Good catch because generally shall means its mandated. So should and shall. So is that your recommendation is that it maybe turn it down a notch. 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 Business Commission 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. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is unique to San Francisco. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. Shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services we help San Francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. My name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if San Francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both National Chains and neighborhoods by the Neighborhood Stores where coming you dont want to one of the great things of San Francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own thats prohibition of sound producing device during the meeting. Anyone responsible for a cell phone going off in the room, may be asked to leave it. Item 4, communications. Mr. Chair, directors, i have none. Item 5, Citizens Advisory Council report. There is none in the room. Moving on to your regular calendar. Mr. Chair, would you like me to call the labor contracts all together . Chair heinicke i would like this say that and i would like to welcome director heminger on the board. Its a pleasure to have you on board, your experience, knowledge and commitment and your willingness to do this after youre already ill lueseous career. I look forward to serving with you. I will be calling items 6 through 13. This is adopting and implementing the decision and award of the arbitration board, or adopting and implementing successor m. O. U. With Service Employees International Union local 1021, t. W. , 250a for automotive works, one with the International Association of machinists, one with transport union local 200, one with the International Brotherhood of electrical workers and one with the municipal executive associations, all setting wages, benefits and working conditions for represented employees fort term july 2019 to july 2020. Chair heinicke 2022 . Through 2022 . Yes, through 2022. Chair heinicke i asked they all be called together because i get the sense there is no concern about these agreements at the board level, in fact, real happiness with the way this has all gone down. Let me see if there is Public Comment on the contracts, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Director riskin, i assume it is your strong recommendation we adopt the contracts . Okay. Board members, any questions. Please, just pardon the new guy a couple of questions. I must say i thought the formatting of this was opaque. And im trying to get to a big bottom line Financial Impact and if im adding these together correctly, the threeyear Financial Impact is about 150 million or thereabouts. Is that right . Yeah, its something on that order. The fiscal year 1920 budget has been approved. It was approved by the board a year ago for this current and next fiscal year. That covers the first year of the agreement. And the first year fiscal impact is on the order of 34 million, if i recall. And we had reserved something on the order of 27 million in the budget, so there is a small gap for us to close in the upcoming fiscal year. And then we would incorporate these costs that will be known costs in the next twoyear budget cycle. This is back loaded, right so that delta that is not covered is going to be larger in the third year . Its cumulative. At least the wage increase portions of the contract. Director heminger because they compound, correct . Correct. Director heminger there is also acceleration of progression up the ranges in the proposal, correct . Just for one classification, the transit operators, which is the biggest classification. Director heminger right. When we budget, do we budget at the top of those ranges, so even though not everybody will be at the top of the range, were prevented from any unpleasant surprises . Now were getting technical. Let me ask the chief Financial Officer to respond. Yes, im chief Financial Officer for sfmta, and yes, we do budget at the top range, but we include a factor in the budget to show that everyone is not a top range step adjustment factor. To the extent we adjust that during the year, we monitor our spending through the year to make sure director heminger what im not sure what your answer means. Do you budget top of range, or having assumption everybody will not be at top range. We have assumption that not everyone will be top range. You can see how large the assumption is in one area, which is the step adjustment factor. Will you have to adjust that, or was that already assumed in the twoyear budget, now that the progression is more rapid. The 7 million delta is that. Thats probably one of the largest items, so what weve had to do, just to clarify a little bit, to cover that 7 million, were not actually opening up our budget this year. We have a fixed twoyear budget, but were allowed to do technical adjustments. So to stay within the total spending, we were able to do adjustments such as to temporarily well, to adjust other spending items in the budget to allow for the additional spending under these contracts. And well be monitoring very closely in the first month of this year as to how our actual spending is going under these contracts. We are planning to be coming back to you in the fall with a supplemental appropriation for the new budget year, because we have to for other funds that require your approval. At the time well present to you our budget status, what were seeing as the actual effect of the negotiations as they patrol through and if we need to make other adjustments. Director heminger just two more questions, mr. Chairman. On the numbers, its a 4 , 3. 5, 3. 5 deal. In terms of our Competitive Position with other transit agencies, which i know has been an issue, do we think those numbers are going to stand up against the deals that bart and ac transit and others are putting in place . Generally, yes. We look at the comparables across the region. This wage pattern was really set after the citys negotiation process, which the operators accepted. Our operators continue to be among the best compensated in the country. And this will keep them competitive. And e. T. A. Reached impasse, so we dont know where they will end up, but fairly confident that with the wage increase and going back to a fouryear or going to a fouryear progression, well remain competitive. Director heminger you brought up the last question. The question of impasse. The negotiating framework for this, was that set by prop e back then or more recently . Its really set in the city charter what the prop e and prop a did was take a portion of the way the city negotiates agreements, and take for what is called Service Critical employees and put that under the m. T. A. It mirrors the city charter framework. It puts the director of transportation into the shoes of the director of resources. Director heminger weve had these arbitration provisions for some time. Its been for quite a while. Director heminger it appears in these deals, almost all of them were at impasse and went to arbitration. Not all, but almost all. Is that the typical m. O. , every three years we get to impasse and we go to arbitration, or is that unusual . So looks like three out of the eight went to arbitration. The rest were negotiated agreements. And again, i can ask derek, our h. R. Director, or carole the Labor Relations director to speak to historical patterns. Good afternoon, director for sfmta. In the past we would have ones that went to impasse and arbitration, but this year, half ended up in agreement. Only three went to arbitration. I think the last time, director heinicke can give us a hint what the arbitration award would come out to be, even the ones that went to impasse and went to arbitration, there was quite a bit of agreement. I want to say maybe only one was a true arbitration award. But there was a lot of agreement. Director heminger to answer the question, this is regular, in my experience, this is 13 years of this and what happens many of the terms are agreed to, but the terms that cant be agreed to go to arbitration, and even there there has been a lot of progress, so the arbitrators is picking between condensed conditions. So you have a time when the arbitration is getting it over the final hurdle or two. Here we negotiated without that more than half. If youre asking if this is common or rare, i would say that aspect is rare in my experience. We had more negotiated full agreements here than before. And those things resolved by arbitration, its not as if in this situation, we went into arbitration with union at a and us at z. It was more a versus b and it was chosen and there was a sense how that would trade off. I think the answer to your question, this is relatively common. What is uncommon, there is more negotiation. Of the ones ive seen, this is the more harmonious in my time on this board. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Chair heinicke okay. I thank our negotiators for working so hard on this, derek, and your team. Chair heinicke i echo that and everyone has worked hard on this, in particular, director riskin for guiding us through in the final months here. With that, i will entertain a motion to adopt all those read . All those in favor . Any opposed . Congratulations everyone. Item 14, asks the controller to allot funds and draw warrants for payment against the following came. Latrice millard versus the city and count, its unlitigated in the amount of 40,000. Chair heinicke we received a report. The City Attorney is happen to stand on the report . Directors, any questions for the City Attorney . Second. Chair heinicke all those in favor of the settlement . Opposed . Thank you very much. That concludes the business before you today. Director heminger, they are not always this short. [laughter] chair heinicke thank you very much, everyone. Director borden. Here. Brinkman. Present. Rubke. Here. Torres. Here. Madam chair you have a quorum both directors eakin and heinicke are absent with notification. Id like to welcome our newest director, director hemminger. Were delighted t to have him jn us on the board. Would you like to say a few words . It appears you put the rookies next to the executive director. Ed had me under surveillance for years. Its nothing new. I look forward to our work together
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