services in city hall and the business portal then i want to let you know that working with the department of environment again the recycling issue is coming up again with the closer of the recycling center at safeway another market street one hundred and 17 small businesses are in that convenient zone will now be impacted we are in terms of having to now do the buy back for recycling so i think what we're looking at is there creative solutions that can come up i think we as a city our policy sdishgsz are the transit first were moving away from you know we've continuously reducing the off-street parking eventually places i imagine that viewing like the example of market street safeway that those sites will eventually be developed and so we will be you know even if the recycling center was there and retained over a period of time those places are going to turnover and be developed and removal for off-street parking for the recycle centers or buy back so i think there are things that are happening within san francisco not only for the small businesses in

and the office of small business to share they're planning it will not interrupt the small business. >> what was the context of the - what in what stent a they'll plan in what context. >> the context is coming from the quarterly meeting with the mayor and again talking about the infrastructure projects the mayor encouraged different members those that are interested from that group to meet with the different departments and bart is one of the entities that government entity that deals with infrastructure that the city interfaces or businesses interface with so scott has been setting up the meetings

president, we have quorum thank you well, welcome to tonight meeting so the first order of business on the agenda is general public comment this allows mustaches to comment generally on matters within the commissions purview and suggest new items are there any new items for consideration >> scott president of the small business commission california. >> hi scott. >> how you doing small business commission along with the federation of the and the handsomely has the ab 1280 what it does basically give a one-day tax holiday on small business right after thanksgiving for your information the tax state tax is 7 and a half cents and san francisco is 8 so san francisco tax on another quarter percent what the hope is that if this passes the state that we can get local jurisdiction the legislation does not require a local jurisdiction to wave the tax that would be a problem if they didn't do it so the idea is to promote small business they're doing something similar in florida it is pending working its way through the system we think this is a good statement to assist small businesses we are aw

experience you see for all the businesses and from there a list of businesses across the country almost every business in san francisco is listed on the google maps those are the maps to do the outreach to businesses that's primarily where we find the businesses and do classes wisconsin i taught one this morning through the chamber. >> the first thing through the chamber and the golden state association we're doing those every other month for the nonprofits we don't have small businesses to if you have suggested or want to come or organize one reach out to us i'd love to add anyone else ever you thank you. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> on the languages i need to get back you with on the answer by the way if not we should be. >> okay. >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena. >> yeah. i want to express i'm excited i'm from the mission district i know that rebecca you've reached out to our community i'm excited what you'll bring thank you for your presentation and the work in the future. >> all right. thank you all for coming out tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commiss

>> 'cause the recipes belong to the business, right? e only thing we can do is leave and start all over again. >> there's been a lot of work that went into getting things up to this level, and the research and other things that we've done to make these recipes, to have to-- >> i think that's our last option. >> i mean, that would be the last thing i'd want to do. >> there may be something. article three is the capitalization of the company. what it allows for is, it allows for additional capital to come in and for a shareholder to be diluted if they're not able to put in money at the same rate as the other shareholders. if he's not able to put money in at the same rate as you are, then his share gets diluted. does that make sense to you guys? >> mm-hmm. >> so he's not gonna have us backed into a corner. >> no, he will not. we'll be able to keep the name. we'll be able to keep the recipes. he'll have a small percentage of equity... but it's better than us having to change everything. >> that's the lesser of the evils. >> i'll get ahold of

and the office of small business to share they're planning it will not interrupt the small business. >> what was the context of the - what in what stent a they'll plan in what context. >> the context is coming from the quarterly meeting with the mayor and again talking about the infrastructure projects the mayor encouraged different members those that are interested from that group to meet with the different departments and bart is one of the entities that government entity that deals with infrastructure that the city interfaces or businesses interface with so scott has been setting up the meetings there's been a meeting with dph and different meetings? a meeting with bart to have general discussion and they also provided a presentation on a better bart which i mean will likely schedule if not urgent but schedule that you're aware of the bart scheduled projects that they're working on. >> and also, they mentioned that the affair only covered 75 percent of their costs so in new york their central station underground lots of restaurants and shops and that yes, i did. >> a lot of revenu

the first legislation and i hope this is a friendly audience we're going to try to protect the small businesses i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> sxhamd. >> i love this this is the left and this is long, long overdue and it reminds me of what happened at films in south of market you have all those new housing going up and especially in the south of market area if you look at the condos the special treatment district and clubs are still being shut down this is long overdue an awesome piece of legislation it will help cafe north that brings a lot of for the purpose into the neighborhood an thursday and friday and saturday night they go to the other businesses around there this is very good i can't thank supervisor breed and supervisor wiener enough because this is something i impersonal feel is long offer dewey have my support. >> thank you commissioner dooley. >> yeah. i want to echo what he said which was this is a great piece of legislation it seems fair for both sides of the issue i really applaud you for coming up with such a full solution i like you guys (laughter). >> and i like th

that the business! >> no, i'm done arguing with you. >> he spent so much money building the most opulent dealership i have ever seen that now he can't afford to buy cars or pay bills. if i can't stop the wasteful spending... what'd you spend on these walls? >> $100,000. >> wow. and sell some cars... >> i won't sell it. that car's worth 30 all day. >> athans motors will be out of business. my name is marcus lemonis. i fix failing businesses. this month you lost $150,000. i make tough decisions... you're not gonna come behind every single person and change the deal. >> i didn't agree to this [bleep]. >> and i back them up with my own cash. if you're not gonna put your pride away, well, then i'm not gonna do the deal. it's not always pretty. >> are you okay? >> end it. >> but this is business. you gotta trust the process. i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. >> that's all you. >> yeah, buddy. this the profit. [hip-hop music] ♪ 10 miles outside of my hometown of chicago, located in morton grove,

costs the different types of businesses experience in san francisco versus others cities in the san francisco bay area how much for labor or office space and how much to pay for taxes in terms of what the survey said those are the 3 points the businesses pointed to a difficulty of finding releasing that is probably since this research observations of labor costs were high and the this is sdouj job creation and also difficulties related to business taxes and things came out of survey when we look at the numbers ourselves we found that labor costs are the biggest between alternative locations that a business might stick within the bay area we didn't compare san francisco to metropolitan areas or move to a metropolitan area in texas it maybe cheaper but not all the benefits in terms of the workforce and the quality of life and everything else but if you move to other places in the bay area looking at how san francisco ranged compared to other places in the bay area was important in general san francisco and places are the high cost places a

commission teaspoons with the small business portal and the starting businesses we need to address rising real estate costs and the lack of space in the city this is an issue the commission knows there will be a robust discussion and we need to be focused on the local serving industries and particularly not only pdr but your local small businesses in the commercial coordinator e corridor as ted was shoving we're under performing the commission has deny done a great job of supporting our local busy this is about our infrastructure capacity 3 goes without saying the importance of motorcycling people not only in the supply but in and out of the city and considerations for moving the employees and consumers late at night as well and finally the four conclusions of economic strategy that continue to be true to continue to strengthen our infrastructure and the direction and the transportation and the pdr industries we need to continually up to date the tourism is a key desire of the city's economy and retain our larger sector companies because they're not just providing strong emp

that are a front for illegal activity over the last 20 years my business and i have received prescriptions from care from the health care provider and specialists and physical therapists and others we provide a valuable real service keeping san francisco pain free i understand the importance of him trafficking and prostitution i'm asking for the legislation to separate logically from legitimate businesses as the ordinance is written that is intent to stop illicit businesses to graft the issues of human trafficking without putting the hardship an legitimate businesses such as the city does for mental health workers and other providers thank you. >> thank you hello, i'm jennifer the owner of the massage and bodywork in selma we've been this since 2003 and employ administrative assistant and others like my colleagues, we had a difficult time finding the right locates and obviously went through the liability chaendz we've even let our massage establishment go when it came up with a new policy all the therapists are certified we hope that again, we have more ti

was followed up on i saw it right now some will contest to and based on it, it's noting about the business but passive i know it's hard to see in the at any rate e heat of it all in the past couple of years it's predictable and going to happen i guarantee you. >> the plain clothes is under quite a bit of change the flagship and 2 hundred commercial feet. >> that's it any questions for me. >> nope. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> outlook we're here from the permit holder. >> good evening, commissioners i say hold off permit i'm appeal as i mentioned on my briefly i used to own a small cafe an 6th and microsoft a small cafe i run it for 2 years and 2 months because of new ownership on that place and the lack of lease i lost it i tried to open up a small business i xrernsdz in that east bay i tried to apply for a hotdog permit so i go through all the process and i did all the city requirement and did everything by codes and we send notices through the residential and commercial and 3 hundred radius so the only we get objections is mr. demetri was the only person that objected about the thing s

and we're also asking that the small business commission hold a hearing to determine if they meet the following criteria the business has operated in san francisco for for 30 years or more that the business has contributed to the neighborhood history and or the identity of a police a particular neighborhood or community and that the that the business was founded or currently how head quartered in san francisco we're also asking the small business commission to survey legacy businesses and the legacy business program and to make recommendations to this board of supervisors in a way we can provide assistance support and education and we want that report to be presented to us by by september 30th so with that, i make a motion to amend the ordinance along the lines that i described and i believe that copies of the amended language have been provided. >> okay. supervisor campos has made a motion to to make amendments seconded by supervisor cohen and without objection the amendment has passed and you are aware this is now a first reading for approval. >> that is correct. >> madam clerk can

in fact from the business community interest goes back decades with our ongoing concern that you don't tax job creation. you tax economic success and although the city is limited -- cities and counties are lipted in california on the income side gross receipts is as close as we can get to a tax structure that allows us to tax economic activity and growth rather than jobs and certainly in this economy now when we made other steps to move job creation forward even with the payroll tax in place this is going to be a great transition as businesses look at their tax liabilities under the payroll tax transition the remaining four, and five years to a full gross receipts tax. supervisor christensen here today and members of the mayor's staff and the tax collector's office and the controller's office that really made this possible during years of work, research and many, many months two years ago of negotiations that lead to the successful ballot measure so it's our pleasure representing part of the business community to be here and now the manufacturing community. >> so kate sous executive di

there's $250,000 for 75% of the business. rk to do. >> mm-hmm. >> actually, all three of us do. it's hard to run two businesses at once, so we're gonna need to divide and conquer. both of you need to keep a laser focus on your specific areas. michael, i want you working exclusively on the gym, and tina exclusively on the food line. it's the only way we're gonna be successful. let's get to work. >> let's do it. >> all right? >> thank you, marcus. thank you very much. [exciting music] ♪ >> morning, guys. i wanted to bring everybody together to kind of give you guys an update on what happened yesterday. i made a deal with michael, and the deal is i agreed to put up $250,000. michael and i will be partners. i'll own 75%. michael will own 25%, and i will be completely in charge. i make all of the decisions. the $250,000 will go towards building a new, state-of-the-art lifestyle facility that will give us what i believe is going to be a one-stop shop environment. we're gonna find a new, larger facility that can accommodate not only

neighborhoods or community the business is committed to cvs the features that define the business and that there's a fee involved and the other item initially the legislation has a june 30th date in which the commission was to develop a legacy business program and registry application criteria this is now been extended to september 30th. >> yeah. >> so because of time we will get into the timeline at the next meeting and i also want to inform you that i've been in discussion with mike buehler from sf heritage the hell man family fund i believe we've jointly piloted through sf heritage but that is a joint partnership with sf heritage office of small business and the family fund to apply for a grant to help do some of the research analysis programming defining to help us with that so we'll see if we get it and it will you know ♪ doing so moot our timeline oh and lastly i should say i'm so sorry i did talk to the historic i made a presentation to the historic preservation commission and the historic preservation commission has a committee that is now taking a look at another cultural leg

jon: not so much the business of george osborne. ling, ica stronger pound and, is the more important one the euro-sterling? >> the euro is the major trading partner and what is important for exports is to look to the fast-growing markets around the globe and there are measures the government can take to address that. you look at that and we are uncompetitive in the eu. it should see us half more fast-growing reach into the emerging markets and have medium-sized businesses have the ambition to move to the capital and other fast-growing markets. jon: it is heated around the immigration topic. we can talk about it becoming an issue for businesses. >> we think they should scrap the target and look at raising the levels on the skilled visas. we know immigration is one of the driving forces and a lot of british businesses have skills as a real challenge. immigration is part of the skill shortages. jon: i have asked a british ceo and for the budget and the federal reserve, i asked the question and he said yellen. for the markets, it is ster

revenues that define the small business. the ocie does define small business with caps of $2 million for professional services. $7 million to suppliers and $14 million for construction services. now, i also have placed on the screen the definition of ownership and control and also licensing. what's common with a lot of certification programs and before i talk about that, i do want to preface by saying that ocie no longer certify small businesses but for many of the certification programs is what's looked at by governmental entities and other parties from small businesses whether a local business, minority or female business. what's looked at are the aspect of local control and operating the firm which is something that the former redevelopment agency have practiced as well. since we no longer certify businesses, what we have done is accept the certification activity of other governmental entities. again, based on the principles of ensuring ownership and control. what is different with many of the certification programs betwee

and i want them to be able to run the entire business. means understanding things like work flow and cash flow. and i don't sense that from him. coming up... >> frank, no one knew you ordered this. you're supposed to give me the p.o.s. what are you missing? >> you look a little stressed. >> i'm tired of frank. >> that [bleep]'s gonna stop. xç >> let's start moving the tables down. and then if we can move this over-- >> there's a number of key things that we need to do to improve the process, which ultimately improves profitability. the first thing we need to do is shrink the floor space. i can save at least $5,000 a month, $60,000 a year. >> well, put it this way. >> put it that way? >> yeah, it can't go that way. go down more. >> we also need to reconfigure all the equipment, so we can maximize production. >> but now it's going to flow. it's gonna flow from that side into here, and around into the packaging area that'll be over here, and then out the door. at least 25 to 30% more efficient. >> more production. >> definitely more producti

the nonprofit sector and our effort to support sort the small businesses through the small business commission we need to accommodate new jobs and businesses particularly over the long term in the central selma and waterfront we need to insure we're supporting the local industry with the corridors as well as the pdr sectors so that's again 5 more pdr plan and the investment in the neighborhood on transportation and infrastructure obviously it the critical the economy relies on the transportation network we need that to be competitive finally 4 conclusion in the last economic strategies we need to continue to invest in the pdr sector and continue to upgrade our tourism and retain large companies in san francisco we've seep that there is a big change since 2007 and continue to support startups one more point supervisors that economic strategy was not designed how to address those all those challenges but designed to look at the transformation 80 transportation to workforce development fits into the timeframe for you supervisors particularly as the budget season come up and evaluate th

was closed if they're saying hey, you can't park here we want to have the access to the businesses let's suspend parking when we do the street sweeping to have clean lanes without taking away from parking thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm here on behalf of a woman that wrote this letter but to support our letters. >> i'm sorry are you maurice. >> hi, everybody i'm maurice (laughter). >> the woman that wrote this letter is john an i'm reading here letter points to make videotape made february 2, '75 p.m. rush hour notice a kind cars. >> muni and corporate buses and heavy vehicles and bikes and motorized obscurity and tourists and the volume is from overflow on van ness avenue and the how 101 this is not going to get better on worse with the opening of 3:00 p.m. st. hospital on endearing and van ness it is difficult to safer everyone 0, however you should do any environmental impact report before making decisions related to the bike lanes and other restrictions address residents concerned and w wid

that $500,000 will give me 40% of the business. lynn and norton will still own 60% of the business. invest in a business, i look for three things -- people, process, and product. in this particular business, i absolutely love the people. i love the product. i don't think i've had better barbecue ever. but what i don't love is the process. most people would think that the obvious solutions to shuler's making more money would be to open up another day. but i'm not willing to do that until i know that the three days that we're operating are perfect. i want to improve high food costs, not processing the customers quick enough, not having the seating be right. i want to add a manager to lessen the burden on lynn and norton. when we go through this process, i'm 100% in charge. norton: i'd like to thank all of y'all for what you do. it is because of y'all that we get where we are. lemonis: let's bring it all in the middle, south carolina style. all: one, two, three, shuler's! lemonis: let's go to work! [ applause ] the first order of business is understanding what shuler's food costs actua

the between both piece of legislation >> that's with the small business commission. >> the small business commission i think a majority of concerns were being addressed in terms of what needs to help the city and dph in terms of dealing with enforcement the fact that because the city was not allowed to require an establishment permit for establishments that had cam tech assisted therapists was what created that the commission p is - getting a permit to operate is required for many bayshore's you know for restaurant many, many businesses the faxing fact that the state didn't chose to be with dental or medical offices they don't get a permit to operate but inspections for health and safety; right? that wasn't put in with the first state legislation so the state repassed it and now the state is able to do that we're in support of that where the commission has a great concern we're sdugd the conditional use as a blanket requirement because of the illicit operators and not to say we need to not to deal with them we need to deal with them the commissions purview is about foster small businesses

he says this is a terrible name for the business. call it something closer to magic or art. he has been talking about this for the past 30 years. it is something we wish to show in a wonderful platform like the smithsonian. cory: i read this great piece where he talked about -- started to think about this. he said so much of our modern history is written in code, the very details of our history are in the moments of code. they are disappearing and not being saved. it will be lost forever if we don't capture now and celebrate them. are they anything to look at? are they inspiring like art should be? >> algorithms are nothing new. we have one of the oldest in the world on loan from columbia. it is carved an old babylonian cuneiform tablet. it is beautiful. it describes how to calculate a square root. the babylonians did not see a distinction between these initial algorithms is underlying truths of the universe and a deity. they saw this as something above us from a higher power. the algorithms have a wonderful power. the technologists

person that runs the business and not yours i know there is confusion about the various requirement but this is the land use control with the cu and that will fall upon the person that operates the establishment i'll be happy to answer any questions but this is i know the offer arching concern we have obviously is regarding human trafficking i'm fully aware that us putting those controls in place will not solve the problem i have human trafficking but i think there are components of going through a cu requirement that allows for neighborhood awareness and certification and some input from the community this is what it is used as a tool i hope to get our support moving forward i know there is so many more work and nonprofits parntsz, etc. i hope that your commissioners can see why this is a valuable tool to us a in particular situation if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> okay. thank you supervisor tang for the sake of time any direct questions for the supervisor. >> commissioner richards. >>

the businesses taking advantage of this does not meet the requirement of the health department tier and most of businesses if not all when they come before the health department there's been uncertified people working driver's license i believe the 2003 ordinance the city passed is working san francisco all sex workers in massage is victims and not arresting or up holding employees looking at the owners however, the c mc will take action against the holders now we're getting information from the county i'm concerned as are the certified professionals and business owners that the proposals will take that county and city backwards - >> thank you. >> all right. >> thank you very much i'm adam gordon essentially i'm a massage therapy person in the city of san francisco we'reer all for the cohesive structure in san francisco the ccii process to august is not fair nor effective you'll see a number of the businesses with severe violations went through the process successfully it if seem to work and organized criminals are well funded and small businesses can't it takes a long time to go thr

open in the in case of time before they started with the legislation if i hadn't gotten my business from an january 31st i wouldn't be able to stand her pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. practice it would cut me out to go through the practice of getting a conditional use authorization i'm a sub letter as most people don't work full time i can't rent the office for the entire time and i'm not authorized to ask for a conditional use authorization permit i have to have a public hearing and shoulder the burden that is not something i'll have permission to do that many landlords dismiss that out of hand they don't want the negative respondent he conditional use is associated with strip clubs and adult entertainment the list if include acupuncture or parking garages that are not subject to conditional use please take into consideration i paid just to get my business permit in the department of building inspection and planning i paid over 13 hundreds just to get that through alone i'm doing that bans a state is certification i'm looking a