Newcomer, uncompanied minors. That is something that deserves our serious attention, love, and care. Thank you for investigating in th that. [ applause ]. Finally, i want to recognize your continuing investment in middle schools. Middle school was miserable for me. It was a hard time. And yet, it is one of the most crucial turning points in our life, when you find your identity, where you start to dream big, where you start to see your future unfold before you. As i introduce our next speaker, i will share something personal because i know shes going to go into a little bit more depth about the oakland investment. One little fun fact about the two of us. I see you, principal. We are both the mothers of middle school, Public School students in oakland. So to our incredible, heroic middle School Principals, this investment could not be more deserved than by the leaders that take care of not just our babies, but literally our babies. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the superintendent of the Oakland Unified School district, kyla johnson. Trammell. [ applause ]. Thank you all for being here. I want to give a shout out to my tour guide so i could see the campus. Thank you for your hospitality and touring us around. If you can repeat after me. I am because you are. I am going to flip that a little bit. I am because we are. This was an old african proverb that my grandmother said to me a lot. It resonates in terms of why were here beyond the cameras, beyond all the lights. Really what i believe is in marks heart and all of our hearts is that we are much Better Together than we are as individuals. When we all come together with our brilliance, when we come together with our resources, when we come together with our determination for these students, we can do impossible things. I truly believe that. If theres anything that you all get out of today. Its, one, that i believe mark has not only set forth a vision, but actually a pretty concrete model in terms of how corporate can work hand in hand with school districts. I think theres so much more we can do if we work together. I want to talk a little bit some of the journey weve been on in oakland, specifically around middle schools. I want to give a shout out to some of my middle School Principals, superintendent. I know there was a lot of them that worked together with mark. So the listening isnt lip service. Its really him coming and listening to what are the needs in the schools. Oakland and San Francisco, we have similar challenges, but there are differences. There is a different context. He really took the time, hours, to really listen for us to craft the best way to use the resources so that we would have impacts. So we really decided that we would focus on middle school, knowing that ultimately we want our kids to graduate, not only prepared for college, not only prepared for work, but prepared to be thriving, productive citizens. So really wanting to have a deep investment in middle school, knowing how critical that adolescent time is, to prepare kids to actually be their best selves in high school. Were starting to see some gains in math achievement. We focused on investing and professional development for teachers. Across the united states, its very challenging to actually recruit math and science teachers. Particularly right now in the bay area to retain. Who believes that living in the bay area is expensive, raise your hand. Okay. So were working creatively, the mayor, corporate, Public School systems to figure out how can we make a place . We cannot can thriving cities unless our Public Servants can afford to live in the city. Am i right . That is a problem that we all need to take ownership of, and mark is doing that with us in terms of really developing pipelines. In terms of preparing kids for the world of work, weve really focused on having not only a few Computer Science classes in some of our middle schools, but really thinking of a clear pathway. We know for students that look like me, we want to give them exposure early and be able to see themselves as future marks, entrepreneurs, anything they want to be in middle school before they get to high school. So weve grown from having Computer Science classes in two of our middle schools, access to 82 schools to now over 1,750 students in our middle schools and working on improving the rigour of those programs. Im a big believer that Computer Science is a language, just like spanish, just like french. So whether a kid goes into stem field, thats great, but we want all kids to understand the devices that theyre using and how they work. That is a right every kid should have as part of their education. When were thinking about what education should be in the future. Were now on the pathway to have that as an integral part of our curriculum in middle school. Finally in terms of our newcomer population thats growing leaps and bounds. We want to support our students to be their best selves. With this partnership we have developed for supports for students in terms of mental health, any other wraparound services. So when they enter the country they can be as successful as possible. Those are some of the concrete examples in the way this partnership has helped us. I want to challenge you, when you look around the world, you really do see the village here. You see some of our teachers and principals that are here. Obviously what were all here for, which are students. But i see folks from nonprofit. I see elected officials. I see corporations. So again, when were all with the gifts that we have, with the resources and the talents that we have when we come together, we really can support all of our students in both cities. Thank you all for the investments and thank you all for being here. [ applause ]. Without further ado, i would like to introduce my partner in crime on similarly dr. Matthews was raised in San Francisco. So we both have the privilege of leading school districts. He is the former state administrator and superintendent in san jose and now the wonderful superintendent of San Francisco. He is my friend and my mentor. So i would like to bring him to the mic. [ applause ]. Good afternoon, everyone. Im going to try that again. Good afternoon, everyone. This is an exciting afternoon, an exciting day. I want to thank sales force for not only what youre doing this year, but the last seven years. Its been amazing to watch this happen over time. Actually, one of our principals, hes in the back, i want, charles, if you can stand up just for a second. [ applause ]. I just wanted you to place a face with the many middle School Principals who are sitting in this room today. Think about the challenge that theyre presented with. Six years ago our Community Came together and we created a vision of where we wanted our students to be and what we wanted our graduates to look like. We called that vision 2025. We were all in agreement that this is what we wanted, but we knew we would not be able to get there without significant changes in how our schools operate. We knew there is no way we could make that happen with just the public dollars that we had. Sales force came in and they listened. You heard that earlier. They listened to what we were saying. They made the commit to support that vision, that every student would discover their spark along with a strong sense of self and purpose and graduate ready for college and career. Weve been able to go much further much faster because of this partnership with sales force. We would not have been able to get where we are today without that partnership and without sales force coming in and being that partner with us. With the investments from sales force in stem, we created the nations first prek Computer Science program and we strengthened our math instruction. Sales force is helping us transform the middle School Experience for our students by encouraging principalled innovation and enabling more handson student learning. As i said earlier, this does not happen without sales force being there. The results speak for themselves. Our district is the first urban district in california to exceed 50 proficiency in mathematics. Im going to wait for the [ applause applause. [ applause ]. Under the new common core aligned assessments, the number of students studying Computer Science over the last five years has grown from 700 students, five years ago it was 700 students in San Francisco unified studying Computer Science to 25,000 today. [ applause ]. One of the things that you need to understand is when we had 700 students in Computer Science, most of those students were white or asian males. Today those 25,000 students are reflective of our demographics of our district, more latino students, more asian students, more women. So lets give that a big round of applause. [ applause ]. You heard a bit about my background. Ive had the pleasure and privilege this is my 14th year of being a superintendent. There is supposed to be a gasp because i just cant possibly be that old. There you go, i like that sound. 14th year of being a superintendent in four large urban school districts. In each and every one of those previous districts, my hope and what i prayed for was a Strong Partnership with the community partners. Sales force is not only the best partnership that ive ever seen. It is actually the model for what these partnerships should look like. From the bottom of my heart, i thank you. I thank each and every one of you. This is what it takes to make it happen for our young people. Being involved, standing shouldertoshoulder, listening, rolling up our sleeves, and making it happen. So thank you to you all. [ applause ]. Now its my pleasure to introduce the chief philanthropy officer for sales force, ms. Ebony beckworth. [ applause ]. Thank you, dr. Matthews. I have the honor and privilege of wrapping this up and bringing this home, and i promise to be brief. [ laughter ]. Hi, marks mom. [ laughter ]. So i just want to say and im sure you all feel the same that i am so inspired to be here today celebrating this partnership, celebrating youth students, and celebrating our Public Schools. This is really amazing work were doing and its so important. As mark said, we really want to issue a call to action to all c. E. O. S and to all companies to adopt a public goal. We feel that its so important. Yes. Id like to thank all of the speakers for being here today. We know that this work wouldnt be possible without us working and partnering together. I would like to thank all of the sales force people for being here. And last but not least, i would like to give it up to the students, not just the Presidio Middle School students, but all the students who make up our bay area. Lets give it up to them. All right. Thank you all for being here and have a wonderful afternoon. Thanks, everyone. [ ] its great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. I am desi, chair of Economic Development for soma filipinos. So that [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and its also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. I studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. Working at imarket is amazing. Youve got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. When i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of Filipino Food, it was like oh, wow, thats the closest thing ive got to home, so, like, im going to try everything. Fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. I havent tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. The binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. But here, we put a twist on it. Why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. Were not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. We try to cook food that you dont normally find from Filipino Food vendors, like the lichon, for example. Its something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and its one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. This, its kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. When i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. I think its a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. Everybody keeps saying Filipino Food is the next big thing. I think its already big, and to have all of us here together, its just it just blows my mind sometimes that theres so many of us bringing bringing Filipino Food to the city finally. Im alex, the owner of the lumpia company. The food that i create is basically the filipinoamerican experience. I wasnt a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my Favorite Foods i like to eat, put into my favorite Filipino Foods, put together. Its not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. Maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the Different Things that i put in are just the Different Things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. Well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia it wasnt the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. There was a time in our generation where we didnt have our own place, our own feed to eat. Before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. Now, im taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. It can happen in the San Francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. Its basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. So right now, im eating something that brings me back to every Filipino Party from my childhood. Its really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. One of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, theres little communities there that act as place makers. When you enter into little philippines, youre like where are the businesses, and thats one of the challenges were trying to solve. Undercover love wouldnt be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our Community Partnerships out there. It costs approximately 60,000 for every event. Undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipinoamerican culture. I think in San Francisco, weve kind of lost track of one of our values that makes San Francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. Weve become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. When people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. When youre positive and committed to using that Energy Sustainable future. San francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e citys land area more than all the parks combined theyre far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. Through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the Municipal Transportation Agency pavement to parks is bringing Initiative Ideas to our streets. So the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public rightofway meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point were planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. Theres a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. With the help of Community Pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv. Or the Small BusinessCommission Held on monday, september 23, 2019. The meeting is called to order at 2 03 p. M. The Small Business commission thanks sfgov tv for Live Streaming the committee. Members of the public, please silence your phone and other public devices. The public is limited to three minutes per speaker. Speakers are required to state their names. Completion of the speaker card will help ensure the proper spelling of the speakers names. The speaker cards will be called in the order in which they were placed in the basket. Additionally, there is a signin sheet on the front table. Please show the Small Business commission slide. Welcome, everyone. It is our custom to begin each Small BusinessCommission Meeting with a reminder that the office of Small Business is the only place to start your Small Business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop. All of our services are free of charge. The Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about the policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. First item, please. Clerk call to order and roll call. [ roll call ]. Clerk you have a quorum. Thank you. Next item. Clerk item 2, general Public Comment allows members of the public to comment on matters that are within the Small Business commissions agenda. Do we have any members of the public who would like to make comment on any item not on todays agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Clerk item , approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions. Discussion and action item. The presenter is richard carillo, office of Small Business. Good afternoon. Richard carillo, Legacy Program manager. Sfgov tv, i have a powerpoint presentation. Before you are seven applications for the legacy business registry. The applications were reviewed by me and heard by the Preservation Commission on september 18. For each applicant, the s. B. C. Has been provided a staff report, the draft resolution, the application, a case report from Planning Department staff, and a resolution from h. P. C. There are copies on the table and the public binder. Item 3 a is adobe books and arts cooperative. It is a book store and art store. Adobe books opened an art gallery where friends of the shop could show their work. In 2004, adobe books made National News by the only store to organize by color and artwork by chris cobb. In 2012 they faced an untenable rent hike in a changing neighborhood. A book of supporters found a new store front on 29 street in the mission. The cooperative built a more explicit dynamic connection between the book store and the exhibition space and has hosted scores of Public Events featuring art, poetry, writing, and more. Item 3 b is anresco laboratories. The business is a laboratory founded in 1943 by dr. Sovin isenburg that does testing of food and foodrelated products. Anresco is an acronym for research and consulting. In the 1970s, anresco did nutrient labelling. In 1980, the business moved to the bayview neighborhood and solicited businesses from the various nearby meat companies. They also developed a expert capability for testing food of pesticide and herbicide residues. They are only one of two commercial laboratories in california accredited for all procedures required by the states, bureau of cannabis control. The business is a familyowned business owned by the son of the doct doctor. Item 3 c is the hara club. The business is a bar in the tender loin that opened in 1956 by hank hanestead, a wrestler and ralph, a boxer. The name is a combination of their names. The s the interior of the bar has been restored to reflect the businesss long history and the exterior neon sign is a recognized feature of the neighborhood. Today the hara club is the tender loins longestrunning bar. Item 3 d is the Mechanics Institute. Its a Nonprofit Organization established in 1985 by a group of mechanics who were dissatisfied with San Franciscos lack of libraries and dearth of Educational Opportunities for adults. The plan was to host a library, to offer classes and lectures that would teach new skills, to welcome everyone regardless of race or gender and to cost the user as little as possible. The organization moved a few times before purchasing its Current Location on post street in 1866. The institute built a threestorey building on the site, but the building was destroyed 30 years later. In 1910, the institute constructed a new ninestorey building that was declared a local landmark in 1981. Today the Mechanics Institute is the oldest surviving library in california, designed to serve the general population, and the oldest chess club in the nation. Item 3 e is the National Picture framing centers inc. It is a picture store established in 1974 as a result of the owners experience in doing accessible and affordable framing. This store eventually became a fullservice custom framing business. Cheap pets was born in 1988. Rather than change the successful format of the store, they changed the name. The companys Production Facility and headquarters are on pacific avenue. There are four Additional Stores around the city. Item 3 f is new asia restaurant inc. The restaurant is an iconic restaurant in chinatown established in 1987. They have 100 tables and can host a banquet for a thousand people at a single events. They hold many fundraisers, birthdays, lunar new yooer ooea celebrations. New asia restaurant was the first restaurant in San Franciscos chinatown to introduce the use of dim sum pushing carts as a unique way of showcasing the food. Item 3 g is sodinis green valley restaurant. The business is an Italian Restaurant that is operated continuously at 510 green street originally as green valley restaurant. The restaurant has retained its italianamerican roots. In 1993, peter sodini and his wife purchased green valley restaurant, adding their name to the restaurant, restoring the old building and turning the restaurant into a thriving, popular north beach establishment it is today. Approximately 90 of sodinis clientele are north beach residents. All seven businesses received a positive recommendation from the historic Preservation Commission. After reviewing the applications and the recommendation from the h. P. C. , staff finds the businesses have met the three criteria for listing on the legacy business registry. There are seven draft resolutions for consideration by the Small Business commission, one for each of the applicants. Your support of the businesses should be as a motion in favor of the resolutions. In the resolutions, please pay close attention to the features that define the business. One approved by the s. P. C. , the business must maintain these physical features in order to remain on the registry. For anresco labs its Testing Services for foods. For the hara club, its bar. For Mechanics Institute, its library and cultural center. For National Picture framing centers its picture frame store. For new asia restaurant, its restaurant featuring chinese cuisine. For sodinis green valley restaurant, its restaurant featuring italian cuisine. This concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer any questions. There are business representatives in attendance who would like to speak on behalf of the applications. Do you want to go right into Public Comment . Sure. Yes. Okay. Lets go into Public Comment. Clerk would sienna team come to Public Comment. My name is siennakong and i am here in opposition. I was at adobe for a year and a half and during that time i saw the staff mistreat cooperative members. This led me into the workings of adobe, and they have demonstrated a consistent pattern of violating labor rooltions in exploiting its members. It did not provide Workers Compensation for the entire duration of employment at adobe books and cooperative. They did not provide compensation for another lady when she was injured at work on march 28, 2018. She was injured in the eye and report her enjoy to the board of directors. They not only told her there was no compensation in place and insinuated that she was at fault since she purchased the decorations that injured her. Even though its been over almost six months now since injury, she still has not been paid and she had to pay the bills out of her own funds in order to avoid personal debt. Third, adobe then retaliated against the woman for seeking Workers Compensation. She found her hours reduced from 32 hours a week to 20. Additionally, adobe has been unlawfully using volunteer labor, despite being a forprofit enterprise. As you all know adobe claims they can get away with this because they a are cooperative. Adobe has always claimed that it cant give money to its volunteers because it has made no profit, it still would need to pay for the labor of the volunteers. I also have these are the ones that i witnessed while my time is here. I apologize. I only found out about the meeting this morning. [ bell rings ]. I could provide further testimony from former volunteers and further documentations. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Come on up. Sy. Thank you for having me today. I have worked at Mechanics Institute for 12 years as a librarian. Mechanics institute as a concept started in scotland in the 1820s as a vehicle for educating the working class. They typically hosted libraries, offered lectures on the sciences and emerging technologies and classes to teach new skills. This was a time in the world when there was no such thing as governmentfunded school systems, universities, or libraries. So the concept spread like wildfire, and at their height in the mid19th century in the englishspeaking world there were over 100 Mechanics Institutes in england alone. In north america there were a handful, mostly in canada and the eastern states. So San Franciscos Mechanics Institute is the only one in the far west and one of the few in the world that continues to operate on its original mission. The decision to found the San FranciscoMechanics Institute was made at city hall on december 11, 1854, and our founders all had boundless faith in the future of San Francisco and a very strong belief in selfimprovement through education. 164 years later, i think the founders our founders would be very proud of what its accomplished and eager to participate in all that the legacy business registry has to offer and the security that it will afford us as our community grows. Thank you so much for hearing me today. Great. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Come on up. Hi my name is john feldman. Im one of the owners of adobe books. I wasnt prepared to defend myself against the allegations made earlier. Basically, we are a volunteerrun coop because we and there is no management, per se. Theres a hired or an elected board of directors. We dont manage. We make decisions based on the way coops work. We were elected by the constituency of the coop and operate through the same way you guys do. We have a certain amount of people needed there and we vote on things. Theyre either passed or not. As far as ms. Kongs allegations that were exploiting them, we literally have no we literally make no money. As far as i can understand, as far as the coop law works, people that are once you become a member of a coop, you have im sorry, i wasnt prepared to have to go through this. Once you become a member of a coop, you are an owner and we decide at the end of the year to decide what to do with our money that weve made. We can either take it and put it back into the coop or we can take that money, which of course you said dividends. When we started the coop we decided to just put the money that we had back into the coop. Thats what weve done. The people that come there as volunteers, the first 40 or 50 hours can from what i understand in the coop law, can be recognized as trainees. And they would become worker owners. Thats my understanding of that. As far as the person that we have, one employee that was hired, at that time, and now the laws are changing with contracting, she was a contracted employee. So under that contract situation, it wasnt exactly the same as a regular, hired employee. And [ bell rings ]. As far as her injury we told her we would pay her when we had the money. We were waiting for a certain fundraiser and we were going to reimburse her. Thats my side of that, and i hope you take that into consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im jim drago and i own cheap petes. This is my fifth year of owning it. One thing i wanted to point out is about half of the employees we have, 85 employees, all live and work in San Francisco. Weve done a real good job i think of making sure that these employees can make a living. We pay higher than minimum wage. We work hard at that. Were very proud of that and wanted to point that out. We have employees that have been working for us for nearly 15, 20 years. I would say about a third of them. So we have a good, Strong Community presence. Its something were really proud of. I wanted to point that out. Thank you for considering our application. Great. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Come on up. Its your business. Let us hear about it. Hello. Im speaking on behalf of sodinis green valley. Im mark sodini. I would like to thank you all for everything youre doing for us. In short, the restaurant employees everybody that works there lives in the city. Ive had employees over there for 20 years. The restaurant opened in the early 1900s, and ive worked it six, seven days a week for the past 29 years. I just love north beach. I love the city. I still enjoy coming to work and i love this process. Thank you very much for listening and thank you for all your help, richard, greatly appreciate that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Anybody else . Come on up. Hi. Good afternoon, commissioner. I have the honor to have the owner of new asia restaurant here today. Sorry, english. He said thank you, thank you. I am very pleased that i have the opportunity to meet and work with mr. And mrs. So whos coming on working with a legacy business, got to know their narrative and their history. Im particularly very its a blessing for them to have the restaurant there because as rick already mentioned, it is one of the largest ones and they employee on average every single time is around more than 50 employees and they serve as to a lot of new immigrants coming from asia, hong kong, taiwan, they come over here and stay in chinatown. They are one of the major employers who help them to settle down and help them to settle the family down. So i think this is one of the greatest contributions that new asia restaurant has to do for the entire immigrant community here in San Francisco. One other interesting thing is mr. So told me that my restaurant is the secondlargest washrooms in chinatown. I said, what do you mean by that . He said, i open my restaurant to customers and noncustomers because i know that a lot of people have natural calls. I would be more than happy to open my restaurant to them to use, whether they are my clients or not. Mr. So keeps on saying that because his english is not good. So he asked me to just translate for him. Again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Any more speakers . Public comment is closed. Commissioner dwight. I love new asia restaurant because my wife and i walk by there every saturday night on our way to eat in north beach, but we love to see the celebrations going on, whether its a wedding or some party. And its just a its sort of a bell weather of the vitality of chinatown to see it so lit up and everything going on there. Its a very festive place. I love that place. I dont go there, but its so quintessentially chinatown. If it disappeared, i would be like, what happened to chinatown . So its really great. I love cheap petes. Ive framed many pictures there. I had no idea that was both frameorama and cheap petes. And ive toured anresco labs. We went there when we were doing our c. B. D. Research. Ive been to Mechanics Institute. Its a really neat, historic place. They have some cool books on the stacks there, if you want to see the world of analog books, thats a great place to go. Congratulations to all of you for going through the process. Commissioner riley. Yes, i also want to mention new asia restaurant. Thats the most popular restaurant in chinatown or outside of chinatown. Any time when there is a celebration like weddings, birthday parties, fundraisers, and especially the chinese new year, all the family associations have a party there. So i personally go to new asia for banquets at least 10, 20 times a year. Thank you. I also have been to many, many banquets at new asia. Maybe not quite as many as irene, but it is a regular part of my year to go there. Green valley restaurant, youre a part of our heart in north beach. What can we say . Youre just part of us. I also visited anresco laboratories with the commission. I was really impressed by how professional they were and how thorough they were. It was really an eyeopener to see some contaminated cannabis that they brought out to show us and show us all of how they run through all their tests to make sure that things like that dont come to the public. Congratulations from everyone. Youre all so well deserving. I want to give a shout out to sodinis. It was either you, golden boy, now im kind of older, im excited. Your family is amazing. We love your food. And i just want to give a couple shoutouts, first off, sodini gangrene valley restaurant, that was one of my parents goto places because they used to stay at the Washington Square bed and breakfast when they came. That was one of their definite goto restaurants. New asia restaurant, i have been to many banquets at new asia restaurant, shark fin soup, and ive had a blast. National picture framing center, cheap petes, every picture in my house and of my family has come from it is from National Picture framing or cheap petes. Ive been to your other store and the one in San Francisco. Our company, we buy all of our frames from you. You guys are awesome and have great frames there. Keep up the good work. Do we have a motion . I would like to make a motion. We have an elephant in the room today with regard to one of our nominees. I would like us to have an opportunity to consider what weve heard today. My motion is to approve six of the seven resolutions, excluding adobe books only for the time being so that we can learn a little bit more about what we heard. I think it would be irresponsible of us to just kind of wash over that. Thats my motion. Second. I have a point of clarification. Maybe defer to staff on this. Isnt its my understanding that it does have to go through some sort of vetting with the city before the applications come before us. If there was a complaint it would have shown. Is that the case or not . We generally do Extensive Research on the legacy businesses. They go through a big process. Online we try to find out as much as we can about the businesses. We get news reports and things like that. For the registry we have not been checking with o. L. C. For all the applications. For the grants we do that because we dont want the funding to go to the businesses before we check. We havent done that for the registry. If you want, we can start doing that, if thats something that you think just to be clear, i dont nothing in my motion suggests that either that theres anything at fault. At adobe. We dont know that and theres no fault in the process. I think this is something we have not seen before and that we aught to cause and consider its something we havent seen before. Lets see how we deal with this situation and avoid it in the future. Maybe its an outlier case and revisit it at the next round. Most of the work has already been done. Its a matter of us doing our Due Diligence to be fair. With the legacy applications we hit all issues up front. Youve seen that with all of the applications that we brought before you. We generally ask the businesses if theres anything we need to know, let u