Which, you know, we give this course currently. You can also asked for identification. Was just curious, was there something new thing we need to be aware of. As our constant updates when theres changes to what is required in the inspections and that sort of thing . I mean, the state does implement new changes. If it is something big, whether the city will often with micro kitchen is gnosis. That is something that is being discussed at a public forum. That gets a broadcast that way. In terms of, you know, there arent changes to the food safety signs. You would be notified if something major was coming up. Thank you. I want to echo commissioner zouzounis, and thank you for working together to come up with such an elegant solution. This really seems like winner winner chicken dinner, in terms of being easy to both the public and the Business Owners. I will echo her comments as well. Anyway we can help you, we are certainly happy to do whatever we can on our end. It seems like a really welldesigned system. We will make it easier for operators to both comply and particularly appreciated your comment about how they are the ones that we are relying on and getting their is so critical to the success of the program. Excellent job to all of you, and thank you for your hard work on making this happen. I also think this is a really good design here. How big are the designs . 8. 5 by 11. Since we are just mimicking the success of other counties, im sure all of us just like the sheet. They required to be posted in front of the store . We currently are playing with the idea of posting it, but not necessarily in the front door, per se. We listen to the community, that is we are comfortable with that as long as the public has access to that. Is evergreen when im sure they will put it on the front. Im sure, yes. I just want to say that was a great presentation. Im happy we are being compliant, not only with the rest of the bay area, but i think the rest of the state. Good job with this. Any other commission or before we open it up for Public Comment okay, lets open it up. Are there any members of the public who would like to make comment on item number four. Hello commissioners, im representing the golden gate restaurant association. Thank you for hearing this ordinance and thank you and peskins office for including us in the conversations i really coming to us to start with this whole conversation, we really appreciate that. As mentioned we are supportive of this change. We do hope this brings more clarity for the business and the gas that come into our restaurants every day. We were assured of the scoring process itself wouldnt change, justice most of california has artie moved to this. We have people dining in San Francisco in oakland and concord. This makes much more sense to our guests. We are excited to partner and make sure we are continuously improving. As much as we are for streamlining anything and making things easier. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im back. I am from scomas, also we are members of the golden gate restaurant association. I want to thank the department of Public Health and supervisor peskin for addressing many of the common issues that the restaurant community, and anyone in food service or food preparation would have. I think most of us we want to do the right thing, we want and ability to cure if something is not correct, i remember when we first went through this, it was a little bit different than what la was doing. What san diego did. I think this move towards at least the bay area counties having the same scoring, or at least the same outward plaque or without the consumer can have confidence in knowing is a great step. I like the way they have presented it. I think its really clear. That is something we should get, really lay set out in a really proactive, colorful and way which is helpful in the many things that we do and we all want to serve safe food and a healthy environment. I think this is a really great step. I think everyone for their efforts. Any other members of the public . Public comment is closed. Any other questions or do we have a motion . I move area. I second. To approve board of supervisors file 190710 health code. [roll call] motion passes 60. Thank you very much. Good presentation. Next item, please. Item five, presentation of fiscal year 19 20 accessibility grants for Accessible Business Entrance Program and legacy Business Program. The presenter is rhea aguinaldo. Good afternoon, commissioners. Rhea aguinaldo, project and a giant case manager for the office of Small Business. Sf gov tv have a powerpoint presentation. You also have a copy of the presentation in front of you. I am here to present the budget for the office of Small Businesses accessibility grants for this year, fiscal year 20192020. We will talk about the budget and the spending plan for the Disability Access fund and also give updates on our ada support services at our office. The Disability Access fund was established by senate bill sb1186 which established a dollar fee that was added to local Business Registrations. The dollar fee increased, or was established in 2013 and the dollar fee was increased and the amount retained by the city was also increased through a b1379 which was effective 2018. To date, the dollar fee increased up to a 4dollar fee, there is a 4dollar state fee that was added to local Business Registration and the amount retained by the city is now 90 of that fee. At the city level with 10 transmitted back to the state area the money in the funds are intended to increase increase certified access Specialist Training and certification within the local jurisdictions and also to facilitate compliance with construction related accessibility. A certified access specialist which you will hear often and talking about Disability Access and 88 compliance as an individual who is tested and certified by the state for expertise in the application of state and federal Disability Access laws. The office of Small Business manages the disability act fun for the city. The fee is collected by the treasurer and tax collected office by the Business Administration and it is transmitted once annually in mid july by the Controllers Office to the office of Small Business. It is important to note that the funds do not expire, and they Carry Forward from yeartoyear. Fiscal year 1920 we plan to use the funds for certification and training of city staff that are either currently up certified, and or are are interested in becoming up certified through training that is offered by the state as well as through industry organizations. Also planning on using it for the Accessible Business Entrance Program grant. Other Disability Access resources, ada Business Assistance and also to help cover the administrative costs of program management. Here is a snapshot of our budget breakdown and our spending plan for fiscal year 19 20 for the Disability Access fund. For revenue, it shows the breakdown of the Previous Year revenue collected, for fiscal year 18 19, and the revenue collected this year for 19 20 which was just allocated within the last week. As you can see we are keeping the revenue collected from 18 19 on our total revenue because to date we did not utilize the funds from last year. What we did last year, we were utilizing previous carryforward funds. And then also on additional line item on the revenue is a block grant with is a partnership that we are utilizing through the office of economic and Workforce Development through their federal Community Development block grant to help to administer our Grant Program. I will focus this presentation on specifically the ada Grant Program, the business entrance program. I wont go too much into the other items on this budget, but i am happy to questions if there are any. Keep going. All right. Focusing now on the accessible entrance Business Program grant for Small Businesses. The Grant Program is intended for Small Business tenants whose landlords pass the responsibility for compliance onto their tenants. It is also for Property Owners facing exceptional financial hardships. I did in my previous presentation, back in february, give an overview of our Grant Program and also various cases that we are seeing with the pastor of compliance from the Property Owner to the tenant. I will focus this specifically on the funding for the grant. A couple of updates or reminders on how the grant is structured. This is being offered as a last resort option to Small Businesses since the funds are limited. Financial verification is required for grant applicants. We do use the income levels based on the u. S. Housing and urban development guidelines. We are rolling out the Grant Program in alignment with the compliance schedule of the ordinance. Currently we are prioritizing category 2 buildings to start which are buildings that have minor barriers to the entryway, but no steps to the entrance. The most common remediation or proposed remediation we are seeing is the installation of the power door operator. That runs roughly at 8,000 per power door operator. We have allocated businesses to serve this year 16 businesses by calculating the cost of the door operators. There is also a category and four grants for barrier removal. We are, at this. , prioritizing category 2 first. We anticipate category 34 which are those businesses which have steps to the entry way, we have much more intricate involved, complicated remediations. Categories 34 we plan on putting out, or releasing request a proposal to work with a contractor to help us administer that more complex portion of the program. We will monitor the need for these grants on an ongoing basis and adjust our budgets and services accordingly, through the Disability Access fund we do have the ability to supplement what we have currently allocated in terms of funds for the Grant Program. If need be, if we do see when category four hits which is december 1, 2019, a big jump in businesses that are needing assistance or needing to ramp up support services for any of any of the grant categories, we have flexibility and the ability to be able to do that. Okay. Another update. This is a snapshot of our legacy business accessibility grant. This snapshot here is the budget from the preservation fund, these are not funds from the Disability Access fund. 150,000 for revenue 19 20 is for the legacy Business Program. We are, at our office, working to provide a more holistic support to the legacy businesses in terms of complying with accessibility. I am case managing legacy businesses that are having to navigate with Accessible Business Entrance Program or they are looking to do broader remediation in terms of wringing their business into compliance. These two Grant Programs are being monitored and are meant to support the legacy business holistically, i guess. The first round of grant for this program was opened up in march. What we decided to do was first start asking legacy business is if they have had a cast inspection. What that entails is a casp inspection report, an inspector comes into your business and does 100point inspection of the entryway, the interior, counter heights, restrooms, you name it, every technical aspect of it and produces a report that shows the items that are out of compliance and what remediation would need to be done in order to bring the business into compliance. A ballpark of the cost of the casp inspection report is 1500 2,000. Through this first round of applications we had ten legacy businesses that applied for this Grant Program and they were all approved to go forward and work with the casp inspector and get the inspection done, we have asked of them to complete their casp inspections by july 31, 2019. That is the first round of funding we have issued for this legacy accessibility grant. Looking at the budget breakdown here, that leaves us about hundred 15,000 to spend for a second round of grant. What we are thinking since not as many legacy businesses have the uptake was not as big as as good as we thought. We are now looking at spending this one and 50,000 115,000 for tenant improvements, followup casp services if a business is concerned about a particular aspect of their business that we need a casp inspection. Also improvements that would bring the legacy business in compliance with the abe. We do have a significant amount of funds, 115,000 that we are now in the early stages of planning on how we will administer those funds. Lastly, we do have an update on our ada business support services. The office of Small Business has been very active in providing education to Small Businesses about why it is important to get a casp inspection, how to bring your business closer to compliance and providing resources and materials to support that compliance. As part of this work we are partnering with the Northern CaliforniaSmall BusinessDevelopment Center through a new collaborative that they have taken the lead on in Northern California. They are working with the California Commission on Disability Access in the entire californian region, to put together citywide partnerships to support businesses within those regions. Thinking of the benefit of having a Business Development organization, working directly with businesses. So we feel can be better supported when it comes to Disability Access compliance. For example, with compliance to the ada, there are legal legal, financial, and Tax Support Services that are muchneeded area for example if you are a business tenant and your landlord passes compliance, responsibility to comply up to abe, one of the first steps that we take is to advise a business to consult with a lawyer to review their lease, to see what might either provide the their businesses with ability to push back on that, and a making sure the business is aware of what may or may not be in the lease. That is just one example of what we think this partnership will help with. The s bdc is going to put together a panel of private sector for folks that would be able to support our Small Businesses in San Francisco, and it will be more of approaching a longerterm relationship when it comes to Disability Access and ada compliance. Adding in that much needed business support that not often times businesses think about when they are starting their business, when they are doing really well. Rarely do businesses think of making improvements to their space, as part of the Business Planning process. That is part of the partnership, we will definitely keep you updated is not program is implement it. Great, thank you. Great presentation. I just want to say, your office and what you have done, getting the word out with casp inspections is working. I think this is the most i have ever seen going to a restaurant or a Small Business where weve had our casp inspection, they have them posted up there. That really helps in fighting a lot of these driveby lawsuits, too. I know this is how a lot of this started. I have been watching this for the last ten years, i know commissioner riley and duly have been dooley have been doing this too. Your outreach is great. Youre doing a very good job with that. With that, commissioner laguana. Thank you for double duty on the photography today. Super appreciated. I echo our president s comments on really good work, lots of forward progress being made care. Super appreciated. Ive been on both sides of this as a placard holder and a business that has been a target of a driveby litigation. I am sensitive to both sides of this. I had several questions, pardon me, i guess the first is you know, as you mentioned, there is a carryforward foz on the budget from prior years, relative to spending. Revenue total was 650, the expenses were 400, there was a net revenue of 269. Is there a provision in the Disability Access fund that requires you to spend the money . It is carried forward from year to year. The funding currently through sb1379 is focused specifically on the collection of the funds and how it is retained. Correct me if i am wrong, i do not believe it expires. It is something that we noted. It doesnt expire like the legacy business Disability Access. That does expire at the end of the year so we will need to extend those funds. Because this is a statemandated program it doesnt. We do have to provide report to the state, not super detailed, but we do have to provide some reporting to the state how the fund is being expended. Even if we are not able to spend the entire fund. It seems to me and for giving money for the purpose of doing something we should strive to put the money to work so that the people that are paying the money can see the benefit of what theyre paying for. A quick question about the line item budget here. I noticed 44,000 mass mailing to businesses, thats 11 of your overall expense. I feel like i have seen quite a bit recently about the effectiveness, or lack thereof of mailers in terms as being an Effective Communication strategy. Are you getting a lot of feedback from those mailers . First question, how many mailers is that . We calculated this line item based on the Business Registration that we had estimated, for this year, i believe it was 90,000 businesses since i have been at osb we have not done a mailer yet. I know it has been there have been instances through clients that we have had that are the cases that come through ada complaints where we have wanted to be able to set aside a certain amount of funds to send reminders to businesses. They may not capture all of the businesses. But with the specific ones, for example, auto body shops and car repair where we have seen an increase in lawsuits to those businesses and typically with more underserved businesses, at times, a paper form or a paper letter is more compelling and actually gets to them then an online reminder. We are open, again, to consideration of adjusting the budget if need be. This is an item that we just added to a spending plan but now that we know the amount of funds that we have had, we can sort of revisit this after weve gotten the Grant Program up and running. Certainly my experience as a Business Owner were they loosed they loosed with lots of paper. It gets its own category of ignorance, you know, if its not immediately applicable. If its a reminder, or you know, budget for a followup then thats different then, you know, notifying them about the program itself. One of the things i have been grinding out for a while is, i think for Mission Critical communication, texting seems to be what a lot of businesses respond to and encouraging us to adopt more of a mobile centric communication strategy and that is actually significantly cheaper as well. Something to explore. Im just out of curiosity, where does the money sit . When it is transferred to the office of Small Business that sits at the office of economic and Workforce Development. Our budget is in the larger oewd. So this budget has its own line item. It is specifically tracked. It is not mingled. This is not co mingled with that. We work with the finance team of the office of Economic Workforce Development to track it, make sure we have accurate accounting that was more casual curiosity trying to learn how all these pieces fit together. With regard to the casp, you know, i was surprised by the low uptake, as you are, by the low uptake. I am wondering if folks are opening themselves up to exposure or threat by having an inspector come in. Is this actually creating liability . Im wondering maybe if we might get more buyin if there was some way to, you know, and im not even sure that this is possible, but some way to, you know, let them know on the backend end of that to get over the hump, if violations are discovered, or, you know, im just wondering what our communication with the legacy owner is about this . My fear might be some part of not participating. In the Grant Application, we haddock casp we had a casp support and i can provide you with liability if brought with an 80 lawsuit. Just the first step to that. I do agree that there can be more Clear Communication to the business. Just give it casp report. For us, it is understanding why we only had ten applicants applying for the casp inspection report and we realize some of them already have casp reports in the past. With the building part of this program, and also i think in the partnership with sb d. C. Trying to understand why businesses it will better help our outreach and education, two. One last question about that, with the legacy businesses, are we calling them or are those mailers, too. How are they learning about the program . We sent this grant out through email. Thank you. That was awesome. On that note, i know it is separate from the grant, but related, do you have a list of the specific businesses who can identify a need to participate in this and have responses . The accessibility grant or the abe . So, though abe program that compliance is the responsibility of the Property Owner. As part of this accessibility Grant Application we added in there, if the request for the assistance with the abe. We do have a list of businesses i i have been case managing on specifically complying with the abe. I guess, i just hope you guys connect to them or get that buyin is that we can very easily take that list i match them up and match them up. We can present this at the meeting, and you know, send it on our email list, and what, and just try to match it up on that end if that is useful . Absolutely. Continue outreach and education and your engagements . Definitely. Just a point of clarification with the abe, now challenged and being able to absolutely identify, that is facing accommodation. First what needs to be submitted is a checklist to the department of building inspection to determine what category your entryway is in. So they can see by the checklist , if a business, not the Property Owner was required to. That is one way of which the business is getting connected to our office, flagging a checklist and then through their conversations they are able to direct them for assistance. Any other questions before we go to Public Comment . Lets open it up for Public Comment. Public comment is closed. This is a discussion item. Any other comment . Thank you, rhea aguinaldo, that was a good program. I was just thinking, too, we see the increase when we start seeing those drivebys in certain neighborhoods. That is when you see the increase. I know, the one attorney was shut down. A guy from out of town that is when we saw the spike, when they are targeting noriega and on market street. We are seeing some spikes now, in certain sectors. Now they are going after certain types of businesses and i think some of that is probably utilizing google maps. That is when i think this will get activated more. Thank you very much. Next item please. Board of supervisors 190775 mi resolution urging office of Small Business to convene a Small Business economic mitigation working group. I want to pull this out separately from the director report in case you wanted to have a more extensive discussion supervisor walton when he was here to present on the ecigarette ban, to say he is committed to working and doing some economic mitigation and then very specifically in response to the resolution that you all past and submitted to the board of supervisors. Supervisor walton developed this resolution, and has directed our office to convene the working group, which it will consist of our office, a member of the commission, member of the office of economic and Workforce Development, a member of the Small BusinessDevelopment Center, and then a City Attorney for Small Businesses, representative including one smoke shop, one Merchant Organization representative and two Small Grocery representatives. So, so we will be working on that. The president of the commission designates the commissioner sitting on the group. I would like to nominate commissioner zouzounis, if she would be so inclined. I know youre passionate about this. I am so proud of you, because of you, you have made a difference in this, not only in this but a few other things, to where they target the store. Im going to publicly ask if you would please set on this commission . Yes. [laughter] thank you for that. The Amazing Things that you will have all been producing on our request. I really appreciate everybodys backup on this. The other highlights that i do want to highlight is to supervisor walton, i do want to express, because another tobacco piece of legislation there was a followup to help the businesses we did meet with the Supervisors Office and he is very committed to developing, getting a good list of mitigation measures together to review. And then he was very specific that he really wanted these negation measures to really focus on Small Grocery stores, mom and pop stores with a focus of looking at businesses that have ten or less employees. And then in addition, the office of the comptrollers office, is to develop to conduct an Economic Impact report because that was not done with this particular ordinance. And then we do have 60 days from when the ordinance passes of which to develop mitigation measures. I just wanted the mitigation recommendations, i wanted to bring that to your attention because 60 days is a very short period of time to develop some strong mitigation measures. This will be a full on focus for our office to be working on without working group. So, i think those are the key things i just want to bring to your attention. If you have any questions, recommendations. The item was heard today in rules committee. The resolution moved forward. Supervisor walton is the sponsor of the legislation, supervisor if you cosponsor, and then today in the rules committee, added their names as cosponsors. It will be voted on tomorrow. It was a generalized today, that means it is on tomorrows agenda. I didnt look at the meeting schedule. Any other commissioner comments. Do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment on item number six . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. This is a discussion item. X item, please. Item seven, approval of draft meeting minutes. Has everyone had a chance to review the draft minutes of jun . Any members of public that would like to make a comment on our minutes from june 24, 2019 . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We have a motion . Yes, i move to approve the draft minutes. Do we have a second . Seconded. [roll call] motion passes. Next item, please. Item eight, directors report. Update and report on the office of Small Business on the Small Business assistance center, , policy and legislative matters, announcements from the mayor, and announcements regarding Small Business activities. Thank you, some quick update, Josh Sabatini wrote an article around the city not getting the 3 milliondollar funding to start the mobile cycling. im very appreciative that he did that article. It was short but thorough in terms of why we need that. We do have a deadline of januar. When i say we, the city, to submit an application for approval for a Pilot Program to power cycle. Ill be meeting with the department of environment to find out what their next strategy is, and as to whether we need to reach out to senator weiner, to see if we need to amend, or extend out the deadline. I will report back to you on those updates with the department of environment. The legacy business did receive a budget increase, primarily with the support of supervisor peskin and supervisor fewer. 500,000 were added back to the Business Assistance grant for fiscal year 19 20, so that will bring that particular grant backed up to 300 per fte. We were estimating, it added 1 million, there would be less funding for the Business Assistance grant, they added back enough to bring you up per fte. Did not pass unanimously . I think that budget may have had its first reading, maybe it second reading. It is a line item. It has been added to the budget, and has not officially passed yet. It is in the budget to be passed. I made it very clear that if we were going to add this amount of money, and i do want to personally thank director of the office of economic and Workforce Development for their help and advocacy that we needed at least fte to add this funding, this is very laborious Grant Program to administer. If we didnt get it, we would have to stop processing applications for about three months. We cant do anything until the budget is completely passed. We did a budget estimate based upon the projected number of businesses that would be on the registry taking a look at the last three years. The average number of ftes we have had, so through, its an estimation. So, now that we are changing we had a thorough presentation and actually was going to go down hundred dollars it was they were going to be worth applying for. This is huge, and based on our projections a boost in that back up to some level that is meaningful. Do we need to have any disclosure . Adjusted estimate based on activity. The way the ballot measure was written that it was 500, the maximum amount was 500 per fte, but to be prorated based on how much was allocated to that funding program. So, this additional adds to the allocation that we would be giving to the Business Assistance grant which then, through our budget estimations would being bring the Grant Program back up to 300 per fte. It is very clear at the very beginning about, you know, the budget amounts. Based on the projection, which is based on the path, we are just projecting. We are not tied to the 450 or 500 . We are not tied. That was an two maximum amount, and, right, whatever the Budget Allocation is, the number of businesses that fly, then their overall number of ftes, we have divided that by how much is in the budget. And then to provide you with an update from the mayors Small Business roundtable that was held during Small Business week. On the 11th, senior staff, i meant to review the the roundtables administration, working to pull the top 35 per category and we will be making recommendations on that. I will keep you posted, we are targeting by the end of the month to help out a little more formalized so we can reach back out to the attendees and those who were invited. I have distributed a flyer, oewd along with the department of aging and Adult Services or having a job very job fair matching jobs for older adults. Commissioner. Five have noted the value of older adults who arent working fulltime, and that value to our retailer so i will be taking a look at this, because this was an issue about finding employees that was brought up during the hiring, that the hiring working group of the Small Business roundtable, is this something that our retailers, in our neighborhood commercial districts would they be interested in doing something, or having some sort of program trying to match this. With our Workforce Development they tend to work with businesses that, you know, have five or more Jobs Available where our neighborhood commercial retailers may have a parttime job, or just one job. Its a little bit harder to work with individual business, but if we could coordinate something with the Council District merchant or merchant area. It is a concept to explore, but only if we think that our Small Business is of interest to them. I do think they already have the number of slot that they were allotting for businesses. You can certainly reach out to lauren and see if they need more i encourage that. And then i have provided some, and i will forward you the email, our San Francisco unemployment numbers we are still below 3 , i think we were closer to just 2 . We have increased our unemployment numbers just slightly. We are still at 2. 3 unemployment. So, there is more detail to that in the report and you can read that and then i just wanted to report on some of the initiative ordinances. There have been updates. Supervisor mark has said he is likely to resubmit a similar type of ordinance for the november 2020 ballot. The business tax regulation and administrative code and additional taxes on business with disproportionate executive pay. That is still in play, working to try to get an informal hearing, but the business tax on administrative codes, additional tax on businesses, put on the ballot with four signatures. I may redrafted for the 2020 ballot. One thing that has evidently been forward with supervisor peskin who is supported by the mayor and all 11 supervisors. The business regulations tax code but administrative fare on Transportation Network companies and private transfer services. That is definitely moving forward with the November Ballot with strong or with the elected body. What was the first one that doesnt have the file number . Im sorry it is at the bottom of the first page. I can send you details to that. I know what it is. Thank you. The active space legislation was heard in committee today. Ill behalf of the office and monitoring the feedback on that. That is moving forward with no amendment, and as a Committee Reports i will have the first hearing tomorrow. You did have two amendments. One being that office uses will have to undergo discretionary review. If they are approved they will be able to stay for three years, and then the other amendment would be about our office of Small Business would be responsible for coordinating the legitimization program among the various city agencies that will be involved. Is so we will be assisting those businesses and coordinating with planning dbi and department of Public Health for those that need that. Weve artie spoken about the resolution. I just want to let you know that supervisor stephani and he have requested a hearing from the office of labor standards and enforcement on the impacts of the paid parental leave program, but that has not been scheduled, and i dont anticipate those will be scheduled for a little while because i think the office needs to develop its report. Ab161 an update that says an improper update, it was heard in the senate it has been amended and it has been watered down even more. So right now the same Small Business exclusions, it removes the exclusion that if you have compliant paper, but the summary for Small Business is every business that will have to have compliant, toxic free paper it starts off with every business will have to have a toxic free paper and ask a customer whether they want a receipt . They have removed the requirement of providing an email receipt by 2024. But, there is still the Small Business exclusion based upon the Government Health code definition of Small Business. Does that make sense . So, essentially it is a compliant paper in asking a customer whether they want to have a receipt before they ring the purchase. And then exempting the 800dollar Registration Fee for limited partnerships. That is on hold, but we dont know why. We do know it is in so thats not moving forward this year i we need to find out why it is not moving forward and hopefully make sure it moves forward for the following year. Which one . The 800 Registration Fee if you want to be limited partnership. The commission did a resolution for that. I think that is oh, a couple of things. We are officially in room 140. I encourage you to drop by our offices. We are mostly settled in. And then i will be working with both the president and Vice President on developing a Performance Plan for this fiscal year for me. Any other questions for the director . Seeing none. Any members of the public that would like to comment . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Next item, please. Item nine, commissioners reports. [reading notes] i only have one item, i want to congratulate the director of the San Francisco business had an excellent article on legacy businesses. Green apple books was featured in that article, so was our director. I just wanted to say good it is this weeks business times. I attended the july 16 monthly Council District merchant meeting. Also on june 20, i attended the ten Year Anniversary of sfa. An organization that i founded to support local manufacturers, and a program oewd has been very supportive of over the last ten years he and much appreciated. I just wanted to report back in that with some heavyduty construction going on in north each. They close down Washington Square park for many months. The norge the Business Associations along with neighborhood groups are Still Holding their feet to the fire to make sure it is happening in a correct manner that there are on no unnecessary dels