you know, i have a small retail store. we use -- so, you're a small retailer. you go buy quick books. you find out that there is a point of sale module. you go, that's cool, i can use that in my store, help me keep track of my inventory, keep track of commissions if i'm paying them to people, if i have a store that has item on commission, it helps me figure out, you know, whose item i sold and stuff like that, what vendor should get paid what. in fact, it says much about back of the house organization as it is about consumer facing pricing issues. and, so, you know, the one instinct would be, fine, i'm going to unplug the scanner, i'm not going to use the scanner. i still have to have everything computerized. you'd be an idiot if you were keeping track of thing with a manual ledger today. so, do you say, oh, you have a date of basis of your item. you have technically a point of sale system whether you use a scanner or not. and, in fact, so, if you unplug the scanner then you're saying now i have to employ people to manually type in upc codes, right? because eve

and the cost structure for chicago is $250 for small stores, and small stores being stores that have three or fewer point of sale systems. and chicago says you must not overcharge 4% of the item that are scanned during inspection whereas san francisco ha 2%. so, san francisco requires a 98% accuracy rating on inspection where chicago is 96%. and then online retailers, we looked at the larger retailers because they were the ones that created the need to establish this regulation. and our local ordinance here in san francisco explicitly cited california business and professions code 12 0 24.6 ~ and that states that no personal firm, corporation or association shall advertise, solicit or represent any means a product for sale or purchase if it isn't intend ited to entice consumer into a transaction different from that originally presented. and that's why we started looking into these larger entities that do business online. first, we looked at amazon, and amazon, even if you add an item to your shopping cart, the price can fluctuate after you have added it. so, the question was does tha

>> and oh, oh i see something - >> good afternoon it's 208 and the small business meeting is called into order. item one we're going into roll call >> commissioner president adams. commissioner dooley. commissioner dwight. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. commissioner paul. commissioner riley and commissioner white not here. item two is general public comment this allows the general public comment to comment on meters within the committees purview do we have any members of the public that want to speak >> any must be of the public want to comment on items noted on today is taunted general comment is closed. >> item 3 is the possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on file number 1040798 this is a business tax regulation code amending the common administrative provision and payroll tax expense and gross receipt tax it is the tax and regulation dpoed code by revising the payroll expenses and making the amount consistent with the requirements for small business exemptions and second and third clarifying the group engaged in business in san francisco must reshlg with

small businesses. >> my next guess is that there's little talk of helping small businesses like therenow. they realize that the other big issue is the one and we have small businesses, do you ever get the impression that they are being left out? >> i am a small business owner at the manufacturing business facility in new york and we are being left out because they like to help the big businesses. 65% of the new jobs created are created by this. i say that crony capitalism helps big businesses. we need government to be fair. we don't need special treatment but fair treatment and we need to have government get out of the way and provide us with opportunities that they don't give us and you have regulations that are thrust upon us as a business is. we don't have compliance teams to deal with the burdens of regulation, particularly in new york state. >> i know that claudia is too young to remember, but this is the rhetoric of ronald reagan and he put that rhetoric into actives and he was talking the talk and walking the walk. >> reality is that small businesses are being left behind. i wa

and i think it's a disservice to small business. i think it's a disservice to innovation because it says, oh, another innovation, another opportunity to tax. and taxation, fear of taxation should not be an impediment to innovation. and fear of taxation should not be an impediment to making our businesses more efficient so that we can deal with things like rising minimum wages, rising real estate prices and increases in other taxes that are perhaps more legit. and, so, and it gives rise to a government that when it starts employing people to go out and see if people are violating these ridiculous things, right, rather than focusing on the major tax he that we already have and kind of accept the taxes we should be charging. so, you know, i think that simply taxing something that looks at a database and reports a price is an absurd thing when there's weights and measures and things like that involved, maybe it's more -- certainly there might be a certification. if there is a certification, it needs to be paid for. i have a real problem

and the cost structure for chicago is $250 for small stores, and small stores being stores that have three or fewer point of sale systems. and chicago says you must not overcharge 4% of the item that are scanned during inspection whereas san francisco ha 2%. so, san francisco requires a 98% accuracy rating on inspection where chicago is 96%. and then online retailers, we looked at the larger retailers because they were the ones that created the need to establish this regulation. and our local ordinance here in san francisco explicitly cited california business and professions code 12 0 24.6 ~ and that states that no personal firm, corporation or association shall advertise, solicit or represent any means a product for sa

businesses, whether it's small co-ops or the small mondays or even the directly impacted small businesses. >> over the holidays and the complexity of all this, the clean water act increases the amount of time it takes to make jurisdictional determinations. in your estimation, how much shorter time will these jurisdictional determinations take with the proposed rules as opposed to the old ones? >> the current one, because of the way it's written, requires almost every request for -- or any project that might be near water for them to go through a process on a case-by-case basis with the corps of engineers. the other thing we're trying to do here, and the intent, is to have enough definition along the lines we were talking about earlier, congressman, that it would reduce the number of case-by-case determinations and therefore make it more quickly apparent whether they have a jurisdictional issue or not. but i also want to point out, if you're not going to discharge pollution or put fill into the water, it wouldn't matter one way or the other. >> okay. thank you very much, and i yield back.

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i think large cap better than small cap. technically fundamentally valuationwise, to me it seems pretty obvious what to do. >> when you have the small caps, the russells say it's underperforming down roughly 4% versus an s&p that's up roughly 4%, if this slight correction that we have roughly 4% right now continues, you'll start to see some of these small cap names come in to support. i look at the iwb trading around 110 here. when the market bottoms, when we bounce, i want to be in these small caps. i'm not going saying i'm going to catch the absolute bottoms. a little more of a pullback, i'll be in there. >> you're saying you would get into iwm, you'd e are. err on the side early. is now too early? what's your timing? >> i don't think it's too early. i wouldn't play it through the iwm. i'd play it through individual names. and there's a lot of individual names out there that are starting to shape up nicely. >> i would focus on names in the energy, technology space. i disagree with the notion that the asset class completely

businesses i am hoping the san francisco small business commission will be an ally.here was a small business 3w5i789 of frequenting gal in the european hate in district 5 that bumped into the plodding they're a shirt screening print shop and ran into both the police code they contacted the entertainment commission that afforded that and we looked at into the police code and frankly find quite a bit of it no longer relevant and expensive for businesses. i'll mentioned a few things back in the 82 there was concern our arcadia were corrupting the youth and the board of supervisors at the time this is in 1982 wrote extensive regulations dealing with or a cascade games it was 6 thousand words dlailt when and where our arcades can be in san francisco. this has been outdated there are reference to the department of electricity that does not exist and to the other department there are arbitrary positions on the square footage and not have an arrest warrant cascade game within 5 feet of another or a cascade or gas station in the district i haven't figured out the reasoning if

some small caps. you know, there is a lot of advantage to small caps. you know, the one thing is they are entrepreneur in nature. the main reasons that we like them is, you know, there is not that political risk that everyone is afraid of right now. they also, you know, they also have a lot of advantages with just their size. it'si izeasy to grow a company m a billion to 2 billion than one to 20. in this slow growth environment that we're in, you know, big companies need new growth ave e avenues and by buying small and mid sized come ppaniecompanies, grow. the small cap portfolio bought out. there is a lot of reasons to own small caps. >> you make a lot of good points. the stock you're recommending, the data points. the first one is paper and pack caking, the ticker symbol is ks and trades at $30. why do you like this particular one? >> kapstone is like a lot stocks in our portfolio. there is not much competition. a lot of competition has gone away. you know, there is a lot of consolidation in that in

for the 4 small businesses. that discussed in the eir the numeral of the theoretical available sunlight and the shadow square feet hours was erroneous but the errors of the shadowing are correct the draft was for informational purposes no small business is subject to the planning code will be effected. the conclusions regarding shadow impacts and the final eir were not effected. for all other projects as analyzed in the draft eir the changes don't effect the draft eir. those changes reflected in the document you have before you and those are the in final eir we request you adapt the eir and the procedures for which the eir was prepared comply with sequa the sequa guidelines that concludes my presentation. unless the commission members have any questions >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and members of the commission i'm assistant director of planning together those constitute the project for the muscone on howard between 3 and fourth street. since the commission heard the physical aspects

a brand that attracted many small business people, their customers and tourists to this small new york town's main street where flower power is still alive and well. ♪ >> if you go anywhere in america and say the word woodstock anywhere, somebody will relate to it. >> that's ricochet, the owner of this very small business here on the main street in woodstock, new york. >> woodstock is an idea, a vision, a dream of something different. it's not a physical structure. it's a cosmic idea. >> with a population of only 6,000 people, it may be a tiny town but woodstock's got a huge personality. a personality that many still associate with the woodstock music festival of 1969. >> it was about peace and music and love, the end of the vietnam war. >> michael lang should know. he was one of the organizers of that original festival. ♪ he's still a music festival producer and he still lives in woodstock. >> do you feel like the spirit of the festival still remans here in town today? >> yeah, to a degree, the spirit came from the town. >> woodstock has been a music and arts community since way befor

and the cost structure for chicago is $250 for small stores, and small stores being stores that have three or fewer point of sale systems. and chicago says you must not overcharge 4% of the item that

african-american the planning code to amend the third street restrictive use for the beefrn for the small beer licenses and so commissioners we don't have a presentation and the reason we don't have a presentation is actually in january you heard a previous amendment and made a previous recommendation you said type 1 but i consider falling within the perimeter to include beer manufacturing so it's an opportunity for the commission just to reaffirm this previous decision >> i have to say that third street corridor is going to be home to creativity breweries 51 do i think it's cool. so in the pretty much a no brainier and san francisco is now starting to get that beer san francisco is r is starting to be the epic center of 52 do >> magnolia is another one and i'm not hearing i've been traveling a lot and i've been hearing hearing about this in other cities like back to michigan everyone wants me to bring back a type of beer it's not sold there a lot. >> this is the corridor that is still though increasingly less so affordableable and it's become one of the draws for economic developing have

how did this iconic event affect small business culture in town? we'll find out on "your business." >>> small businesses are revitalizing the economy and american express open is here to help. that's why we are proud to present "your business" on msnbc. >> hi there, everyone. i'm j.j. ramberg. welcome to "your business." today we begin our ninth season of bringing you the stories, information, and advice to help you run a successful small business. this weekend all marks the 45th anniversary of the iconic woodstock music festival. an event that defined the '60s and the counter culture movement. the woodstock brand of peace, love, and happiness has stood the test of time. it's a brand that has attracted many small businesspeople, their customer, and, of course, tourists to this small new york town's main street where flower power is still alive and well. ♪ >> if you go anywhere in america and say the word woodstock, anywhere, somebody will relate to it. >> that's ricochet. he's the owner of this very small business here on the main street in woodsto

entertainment commission it's our policy our goal to make sure that small businesses like bars and clubs what about successful and provide ways for people to enjoy themselves safely and responsibly and co- exist with the community. the reason we want to see permits for any sort of venue for amazement days it gives us a mechanism to work with the bar. we get complaints about bars and a lot of times they don't have entertainment permits but if they have permits is for electronic darts or pool table we'll work with the bar because every permit has our good neighbor policy and that's a 13 points policy that that venue needs to comply with. so instead of the arcade being the problem we did not work with a venue to be a good neighborhood unless we have a permit if we didn't have a permit with the venue like someone that has one or two we couldn't work with them it's instead up to the abc or the police they didn't have the staffing that's our point to work with the different venues and places that offer entertainment so the neighborhood can continue to have a good time >> it seems like we use t

i rent a small business. it's hard to get credit in general and it's even harder for small business. lastly, many of the small businesses are part of the supply chain. i know we focus on small business but their part of the supply chain, part of spacex where congressman waters has in her district. there's a large supply chain, manufacture, boeing, ge. they don't make 100% of what to do. they are supply chain is full of small businesses that would also be impacted immediately. >> as a fiscal conservative idea all government spending with a skeptical eye. one of the things i say frankly it isn't this body's will to create jobs. rather, it's our role to create an environment that's conducive to job growth. you have developed that stability, give up that invited to stability and certainty, not shutting down the government, not fiscal cliff and sequestered and putting things like ex-im bank at risk. can you talk about some of that uncertainty and what was last year 200,000 jobs, what they could potentially be in t

bay area that flower mart is a lot of small business >> is this supervisor kim's district. >> yeah. we need to enlist the support of the supervisors. >> i was going to bring feel up those are small businesses being displaced we were going to take this up this is hearsay been there over one hundred years but what is the developer going to do those are small business owners who are wholesalers are wish basically going to be put out of business. >> they don't intend to give spaces. >> their though the making any promises. >> why not create a new business item. >> when we get to the new business i'll bring it up. seeing none, public comment is closed next item >> item 13 is general public comment. >> do we have any members of the public who want to make comments on future meetings seeing none, public comment is closed. item 14 new business >> i got some. >> okay. so on the heels of our conversation today i'd like to us to research and perhaps find a supervisor sponsor to repel the legislation that requires the registration for the po s licenses and to craft some kind of an enforcement m

small business loans. and just 7% of venture capital funding. the report also says that women own businesses are only being rewarded 4% of government contracts. media entrepreneur nellie galan is the founder of a group dedicated to empowering latinas in the u.s. she testified at the senate small business meeting about the gender gap in entrepreneurship. so great to see you, nellie. >> hi, j.j. so great to be here. i'm so excited to be on the senate floor and representing entrepreneurs and latinas. >> i know. >> on the senate floor. >> i know you do so much work for women and helping them with small businesses and entrepreneurships. so get down to the cause, what is the root of this? is that not enough women are applying for loans or they're getting turned down? >> i think it starts even before that, j.j. i think there's all these opportunities for women. there are the earmarked opportunities for women and women of color and latinas, but the government doesn't market those opportunities, nor do they -- do t

so, it's not a small thing to be messing with these people. >> what is the plan for the property? >> it has been sold. the first half -- the flower market has two market street, one traditionally known as the italian market which is in the front, and then in the back there is the traditional japanese market. the italian market has been sold to a developer to build offices. and this is -- this is a lot of vendors that are inside. and even though they're making comments about making sure that it won't get rid of the flower market -- as i say, this is an industry that is open every day that cannot afford interruptions to their industry. and, you know, as a major employer of middle class people in this town, they are very concerned because obviously no one was notified. none of the tenants -- >> it opens early, right? that represents a potential conflict where this industry meets residential and office -- well, is a residential development going to go in, mixed use? >> i don't know if it's mixed use or not. but as it is, for example, the parking area for the flower market is extremely

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lot so i'll propose to amend this alleviation >> supervisor kim i appreciate the concerns for the small businesses and the layers they've got to deal with you currently there are 82 locations in the city and i just don't building that a pinball machine is going to the barrier i don't think i don't think that's the protective 6 they're looking for . >> how much is the permit. >> $740 a one-time application fee and annually to continue to operate 3 hundred and 16 no matter florida i have one or 60. >> that's a significant cost. for two pinball machines or a donkey arcade machine foreperson that they have to come before the commission and if it gets appealed they have to go the board of appeals. i hear you this may not be the task certainly no bar has asked me to take this out of the planning code but that's an unnecessary process because time in and of itself is what it takes to file all the things and to know what all the permits are. so of them are a little bit important ridiculous this seems like like a clear one we can make it easier for the number of businesses you've listed to opera

it sounds like in this small business, you don't have that. >> no. been here so long and for so many stockholders and so many chiefs and not many indians. to make a decision, you need to make sure you sympathy he to everybody. >> and in a business that has so much nostalgia attached to it, it's not only the ideas of the shareholders they are behohlen to but also the customer who's have been coming for generations. >> when we take a ride out because it's past the time or we can no longer get parts for it or no longer profitable, we get complaints. customers say where are the little boats? i always rode the boats. >> brooks says his company is decidedly old school. pretty much by definition. but they're committed to keeping it alive and so are working with the board to make the changes needed to have an old school amusement business survive in this modern world. a clear example is the arcade. marty's playland. >> the biggest change is what the prizes the kids want. you know, now we got video games with ipads and itouches. that's what kids want to play.

and that includes everybody small businesses and large retail outlets. to date we've got less than 2 thousand let me explain. my instructions to the staff were you'll go out and you'll go out with this list and you'll inspector those businesses and if they interest have a po s they'll get a refund they'll have to apply but if they're not registered we'll delete them from the database that's how we're down to 2 thousand businesses from a corrupted file at the tax collectors that was bizarre. that's where we're at right now. you'll see the 39 percent of the businesses have one po s and two to three have more than that. so, now i go to the part where how much have we spent >> how much have we received. i'm not sure how many of you have experience hiring through the city but this was a new program and i have are a person to conspiracy and do the inspections i had all my staff. so we spent about 95 thousand 2 hundred plus up front on staff that was like half of a person and hiring of another half of year we brought in $68,000 and in 2012, we haven't hired eve