small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business commission call ]. >> next item. >> general public comment allows members of the public to comment generally on matters that are within the small business commission's jurisdiction but not on today's calendar and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. discussion item. >> do we have any members of the public that would like to make comments on any items that is not on today's agenda? okay. seeing that, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions. discussion and action item. the presenter is richard kurlyo. >> good afternoon, president adams, commissioners. richard kurlyo. i have a powerpoint presentation. before you today are six applications for your consideration for the legacy business registry. two applications were submitted to the planning department staff on june 20 and heard by the historic preservation commission on july 17. four applications were submitted to planning on july 25 and heard

small business should be your first stop. all of our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about the policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. first item, please. >> clerk: call to order and roll call. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: you have a quorum. >> thank you. next item. >> clerk: item 2, general public comment allows members of the public to comment on matters that are within the small business commission's agenda. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on any item not on today's agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item #, approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions. discussion and action item. the presenter is richard carillo, office of small business. >> good afternoon. richard carillo, legacy program manager. sfgov tv, i have a powerpoint presentation. before you are seven applicati

next item, please. >> clerk: please show the office of small business slide. >> it is our custom to begin and end each small business commission meeting with the 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 have a question about what to do next. you can find us online and here at city hall and best of all our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, start here at the office of small business. >> next item. >> clerk: item 8. adjournment in memoriam of angel carrera. >> i move that we adjourn this evening's meeting in memorial of angel carrera. >> second. >> all in favour? >> aye. >> meeting adjourned. thank you. [♪] >> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san

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also, i think we didn't hear from the small business commission.and i want to know about the program and whether or not how effective they are. because we're putting invest in neighborhoods. i've seen some of this in my neighborhood that didn't do anything. so wondering how they're working to bring out information to small businesses on site, on the corridors specifically and how often they actually keep track. and what is the relationship between those merchants associations, also, and between oewd, small business commission and the merchant commission and are they hearing from them and what strategies are they bringing fort? and i want to say, the housing thing is a nightmare. i get it. that there is nowhere for your workers to live. the working class folks of san francisco. oh, my god. god bless them. but, yet, they keep city hall running. they keep our city and county of san francisco running. the people that clean our streets. the people that serve our food. the people that drive our buses, the people that educate our children, the people who

, small business commission and the san francisco chamber of commerce, the san francisco council of district merchants. these changes include supporting live music venues by eliminating duplicate we have inspections and regulations. making it easy for retailers to bring reasonable limited live entertainment to enrich customer experiences. allowing for more open air dining, creating opportunities for more to go food service and reforming this planning code to limit the impact of one neighborhood restriction on another neighborhood business. the amendment legislation that is before you today is a little bit stronger. among other small cleanup amendments, we are narrowing the proposed exemption to the bona fide eating place requirements. her ticketed entertainment venues to only -- [reading notes] 51% food receipts and a five days a week. these venues still have to operate kitchens, and serve food , but would no longer be called upon to meet requirements that do not fit into their business model. we have removed proposed changes that wo

the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions, and concerns aboutpolicies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in in san francisco. if you need assistant with small business matters, start here with the office of business. of a small business. >> item 11, adjournment. >> do i have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> the meeting is adjourned at 3:18 p.m. shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within neighborhood. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. where will you shop and dine in the 49? san francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. each corridor has its own personality. our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. >> you are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping small businesses grow. >> it is more environmentally friendly. >> shopping local is very important. i have had relationships w

the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions, and concerns aboutpolicies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in in san francisco. if you need assistant with small business matters, start here with the office of business. of a small business. >> item 11, adjournment. >> do i have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> the meeting is adjourned at 3:18 p.m. >> evening everyone. welcome to the commission meeting. anthony, roll call. >> this is the meeting of the tran04 tran02. it is tuesday, september 24, 2019 and the time is 5:01 p.m. a note and the ringing and use of cell phone and electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. plea -- please be advised that any person may be removed for the ringing of any electronic device. a note to the public, there is a public comment on every item on the agenda, as well as an opportunity for general public, for items that are not on the agenda. also an opportunity for general public,, that is during item five. we ask that you fill out a speaker card and handed to me and i'll hand them to you a

small business. i am just want to continue to think about ways, for example the streamlining legislation and steering commission to make small business easier to flourish. i want to say the 4:00 a.m. bill which became the 3:00 a.m. bill died in the assembly, never came out of the assembly. it is not on this calendar this year for legislation which is very sad and i think it will show us the rest of the state still views nightlife as a nuisance. in san francisco we see it as a economic and cultural driving force. it makes me proud to live here. knowing senator wiener, it will be back. he is the energizer bunny. maybe the 12th time is the charm. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we will close tonight in honor of jamie jimbo durant, and the meeting is over at 6:01 p.m. thank you. we are ready to begin. good morning. today is wednesday, september 18 th, 2019. this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] commissioner moss is excused. we have a quorum.

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small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commissiont sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought

small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commissionnd sharkie, one of the newest sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] [♪] >> good afternoon. welcome to

small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commissionnd sharkie, one of the newest sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] [♪] >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪] [speaking foreign language] [♪] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [♪] [♪] >> okay. we are here to get the job done. good morning. is it morning still? i've been up since 5:00 i thi

federal trade commission investigators began interviewing small businesses that sell products on amazonthe interview suggests the agency is skeptical about claims that choppers and suppliers have real alternatives. china announcing a range of u.s. goods it will exempt from 25% tariffs put in place last year, but it is keeping pressure on american farmers. in europe, the d continues to hold onto gains, up 0.8%. 1%.ftse 100 up 1.10 now.rading below meantime, the hong kong stock exchange has made a surprise offer for the london stock exchange group. 'sy deal would upend the lse acquisition of refinitiv. it says it will consider the proposal. joining us is sarah siad. put this into context for us. it would be a massive deal in the context. reporter: there are so many players it is difficult to focus on one. to call it a politically sensitive situation would kong e protests at the moment. the hong kong exchange has interestingly tried to position itself as a more global player rather than a hong kong or a chinese one, and that is something that the lse really needs to consider, but it could

small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commission the newest sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] [♪] [♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪] >> i would say i am a multidimensional artist. i came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. i always have an interest in public art. i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. you shouldn't just be something in museums. i love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. public

small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commissionharkie, one of the newest sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> today in the omi in district 7 -- [cheers and applause] >> -- they say it takes broad strokes to make something truly incredible, people to enjoy and that's the message we have here today. there's no better person to articulate the vision for advancing economic opportunity and equity in our city than our next speaker that is joining all of us and leading these efforts with us today and that is our mayor, london reed. >> hello, lakeview! hello! i am so excited to be here! let me tell you, this centre is long overdue in the omi community. [cheers and applause] i want to start by thanking supervisor safaye, who is really,

federal trade commission investigators began to interview small businesses that sell products on amazonds it will exempt from 25% tariffs it placed last year but it is keeping the pressure on american farmers. it won't be lifting the tariffs on major agricultural products. those duties were imposed to retaliate for american tariffs laced on chinese goods. a republicanlina, trumpent that president campaign for nearly won a congressional seat. dan bishop beating his democratic challenger by two percentage points. won the president trump state by 12 points. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at tick toc on twitter, powered by over 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. we will talk about the oddities of the equity market in a few moments. right now you have the euro turning on. not much going on. i would note the 30 year bond was up to 2.22% at one point. bonds,e: if you look at they are moving a little bit in europe. this is one of the things we are watching out for. we have not had as much time as we wan

small business of the year. and business of the year in nebraska and in iowa. the organization awards from the latino commission, and many others. they exemplify the american dream. our nation provides us the opportunities to work hard and prosper and abrio is doing just that. congratulations to lunda latino and achieving 20 years of excellence in business and journalism. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. cunningham, for five minutes. mr. cunningham: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to honor the billian life of louis o'neill door. door was everything the low country could ask for in a hometown hero. born in buford in 1945, he attended morehouse college and worked three jobs to put himself through school. after graduating, he returned home to teach high school and help guide the desegregation of buford schoolcies tefment he eventually obtained his law degree at the university of georgia where he is one of only four black americans in his class. door was a tireless advocate for civil rights and champion of voting rights, education,

small business commissioners for being here today. thank you so much. steve, who is the president of the commissionnd sharkie, one of the newest sworn-in commissioners because of his challenges with his small business here in san francisco. so you really have some champions helping to push forward the kinds of policies that hopefully will make a difference for our small business community here in san francisco. now, let's get this piece of legislation signed. [ applause ] [ applause ] [♪] >> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budg

commission. the ftc is interviewing small businesses to determine whether the amazon is using its market powers to the news comes as state attorneys general investigating google order it to turn over a wide range of information about its advertising business. finally, this hour, we recap our top story, oracle cl mark hurd is taking a leave of absence for health reasons, following the initial announcement, executive chairman larry ellison said he and ceo safra catz will cover the response abilities during his sound -- his absence. slipped in aftermarket training as revenue came up short. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." onare live streaming twitter. check us out at technology and follow our global breaking news network at tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ at comcast, we didn't build the nation's largest gig-speed network just to make businesses run faster. we built it to help them go beyond. because beyond risk... welcome to the neighborhood, guys. there is reward. ♪ ♪ beyond work and life... who else could he be? there is the moment. beyond technology... there is huma

small business and also about workforce. very briefly the highlight is ocii is independent of the city. what the commission has done is adopt the policies that mere the city ordinances but we are not subject to city ordinances -- ordinances directly. particularly, it is a small business program. we operated independent of the city's local business enterprise program. in terms of the objective, we have an overall 50% small business goal, as opposed to the city's local business preference program. we do operate it on a good faith effort basis. certainly, we do provide first consideration for small businesses hit here within the project area of ocii and also in san francisco. very briefly, what good faith effort means is certainly for the agency, i will take it at a personal level, is a sincere efforts that's been expressed by the developers and general contractors and working cooperatively with us. there are a number of steps that we look at in terms of good faith, advertising, breaking out scopes of work, you know, affording sufficient time and support for small businesses to respond to bids, but all that r

small and local business. we will come to this commission and urge delivery only and brick and mortar to try to work together, because we think there's an important role. but this is where i go back to why i think this commission is so important, because we haven't had a place to hash out these policy things. it's happened in this committee here and this here or we've been fighting it out on the streets here or in these hallways. and if we're successful with this commission and get the right people here, we can actually look at these issues in-depth and hopefully come up with some solutions. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thanks. >> supervisor ronen: supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much. thank you so much, mr. bloch. just same question. how important do you think it is for diversity on this oversight committee? >> i think that diversity is absolutely important on this commission. i also think having people who have some experience in this industry is very important. and i will say for our union, our focus is on increasing diversity in the workforce, because a lot of these policy debates have

commission. they started interviewing small businesses that sell products on the world's largest online retailer.out if amazon is using its market power to hurt competition. as question is being asked the agency is skeptical of the claim that amazon suppliers have alternatives. alix: saudi aramco is said to have picked as many as nine banks for top five-year-old. among them -- for top ipo roles. among them, bank of america and credit suisse. do you have an idea of timing for the ipo? reporter: but we understand is they have really tried to accelerate this process, but it is important to know that this is going to be, in the first instance, a listing in riyadh only. the international part of the ipo, it is unclear when that will happen. it seems that the saudi government is determined to get the local part of this done in riyadh late this year or early next year. david: it seems like there have been quite a few changes. navy there is no connection, but we have a new oil minister, a new chairman of aramco. ishe prie feeling a little pressure to make his budget? will: you are right to point to the c

small businesses. thank you forjoining us, what did you make of that part of the chancellor‘s speech? you make of that part of the chancellor's speech? we have always supported the low pay commissionic sector that is not already not able to find that sufficiently. it presents a challenge but many small businesses, let‘s remember, pay well over the national minimum wage already and i think wejust have national minimum wage already and i think we just have to reflect on whether low pay commission needs to be looking at this in some detail, both on the actual rate and the advancement from 60 as well as the decrease in age. many employers already pay at the national living wage and any case if they are valuable members of staff. it is done over five years, does that make it much more manageable?” done over five years, does that make it much more manageable? i think what you have got to reflect on at the moment is we are already faced with significant cost increases, both on employment and other areas like business rates which are paid out up front before you even look at increasing your wage rates. let‘s not forget, the problem this is going to have on any differentials for higher pai

created by the commission and composed of private businesses and contractor representatives, staff, and public members seeking to improve and implement effectively the agency's preferences for small minority owned and women-owned businesses and redevelopment agency projects. >> and where as mr. singh has also held other public offices, serving the city and the state, including positions of the san francisco parking and traffic commission, and the administration of the mayor, the california president of the board, the california economic conditions, and is whereas mr. singh's presence on the successor agency commission will be greatly missed by those with a business before the commission the public in general, and fellow commissioners and staff. his legacy includes the funding of thousands of affordable housing units, the creation of numerous construction and permanent jobs, and the specific development projects that have improved and will continue to improve the economic vitality and urban landscape and quality-of-life in san francisco therefore, be it resolved, that this excerpt or successor agency commission of the sitting county of san francisco, on behalf of the past and pres

small businesses is a wonderful thing.>> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices.fire commission regular meeting, wednesday september 25, 2019 and the time is 5 p.m item 1, roll call. [roll call] item 2 general public comment. members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> thank you very much, madame secretary. at this time, is there any member of the public that wishes to give public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. madame secretary. >> item 3 approval of the minutes discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes of september 11, 2019. >> thank you. on the agenda of approval of the minutes is there any member of the public

the commission reportedly is interviewing small businesses that sell on amazon to see if it's stifling that big tech giants have over the economy in general. amazon slightly lower in the premarket right now. general electric is parting ways with baker hughes. ge will sell the majority interest in the company, unloading millions of shares to help pay down debt. that move will raise nearly $3 billion in cash, also result in a charge. taking a look at shares of ge in the premarket, as you can see,ly they are lower by a quarter percent. those are your headlines. back over to you. maria: thank you so much. dick grasso is with us this morning. we have to get your reaction to hong kong offering to acquire the london stock exchange for $36.6 billion, dick. >> that's a lot of money. but there is a lot of money in exchange these days. i think that hong kong has been very successful because it's int integrated both its transaction business and its clearance, comparison and settlement business. i think the attractiveness of london would put hong kong in a position to be a 24 by x market. 36 or $37

small business ownership. she's an adviser for the closing the women's wealth gap initiative and was a member of the bipartisan commission or retirement security and personal saving. we next welcome the testimony of doctor -- the researcher and specializing in an external evaluation and to increase faculty diversity and bring under representing groups into stem science technology engineering and mathematics. doctor mariko chang pyle is a national expert and he wealth gap especially gender and racial dimensions of wealth and equality. she is also a founding member of closing women's wealth gap initiative and a member of the insights centers experts of color network. next we welcome the testimony of sallie l. krawcheck who, is the chair of the network and a 135,000 strong global professional women's network. miss sallie l. krawcheck is the ceo and cofounder of they digitally first mission to trim an investment platform for women. before launching miss sallie l. krawcheck a built a successful center as a ceo and smith barring and u.s. trust and city private bank and stanford bernstein. she's also the chief financial officer

small business. what are some of the things that the city and county of san francisco can do to assist? >> certainly, the planning commission, to my knowledge, there's only one person in the planning commission who is focussed on moving cannabis permits through and he's so inundated with permits right now that there's this incredibly long lag. there's a long period of time for folks to get planning commission hearings. so the first thing i would say is to create a job inside the planning commission or this navigator position so when someone says they want to be a cultivator in san francisco, here are the land use you need, and the application will be moved to the top of the pile as soon as possible, otherwise you are in a year backlog. i would aggravate all the information we learned about specific code that is required from the electrical department, plumbing department, fire department, and get all this knowledge and resources into a centralized place. what happens right now is i could go in with my architect and talk to the fire department and they would say, yes, you can do this for co2 alarming, for instance. when i co

small businesses, of our disadvantaged communities across san francisco. and he wanted to make sure that the department of the environment and the public utilities public utilities commission were hearing from if the right people as we designed our own programs. frankly we were thrilled by this challenge to us, to engage with community in a meaningful way about energy efficiency programming. and so what better leaders for us to have than the two people who are standing before us tonight, who have stepped up in a significant way to lead this discussion and then bring all of that information together in a report and then meet with us about the report, as well as p.u.c. to think about, given all of the recommendations, how do we start to prioritize and think about the first things we need to do differently. and i can say it's already impacted the work that we do here in our energy efficiency programming and it's also set some priorities for the future that i'm excited for you to hear about tonight. so thank you both for your leadership and. would you introduce yourself, as well as who you work with, just as a context. that would be wonderful. >> go ahead. >> good afternoon, e