commissioner yee riley, yes. commissioner tour-sarkissian , yes. >> it is unanimous for commission dwight as our new president. >> thank you very much. >> moving on to item no. 2 is election of officers, small business commission vice president. in accordance with the commission's rules of order, article 2, section 3, the election of the vice president shall occur at the regular meeting of the commission in january of each year. the vice president shall serve a term of one year and shall be elected upon vote of the commission. and the same procedures follow in terms of nominations. >> okay. >> all right? >> we have a nomination for vice president. >> i nominate commissioner white. >> i will second that nomination. >> commissioners, since we do have a commissioner who is nominated and not present i have confirmed with the city attorney that the commission may go ahead and take action should they desire. >> have we confirmed her willingness to do so? >> yes, she is at an emergency. >> we would like to take public c

commissioner yee-riley, here. commissioner tour-sarkissian, here. and commission monetta white has an excused absence. . >> item no. 2 is general public comment. this allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the commissionary purview and suggest new agenda items for the commission's future consideration. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on items that are not on today's agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item no. 3 is introduction to the new small business development director angel cardoz and we have him here today. >> welcome. >> first off let me say thank you for allocating the time and the invitation for me to introduce myself. my name is angel cardoz and as of jar january 5th i am the new director for the san francisco small business development center. if you are not familiar with the program, the program is dined to help entrepreneurs both start and expand businesses by providing one on one consulting and business training. business training ra

commissioner yee-riley, here. commissioner

commissioner yee riley, yes. commissioner tour-sarkissian, yes. all right, so that passes 6-0. >> great. >> next item, please. >> item no. 9 --. >> go away, dan. >> a presentation on the planning commission small projects team. thank you, kanishka, for being here. the planning department has established a team of planners dedicated to small projects only. this is something director rand just announced to the commission yesterday. i thought we would take the opportunity, since mr. sider is here, to have him present to the commissioner on this. >> what's going around is not pleasant. thank you again, commissioners. for the record, dan sider with the planning department. i promise to be quick this time, commissioners, i have 5 slides. i'm here just to give you, as your executive director reported, a very brief update on the planning department small project team and like everything else coming out of our shop these days, this, too, has an acronym. so let's talk about the sprot >> you guys are creative. >> commissioners, the sprot is a program that's

. >> commissioner yee riley. >> i want to know if you have an outreach plan for this new program. >> we don't have a plan yet because it's just a proposal but i think what i'm hearing today is we will. we will develop one, we have an in house information team, if you will, that we're going to put to use. once we are getting toward approval of this, should that be the planning commission's desire, we will absolutely do that. >> and when would planning hear this? >> the thursday, the intent, president adams, is to hear this not this thursday, not next thursday but the following thursday. i'm not sure of the date offhand. the 12th, maybe? >> do you want to take public -- any more questions before we take public comment? do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on item no. 8? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve? >> i move. >> so, commissioners, i know that commissioner dooley had made a comment. so if we take a motion right now to approve it as is and i can add that some commissioners had some concerns around the alcohol or i