model, investing the success of the business model. i would like to see the city making a corresponding investments. >> any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. of pay. this is an action item. can we have a motion for someone? >> i would like to move to support this change for the planning code. >> i would second that. >> we will take roll call on that. >> we have a motion to support recommendations. on that motion. [roll call vote] it passes unanimously. >> director? >> that is okay. >> we will move on to item number three, please. >> commissioners, you're a hot item number three, approval of the meeting minutes and exploratory documents. >> motion to approve the june 13 meeting minutes. >> i second. >> any objections? motion approved. next item. >> the general public comment. this allows members of the public to comment on matters within the commission's per view and suggesting of future consideration. live also like to remind members of the public that we have a bridge line that opened today. >> any public c

the u.s. small business administration. the small business administration covers not only san francisco proper but the bay area. the severed his third district is responsible for a business loan portfolio of 12,000 loans worth $4.2 billion. in 2009, the sba approved $500 million in lending. next, we have the executive director of the san francisco small business office. she was in san francisco in 1986 to open the buffalo exchange limited store, and in the 13 years she worked for buffalo exchange, tennis district manager, she held her open the company from four to 11 stores. in 2009, the mayor appointed her as executive director to the office of small businesses. next, we have the ceo of opportunity funds. he has combined his background as a community organizer with an education from stanford to develop an innovative, not-for- profit financial incision that uses market principles to affect systemic change. it operates one of the nation's largest individual development, programs, a leading provider of micro loans in californi

opening the business was a dream come true. hung up his shingle, he knew that the sledding would not pay for itself. >> the restaurant came about as a support system, financial support system for the dogs. >> it sounds a little crazy. support one financially risky business, dog sled rides, with another financially risky business, a restaurant. but that's exactly what dan did. >> i was too young and dumb to know better when i started that. and i had a lot of energy. >> a lot of energy was what it took. dan not only created the idea for the restaurant, he actually built it himself. >> a lot of these logs were put in not only by myself but help with a lot of other people along the way. a lot of love went into this place. >> that was all part of the plan. he could have supported the sledding doing something else, but that would have also been somewhere else. >> the restaurant made sense because i could do it here with the dogs. >> soon after it opened, the restaurant started doing exactly what it was meant to do -- generate cash. >

for the business sign. when you can have the sign on the awing and that is based on the square footage. >> and one more awning question and i know they have talked about new guidelines in businesses in our district. do you know whether or not that is possible for the corner stores? >> we are working on a survey of downtown to develop sign guidelines for the downtown district. i'm not aware for that district. >> you mentioned that you don't regulate the content of general advertising signs. i am wondering what is there threshold of language and somebody say this language offensive, substandard. >> no. issues have been raised with various clothing stores but in terms of actual regulation we don't regulate the content. >> obviously lines of profanity. >> it then might go to a police issue but we wouldn't regulate it. >> about the sign and the aliens and big brouhaha and the board of supervisors took it up. >> i don't have information on that. >> yeah. i think part of it - >> down by the market street and i will

talk about the restaurant and he's all business. m on the sled an everything he says clearly comes from the heart. >> this is where i find true freedom. >> reporter: which is why it was gratifying for dan when in the 1990s a funny thing started to happen. >> i had to scratch my head when it started to happen. >> reporter: suddenly the dogs started supporting the restaurant. after many years of the restaurant providing cash for sledding, things turned the other way. dan said he loves the dogs best but he woul never close the restaurant. >> to separate the two businesses out or get rid of one will hurt the other. that's why we are keeping them. >> one couldn't exist without the other -- or it would exist on a different scale, one i don't care to know about. >> reporter: taking the long view of the business, dan said he knows there is a cycle. at one point the restaurant may again support the dogs. and that's okay with him, as lo long as he gets to keep doing what he does best. >> okay, brody. good dog! >> reporter: to learn more about

we are reaching out to the business organizations to get a meeting on the books scheduled in late september or early october to begin to talk to small businesses in terms of what they can do to engage with the event authority or with america's cup. that is being worked on and the plan for the types of businesses, what is going to be needed, by that time, should be fairly well-defined, probably at the 500 foot level. but that we can start beginning to have the conversations about how they can become engaged with doing business. because the timing will be pretty quick once is done, trying to consolidate the number of presentations so that we maximize the number of businesses attending a meeting with getting this information out. i will be providing you with a list of the presentations as they get scheduled so that you are aware of that. if you know of any business organizations that are not on the list and need to be reached out to, then let me know. the nondiscrimination or prior arrest and conviction record, he led the presentation last month with a hearing on july 25. only a couple busines

surveys completely debunk the party line that business is the culprit the business the surveys show that businesses are most worried about demand you know unless you're in a business that benefits from a terrible economy and there are some you know tailors for example are doing gangbuster business right now unless you're one of those businesses that's countercyclical countercyclical you don't have good prospects and you don't have any confidence that the economy is going to get better any time soon why don't you stick your neck out and hire people well i think that's a great question then but so than you know why would a businesses stick their neck out and start hiring right now no matter how many calls there are for them to please stop sitting on all the cash that they're holding you know it's interesting how it seems like they've switched spots of the american people who used to be the ones that are saving and now it's the businesses that are saving because until recently consumer spending it didn't actually fall into what was a junior in july. that's correct i mean the what it has

in the small business just started that has been the recipient along with some 27 other small businesses that have worked really hard to get to a place where they can be and allow the city to contribute and help. we did not hear a lot of times -- we hear a lot of complaints about how the city has not been doing things, but thanks to our small business commission, which is here today, and they're wonderful work and their director who has been advising me on a number of fronts -- their wonderful work and their director who has been advising me on a number of fronts, and supervisor wiener, who had a chance to open up a farmer's market in glen park with me yesterday. we never do it alone. whenever our city is working together, we have to find people who know how to communicate with small businesses, drill down to what they need, and then work with our policy makers like the small business commission and their staff, but really help in figuring out what it is that a limited amount of money -- and it is really limited when you are only talking about $680,000 in very tight economic times -- to

to support the business. also, they relied on home equity lines of credit, which in many cases do not exist anymore, also as a source for financing their business. as far as doing public contracting, one thing about public contract in that you can count on is the city of san francisco will stay in business and pay its debt, just later than you would like it to be. when you're doing public contract thing, if you will, cash cycle -- when you do the work and when you get paid is something you have to factor into your understanding of capital needs. so you have to figure that into the process. usually, that is figured into the pricing. but it is also the case that would you also probably need is a line of credit. depending on whether you feel your credit situation is where you want to go to a bank like wells fargo or another regulated bank, and line of credit, or work for a working- capital type of loan, which is something you look to do, the opportunity fund. you probably want to try both avenues. as far as your

the purpose of this amendment is to align what we are asking of businesses with how the city is approaching this issue. we cannot ask businesses to do more than what we as a city or doing. i think it is important to be consistent, and we heard that comment from businesses, and we want to make sure that about address that. so the amendment that you have before you, in our view, is an amendment that strikes the right balance between the concerns that have been raised and the reamount here is we have a small minority of businesses taking advantage of the loophole. the intent of the order nabs was to provide health care, to make sure that health care was actually available to these workers. the reality is that right now you have a small percentage of businesses that are taking advantage of this loophole. many of these businesses are asking consumers to pay extra. we saw the copies of all the receipts in many of the restaurants that are asking consumers to pay more, and we know now from the office of labor standards and enforcement that 80% of that money is actually money that is never spent on

to remain in the neighborhood, and as well as the business doing a lot of really strong community work as well and supporting neighborhood artists in neighborhood youth, providing a lot of work -- organizing with merchants in the area to help finalize the corridor, to me it makes a lot of sense that we can approve this license. i would like to, if you are ok to move it forward rec recommendation. the committee report at the next board meeting. we can take that without objection. ok. thank you for your work. we will see you soon. if you could please call item no. 3. >> item 3, resolution authorizing the department of public health to submit a one- application for calendar year 2012 to continue to receive funding for the comprehensive hiv prevention programs grant from the centers for disease -- disease control and prevention program. requesting $8 million in hiv prevention funding for san francisco from january 1, 2012, through december 31, 2012. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. >> i am the deputy director of hiv prevention for the sent

this is the first alto music i opened when i was 24. my businessing music into people's hands. letting someone discover how great music is, is just an awesome thing. and the plum card from american express open helps me do that. i use it for as much inventory as i possibly can. from picks...to maracas... to drums... to dj equipment... you name it, i can buy it. and the savings that we get from the early pay discount on those purchases has given us money to reinvest back into our business and help quadruple the size of our floor space. and the more we expand, the more space we have for instruments and musicians to come play them.

i suggested they contact the office of small business. i would like to put out there that this is such a great opportunity to highlight san francisco. and then my one take away from the meeting was, wouldn't it be great if we had some outlet in china, and we have an office dedicated to working with china sf. china sf has been an initiative that works with large businesses but there is no reason they could not also -- our small businesses and small local manufacturers could not develop some kind of out what in china, particularly as china is developing and interested in things american. >> commissioner adams: next item? >> the general public comment. >> commissioner adams: seeing none,. >> want to -- i want to extend an invitation to you. they are interested in finding out what the city is doing in regard to small businesses. i will be meeting with them at 9:30 a.m. to review what we're doing to promote small business. i invite you to attend this meeting. it is in room 201 at city hall. >> commissioner adams: is there a motion to adjourn? >

but regard to the first one, the posting of the business. they concurred the posting was done adequately. from abc's did you, that is not off the table. it has to be posted with a sign similar to the planning department sign come in has to be in place for 80 days. they are satisfied that has been at. the next one that is more difficult to nail down is the 500 ft mailer. abc requires for this type of license that people do a 500 ft mailer. the required that they provide abc a list of all the people mailed, and then it is up to the applicant to do the mailer and send it out in signed affidavits that they follow through on that. in this case, there were community people that believe it was not done adequately, and based on their audit, and i am sure they will speak to it today, that it was not done adequately. in my opinion they came up with a reasonable solution, and the remedy where it stands today is abc has said they will accept our test for any person regarding the application at any point in time. as opposition goes out to the community an

update on a department programs and announcements regarding the small business activities. just to note the legislative spreadsheet is included with the report. >> commissioners, starting out with the small business assistance center i have our numbers from july 2010 ended july 2011. we're down a boat are 8% increase. and we want to let you know that i am waiting authorization from the comptroller's report before it can post to the position but expect to be able to do that in december. next month we will recognize two intern who have worked in our office. we want to alert you to that. i also want to discuss the point of sale fee for electronic scanners. that has been in the news. i think we have a series of discussions for the 2011 budget. we had caught this fee. we were able to work very quickly within one week's time to minimize the fee on small businesses and to have that be more proportional. so, i have a note in here on how we changed it to note that this is the modification, what we were the only county in the bay area that did not have such a fee, it is the lowest out

, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. experts like to live in amsterdam, and is accessible from all parts of the world. it is also very important case of cycling. what irony said, 2.2 million and happens, but the last line may be the most important, about 120 kilometers per day traffic jams. that is qu7?) a lot. this distance is not more than 25k. we have a real problem. that is not good for business. for us, it is active transport, really important as a solution for being accessible. ok, does it work? yes. this is the city. at the red lines, these are the congestion. this is the pattern of workers who go to work in the morning and in the afternoon. most of the workers come from outside of the city of amsterdam. they come mostly by car, but also a big part from public transport. what was the conclusion of all the businesses? if we go on like this, we have a real big problem in one, two years, maybe a little bit longer, we will not have any mobility anymore in our own region.

i focus on financial regulation and a small business owner. the consumer financial protection bureau has only limited and regimely indirect connections to small business finance with three limited exceptions. the cfpb's is restricted to consumer financial products. while small businesses use products like perm credit cards for business transactions, small business owners need, deserve, and want the same protections on their financial products whether it's personal or business use. thus, the national of small business association advocated for extending truth in lending act protections to small business credit cards. now, there's only two ways the cfpb effects small business lending. first, it requires the cfpb to collect data. this is to ensure against discriminatory lending in the small business space. the data requirement imposes limited cost on lenders, but provides an important protection for small businesses, particularly those owned by women and people of color. more regimely though, there's authority over almost all service providers, large