commissioner wu: tess wellborn? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am with the haight ashbury neighborhood council. your definition of financial institution should be broader than banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. there is much more amalgamation going on in the financial industry and things are getting bored. i would prefer you to have a broader definition. -- things are getting blurred. financial institutions wreck the local and national economy and demanded bailouts. the privatized profits and what the profit to -- the public to pay the bill. visito-- they want the public ty the bill. visitors do not need more change or starbucks. residents want local, diverse businesses and business districts. they do not want identical strip malls from area to area. we want to have small business owners, as many as we can live in san francisco pay taxes and spend their money and their time here. they did not shift their profits out of town. -- do not ship their profits out of town. i would say keep the sales and service language in there for now unti

. >> tess wellborne. a somewhat tired person. a couple of things on the report. the list that i see and hear includes a large number of institutions to are by definition nnot neighborhoods. i suggest you find a way to address that one way or another. second, i am curious about leaving out communities of interest. because there are many discussions related to that. i can see advantages and disadvantages to it. but i flag it as a possible sticky wicket, especially because some of them got pretty sensitive. thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. thank you, all, for public comment on i am number4. moving to 5. the number are there any member reports? hearing none, and public comment on member records? moving to item number six, public comment on items not agenda. i wasn't going to be here tonight, but i decided i probably could not sleep if i did not know the changes you made. the two blocks on halliday plaza that you took out of 6 into 3, no objection to the second block on the eastern half of the western bloc that had over 100 people, that is because the an west sro. thre

and tess wellborn and catherine petrin. >> i am the manager of the mattress co. and i am on the board of the hayes valley labour association. -- never association -- neighborhood association. we do urge you to approve this, we echo what russell just said. hayes valley has transformed itself over the last two years, largely through sole proprietorships and any businesses. not only with the hayes valley be threatened visually and esthetically by the addition of financial institutions, but in addition, these institutions, when they come into neighborhoods frequently cause commercial rents to rise in the neighborhood which is also threatening to the individual and unique character of the we very much urge you to support this measure for us. thank you. commissioner wu: next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i own true sake or i have been doing business for almost a decade, quite proud of that. i'm here to speak to you