And not instruct all of those agencies that they have to all Work Together. Maybe some of them want to participate and some do not. Maybe its appropriate for some of them. Our reasoning for recommendation is because each provides some level of information and knowledge and expertise that i think it was out that entire package working together of departments that i think will get the best results with that entire package of departments working together. I dont disagree. Is should the right word . Do you want it to be stronger or weaker . I think a little more encouraging, less mandating, directing. Does that make sense . Weaker, i guess, would be the vote. Are you thinking it should be stronger . Shall would say these are the departments that need to be at the table. Should is should is the weaker version. I was thinking you were going in the weaker direction shall means mandating. Should is recommending. Right. Okay. That was the attorney in me and which i am not an attorney, and revealed. Well keep it as should then. Are we . I am good with should. I thought should and shall were synonymous. Thank you for your work on this, dominica. And updating it to include our recommendations from last time. Did we im sorry, did we call for Public Comment . We did call for Public Comment. Do we have a motion . Do we have the motion out there . I move to adopt this resolution. With the changes. With the amendment of putting per year. I second. Roll call vote please. Yes. Motion by commissioner zouzounis to adopt the resolution as written with changes as direct bid commissioner dwight, seconded by commissioner yeeriley. Roll call vote. Commissioner adams. Yes. Commissioner is it too late to interject . While we are doing we are already doing the vote. Fine. A commissioner dwight . Yes. A commissioner laguaan a . Yes. A commissioner ortiz . Commissioner riley. Commissioner zouzounis . Motion passes 60 with one absent. Item six, approval of draft meeting minutes, action item. Has everybody read over the minutes from june 10 meeting . Do we have any comments . If not, does any member of the public like to make a comment on the june 10 meeting . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we want to have a voice vote. Everybody approve of the Commission Minutes . Say aye. We need a motion. I move to approve the minutes from june 10. I have to abstain. I wasnt there. We have a second . So before we take the motion, then, if commissioner laguana is needing to is not abstained, but recused. You need to ask for recusal from the vote. First. Who do i ask . Do you want to recuse you dont need to. If you dont miss if i dont need to recuse, we wont bother. Okay. I made my motion. Do we have a second . An ill second. All in favor . Aye. Any nos . Motion passes. Item 7, directors report. Update and report on office of Small Business and Small Business assistance center, department programs, policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding Small Business activities. Discussion item. So commissioners, i just want to bring to your attention for the accessible entrance program, we are now in the category three deadline so these are entryways with one step. Submission for the checklist was due on june 1, 2019. And any Building Permits that are going to be filed need to be done by september 1, 2019. As always, this is regulatory item that we are encouraging clines, so even if Property Owners are missing the deadline, were encouraging them still to submit their checklist and start their remediations. So d. B. I. Just did send a letter to Property Owners that combined both the vacancy and update on that vacancy ordinance and a reminder of the category three deadline that was sent out in may. The california redemption value, the c. R. V. , we were very close in getting 3 million in funding at the state level to start the mobile recycling. Unfortunately, during the budget process, though our local elected officials advocated for this, we as a city, the mayor, advocated for this, and it did not get through committee. Other members thought it was too much money going specific to San Francisco, so we the department of environment, we will be convening in july and trying to figure out what to do with the next step. And there may be might revisit again or take a different look to get different funding at the local level and work through that through the next budget cycle. This would have been funding from the state . Right. To do and if you recall, senator passed legislation or a bill that was supported at the state that allows five mus any mallties to start to allow five municipalities to start a pilot program. So were hoping that we could get that additional funding from the state to be able to initiate the pilot program. So we are getting nothing a we are not getting the additional 3 million that our local area was asking for from the state budget to be able to initiate this program. So and if we had the 3 million, it would have been easy for the department of environment to purchase the vehicles and really start to have a program rolled out by the end of the year. So this. Are you saying that they think 3 million is too much. So is that and were not getting any from the state this coming budget cycle. Oh, that is too bad. Yes. So i just want to provide you with that update because we worked our office and department of environment had with the mayors a u. S. Had close conversations and worked hard on trying to get the funding. The active space legislation which you heard on june 10, that will be heard in committee in july after the citys budget cycle supervisor brown and mayor breed on legislation on the business streamlining. It was introduced in december of 2018, heard for the third time in committee today and well all know the result to pass on to you whether it moved out. There was definite pressure to really make some significant amendments, and i do know some amendments were being and probably postponing some amendments but not wanting to water it down too much. Be able to pass that on after today. Provide you wan update. The cash acceptance, the mandated acceptance of ka, for brick and mortar, the implementation date is around august 23. We ole get the specifics on that, but and which the mayor signed it. The amazons downtown all take cash now. A great. And then restricting the commercial tobacco activity activities for both on the port and and restricting the sales of eand brick and mortar and online. Both passed on the First Reading last tuesday. Again, as stated earlier with the resolution, there is effort there was discussion around creating the and supervisor waltons office did reach out to set up a meeting on mitigation strategist. Not clear if it is the same thing as the working group, but well probably have a meeting in july once the budget cycle is done with. And i do think that we will fro federal lowed based upon the Economic Analysis that they have done. And with the flavored tobacco cigarettes, why they chose not to do an Economic Analysis with the and dominicas ability to do the basic analysis and that its a larger economic hit and the criteria of which that is used when Economic Analysis should be done, that legislation met the threshold from our understanding. And so we would like to know why the choice was not to do why the and teddy is on vacation and he is the one to respond to that. We should soon, but not in time for todays meeting. And then i am very happy to report that supervisor peskin has introduced legislation that and the department of Public Health has been wanting to change the Health Scores from a numerical health score to the green, yellow, and red scoring, which most counties use and then this will also etlim and that many businesses have had about yelp posting the Health Scores and thats economically and the department of health has been wanting to do this for a little while, but they needed confirmation with a new director coming in and has given them has said, yes, lets move forward with it. So i know that this is something that the and i know this is something that the restaurant and food communities have wanted. It wont change the metrics of which businesses are evaluated, but it will it will no longer be something that yelp can use and which is important for our businesses. And request for two hearings that i thought would be important notes for you to know about that were asked for last week at the board of supervisors was a hearing on the niche tifr ordinance for the business and tax regulations rative which is proportionate with the pay. And also a hearing on the status of Worker Rights in the california gig economy. And so i know that and i know there is discussion about the other impacts of the businesses who operate the gig economy and its impact on Small Businesses. And so there may be an opportunity to expand on to expand on that, but just wanted to let you know that is there. And dont know when that is going to be scheduled yet. And then in regards to state legislation ab161, the solid waste and when the commission heard it on may 29, there hasnt been any updates. Its sitting in the state senate and it has yet to be scheduled for any hearing yet. Thats a good thing. Yes. And then one last thing that the office is going to be moving this thursday, friday, over to the other side of the tax and treasurers office. Still be in the tax and treasurers office. You are not available . Going to ask for your help. But just to note to we and we will be moving to get relocated. And rick is very happy because now hell be able to be sitting with us and well be sitting together and all together. The last thing that i would thought we dont need to have a conversation, but something to think about in relationship to the discussion with the bags is that this was a concern of mine with the requirement for and requiring businesses and buildings. And with sort of the environmental impacts of our sort of gig economy and the delivery economy and whether should the business pay for it all . Or should where are we where is a friend who managed an Apartment Building and she took me down to the garbage area and there was absolutely no care or effort to breaking down boxes and caring about how the individual, most of the individuals in that apartment worked in the tech environment, just care about their disposables and how they are handling their dispoisable and garbage and their disposable and garbage and waste. And thes of that, well, the ease of it, where is the consumers responsibility and always paying for their ease of creating more garbage as opposed to putting it on the business. And so whether it is, you know, our restaurants who are being charged a great deal by these Delivery Services and is it are businesses that have to deal with that facilitating that, is it the consumer or is it the larger entity . And its just something to sort of think about and good to maybe get some direction because as our Office Meeting with the department of environment to get sort of a first hit or with supervisors kind of what is and so we can have dominica put this down under new business. We can have a discussion about it Going Forward when we have our weekly meetings. We can schedule it in. And maybe invite the department of environment to this discussion. So thats it. That concludes my report unless you have any questions for me. A commissioner zouzounis. I was told by the sponsor of the additional tax on businesses with disproportionate executive pay that part of the and is this a final allocation to Mental Health assess . Is that what this i think that there are a couple ordinances that are similar to dealing with salary compensation. So this particular initiative this is the one she is talking about. No. An it goes to Mental Health services. Were you having a conversation with supervisor haney on this . Are you saying there are multiple . I think there is one other one thats similar. No, this is the one. This is the one. U a this is definitely the one. This is the one here, the one that you are talking about and he had this an i talked to supervisor mar and he came and presented this so the council of district merchants legislative committee and and part of it goes to small yet this is the one it is supposed to go into the Small Business stabilization. An it says here only Mental Health services. I am wondering if he said that because he was in front i have also heard him say the same thing. Or it could be that its well, we will take a look at it and get back to you. I have not had a chance to read the ordinance. That is the one and what you are talking about is that legislation and matt haney said that in or the neighborhood meeting that part of the funds is supposed to be Small Business stabilization grants. Okay. So i will circle back around with you and yes. This one we have to be really choes on that before it get really close on that before it gets to the ballot that it is put on that. Another thing we brought up as merchants is and Big Tech Companies that contract with Small Businesses go under, and the Small Businesses usually eat the default, so part of an ask and how to we collecting and thousand her partnering small with big and how will the ordinances effect the big ones. A do you want to bring that up under new business . A bring that up under new business. Any other questions for the director before we go on to the open Public Comment . Okay. Public comment. Would anybody like to any Public Comment on item number 7 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. There was a motion made by the board of supervisors for business and backs legislations and thats separate from this. And the motion included that the additional tax would be some portion of it would be allocated towards Small Business stabilization. Okay. So there is a separate. Thank you. Next item. Item 8, commissioners reports. Allows president , Vice President , commissioners to report on recent Small Business activities and make announcements that are of interest to the Small Business community. Discussion item. Okay. Commissioner dwight. I attended the monthly cdma meeting and Council District merchants last tuesday the 18th. As did our director and i just rebehinded everyone of the 15. 09 an hour. Thank you. Commissioner riley. Yes. Ai tended the war i attended the war journal 2019 Small Business and startup seminar in chinatown on saturday. Mayor breed was there, and she shared 9 million budget investment for Small Business. Thank you. Commissioner laguana. Wanted to give my fellow commissioners a heads up that i have been chatting with some folks at oewb about a possibility of a concert for jobs, which would benefit and i think that would be a cool project for us to get involved with if it comes to pass. Great. That would be the mayors summertime work program. That is a good idea. The only thing that has to do with Small Business are my i am on the board of what is called the lazy beer fund. And we wound up delivering a check to for 33,000 to the guernville chamber of commerce through the and affected by the flood up in that area back in march. So with that said, it is pride week. Happy pride, everybody. Shop, eat, and drink in the castro. We need the business. Any other commissioner reports . Do we have Public Comment on item 8 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item please. Item 9, new business. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Discussion item. A commissioner ortiz. I wanted to follow up on an email i sent to the president and director regarding the lack of regulation regarding car share and the amazons of the world. The purview obviously is to take care of Small Business, and we do a great job preventing legislation from the supervisors that are sometimes bell attended. Think about the traffic. The Biggest Issue is the quality of life, but it is also affecting the Small Businesses because you dont go to certain neighborhoods and cant take Public Transit or uber or your vehicle to get across town during certain hours. That is having a large impact on Small Businesses like restaurant and the Delivery Services charge up to 30 . I grew up in the mission and street tax wasnt 30 . So this is getting crazy. And its getting out of hand. And we dont regulate this. Amazon wants to apply for a liquor license. Their formula retail via app is crazy. Crazy that us as Small Businesses are not forcing the legislators to do something to regulate. Key example today and they are the ones generating the most waste now in our city, but yet we have to pay . The consumers of Small Business. Thats crazy. That is just crazy. Nobody is regulating. All we look at is the legislation passing through. And were not the big corporate culprit is the formula retailers with the gypsy apps. We got to do something. I propose we have an Economic Impact report and we got to make it happen fast. Our Small Business i bet you they are declining. I bet you there was more Small Businesses 10 years ago. With all the crazy legislation we nasz and amazon hugs, is that what were doing . Were going to put this down. I want to make this a priority. Thank you. And one last thing. What do i have to do seriously, and i am getting really upset about the paper thing. Speaking of environmental waste. Do i have to get a supervisor to legislate us to do it . Or cant we do it ourselfs . There is some i will get back to you because there is some sort of criteria that its not just as easy for us just to buy tablets. Let me just put it that way. So we may have to legislate it. But well get back to you on that because and i have had some discussion with the finance section of the office. I think we should be the First Commission in San Francisco to ban paper from our meetings. An i love it. A commissioner zouzounis. Selfimposed. I want to echo what the fell hoe commissioner here said and also what fellow commissioner has said and commissioner dwight said we cant just fight the Technology Innovation that is happening, but we need to hold them accountable to better work with Small Businesses and with that said, i am curious if there is some types of legislative precedents that we can advocate for as a commission far lot of these cloud kitchen is a new one up in front of Public Safety and Neighborhood Services on friday asking for a type 20 and 21 off sale liquor license. And these are all companies that will be delivering to individuals, and that will really effect the Small Businesses especially the officers and will be competing with delivering. Ands a and buy from San Francisco and independent businesses if they because i heard anl amazons pitch to the committee, and they did not characterize and i know they met with dog patch and i am curious how they presented it to you all because it was very unclear the intentions when they presented to the board. Commissioner laguana. I want to speak strongly in support of both of you. On both of the topics including the paper, but in particular the gig economy and a case winding through the courts now about it seems they both try to have it both ways and cant establish a price together because that would be illegal. There is a move afoot to classify them as workers on a level Playing Field with Small Businesses. I wonneder if there is a small, minor role for us to play in terms of advocating for that and whether its a resolution of some kind or you think inning some of the supervisor friends into doing something a little more substantial, but it does seem to me that its not a level Playing Field. And that they are taking advantage and the city suffers for the lack of it. Okay. We can add that. Any other new business. Public comment. Do we have any members of the public who like to add any business . Public comment is closed. I have to give a shout out to my son because it is his birthday today. Happy birthday. What is his name . Alexander ortiz and his eighth birthday and we went to Universal Studios and best bud trip. Happy birthday from the Small Business commission. Seconded. All in favor . Aye. Next item. Sfgov tv, please show the Small Business slide. It is our custom to begin and end each Small BusinessCommission Meeting with a reminder that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your new business and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. Small Business Commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that effect the economic vitality. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here. Next item. Item 10, adjournment. I move toed a adjourn in honor. I will move no honor to adjourn to my son, al ander, eight years old. And happy bit birthday, son. I love you very much. All in favor . Aye. Meeting adjourned. Everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. Today. clapping. ive been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol Small Business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit ive been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. My name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you dont want to wait 365 day if you make that brickandmortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything weve done to celebrate that. So nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. People are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. Inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. I love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community thats so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. It is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, well be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, well be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. We we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know youve made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. It is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. It is really nice to have a restaurant that is very Community Focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. We have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. When those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in San Francisco were doing an average of 6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand thats a lot to good morning, everyone how are you all . So, welcome. Im with the Hotel Council and i want to welcome you all to our first love our city. Its the second love our city event but its the first one that is a tourism and Hospitality Industry have helped organize. So today we have over 700 people here in also waiting out in the neighborhood. [applause] im joined by our chair of our board, mr. James lamb who is here with us today. [applause] and this event is hosted by the Hotel Council of sf travel but it really came together because of a lot of different people working on the event and i want to thank mayor breed and the city of San Francisco and her team for partnering with us on this love our city event. So please give a big hand to them [applause] we also couldnt have done it without our partnership with the Public Works Department and larry stringer and darlene prom, fromand i want to thank all of m fork working with us. Raichal gordan as well. Their team has been incredible to work with. We also have, you can see the signs out here today, im going to call off and make sure we recognize the groups as well. Each of our groups cbd. [applause] our tenderloin cbd. Our fisherman warf cbe and our embarcadero and financial district group. And last but not least our soma groups. [applause] we know that you all clean up all youre long and daily around your hotels and businesses. And it really is a 24 7 job. We want to thank you for everything that you are doing. We also want to thank wreckology. They sponsored our tshirts so thank you for working with us. [applause] a special thank you as we look out on the hyatt region see for sponsoring us with breakfast as well. Thank you very much. If that was designed to bring us to Work Together and partner with the city and our mayor has announced in the last, since she took office, an incredible amount of programs, new funding and new resources all to help clean this city and help make this city safer. So i want to thank the mayor from our hospitality and Tourism Industries for making sure shes doing everything that she is doing. Lets give her a big round of applause. [applause] and last but not least our partners at sf travel who have come together to work with us on this event as well. Its my pleasure to introduce our mayor, london breed. Thank you good morning, everybody now, i will troy to be short because i would love for you all to get out there and do what you came here to do and clean up San Francisco let me just start by saying thank you. We know that we have a lot of challenges in San Francisco. We have far too many People Living on our streets. We have far too many challenges with housing and housing affordability. I know our Small Businesses are struggling. The city is finally making the kinds of investments that i hope will make a difference in your everyday lives as you work in this great city. I was born and raised here and i grew up in public housing. You know, my grandmother, when we were kids, she would make us go out and clean up. She would always say clean it up. Ike like mama, why, would want to clean up. You know how kids are. We would should i look, its our responsibility to keep our community clean. Now here, take this bucket and put water and soap and clean up. You know, at the time as a kid you are like i dont want to do this but then, as you get older, its just a part of who you are. I find myself doing it in my community, doing it where i used to work at the African American culture complex and really feeling good about the investment that ive made and also the example that ive set for other young people to be better stewards of San Francisco. So what you all are out there are doing is not just picking up trash and erasing graffiti and painting, you all are stewards for San Francisco. You are taking care of the city. You all are showing how much you love San Francisco and other people when they see you doing what you are doing, theyre less likely to drop that trash on the ground and actually take it to the trash can. It does make a difference. So i want to thank all of you and all the Community Business districts and the people who are out there every single day. I especially want to thank the department of public works and the many thousands of employees because they are out on the streets everyday. Downtown street teams and so many other folks trying to keep San Francisco clean, green and beautiful. I love our city. I know you all love this city. Thank you for showing your love by taking care of San Francisco today for this amazing event. Have a wonderful time out there thank you so much, mayor. Id like to introduce from district 6 our supervisor matt haney who will be working with the groups as well. Please help me welcome supervisor matt haney. Thank you, thank you. How is everybody doing this morning make some noise if you love our city [applause] make noise if you are ready to pick up a broom and do some cleaning today who would have thought we could call this a cold day in San Francisco. Were glad the temperature came down a little bit but its still a Beautiful Day to demonstrate to everyone in our city we care and were going to do some cleaning up. Im the supervisor of district 6 and i want to give a special shout out to the different communities and cbds of district 6. The tenderloin where i live, soma, union square, everyone who is here, we really appreciate how much you do everyday. I see folks here from the hotel. Make some noise if you are representing the hotels in our city. This is a city that is still a worldclass destination. People come here from all over the world. We want to make sure that when they come here, they understand that theyre going to have an incredible experience and theyre going to see clean and safe streets and theyre going to see the people of San Francisco care about our community. Thats what you are demonstrating today. I want to thank mayor breed for the investments shows made in making our streets cleaner. If you look out there, theres things we can do. We need more trash cans on our streets, we need more bathrooms that are open for longer hours, and we need more street cleaning and deep cleaning and so what you are doing today is not just demonstrating to your residents that you care, you are demonstrating to us, the city, that you care and we need to do more as well. Lets get out there today. Im going to be in the tenderloin and pick up a broom and i just want to say thank you all so much. Have fun. Lets love our city. [applause] thank you supervisor haney. Next id like to introduce our partner from sf travel. We have the share and the board of sf travel with us, mr. Peter gamez. [applause] wow good morning, everyone. This is a great day for us. As many of you know im the board chair and this is one of the issues weve all rallied for all year. This is a special day for all of us. Thank you everyone for coming out and joining the hospitality and Tourism Industry to love our city. Together, here today, we are showing the strength of our industry and the collective passion and commitment we share for San Francisco. I want to thank firstly our awesome mayor breed, im also a native San Francisco an and i completely relate to you how we took pride in all of our neighborhoods and the importance of cleaning our streets. Your leadership and commitment for cleaning our streets and keeping us safe and were very thankful. Were proud to partner with the department of public works. The total council of San Francisco and many of our Community Partners to do tour part to keep San Francisco clean, safe, and welcoming to all. Together, we are a gene that gives back to the city we love and we can not be more excited to work side by side to make San Francisco the most wonderful destination in the world. Thank you. Last id like to introduce the director of public works and his team is a group weve been partnering with on this. [applause] all right are we ready to go to work all right let me begin by joining all the speakers here to thank all of you for coming out to help keep our city clean. Love our city everyday, right everyday the Public Works Department and many city agencies do this everyday but i can tell you, your coming out means a lot to us. You are giving us the extra hands and the extra help that it needs to continue to make our city be the destination where people come and enjoy and people clean up and make our city the most beautiful city in the world, right. San francisco ill be really short. Today we have over 45 different sites. Some people are going to be painting poles, weeding, cleaning, some are going to be sweeping. All that is going to make a difference. The number one thing that when you leave here is, when you are out there, please, be safe. Safety is a high priority. Weve been having these events for over 20 years and we have not had a single incident. How do you be safe . All of you in different work teams and every work team has got someone who will be wearing a vest like me who will be showing you what to do. If you see something that you are in doubt of whether its glass or needle or something in your mind is doubtful, just ask that person and they will deal with it appropriately and they will work with you. Other than that, enjoy yourselves. Its a nice day. Again, im very appreciative for everyone coming up. Lets have fun love our city everyday [applause] thank you. Thank you, very much. Before we close out, were going to do a group picture. Stay where you are. No one move. Just stay still for a minute and well take a group photo. [ ] homelessness in San Francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesnt just affect Neighbors Without a home, it affects all of us. Is real way to combat that is to Work Together. It will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and Community Members all coming together. [ ] the product homeless connect Community Day of Service Began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. What we do is we host and expostyle event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. Theres over 120 Service Providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5 to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal Service Providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that Service Today here it is an actual, tangible Service People can leave with it. I am with the hearing and Speech Center of northern california, and we provide a variety of Services Including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. To follow updates when they come into the Speech Center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. If they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. San francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. Bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medical, what you need identification, you dont have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d. M. V. , you go across the hall to the d. M. V. To get your i. D. Today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming to cs for followup service. For a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. We have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that todays event can ensure they stay house. Many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medical or learning about d. M. V. Services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. I am the representative for the volunteer central. We are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. On a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get tshirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. Our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the Different Service areas and help them find the Different Services that they needs. One of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing is by working with Homeless Outreach teams. They come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into shortterm shelter, and talk about housing1st policies. We also work very closely with the department of Public Health to provide a lot of our services. We have all