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Okay per to me e item call to order and roll call commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is excused. Commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley commissioner zouzounis mr. Vice president we have quorum. Item two. Our speakers is not here perhaps go to item number 4. A yeah, since the pertinent is the same for items two and three. No, no action item and well call those together the draft minutes november 23, 2015, june 22, 2015. Commissioners any comments on the minutes. June 22nd item Leona HelmsleyVice President report we put down commissioner dwight that is commissioner white that was for the june 22nd. Yes. Any other comments art is there any Public Comment on item those Meeting Minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I motion the approve the minutes of june 22, 2015, november 23, 2015, and june 2, 2015. All in favor, say i. I. Or the that item passes with one absent moving to item number 2 our; is present okay item 2 presentation and possible action on board of supervisors file number public works street space and ordinance forever the public works to limit the duration of street space and limit the permits for permit extensions that can be issued during a 3 year urban mixed use and district and the ordinances of permits for the same address after the 3 years and the determination under the California Environmental quality act discussion and possible action item and our pertinent is jess of the office of supervisor farrell. Good evening commissioner. Wait is that on. inaudible supervisor farrell were talking about a few items inaudible reform and after that what im sure a shock to known for living in San Francisco the share amount of construction impacts the businesses and the residents zl we hear containment from resident frustrated by the Parking Spaces that are taken by the parking construction and the frustration mounts when the volume spaces can sit by so for days at a time and the are not given the permitted in particular a site in our district we worked dpw and the dblth department of building inspection work on the proposal and pending the committee to the full board in the next couple week and do the following the duration the street space for the building operation permit extension not to be longer a current Building Code under the original building or site permit and second adds more view for them granted and directs the director of dpw not to grant an expedition without first confirming with dbi there is ongoing work on the site in the action and the site permit 24 proposal will give nor discretion to the director of dpw to not have the extension for like a new permit and under the proposal the director may issue modified conditions on the extension at many times in addition direction for that the rerecognizing of my permit if they feel the residents under this proportionality will have the ability to appeal to the director and can appeal to the board of appeals this proposal was intended to help free up limit neighborhood Parking Spaces and not curtail necessary construction and that applies to the urban mixed use and the neighborhood commercial district and the transit districts as extended in the planning code as lastly this proposal will apply retrofitting so we as a city with properly addresses things that are dealing with quality of life for the residents and businesses in San Francisco this is a afraid piece of legislation and has impacts for the residents and improves the quality of life and reality closely worked with staff at dpw and dbi to come to the proposal and have sign offices from both departments and feedback if sfmta were taking into account today and were looking forward to your response and any input or any advice you are willing to give me ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you commissioner president adams. First of all, thank you jess and supervisor farrell a straightforward piece of legislation that is common sense and i got to thank you for this one in many neighborhoods in the city you are looking at like is on my street in particular i have a resident on the street that is taking up 3 spaces in our neighborhood a mixed use we have people that park to go shopping and going on 3 years this permit supposedly not done and using it as a dumpster for other projects around the district so when i read this it was i was jumping for joy not only my area too i see this on terryville street and a can give you addresses all over the city you have to have street blockage but after a certain amount of using for packing to store stuff and making an combat a bad impact on Small Businesses in the neighborhood and totally want to thank you for doing this it is a straightforward proposal. Thank you. I appreciate that the exact reason and example that you mentioned we more streamlined in the district a project on meadow that pooled over would do and 50 permits over a 3 year period and not completed the necessary construction during the timeframe and nfl we tried to work first remedy to get this taken care of but needed a resolution solution this project is not alone in the city and hopefully, a relief to the residents. Thank you so much i have a quick question, of course, something in my neighborhood district 3. Of course. There is a large residential condo complex on both sides of the street and near a lot of businesses basically for the last 14 years they take uppermost of Street Parking and it just one little project after another so how will that impact if they say no parking for two months for plumbing they say no parking for the next few months for o for roofing is never ended how do you build you know address that. So i think our address for example, it is give introduced creation to the people who issues the space occupancy permits to go back when the ordinance is approved and we should go to the board of supervisors to go and revoke those if this is in the best interest of the Neighborhood Convenience and obviously we want resident and Small Businesses alike to take out the necessary permits to do necessary construction but again, we know there is abuse within the system our proposal that given the broad discretion by giving people to deny the permits seeks to provide a solution for all the solutions in the neighborhood. A situation ongoing maintenance that takes up parking all year round for years and years that will be taken care of. Yes. And what well be able to do for example, eddy in the bureau of street use and the director of public works the main contract o contact in terms of providing complaints once that is impacted in the books of San Francisco any resident or Business Owner can report a problem were we having from someone not meeting the goals that is broad discretion allows them to use that discretions wooigz to make sure that people are completing the goals of projects and the appraisals progress people feel theyre treated urban viewing and have a solution for which to take care of that. Will they be allowed to do a plumbing project immediate apply for a roof project completed work on the garages, 6 more months completed will that activity never ending taking uhhuh up of public parking. Yes. I mentioned again, the problem project site we used the example in the legislation sacramento street taken out 10 Residential Construction permits and taken out a mri i do not do of other projects the same thing they could somehow show theyre preceding on the project when in reality theyre using to block 3 that concludes my remarks on sacramento. They take up two blocks of parking. Yeah. Commissioner president adams. Really quick and i think that item f on page 5 addresses this because i see this a lot they pull the permits but theyre not doing any construction but they put out the signs and nobody can park but nothing going on so i take 2 under permit replication if theyre not using the space the director what pull that. Thats correct and this is supposed to come in front of the commission the Construction Contractor parking plan we have now impacted new rules and regulations for the dpw to do more proactive noticing to businesses when permits with used for sprays occupancy yeah. That ordinances allows a parking not used by the project sponsor who ever the sponsor is that space returns to the neighbors no questions asked. A company that is abusing in my neighborhood they theyre not working and no dumpster they put up the signs and use it for their own personal parking. And any of the issues talking about with dpw for a great part of most we want to reform the permit system and know this problem taking out of 50 to one hundred dollars permit for 6 months allows free neighborhood parking parish. Commissioner toursarkissian. Thank you for this legislation i thought that the extension was related to a building Structure Operation not a permit to north americas a 12 months correct me if i am wrong 12 months the permit extension cant steady 12 months not related to construction operation that is specific to permits we cant go on getting a permit and an extension again overall for the specific project is that youre reading. Yes. Again, the permit can be granted for what a current permit maybe and again what were getting at in the crux of this reform is on the permit extension so the problems that we see when someone pulls the permit given the system that someone can political over the internet or may a fee no quiz asked for more Parking Spaces occupied by limiting this to no more than 12 months were into the crux more review when the extension are sought for. You mentioned some suggestions youre coming to be following adding by dpw or what are those changes. The proposal in front of you, you and preponderance of the evidence has full sign off from public works and that has come back in terms of suggestions well have to sit down in the next couple weeks but broadly adding in more Zoning District by the planning code to make it more standard so that again, our goal not to really hamper appropriate crux by get to make sure were giving back the Parking Spaces to residents. And you said to exercise the discretion as the extension some guidelines what are the guidelines you have. I dont have a guidelines i left if so the director of public works whoever he or she maybe can work with them and codifying the timelines and the review for extension we feel well be able to address those. The discretion is appealable. Yes. With the department of building inspection appeals it. Commissioner dooley. I remember for a long time the permits will say if no construction by 12 00 noon the public can park i never see that anymore can you tlaem what the deal is that is very useful to free up parking. Yeah. You know it is interesting when we were working on the construction parking plan with the mta and dpw they raised that issue it was an existing practice that was something that was not codified we try to codify the time slots were hearing from your residents were you know they can find Parking Spaces in the morning but not parking in the evening that kind of critical period with an 4 and 7 we wanted to be able to allow it flexibility and at the advise of the mta owe dpw we decided to not make it the noon cut off time. But might want to revisit that for people visiting businesses 4 to 7 is not necessarily the time for them to be able to get people to the businesses. Thats a great point well look at that. Commissioner any other questions. Yeah. Commissioners. Thank you for presenting this to us kind of a followup on the containment system i see that a notice within 5 Business Days to all Property Owners im curious when a residence or business to call 311 if we cant reach the Property Number a direct line for containments. 311 is a service that is available to anyone that is one option we can argue the preliminary option any sponsor has the director phone number call the person directly the other call anytime whether dbi or a construction person to come out to make sure the goals are met with the permit. The 5 Business Days numbers im concurring that dbi and public works have prior notices for the to start a project is that number to be expended like we need more time to use those spaces or anyone. Not to my knowledge dpem did outreach with the residential contractor that often come into the department and havent heard that issue but we want to address that. Commissioners any other questions. My question is the same but i got cut off. No other questions opening up for Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . Stephen cornell theres going to be a lot big projects coming up as polk street and terryville i live in west portal we went through a large we are doing when the contractors came up and take whole streets they need to do the side streets to put the pipes and sometimes equipment all fine they bring their own personal cars they stick them there and take a red cone on top of the hood and get a free parking the city is taking extra Parking Spaces away from the neighborhoods im not sure the personal cars of all the construction workers should be getting a freebie this should be addressed especially singles wed like to have a lot of construction down the road and when theyre doing a whole streets or streets. Thank you. Any other. There seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So commissioner president adams i motion we approve the board of supervisors file at is common sense legislation and something that is long overdue. Do we have a second. Second. Roll call vote. Commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is absent commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley. Commissioner kounalakis. The motion to approved 6 to zero one absent all right. Thanks we appreciate the support thank you. On to item 3. Welcome back to on core. Like to read into the record item 3 presentation and deduction on board of supervisors file hearing initiate order do. Please note any of the members may speak without taking for open sidewalks here to look at the ordinance by a november 8, 2016, called amending the police code for the encampments on public sidewalks this is a deduction item and to clarify a Ballot Initiative to no motion or action taken. Okay. Perfect thanks good to be back im sure the homelessness it persistent in our city and continues to be a top concern to residents and especially businesses citywide you know this by little citys process and housing over 25 thousand people in over 15 years our Homeless Population is stagnant with increases in the Homeless Count and then more recently for better or worse theyre the most prominent symbol of homelessness it is not compassionate to let human beings in our city on the streets it is dangerous and you think health for the residents and businesses and individuals residing in the encampments we firmly believe that 9 answer to homeless is housing not tents and building doing everything we can as a city to help the homeless into housing and out of the street encampments we released numerous reports and done a lot of legislation focus on the tenure of the board of supervisors and the mother humane solution and go saves little city miles in the long run with a wrap around service to help them get back to the past of selfsufficiency and talk about the rationale to the ballot with that initiative over a month and a half ago supervisor avalos stated and board of supervisors meeting it he was pubically calling on the City Attorney to draft a encampment policy for the city and county and we had numerous problems with the supervisors draft outlining u outline like providing is an sheriffs station Running Water for homeless enhancements r good times for thirty individuals felt that was a reason for more encampments not less and given the composition on the board of supervisors right now were not confident we can should tell a solution protectively at the board of supervisors that is not acceptable to our policy prototype in addressing the encampments and homeless in San Francisco we felt compelled this given businesses to voters again as the number one issue in polls we should take this directly to the plastic bottle we have introduced the proposal and give you the landscape, if you will, the board of supervisors in terms of encampment policies supervisor avalos has called on the City Attorney not addressed that legislation supervisor peskin at the june 28th meeting introduced his counter encampment policy that is coming before the board of supervisors right now that will need a majority of board to place it on the ballot newcomers problems with the supervisors proposals to addressing the encampments and just learned about 4 minutes ago from supervisor kims shell introduce her on policy to the board of supervisors as it stands today are tomorrow well have 3 different policy approaches for addressing tent encampment in San Francisco we welcome the conversation about what we should do to get the encampment folks communitybased housing we feel this is extremely straightforward and ill start by saying nothing in our ordinances specifically preconclusions any of the colleagues that are their prospering with the drafting of this policy we left it id like to take the opportunity valuable our new department of homelessness jeff and his workers with the new department of homelessness dpw or dph can address the individuals living in the encampments we firmly believe that the Service Providers and the front line workers are knowing the best policies for the individual our policy really gets and crux of tents encampments in San Francisco theyre saying that tents are illegal not true to be clear the city utilized health abatement ordinances and other state pencil coincides nothing with our police code that addresses that in San Francisco our proposal makes it unlawful for tents or other habitable makeshift structures San Francisco be in the public rightofway those conditions will be as long as an individual or individual in the combmentsz have twentyfour hour housing in writing in regards to the tents encampment taken away and the validated of homeward bound shelter beds or housing unit is available for those of you who dont know homebound is very successful and Cost EffectiveHomeless Service weve offered to folks on the streets it provides free bus ticket and Meal Services to individuals who may have a supportive situation outside of city limits and not whatever location we bus them back to and they make sure that their connecting with individuals to support situations on the back end and the last component that is consistent with the streets practices for the material storage that mandates that the city and dpw must provide storage for up to 90 days and must provide that in writing for the private property and any legal contraband that will be con stated because those things will be breaking the law the encampments prong the encampments on the street but seems like what we are doing at the board of supervisors our policy visions and approaches for how we should address the tents encampments in the neighborhood and on the public rightofway our proposal provides is that we building that tent xhchlts prong homelessness and not did answer and 14er89 beds are the answer for people experiencing homelessness and another policy vision recorded by colleagues for measures that make it uncomfortable for people residing in tent encampments with that, i welcome my questions i think the last points unlike ballot measures we included measures that allow the supervisorial board of supervisors to all the time the policy from a time and to allow for the variance amount of neglects and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. One caveat there is available housing i think the acknowledgement of a shortage of housing is that legislation have any together. Yes. It does i believe that we will august our proposal were submitting to the voters not to address the homelessness but a piece of the puzzle in terms of the concerns you raised we actually have a briefly this policy provides the necessary choices to the individuals and businesses around getting the homeless out of the street and into shelters and some of the political will is addressing the capacity concerns and supervisor farrell and supervisor wiener are signed on and cosponsoring the state tax it dedicated 50 million a year Going Forward with the time period 2. 5 billion in Homeless Housing and services we feel will make a impact in addressing the concerns and adding the necessary supply as to the Housing Stock were working on a report with the budget analyst to identify for available singleroom occupancies units we know about are a good amount and descent in San Francisco and the greater bay area we can be making a greater impact for folks on the streets and the businesses and again, were seeing proposals from the state level i i know that there are just approved a 360 health funds the state of california is disperse throughout the city ref an additional 2 million for Mental Health specific housing and services so again, were piggybacking this policy on our support and our record for further investments in shelter commissioner farrell chair the Budget Committee for the past four years urban design ushered in more support for services than any other in terms of our reallocation of the mayors budget 13 million that is from the board of supervisors and a panacea but obviously more work to and the policy of San Francisco should be not tents encampments on the street and do the best we can as a city to make sure the tents comments and to shelter our folks to a support they can get back on their own two feet. Commissioner toursarkissian you have a question about the scope of talking about encampments independence shall need a tent consisting with the top roof or upper covering. Yes. Did it exclude people that sleep in sleeping bags ive seen in any neighborhood in hayes valley people with tents and also sleep in sleeping bags. Sure. Are they exempted i want to understand exempted. I wouldnt characterize it as a shelter but we should be working as a city to get that individual into Sheltered Housing our policy is towards tent encampments so again you know the tents are visible everyone knows with a tent is and not on the city streets and know we see in our commercial corridors and residential corridors throughout the city other make shifts habitable structures you, you my have a tarp on the on top of two pieces of 4 by 4 made a tent. If you dont have a top youre exempt a top if you are in a sleeping baggy understand to understand. And again but an exemption to your legislation were talking about homelessness he to define what encampment means with the xhafgs of businesses and people so youre not going to remove them if they dont have a cover on the sleeping back; correct . Remember the policy provides for the removal of tents and encampments and others make shifts structures with the advance notice of a shelter or homeward bound not a panacea were tat the tent encampments that is a visual problem and concern for residents. Sleeping bags too. Yes. Say yes. Theyre not included. Theyre not included commissioner dooley. Im kind of pullsed i see the police go in and sweeping out the tents encampments everywhere everyday it is kind of an additional tool for the police and okay. Which i understand until we have Supportive Housing for all of those people i think this is two early to be done if we dont have support housing lets get the Supportive Housing first then move them in otherwise where are they going to go. I see what happened in the neighborhood they move 3 blocks away i dont see the point of not doing it right now. Appreciate and august we respectfully disagree to move the individuals into housing no means by a panacea we need more supply of housing and beds again, were hoping that policy acts as a function to help to build up public will and Cost Effective we know that are humane at the end of the day. So if you dont have enough Supportive Housing they can retain on the street. So again for example, if theres a group of 10 individuals residing in an encampment and there was no individual that could be connected to homeward bound and no shelter beds that are 100 percent no Supportive Housing yes. The encampment will be able to stay and other make shift structures are unlawful with an advance notice and offer of homeless shelters. Necessities e thats not enforced. The fact it is illegal allows the citizens to make statements that statement is get the housing okay. We have San Francisco have laws and cant exclusively rely on dpw restrictions im a Firm Believer in making people owe more often when people are allowed to stay they become territorial and become violent and have their dogs off leash and they or are tread treat people are threatened by off leased pits bulls and also it creates a situation of swaurl and having them move on it is better to not get unmanageable we found if we keep them in rotation once it is institutionalized it is almost unmanageableable id rather have them clean a mess and not humane to the people that are living there to allow them to basically create a situation where they have you know a toxic environment commissioner president adams. Yeah. I agree but disagree with you commissioner dooley you have to move them in and you have to go to 16th street and fulsome and dog patch upper market theyre there it keeps them moving on and have people that Internal Revenue territorial with dogs hurting businesses so bad it businesses are closings up and moving nothing it being done. We have folks with utilizing fires and burn marks on building spent 5 million renovating this has got to stop and and the supervisor supervisor avalos wants to have toilets in the the you know in the excelsior theyre no in the excelsior and you see very few homes in district 8 and 6 and 9 theyre in the dog patch you know in the certain areas and listen im compassionate we need to do something i love the fact you know with the home wards Bound Program we know bans the statistics it to 80 percent are from somewhere in the the to tap our services and like in the chronicle a couple weeks ago if you were reading c w columns San Francisco cant afford to be the homeless dumping ground in the United States we cant okay and as a taxpayer i find that offense that were still paying for this and hurting our Small Businesses so i think this is a first step and something to get the ball rolling so thank you. Commissioner yeeriley. Yes. I heard over and over that in one of the problems of the homeless situation they refused treatment and refuse to go into the shelter so how will you handle this once that is become the law and by helping the shelter they refuse to move how will you handle that. Thank you for that question one thing i want to do to work to decide spell the notion a sizeable population that is resistant and talk to the homeless workers if this individual is offered a unit 99 percent of the time the individual wants to have a roof over their head and close the door even if it is a 10 by 10 again in terms of you know, i think what we are doing as a city separate from the policy to address the individuals your should tell a small minority i think what we are doing with the Navigation Center were trying to make our Navigation Center better and reducing some of the barriers we know exist exist for individuals looking to enter the shelters for example, currently restrictions around individual that have partners from being able to reside together in shelter from bringing many of the personal belongings or a petty think our director jeff is coming on board we have ultimate faith and respect tremendously f i this this is from other questions eastern the capacity announce the second Navigation Center of the hotel a tent encampment targeted focused team and brought on a former department of Public Health working that is heading up the team and what theyll do in combination with the neighborhood i know theyre planning to do kind of temporary pop up shelters that are targeted towards the tent encampment to get People Better connected if you remember the first Navigation Center the idea was the genesis was were dealing with large tent encampments in groups that want to Stay Together as you can imagine exercising homelessness is one of the toughest things when our exercising that it make sense that individuals want to bond together and not be straight we firmly believe that the city that again knocking down some of the barriers to make our Services Better sutro to individual needs awhile being able to you know enforce the laws on the boxes that we can use to really help maintain and achieve that balance we want to see in the neighborhoods residents and Property Owners and other taxpayers are the rights as Homeless Individuals are intended. If they refuse to go into a shelter and dont want to move once again this is the law theyll be breaking the law how will you handle that will they be arrested. Our policy has no criminalization and contingent on the shelter beds well confiscate the tents and take their blornz it is the populated that well be putting forward and again by no means a panacea for homelessness we need a combination of Homeless Services and more supply in terms of the 14er89 beds to make the impacts that the residents expect to see and a clear policy or attempting to the voters are willing to bless our policies that the encampments are dangerous for the city and for the individuals. Commissioners be aware that is a ballot measure will be going to the ballot so were not going to change that. Consumes. Thank you for coming to us a couple of questions i have in the broader scope of the conversation what have some is homeless Advocacy Groups responding im sure you know theres more innovative models this breaks this you have to go into the center but having incentives based you know steps for homeless folks he know that seattle is an example a way to maintain the communities and that many people meet them where they are part of being homeless so im just curious you know if theres any conversations about innovative approaches i know that San Francisco we have a lot of space to create on regulated encampment but curious to any alternative conversations youve all respond. One of the Innovative Solutions being successful with the housing opportunities the Navigation Center and it is expanding that model i know what were looking at for example, the approval of the sales tax what we plan to extend a portion of that moneymaking the shelter system for available for the creation of barriers less barriers for individuals looking at the shelter and were looking to address the supply question again, we have a report that will be coming out in early fall looking at the sro buildings that are you know for better or worse one of the most Cost Effective particular master lease opportunities the city with the Additional Resources has the opportunity to leverage the resources to provide an incentive to the pertaining to trust the city and move forward you know accepting of a population ill say supervisor farrell i believe our board and mayor are open to any andal Innovative Solutions no one Silver Bullet for San Francisco but we firmly believe that housing. Not the director of homelessness i think if you have to have the solutions not the director to the meeting okay commissioner toursarkissian. Yeah. I wanted to clarify the question asked about the other laws and orders. The ordinance talks about the fact on the books Police Code Section 769 in addition to the tools excuse me im a little bit slow about this lets talk about the process so you give the notice. Uhhuh. Notice at the side near the site and at the site specifically posted. What happens you come back the next day and remove the encampment what what happens to the folks this is a location for the people to stay and fulfilled the requirements of the notice what you do with those people and what you do with their blornz. I want to understand just the process. Again, were hopefully it will be much less than twentyfour hours. We have but again, we have supervises that are proposing 72 hours supervisor kim and others for the 14 days a difference of opinion so again ill remind you that the removal of a tent encampment is contestant on the capability of the beds and the department of homelessness and dpw are working together to transport that violated or individuals into a shelter situation into a Supportive Housing situation and our policy or proposal would state that again with the existing current practices storing the personal blornz and other items and the tents will not give back the tents. I dont understand the 90 days in a sense if you remove them from the location i just want to clarify it is good so people listening you remove them so how far how long will they be sheltered in the process whats happening he i mean will they be able to get back their bloonz and remove them theyve taken the tent how long will we be keeping them. They can go to a Navigation Center. It depends on the appropriate service or housing or shelter that is offered i think one of the key differences we feel more compassionate the voters there are difference of opinions in terms of the colleagues on the board of supervisors for the appropriate solutions and again, we are drafts our policy to be intentionally big to allow our experts for the outreach workers to help to determine the service intervene best for the individuals or individuals not a onesizefitsall not a blanket policy we need our front line workers every day was the most appropriate intervention or Service Opportunities for that individual or individuals. I think go flexible rather than big. I have a quick. To be flexible. I have a quick question i know the dpw folks that come their pickup trucks to clean up encampments we come by the store it is a rough job im curious a caveat to increase that capacities or able to hire more people to do that. Thats a good question we have a city budget pending at the board im not sure but a budget increase with additional add backs i think that again you know if we are able to get the sales tax on the ballot were talking about 1. 2 billion to address the issue if goes a majority to housing and services but to pay for those key question to address did capacity questions all across the system to support the housing system. Commissioners any other questions. Okay open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . So having a business it is on the corner for one million years ive over the years gotten accredited when i dont clean any sidewalk that guess to clean little sidewalk every day and people with graffitied the side of my building they pant is and charge me if someone it is camping in front of any business am i to get cited i think that we look at this and the different laws they have to be the same for everybody and theyre going to cite somebody what are they going to do i think the city should be enforcing the laws that are being forced on the rest of us ill be glad to come in and see the checks over the years not fairs and it happens all the time the story im talking about a half of block from church it feeds Homeless People and dont allow them to stay in front of their church they hang out in front of any store i get cited somebody needs to do something about and when i talked to my fellow merchants on 16th street and tents all over there shes worried about is she going to get cited for combruks or obstruction of the sidewalk. Public comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Theres no action required on this thank you jess for coming and informing us about the ballot measure. Thank you for having me. And looking forward to coming back. Thank you item number 5 please. All right. Item 5 update on the legacy business and staff introduction. Discussion team and commissioners are the executive Director Office of the Small Business commission. Commissioners, i want to start off this item introducing you to our new Legacy Program martin luthern king, jr. Richard i want to notify you up richard and have you take a few minutes to introduce yourself. Good evening, commissioners thank you for having me. Today. Nice to meet you all i just want to thank you very much for this opportunity to serve as a Legacy Business Program manager and excited about the business ive been with the office of Economic Workforce Development working with the Community Benefits and in the Neighborhoods Program and before that i was with the Controllers Office for 5 years, one year with the city budget and 4 years with contracting and also procurement and i also did a contracts and procurement for oewd as well before that i was in san diego been there 15 years and worked with the north park main Street Program which was a Business Improvement district for 9 years and worked for the Improvement District council they were an Advocacy Group for the 17 busy improvements districts in san diego i have a lot of experience and been doing that for 15 of last 20 years and Program Management project management tons of projects especially norwalk main street i bring all that to this new position but a slight change in my career for the last 20 years weve been trying to bring people into neighborhoods and trying to bring businesses into the Business Districts and we definitely succeeded in many places in doing if so, now the problem we have so many people here that rents are up and gentrification is a problem so this is kind of a career shift from Neighborhood Revitalization to Business Retention i think thats where we are going now in the next stage of urban Development Im excited to be part of that and on the leading edge so what were going to do right now to get to the backlog of all the businesses that are nominated to the regulatory and all of the applications that have come in and following up with those that have not provided us with applications and helping those that have provided us with applications and havent 34re9sdz them well panes to that right now and get those through and also have to work on the Business Assistant grants because of the timelines photos and want to get those through the process and well have to do some procedural Decision Making to get those out right now and after that we would definitely want to you know look at the next grant process which is the rent stabilization grant to Pay Attention to a lot of that as well and also there are promotional aspects to the Legacy Program and Business Assistance aspects roughly the office of the Small Business commission that is housed anothers oewd they can provide Business Assistance and working closely with them once the program is upcoming were thinking maybe a year i do not have or a couple of years when things are smoothed out longterm we want to explore the possibilities of setting up programs that would encourage and enable businesses to provide Properties Gentrification so actually have the Business Owners own their spaces or the properties so you know, i brought it up to hiring panel this is something i want to explore when their the upcoming maybe do some programs to encourage tic ownerships buildings or looking at it and ocean avenue right now maybe encouraging more condo spaces so anymore affordable for businesses and a couple of things that are really unique i dont want to mention here things maybe the city can buy properties and rent to own scenarios or have a a loan similar to the bart system those are out there and have to be a lot of exploration but i think one of the ideas to explore and think that is important that creatively we have a lot of cities looking at this fireman to see see how successful it is implemented and do thing procedurally and getting into the bog but creatively i think we do well in San Francisco. Great welcome thank you. Thank you very much. Director any other comments. Not for richard by but in regards to the programs any questions. Commissioners ask questions commissioner president adams welcome richard and richard was actually have found in the neighborhoods in the castro street and richard you the angle be excellent job in the retails Strategy Program within years ago that set the tone of the sites of businesses and what was there, just everything so ill say that was a great job and having you on this will be better because i think you understand the neighborhood, the especially the mom and pop shops that are here and dealing with the upper market i want to say congratulations and welcome. Thank you. Commissioner dooley. I also wanted to add im happy to see you here youve been unfairly patient and kind with my merchant organizations helping us through the process being a good person to remind us what needs to be done but in a really positive manner im super excited our part of this team so welcome. Appreciate that. Awesome. And i think the one thing i wanted to add as this practicum is launched richard as the experience of one from the controllers but have the Program Reporting and with the grants program it is a very new concept and so he has that skill of immediately implementing and tracking the things that you as the commission are going to need to have and us to report to the board of supervisors especially for the Grant Program in terms of the where we are seeing the successes and the money cations to be able to inform us in the future im very excited about richards skills and expertise in that area that hes bringing to the job. I havent had an opportunity to talk with regina but do a report the second monday and have all the monthly figures if the month previous that would be a great opportunity to come before the board make a monthly and have the monthly figures the fiscal year to date and the Program Total figures and use that to build for the report for the board of supervisors in june. So might be a really good process. And until we see further we will have the Legacy Businesses Program as a standing item on the agendas because richard will be working with the businesses as they come before to be put on the registry so mordz richard any reporting on the program richard will be presenting to you. Great for the next meeting or the one thereafter i want to see a presentation of the timeline that got us to this point theres a lot of criticism and a lot of people have been had false summaries how the new legislation happens in any circumstance once you make a a law didnt make it immediately effective but figure out how to a. Admin stare to dispel the speed or lack of speed the second things i want to see a couple of sort of best Case Scenario the other situations that we have perhaps overly grandus expectations along the Business Owners that point or think theyll apply for the assistance grants to what those grants might be and specific limits on what those grants can be and for i want to see a list of you know a couple best Case Scenario so people can get it okay. If i really hit it big this is what i can expect i think that people are thinking there is a huge pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that saves a bunch of businesses 90 in San Francisco thats not the case it is important that we reset peoples expectations not around the politics but the actual implementation and also like to see it made clear the assistant grants can and cannot do be used for not a debt relieve an investment programal be that a grant with the intention of the grants is specific that is not about debt relief and a lot of people in the situations on the verge of bankruptcy are in a debt situation this will nobody a solution about setting expectations of what people can expect as they think about the grants and also to head off at the pass potential criticism we didnt save the businesses that people thought were safeable and specific criteria and the exceptions on the front end the last complaining whether or not this program was effective okay bus u but lets get out in front of that were suffering criticism and frankly thinking warranted criticism on the speed we approach this im delighted to see your fantastic and the right person it takes time to find the right people thank you. And so thank you commissioner dwight for that and youre welcome to sit down. Okay. Thank you. At the next meeting we actually will be having the Business Assistance guidelines put before you important for you to take action on in your packet you have handouts so the first one is just to give you an update on the status of applications and so we have a set of 9 that be going to be heard on july 20th at the Historic Preservation commission and then after these come return then we are targeting to have those before you at the august is first meeting in August August 3rd meeting 8 excuse me the august 8th meeting and the second grouping that is theres a second grouping that is scheduling for the august thirds meeting at the Historic Preservation commission and then they will be heard at the last meeting in august so part of richards annual report will be what are the applications that have been forwarded to hpc for their review and when their scheduled to be before you and what we have been discussing about the meeting preparation materials for you so and to get you know for you were going to be drafting a resolution for application a check list theyve met the criteria. Okay. So and then the the pages 2, and 3, 4, well pages theres a section saying nominated applications not received so again those are businesses that have been nominated theyve been connected contacted were waiting for the businesses to submit their application the timing is depend on the businesses their just a handful that do need assistance language assistance were working and now with our Economic Organization to line up those that will be available to handle that and Richards Will provide them training in terms of what they need to do to assist those businesses in getting theyre written narrative from that i want to go to the pages that the legacy businesses begin to give you an overview im working closely with the investment Neighborhoods Team theyre a key partner in delivering i think delivering on the program and or vaunt the program with the legacy Business Assistance grant technically the applications any businesses wanting to apply for the grants needs to apply between july 1st and september 30th because of the timing that we are another with the Registry Program many of these businesses will just be complete through the registry by the end of september not going to give them enough time to apply for the program ive been in inclusion with the City Attorney and were drafting an ordinance that is required for us to extend out the application period this is the fair thing to do for those businesses have been president for those wanting to apply for the Business Assistance grants to make sure they have a the opportunity to do so the first year and to be clear on the timeframe your honor, asking about commissioner dwight for the assistance grants if we did have businesses on the recommendationy theyll not get funding until late october or early november to begin with so ill be seeing if he wanted to extend this out two or three months to make sure those first 23 to 25 applications that are president ial done get to the process and have the ability to apply and the grants monuments are based on the amount of funding the total numbers of businesses and is fulltime employees per business so we dont know yet those businesses that are going to apply how many fulltime employees all that information needs to be received to make the determination as to what the funding allocation is funds again, were working with taxpayer dollars i think that theres an accountability we need to for us as staff to provide for you who oversees the office and program and to the board of supervisors so the funds we are going to have some specified categories in which those funds will can be allocated for and those funds are to be used to support the intellectuals the legacy business based on and provided that the funds go to the following purposes and follows the legacy the Eligibility Criteria and again you know i think very clear it is very specific and will be on the 25th providing you with a list of what wear have a check list of those areas the grant fund can urban design utilized for and that is not one of them but works can be physical improvements and ti improvements and marketing additional marketing, could be assistance are business acquisition or paying for a community for a legacy transition things you know purchasing a new piece of equipment but things will sustaining and growing the business and then i will. To be clear we dont determine how much the total pool is in a combination of criteria and budgetary limits that determines how much money is dispersed. So then i want to review some of the applications components so obviously we have a grants of instructions thess Contact Information verification of their fulltime employee list again, the business comboiblth criteria based on the regulatory and Eligible Fund use a narrative of the business how the funds will maintain their business and going to do a similar point of privilege they need more assistance than the Grant Program had been able to allow terrific programs with the invested neighborhood with the invested Neighborhoods Program and the talk about Development Center will be businesses that need support for thats beyond what the grant is be able to provide so this Business Assessment can help us sort of identify those businesses and have the conversation with them to get them Additional Support that there are going to need and will say i anticipate this Business Assessment can help start the business when their applying to understand where they may best utilize this grant. One thing that the legacy businesses get a better united way of the Services Available in the city already outside of that funding i think that many entrepreneurs find out about those services theyre starting a business and say okay. I want to figure out how to write a Business Plan and figure out how to run a business many people that are running legacy businesses by inherited them dont come to the table with those kills but dont think about it i were starting a company i clearly would go to you know s p d. C. And get strategy training so i think as we educate those legacy businesses they we may find they all of a sudden realize there is a lot of resources ive not thought about it is important to strategize a business been in business a long time a. On the second page im not going to go into too much more detail about the Business Assessment components but a reminder as you said commissioner dwight of our expensive permanence we have access to capital oneonone strengthening with Technical Assistance but there is also the ability so for lease negotiations succession planning and that kind of thing that either you know will be a employment or one of the business can identify that is what their needs are and utilize the grant for. A quick question when they apply for the financial grants do they request a certain amount i mean can somebody say i need one homicide thousand dollars. No limits around the number of employees you have and what the intended use is that is why its important we come up with a few likely scenarios and cant anticipate what companies will look like but looking at the list comblaen a couple of popular themes restaurants and bars on the list and concurring things and back make a ball park that company has x amount of employees what will thai want the money for we lay out white paper works of why you might come to this under what circumstances do you stand a good chance the getting a grant the application process is not trivial i mean as we see on the remedyingy alone telling our story we have a lot of people keyed up not put in an application and a lot of applications that have come to us incomplete there is an idea you know because you have good grades didnt mean you get into college you have to apply and Liquor Store Business in business for 25 years not automatically on the registry without the application process so helping those who have not successfully completed the application as well as you know, i think most importantly helping people understand the potential are the assistance funds. And i apologize one built of information i didnt include is that you know if fully funds by the number of businesses and of time employees the maximize amount a business can receive is 500 for fulltime employ; right . So two employees thats one thousand dollars the more employees it groups. For the year. Thats an annual number and the Business Needs to reapply each other to and then commissioner dooley in terms of what they might wanted to apply fork for if they want assistance again, the Business Assessment allows us to have a conversation with them to either is there additional Business Assistance or help them think about what their needs are and perhaps the Business Assistance grant didnt fulfill fund wasnt is needed but other ways to get to it depend on what their need through the Additional Technical Services that would be helpful that ball park figure. Thats a good ball park. Heres why that is vitality important but no details 500 employee maximize per year a 10 person business 5 thousand dollars 50 percent 25,000, 20 percent 10 thousands now if youre a company on the vertical of going out of business you really have to ask yourselves questions if this helps you again, it is incredibly important to put those numbers in perspective and so thats why i am requesting that we lay those things out so people dont think this is a lottery ticket; right . Not one hundred thousand dollars for a 50 Person Company a 50 Person Company has a payroll every two weeks it is tens of thousands of dollars so you know it wouldnt pay for one round on the payroll. Right. Thats important for people to understand theres been a lot of flack in the process and a lot of political posturing on this remarkably to me on that particular issue and come under a tremendous amount of criticism and kr5e9d a facets expectation in the public this huge pot of gold here so you know, i think we should put it all in preserve ash the max is 5 hundred and the amount to be allocated for each business and determined at the end of the period set that is september 30th; correct . So in other words you wont know actually september 30th the quality business will get 5 hundred or 200 or one hundred depending on the money that is an important issue and the other issue is this is an only a yearly application so potentially the same business has to renew the application every year what is clear as reading and clarifying not a first come, first serve approach a yearly pot of gold type of approach everyone gets in and allocate amongst ink. Thats correct. We dont start serving drinks until serve is another party. Laughter may not be 5 hundred it may be a hundred or 50 it is symbolic depending on the monies and the number of employees and the number of businesses so were talking about a lot of variables and that will be if in september after september 30th. And which is one reason why this is sensitive but im giving strong consideration around a time limit of participation because if the Fund Allocation didnt grow the number of businesses that apply for the grants dilutes the amount of business receiving that entrants program and. Our rational judgment they will in fact, contribute to the sustainability of the business and not delay even if temporarily you know the inevitable. That maybe addressed in the text because in order to come back they have it lay out and so forth the reason for the return and elements they have to prove talking about a reconcurring dramatic you know kind of participation. And require the proof the funds were used as intended you know were would getting into the administrative details but that is what richard will be doing lading that so that you know someone gets nine hundred bucks we will cross that bridge when we get to it. Anymore report. No any other further questions to give you the concept of the direction we are going in and you know, i will get this out to you a week before you need to make asphyxia decision asia once it is approved to the board of supervisors for thirty days and from there we can start accepting applications. After commissioners open up for Public Comment oh, i have a question about the upcoming hearing at the bottom. Uhhuh. With the Historic Preservation and what are those going to thinking tail and the Historic Preservation commission little Historic Preservation commission i cant speak too specific about that to look at the application the Historic Preservation commission is taking a look at beyond the physical structures what are currently and historical elements to retain in San Francisco beyond a physical structure. Clear every applicant has to pass to the Historic Preservation commission. Yes. And there are comments are advisory comments you dont have to take into consideration but it is just Additional Information to help you in our final determination they dont improve or denial they make advisory recommendations. Public comment that want to comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So item 6 allows the Public Comment on matters within the jurisdiction and not on todays calendar and discussion items. Do we have any members of the public to comment on items not on the agendas seeing none, Public Comment is closed. On to the next item, please. Item 7 directors report update on the San FranciscoSmall Business commission and the Assistance Center and update on the Department Programs and recent announcements if the mayor and update on o s d and update on protective matters and announcements for San FranciscoSmall Business actives discussion. Commissioners, i wanted to make let you you know we not forgotten been the paid family leave theyve put up a page i know that there was to be a followup of the state and local law and getting to that were getting through the backlog of our mini e Meeting Minutes and have time that overlay is in the effective jill january 2018 so commissioners just to provide an update on the bottle we noticed it cal is looking at our operation of our San FranciscoSmall Business and the dimension is Holding Stakeholders meeting with the supermarket to cartilage them to be part of solution and we are going to continue to have furthers meetings maybe more outreach and engagement with the Small Businesses to finalize this solutions we have a pressing matter to get resolve and the team and our office are hearing complaints update on the fovks were working on providing a new logo were updating the San FranciscoSmall Business ballot with a kiosk as part of the Business Services there are times we have people waiting for our services and so this give them the ability to look at the business portal and sent i forwarded to make sure you got were now reviving our monthly news letter hopefully, you saw that. Nice one. A lot of information to backfill im excited were able to have that going monthly again the 1650 s Mission Street our Satellite Office were move forward we note a conditional use for that because were changing from retail to public use the department of real estate is the sponsor that were having katie you met at the last meeting at that shes handling the process and working with others for is conditional use process so were its probably you know december, january before well be able to get in. Not on a 90 day fast track. The public use is not considered a Small Business laughter . The office of the Small Business commission. We fall under the Big Government so and then shes working diligently and searched for a tributeer and found one the financial approval and well start next week to work to having the minutes produced so youll be seeing those coming on board because of that and then moving into the legislation would you like to go to the website i want to show you the work shes done on the website we have a page called legislation impacting Small Businesses and you can ask sfgovtv to do that so the business communities can be kept apprise of the legislation could we get the computer sfgovtv . So we can show our website. Do you need to there we go. Right here. On this page i can see that we are not much to say legislation is added with a description the link on the top takes you to the page and the star that has the memos and others responses and then the link here that allows comments to be received from anyone that is visiting the website and has something to tell us the top of the page is legislation that is active and the bottom of the page is legislation that corroborative still were waiting to hear the final results. Will it include a summary of opposition. A link that if you look at the it is hard to see once its been heard by the commission we produce a memo and i mention what the Small BusinessCommission Recommendation and include a link to the memo. So again, when our out in the Business Community and the Business Community that is license to the meeting under when you go to the sf o s b in the San FranciscoSmall Business commission it has the section that is titled legislation impacting Small Businesses and thats where the link is so it had been keeping that up so all right. And then on my report im not going to detail but outlined it by newly introduced legislation before you the second page 3 lists out the Initiative Ordinance so you heard the Initiative Ordinance around the problems open situations, but the ones that have the two stars are the what is your business or occupation that are all right on the ballot by 40 signatures of the supervisors signatures of the supervisors and we cant give you information their place on the ballots and i included the list of 40 supervisors that put it on the ballot and supervisors that put it on the ballot and then page 4 items to come before you and page 5 we reviewed just listing the legislation that has youve heard but not completed its way through the board of supervisors or so i understand signed before i the mayor ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Commissioner kounalakis. I have a question about the planning code with the sign noncommercial signs i do know there was some piece of legislation that supervisor wieners office was looking at in advisements the sugary drink beverages or thats different; right . Yes. Totally different the sugary drink beverages are already duplicate. Uhhuh. Im not talking about the sugary drink beverages tax but something around signage around the sugary drink beverages. That passes so supervisor wiener passed it yeah. It is held up in court borrowing for the sdrushlts to make sure that the distributor. Any education needed on retail level like punitive. Well followup with supervisor wieners to see the status if in court no action in terms of the implementation time and this sign is dealing more with exterior introduced by supervisor peskin he extended the timeframe so well be slated for you to review it in september well have her get to out to you and producing a legislative review. I i know there is movement are tobacco legislation on the state level im starting to get questions from were acquire with our state legislator person as to what that bills are proposed. Thank you. All right. On item the directors report seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next speaker, please. Commissioners reports. Item 8 commissioners reports allows president and department and commissioners to report on recent Small Business activities and make announcements of interest to the Small Business communities deduction item. I did not have anything to report. Commissioners. I dont have anything to report. All right. Then any Public Comment on us not having anything to report seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next new business any new business. Item 9 allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items discussion items. Commissioner. I want to ask for a communication from the planning code reorganization of article 7 the ncds it is not being heard until october 13th but one good to have it in front of us the month before. Okay. In fact, all the ncds. We have had discussion. Dully noted. Commissioners any other new business recommendations all right. Do we have any Public Comment on the new business recommendations were on to the last and final action item. Sfgovtv can we have the slide again, please. Just a quick reminder the office of the Small Business commission is the only place to start your business and the best place for getting the answers with your new or existing business. Office of Small Business is your first stop when you have a question about what to do next and it is the policies and projects and issues that effect the Economic Vitality of the Small Businesses in the county of San Francisco. Do we have a motion to adjourn. I move i second. All in favor, say i. I. The meeting is adjourned ata. 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