. >> good evening it is monday december 8, 2014, we're starting the san francisco small business commission the san francisco small business commission is televising live looked like to thank sfgovtv for their efforts to televise this meeting and the sfgovtv for making in meeting possible members of the public please take the time to silence our cell phones and other electronic diaz and i don't think we have to appreciate right now so mr. president, shall i call the meeting to order. >> yes. >> commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena sfen arrest commissioner white commissioner bonilla mr. president, you have quorum. >> okay. next item general public comment do we have any members of the public that want to make comments on items not on today's agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed next item, please. >> mr. president, item number 3 is the possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file number 141098 house and business and tax regulation code tobacco sales and associated fees a n

>>ordinance amending the administrative code to direct the small business commission to establish a legacy business registry, authorize an administrative fee for the registry not to exceed $50, and, for the next five years, provide a rebate to qualified legacy businesses that purchase the real property from which they operate and to qualified landlords that purchase the real property from which legacy businesses operate if the purchaser extends the term of the legacy business's lease by at least ten years, in an amount equal to the transfer tax levied on the purchase. >> okay, thank you, this item is sponsored by supervisor campos and so we will turn it over to him. >> thank you, for your co-sponsor ship as well and this is an item that we have been working on to address a very real issue that many long time san francisco businesses that have been in business for decades in san francisco, what we are calling legacy businesses, are pacing a lot of challenge, and being able to stay in san francisco. and there are models in other parts of the world where the cities have actually tried to do s

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the ordinance itself, which was unanimously supported by small business commission strikes men and women and updates what i felt was an outdated section of the code to allow gas stations to provide one unisex bath ream. supervisor kim introduced an amendment saying dph will have the responsibility for the enforcement of the section and she cease been working on other amendments as well. the proposal scholar sipship was less about the if he can any cal ordinance we have in front of us but more about encouraging and underrepresented voice to participate in the legislative process. it was about showcasing our technology tools that can empower our residents listen and remain accountable to those they were elected to represent. i continue to be a firm believer that technology and the tools that are coming out can be a power mechanism to increase civic engagement and believe this is an example of that. >> thank you supervisor farm. supervisor kim. >> and i'd like to add my name to the legislation and i think it's great supervisor farrell has launch a project to get young people engaged. it was

i was going to suggest that we present to the small business commission here at city hall and get their input and feedback on how to get local businesses engaged in what would encourage them to apply and ensure they will have a strong footprint in the terminal. i know i hear more and more from residents they want to see formula retail controls and not it's appropriate for this site but they want to see a mix and what streaks people to restaurants and they're going to a unique place and unique to san francisco. one thing i was going to suggest and i know there was a push for child care on the terminal and i don't know where that conversation has gone because we simply lack resources on it but it might be good to partner with an educational institution and usf or state and i know they have a school downtown, business school and what is exciting because it's connected to so many transit lines they could have classes that people from the region and high speed rail around the state can access and from the airport so that might be something that is interesting to pursue as sort of classroom s

small business. >> good afternoon supervisor and thank you, supervisor mar and campos. the small business commission is going to be hearing the item on monday. so this does not do not have an official response, but i thought that it was important to come and acknowledge i think that one of the key items in the original draft of the legislation that they would have raised was around the retention value of existing businesses. and so, i did want to come and express my appreciation to you and your staff and to the coalition, for working with the arab american grocers and also sensitive to the last minus you that i have brought forward that we are addressing, i think one of the key concerns that the commission would have brought up and made a recommendation to change. so thank you. >> thank you. >> i am going to read a few more names, emily from mission sf, and steven layman from healthy corner coalition, and don from healthy corner coalition and ryan fayer. abnifiv, katia and anelia sanadad, next speaker. >> my my is ryan, and i was a former member of the tobacco youth reduction force when i was 17 and

to the rest of the state and country much has been said about the impact on small businesses and nonprofits on the commission of the status of women at the board of supervisors that issue has been raised there has been the complaint that requiring the reporting of this information is two bumping to comply but without knowing the requirements it is the fact we've got work to be done by a advisory committee to make sure that we minimize the impact on the small businesses but i want to note a couple of points first i don't believe that reporting requirements is that onerous new mexico has implemented a program for the state for 4 years in that state the entire state has received no complaint from 9 contracts in fact in a letter the architect ordinance businesses in the state of income. mounted no opposition to the requirements of their law if a business is larger if a business is larger it certainly has an in house outside contractors that deals with those kinds of issues if the company is smaller the low numbers of the employees will make the annual reports very simple and finally if a business wanted the priv

yeah, the next slide is on employer outreach and support that you as a commission we've done our best to educate the small business community about those complex issues we can't speak all of the details about the affordable health care act but we do our by itself to answer the questions about local by the way, law and how the federal and local laws subcontract we've sent out e-mails when we issued the administrative guidance to more 6 thousand businesses and employers that are covered by the law and we're answering e-mails and answer e-mails dial and answer phone calls and we'll be hosting a webinar in partnering with the city on those issues on december 16th and another one specifically on those sort of complicated accepted benefits hr a on january 6th or 2015. >> great. >> thank you commissioner white. >> hi thank you for being here honestly, i was listening to your presentation i'm still in the dark it's christmas eve to me as a small business owner it is probably confusing to other small businesses i think a question quick you talked about the small business owner employers that are using up to two hours and h

subcontractor and a created bed public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businessesesources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract >> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popular to you can win a professional services job or how to put together a quote it's all those technical pieces. looking at the contracting assistance center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so you're ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. i can't say enough about the center it's a blessing. we do business all over the country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the c

commission. >> good afternoon planning aaron starr the committee harder the alcoholic ordinance it exempts small businesses from the third street r u z it was premd recommend for approval with proposed modifications the modifications was for the board to consider requiring the conditional use authorization for small beer manufacturing on november 17th it was heard public comment was favorable and the land use committee voted to move it to the board of supervisors with favorable recommendation without requiring a cu and at the full board the northeast ordinances passed it's second reading and it is now waiting for the mayors signature as well as the formula retail ordinance that passed its second reading and the last item concerning the planning department was the appeal of the environmental termination and is conditional use for telegraph hill and it includes a 3 offsite parking spaces it required the conditional use authorization because it results in 4 units in a prospective zoned rfp that it was heard on november 11th it was appraised because the plan doesn't meet the residential guidelines or, etc. and