool is mostly felons, but wait, there's more. let's see here--trying to get to the other picture. let's try this. so, this is a urban alchemy worker with a ski mask and wearing camouflage. what type of psychological profile is that? you walk around with ski mask, refuse to identify. when i asked they said the person that is going to come kick my ass. that is in my other you tube video. this is your group that you are funding. do i get any type of response as to do you ever have any type of oversight committees or panels to hold these people accountable? >> thank you. just remember to address your comments to the board as a whole. >> sir, if you stick around. we are close to the end of the board meeting i would like to visit with you. >> any other members of the public in the audience who like to address the board duri

our board president, aaron peskin. aaron. [applause] >> thank you rick, and thank you to you and the market street railway association for your loving and careful and long stewardship of our cable cars and our street cars. mayor breed invoked the phoenix rising from the ashes and if there is a physical manifestation of that mythical phoenix, it is standing behind me. it is the cable car. it is the symbol of resilience and perseverance in san francisco. when they first started in 1873, really in 1888, the city burned down to the ground three times, and that was before the 1906 earthquake and fire. that was before the 1918 spanish influenza pandemic we didn't know about until a few years ago, and the cable car was a constant through all of that. this is the symbol of san francisco's resilience. and as rick said, all 11 members of the board are created equal, but i'm lucky and a little more equal because i represent the original part of san francisco, the northeast corner of san francisco, our china town, russian hill, north bea

president peskin. colleagues, this legislation addresses result of some really important reporting by our local media that found that nonprofit oversight could improve and certainly make for a better government efficiency. so this ordinance is a first step to clean up nonprofit oversight. i want to acknowledge supervisor stephanie, whose working on ensuring that nonprofits perform and performance measures in their agreement. but the simple problem that we're trying to solve here is that nonprofits are supposed to have a few key approvals before operating. however, there's no real central city agency charged with ensuring that they do so. so we've asked the city administrator to be that area. city law requires nonprofits to report basic information to the city administrator, the name of their ceo, board of directors and annual budget, but it does not require them to demonstrate that they are legally authorized to do work in san francisco. so with this ordinance, because the most important aspects of it

president supervisor peskin? >> looks like we duplicated a lot of stuff on june 12 and amended them and they all appear a month later. this is one of those so like with the awning legislation -- almost all of this has been reviewed by this committee and adopt in the luby the full board of supervisors. but these were a few piece of trailing legislation that set morgue in the digest. these amendments include additional waivers and modifications from the planning code. for off street loading. curve cuts. expansion of the extension from sign controls. that we will talk about in a minute. and -- amendment to raise threshold for larger projects subject to 2-1 commercial torrential use in c30 to 20,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet something that supervisor dorsey added for a specific project. >> that i was not comfortable with until i understood it. thank you are madison tammiful so i'm prepared to move these today with 2 minor tweaks. which is on page 42. remove lines 18 and 19. that is a slight change to article

president peskin. colleagues, this legislation addresses result of some really important reporting by our local media that found that nonprofit oversight could improve and certainly make for a better government efficiency. so this ordinance is a first step to clean up nonprofit oversight. i want to acknowledge supervisor stephanie, whose working on ensuring that nonprofits perform and performance measures in their agreement. but the simple problem that we're trying to solve here is that nonprofits are supposed to have a few key approvals before operating. however, there's no real central city agency charged with ensuring that they do so. so we've asked the city administrator to be that area. city law requires nonprofits to report basic information to the city administrator, the name of their ceo, board of directors and annual budget, but it does not require them to demonstrate that they are legally authorized to do work in san francisco. so with this ordinance, because the most important aspects of it

president supervisor peskin. if a major of this body believes there is excess money for command positions in the budget then i would hope them the discussion was broad are then and there whether we should move that money in other police department positions. fairly significant revelation and funny i voted against the budget because of when i view as massive amounts of money. happy to shrilleda conversation about whether the police department budget is too much but -- will the extend there is too much i don't know the amount. over a million bucks and you know we heard from public commenters food banks cut and we know things in the community therapy cut or not receiving the full funding we allmented them to have. i don't feel i'm equiped vote on this today. i do recognize that policing has changed the last few years and extras it is less efficient. there was a department of justice road map we needed to have a police mission on it and voted for the members. and we have you know -- all said that we passport those ch

. >> thank you president peskin. i just want to take a quick moment to discuss the civil service commission. one of our most important city commissions. colleagues, the civil grand jury report that demonstrate the shocking amount of time it takes to hire a front line city worker, the 911 dispatcher nurse or firefighter who provides services we need in the city. commissioners favetti and miner are served for 6 year term so want to make sure we have a public hearing about the qualifications, which ewoo did. the rules committee recommended approval and look forward working with these commissioners and others to improve the city hiring process, so wanted to highlight why we had the hearing, the importance of it and why we need to focus on speeding up the hiring process to deal with the dramatic under-short staff we have in so many critical departments in the city is directly related to the amount of time it takes to hire front line city workers. thank you. >> thank you. same house same call, the motions are approved. tha

peskin present. peskin present supervisor. preston preston present supervisor. ronen. ronen present supervisor. safai safai present. stephanie

i mean, aaron peskin, you said it was your job. aaron peskin, you said it was your job to make sure the government runs right, whatever to hold to make san francisco safe. does this look safe? and you know the hiring pool is mostly felons, but wait, there's more. let's see here--trying to get to the other picture. let's try this. so, this is a urban alchemy worker with a ski mask and wearing camouflage. what type of psychological profile is that? you walk around with ski mask, refuse to identify. when i asked they said the person that is going to come kick my ass. that is in my other you tube video. this is your group that you are funding. do i get any type of response as to do you ever have any type of oversight committees or panels to hold these people accountable? >> thank you. just remember to address your comments to the board as a whole. >> sir, if you stick around. we are close to the end of the board meeting i would like to visit with you. >> any other members of the public in the audience who like to address the board duri

i commissioner peskin. hi peskin i commissioner preston preston i commissioner safai absent. commissioner stephanie. stephanie i commissioner walton walton i. there are seven eyes with commissioner chan dissenting. the motion is approved. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call the next item . item five adopt for 2023 prop l five year prioritization program and amend the prop l strategic plan baseline. this is an action item. thank you. we have camille joshua here, assistant transportation planner . welcome, miss garcia. all right. good morning, commissioners. i'm camille kushwaha, assistant transportation planner, tv. i'm going to be pulling up my slides and it says that i'm sharing the screen. okay. should be. all right. as a reminder, the expenditure plan requires development and board approval of a five year prioritization programs or five types as a requisite to allocation of funds from a given program, along with the adoption of the prop strategic plan. this slide illustrates the iterative process we go through every five years to identify the projects that will recei

i commissioner peskin. hi peskin i commissioner preston preston i commissioner safai absent. commissioner stephanie. stephanie i commissioner walton walton i. there are seven eyes with commissioner chan dissenting. the motion is approved. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call the next item . item five adopt for 2023 prop l five year prioritization program and amend the prop l strategic plan baseline. this is an action item. thank you. we have camille joshua here, assistant transportation planner . welcome, miss garcia. all right. good morning, commissioners. i'm camille kushwaha, assistant transportation planner, tv. i'm going to be pulling up my slides and it says that i'm sharing the screen. okay. should be. all right. as a reminder, the expenditure plan requires development and board approval of a five year prioritization programs or five types as a requisite to allocation of funds from a given program, along with the adoption of the prop strategic plan. this slide illustrates the iterative process we go through every five years to identify the projects that will recei

we have our mayor, mayor london breed, who will speak shortly and we have supervisor peskin and also, thank you, and also we have commissioner ed herrington joining us today. thank you ed herrington. so it was exactly in 1898 when the first vessel arrived here, opening the newly fashion pier and opening an era of prosperity and diversity for our city. for nearly 40 years, it was the bay crossing that welcomed everyone in and out of the city. the bridge went up in 1936. so today, this building is such a special place of travel, of welcoming, of diversity and we know that our ferry passenger ridership is going to go to prepandemickship as we have new routes and ferrylandings. [applause] this is a place where people gather for the most important city celebrations, whether that be the pride parade toxer juneteenth to markets and festivals or just to have a day of enjoyment. in our time, this building stayed open during the covid pandemic, getting farmers market getting ready to return safely as soon it could and getting our stores open and being ready for the first passengers ready to tra

president supervisor peskin and staff for analysis and suggestions. i have a couple questions to make sure i understands how the proposed staffing modifications would function and understand it right. i understands this we are trying to focus on where we did see good traction with the controls. new construction. so what happens to a single family home that wants to add size is this where they would be in limitations i think number throw? would be for the expansions and everything on new construction or you know since not a lot of vacant lots in case demoing an existing building and building new and expansions would just be like help me understands what happens with expansions. >> your presumption is correct. recommended modification number three is the only one real recommend if somebody wants to expand an existing single family home versus demo and construction of creating new unit. the 10 years there is this in 10 years you get 25% up to 3,000 and the next 10 years you get more. and or 3,000 how are we america that. i worry burden of proof things th