yes, commissioner zouzounis? >> congrats everybody. this is really exciting. again, i love seeing the second-third generation businesses. kids following their parents and grandparents legacy. my family has a deli and a store. when i hear stories people coming in talking about my grandparents and what they remember, that means a lot to me. congrats. >> thank you all for taking time out from your businesses to come here tonight. those of us small business owners up here know the commitment to come to city hall. so much appreciated. and congratulations. so do we have a motion? >> i motion that we approve beck's motor lodge, eddie's cafe, little joe's pizzeria and one twenty for hair legacy businesses. >> second. >> commissioner adams. >> yes. >> dooley. >> yes. >> cartagena is absent. >> torrance tour-sarkissian. >> yes. >> riley. >> yes. >> zouzounis. >> yes. >> that motion passes 6-0. [applause] >> now back to work. thanks a lot you guys. you can take off the rest of the meeting, not nearly as exciting as the legacy business stuff and it's our favorite part of

and i'll let commissioner zouzounis talk about this during director's report. with senator wiener, mayor lee and director rafael from department of environment for sb-458, which senator wiener sponsored. and it allows cal recycle to approve up to five local jurisdictions to develop a pilot program that would allow for new and innovative redemption and collection systems. so right now the way the law is written, [coughing] it's written as though, when there is an entity that triggers a convenience, there needs to be stationary recycling center. as san francisco, we have been moving away from stationary recycling centers and using our land use in that way. but what's happened, i think, and you all are very familiar with this, our small businesses have become the de facto recycling centers. so this will allow the city to develop a program, hopefully we will work with cal recycle, department of environment to make sure it's something they will approve and in doing something that will meet the requirements of the number of recycling centers that the state deems the

zouzounis. >> as director, you mentioned, we had a press conference earlier today and i spoke on behalf of the commission and also my role as a grocer in the community. i did heed the senator's office letting them know this is a very important first step but we still have a lot of work to do to hold the state accountable and to the bottle bill, amending the bottle bill, which currently mandates small stores to collect cans and bottles and out of pocket give back that c.r.v. value. it's been a big unnecessary burden on the retail industry and this is an important first step but we have a lot more work to do so there will be more updates on that. as another note, the cigarette litter abatement fee went up to 75 cents. i think just like the bottle bill amendment, this is a good highlight of how recycling and litter reduction type of legislation does fall onto the small business sector and is often not regarded as a burden but more as a general responsibility that falls on the specific sector, so i think it was a good example of bringing these fees to the surface. i hopefully like to talk a