commissioner zouzounis? >> commissioner zouzounis: thank you. thank you, everyone for coming and giving that testimony. i used to work in the valencia street location with mission graduates, and i like how you connect with the community and give fundraisers, that business and stuff. that's a really great project you have going on. for the maritime stuff, i'm someone who row manticizes the labor industry of our waterfront, so i like that you're continuing that and you're preserving our economic piece of that legacy in our city. i work in imports, so i -- we -- we need to reenactivate our portion in our dimensions, so i appreciate you guys being there. >> president adams: commissioner ortiz? >> commissioner ortiz-cartagena: for being in the mission, i want to thank the mission graduates for the resources and the need to do so. you changed a lot of lives in the neighborhood, so thank you. >> president adams: any other comments? commissioner dwight? >> vice president dwight: thank you both for going through the process, too. i know richard's a great

of small businesses like ted's market which her family has owned for three generationssot miriam zouzounisno on proposition e: "the day to day purchases that keeps these businesses open are small cash value, your regular customers, if the auto mechanic across the street has a 15 minute break and if we don't have his chewing tobacco or pack of smokes, he is not going to come in and buy the rest of the stuff, the drinks, the sandwiches that keep our doors open">in fact according to proposition e tabacoo proposition e according to in fact open">keep our doors sandwiches that keep our doors open">in fact according to proposition e tabacoo retailers would be prohibited from selling any flavored tabacoo products including menthol cigarettes. zouzonis says instead of banning these products the city should try enforcing the laws already in place to prevent minors from buying sotmiriam zouzounis/no on proposition e: "the 96% compliance rate these stores have discussed. we are willing to work on that process of youth abatement and health access, my ask is just use the mechanisms you have in place">

of small businesses like ted's market which her family has owned for three generationssot miriam zouzounis/no on proposition e: "the day to day purchases that keeps these businesses open are small cash value, your regular customers, if the auto mechanic across the street has a 15 minute break and if we don't have his chewing tobacco or pack of smokes, he is not going to come in and buy the rest of the stuff, the drinks, the sandwiches that keep our doors open">in fact according to proposition e tabacoo retailers would be prohibited from selling any flavored tabacoo products including menthol cigarettes. zouzonis says instead of banning these products the city should try enforcing the laws already in place to prevent minors from buying themsotmiriam zouzounis/no on proposition e: "the 96% compliance rate in id'ing that these stores have is also not being discussed. we are willing to work on that process of youth abatement and health access, my ask is just use the mechanisms you have in place">voters will soon have their chance to weigh in...proposition e is on the june 5th ballot...in san f

of small businesses like ted's market which her family has owned for three generationssot miriam zouzounisposition e: "the day to day purchases that keeps these businesses open are small cash value, your regular customers, if the auto mechanic across the street has a 15 minute break and if we don't have his chewing tobacco or pack of smokes, he is not going to come in and buy the rest of the stuff, the drinks, the sandwiches that keep our doors open">in fact according to proposition e tabacoo retailers would be prohibited from selling any flavored tabacoo products including menthol cigarettes. zouzonis says instead of banning these products the city should try enforcing the laws already in place to prevent minors from buying themsotmiriam zouzounis/no on proposition e: "the 96% compliance rate in id'ing that these stores have is also not being discussed. we are willing to work on that process of youth abatement and health access, my ask is just use the mechanisms you have in place">voters will soon have their chance to weigh in...proposition e is on the june 5th ballot...in san francisco h

. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you for the presentation. it makes me feel proud to be part of the small business community. i think we can continue to be that advocate. let the supervisors know that they cannot keep passing anti-retail legislation without applying the same regulatory logic to e-commerce or big box retailers and not understanding our context. the most important piece of this is the context, who you are, be the different forces at play. we need to keep providing that. and we need to echo our fellow commissioners. we need to be that vehicle. let's continue to work together and i support the issues you brought to us today. >> commissioner riley. >> thank you for the presentation. it looks like you did your home work and your presentation is so detailed, we don't have to ask a lot of questions. i assume you will present the same information to the planning department. thank you. >> i would like to echo what my fellow commissioners have said. this commission was established for small businesses in san francisco. sometimes we forg

of small businesses like ted's market which her family has owned for three generationssot miriam zouzounisthe day to day purchases that keeps these businesses open are small cash value, your regular customers, if the auto mechanic across the street has a 15 minute break and if we don't have his chewing tobacco or pack of smokes, he is not going to come in and buy the rest of the stuff, the drinks, the sandwiches that keep our doors open">in fact according to proposition e tabacoo retailers would be prohibited from selling any flavored tabacoo products including menthol cigarettes. zouzonis says instead of banning these products the city should try enforcing the laws already in place to prevent minors from buying themsotmiriam zouzounis/no on proposition e: "the 96% compliance rate in id'ing that these stores have is also not being discussed. we are willing to work on that process of youth abatement and health access, my ask is just use the mechanisms you have in place">voters will soon have their chance to weigh in...proposition e is on the june 5th ballot...in san francisco haaziq madyun

commissioner zouzounis. >> i just wanted to report on a happy belated international workers day. it's great to see san francisco mobilized for worker and immigrants rights on may 1 and also small business week again was really amazing, the launch and inspire sf panel. i really appreciated the shoutout to the importance of supporting your local corner stores and it drove home for me the importance of not cutting off a small business in its infancy. so before you can celebrate their growth to some of the legacy businesses that we've commended. so in addition to that, i also attended an arab-american democratic club mayoral forum, that was very important as small business issues were highlighted. it's the only forum in which i've seen that topic of conversation being taken on its head and taxis were a big focus on that. and i will ask for something in new business on that note. >> okay. commissioner yee riley. >> director, you did a great job and the whole office. i attended some of the events and got to know the staff a little better and spend time talking to them, chatting. and st

. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you. i wanted to say, ever since i started on the commission, you were open to who i was trying to reach, and you kept that in mind through your -- the last couple of years and really brought those perspectives whether it was in the immigration roundtable with the mayor or what not, you helped me get the perspectives where they needed to be heard, so i appreciated that. thank you. >> i have one more request. would todd come up here and take a picture with all of us? >> yes. >> marianne, will you do the honors? >> do you want to go up there? >> okay. next item, please. item 4, approval of legacy business registry application and resolution. knights' catering. richard kurylo, presenter, legacy business program manager. >> good afternoon, commissioners, small business staff, richard kurylo, legacy business program manager. sfgov tv, i have a power point presentation. before you today is one application for your consideration for a business to be include on the legacy business registry. the ap

my name is miriam zouzounis.my family has a small grocery store, and i'm here speaking on behalf of the arab american grocers association. we represent a large majority of the corner grocery stores in the city, and i can tell you if we're talking about vacancy and blight and commercial corridors, this is happening at a rapid rate with our corner grocers, and i can tell you i've spoken to some members on the vanness corridor and polk corridor, but formula retailers that can buy bulk, cumulatively and actively put pressure on distributors to not sell to the independent guys is one of the main forces driving us out of the city. these -- this commercial corridor buys locally and sells locally. we have a shared economy. you know, i work in imports, too, and they -- you know, the joke shop sells stuff that we bring in, and i think that that kind of process is not accessible for a corporate enterprise, let alone the on-line dimension of retail, which this city has not really finalized any kind of equal application of th

prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products would be no good for their bottom linesotmiriam zouzouniso on proposition e: "the day to day purchases that keeps these businesses open are small cash value, your regular customers, if the auto mechanic across the street has a 15 minute break and if we don't have his chewing tobacco or pack of smokes, he is not going to come in and buy the rest of the stuff, the drinks, the sandwiches that keep our doors open">proposition e is on the june 5th ballot...in san francisco haaziq madyun kron4news (anchor) time now to check on time now (anchor) (anchor) time now to check on our weather... to check on our weather... with meterologist mabrisa rodriguez. (anny hong): seasonably cool conditions will persist through the upcoming work week with periods of late night and morning low clouds. mainly dry weather conditions will also continue through the forecast period into next weekend. (michelle) now take a look at this -- scary surveillance video from a las vegas phone repair shop shows an iphone exploding just feet away from a worker. the explosion that

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my name is miriam zouzounis. my family has a store not too far from here. we're members of the arab american grocers. i'd like to say 19 h, the amendments, in 2015, i talk to businesses every day that are trying to sell, and can't find prospects because their business has been devalued, one that they spent their entire life in. the transferability of that is what allows us to stay in this community. this is going after a particular community, a demographic that is a part of the community, not juxtaposed to it. we have redundant policies that are going after this sector in particular, trying to ban this sector. supervisors aren't talking to each other. they've created a legislative quagmire. there's been a law made -- supervisor peskin, i think had to made a law, specific exception for the humidor to move to embarcadero, so i feel it's very classist that this is happening, but this exception isn't happening. these are community serving businesses. we pay redundant fee processes on these licenses that other stores, including formula retailers don't pay, our a

prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products would be no good for their bottom linesotmiriam zouzouniso on proposition e: "the day to day purchases that keeps these businesses open are small cash value, your regular customers, if the auto mechanic across the street has a 15 minute break and if we don't have his chewing tobacco or pack of smokes, he is not going to come in and buy the rest of the stuff, the drinks, the sandwiches that keep our doors open">proposition e is on the june 5th ballot...in san francisco haaziq madyun kron4news ((grant))kron 4 is your local election headquarters... ((vicki)) and tonight we are taking a look at one of the biggest contests ahead of the june election. san francisco will be electing a new mayor. ((grant))earlier today...london breed joined us in studio.the board of supervisor's president told us what she would do to bring down skyrocketing housing costs in san francisco....to build more housing. ((vicki))to watch the entire interview with london breed. head to our website...kron 4 dot com. (grant) in world news... the stage is set for a sit down be

. >> commissioner zouzounis. >> thank you. i wanted to say, ever since i started on the commission, you were open to who i was trying to reach, and you kept that in mind through your -- the last couple of years and really brought those perspectives whether it was in the immigration roundtable with the mayor or what not, you helped me get the perspectives where they needed to be heard, so i appreciated that. thank you. >> i have one more request. would todd come up here and take a picture with all of us? >> yes. >> marianne, will you do the honors?

my name is mirrian zouzounis. and i'm here to support. >> commissioner mazzucco: -- marc massarweh. i'm on the small basis commission and i believe we do need more representation of arab americans in city hall. marc also comes from a small business background, and just like my family's business, we are on the cop's beats, we talk to them, we know how to connect what they're dealing with and what the community at large is dealing with, and it's really important that we have a seat at the table. just last month, we had a young community member involved in an officer involved sheeting -- shooting, and what was really apparent in that process, we need someone serving us in the community. in light of today's increasingly important -- to make sure that we hold to the oversights, one during that as it has to do with federal and local mou's and surveillance that targets a specific demographic in the city. in addition to the language access work, our community's been involved with those kinds of items, and they directly intersect with police commission work, and so we really hope that you ca