Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Small Business Commission 20160112

To it you cannot have people that will not trained and qualify to do this job thats all i want to say i want to make sure i understand this s i s is currently under investigation by the California Bureau the security and investigative services; is that correct. Thats right for using unlistened Security Officers at the academy awards. Thank you for confirming that and being here. Thanks. Good afternoon, supervisors im owen a business represent for local 510 we do all of the temporary exhibit work on the hotels and jurisdiction stretches carrot Northern California and do temporary exhibits in many, many venues i command the fact proprietors that your landmarking landmarking for a protocol for special event we will profit but even at a late stage were beating the bushes to find out where it is coming from we here that operating wages are offered for the work we dont know the types of vendors western in the room with other unions and candidates were made and ask that Going Forward that we have a liaison between the city and the unions that are in this area who provide on a daily basis the kind of work can i ask i want to ask a question the liaison question comes up not from labor but our residents a liaison from the city that is specific sgaz with labor. Wisp introduced by someone im sorry it was a brief introduction weve heard nothing sense but asked to liaison users to the Host Committee through the Super Bowl Committee no, i dont believe there is a liaison it is very socializing needed. No liaison from the city or from the super bowl house committee. Theyve done a better job in reaching out but no, i dont believe there is. Thank you, mr. Murphy. Hi my name is a samable here to speak on behalf of the enlivening restaurants i want to speak on the positive impacts that super bowl 50 will have on restaurants january and february are generally slow times for the industry and the influx of the people cannot come at a betterment this benefits the restaurants and the employees as well the Host Committee is working to promote the routines across the city and the benefits you beyond downtown and were supportive of the super bowl for the huge impact and positive impacts on the restaurant and the fulltime employees. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Higgins. My name is not on a card. Thats all. Joe coping yes, maam from local 6 here a residential homeowner and were very much in firefighter the super bowl events to be here in San Francisco were very heavy involved that the work in Moscone Center and the Justin Herman plaza this is being able people to keep their fulltime jobs and as well as many people every day dispatched to those jobs electricians and hens that are getting paid benefits and health care not only interesting are they going to repeat benefits of the over time with setting up and tearing down 9 events but theyre actually spend the money back into the city with restaurants and going to the movies and coffee shops were here for safety standard like were done in moscone a big sector of the industry were in charge the events and looking forward to them. Thank you very much for being here. Sue hester i am very clear with that building i write down on my list the enclosures and interest there is no one has said with city hall will be used for the Planning Commission needs in the week before in the week afterwards board of appeals meets when there is how sculpture or enclosures around city hall is it so really difficult to have Public Participation at the Planning Commission and the board of appeals i went through one a couple weeks ago there was a demonstration for the Police Commission at the same time it took me an hour to get into the building what events will gone at city hall and interfere with the meetings in the evening thats a concern i have 3 meeting during this time and second your closing Market Street and the embarcadero for the super bowl experience is there a charge for that and how does that effect the Court Operations it is a concern codify mine if youre going to charge for that event it is a very big events, and, secondly, i have my office is at powell and market between powell and stockton street there are no controls when Howard Street is closed its been closed for the super bowl experience we need trained Traffic Control officers on third street and probable two other blocks besides the traffic rerouting and the pedestrians are a huge problem weve experienced with enclosure on Howard Street and right now the city didnt know how to control pedestrians especially ms. Hester. Okay is there anyone else who wishes to speak on item number seeing none, Public Comment is closed supervisor kim. Thank you i do want to thank the committee for continuing this hearing to get more delays. Thank you to the departments for coming with the information it is good to get clarity on the cost for the events you know, i just want to say that i want to acknowledge i think that most san franciscans are really existed that super bowl is coming to the bay area and its the super bowl 50 that is existing no question this will bring a lot of revenue to the city through the tourism and restaurants and Small Businesses and our hotels but you mean think there is a fundamental policy disagreement whether private entities should be paying regardless of the refer coming into the city in is the discussion during americas cup and in this case, the revenue didnt meet the cost of the events i acknowledge those are different but before we knew that was going to happen they offered for the costs and projected revenue that will far exceed that cost for me there is a level of consistent and one i believe that the private entities should pay for the costs i think occurred by the city i understand a policy difference and other folks will say this is an department on behalf of the city to raise the revenue i think in a case i know that it is hard to distinguish a nonprofit and what is not nicole the nfl is a nonprofit and many questions that status as being applied to the institution or other professional leads dont have to status im not sure the nonprofit to be the criteria who gets to pay and who didnt are the events are open or free to the public i have to venue to say a big difference between cultural pride events Public School market value the corporate institutions not a bad thing for San Francisco just a because the Super Bowl Party is promoting the nfl and promote super bowl but i think two when our marketing for another corporation that is profiting greatly not only in in terms of of their tickets and you commercials theyll air but ask them to of a i heard the Host Committee say 4 million is not a lot to the weightiest of people in the country but ill say the average taxpayer is saying it is a late lot to pie more Affordable Housing and our Muni Services even on days when we dont have special events this is a policy decision on the other hand, and well be introducing someone on the special events moving into the future for a policy that is clear to the Department Heads and the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office in terms of how we treat the fence Going Forward and San Francisco will continue to have this discussion many people want to be in the city it is a beautiful city we have a lot to offer im hearing about the Super Bowl Committee is bring to us but San Francisco has a lot to offer restaurant and cultural experiences and paperwork thats why they want this event in San Francisco a partnership we should have that conversation and the final thing that was brought up by the brothers and sisters in labor were a labor town this is a town that respects labor and righthand turns those respects those are partnering with the city were partners and expect the partners to work with the city i cant recollect that promote the labor harmony and support the prevailing minimum wage and im disappointed many of the issues have not yielded been worked out to the issues leading up to the event and hopefully in the future we shouldnt be having this conversation it is San Francisco is the host and it is not the nfl not just the Super Bowl Committee we have to expect labor harmony with all the companies to provide the services on behalf of the super bowl i think this is an exception 80 that every members of the board of supervisors should share those are my comments i appreciate this meagerly i look forward to have having many more discussions. Supervisor kim i wont repeat remarks about the portions of this event i do want to reiterate the importance of resolving those labor issues i think as i understand the shuttle that provider significant problems and i think this is important that we address that in addition to security ensured and make sure that as our city benefits as a whole our own residents and work groups are bens and not working with contractor that are saying poverty wages so supervisor farrell. Thank you, mr. Chair and thank you, supervisor kim and the committee that is an entertaining fill in today and thank you to all the members of the public that came out im so first of all, i agree we should be consistent as a city to the members of the labor unions if there is many unrest whatever i can do to make sure without a doubt please count on me and you know we need to be vigilant as ever with the public dollars in San Francisco for an event like this but every other day of the year and as chair the Budget Committee i take it unity responsibility very, very seriously and at the same time the attacks on the super bowl from the city prospective marks you know we need to distinguish and especially in the last person made a Public Comment talked about the private street enclosure on market a free events to the San Francisco Ethics Commission thats what the Host Committee is putting on you know, i know that was repetitive but every department and every Department Last year during Budget System has the super bowl as part of the budget that was approved by the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office we need to be vigilant and understand as a city weve approved that beforehand im for this approach Going Forward but to take potshots at the super bowl itself right now and saying the city is not holding up our part of the bargain is not correct we need to make sure we distinguish theres been comments around the americas cup verse the super bowl that is a multiple year verse a one week events in the city of San Francisco i dont bemoan the fact of a 7 day free public event thats not a bad thing and 7 days of free Public Events for our residents and there will be traffic hassle but in many ways thats a vibrant urban environment thats part of trade off we want an exciting place to visit and work and sometimes o log cool trade off happen and San Francisco San Francisco is slated to make money off of this events from a tax prospective my office Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development as well as we have the amount of publicist as the city of San Francisco i dont know who go our tourism budget is but the thirty second adds throughout the super bowl that will feature the city of San Francisco not santa claras is invaluable in terms of of promoting San Francisco i for one love to see our big city on the big screen and its the number one scoring events and for a tourism precipitation one over our life bloods is incalculable we talked about this is a big support of business communities in San Francisco you that about the restaurants and types of comboitsz those are valuable we talk about supporting them all the time thats not claudz in the money that the San Francisco will spend only supported bars or restaurants or other services in the neighborhood it is going to be a boon to the Small Businesses and something i want to support in the city and when we compare to other events before we criticize here at the board and so forth look at an honest look at other events this is with only week verse a day what we do in terms of the Cost Recovery no 100 percent Cost Recovery but not hold a in time event because it is surrounded on the idea of football to a different standard of free events hosted by nonprofits in the set of circumstances whether a pride parade or a world series parade over the past years and we more to celebrate down the road and warriors but a mistake for the city of San Francisco to say well not host unless youre paying us were missing an opportunity to shine. Spotlights on the city of San Francisco and we talk about worldclass events i believe the San Francisco Ethics Commission is going to shine during this week and i think it is an opportunity to embrace and move forward im say it again, i truly building as someone born and raised in the city of San Francisco were a sports town we love our sports franchises whether the 49ers or the goins were talking about a soccer team or anything coming to the city of San Francisco our residents not burr we love our sports team it is a source of prides for generation in the city of San Francisco and will be gordons and for those who dont believe it from my prospective are from a different planet i want to thank everyone for what we did and all the members of our city departments that are working hard to put on this events i actually agree with some of the comments reason a around a coordinator but i want to take a moment to thank and put my full confidence in martha cohen ive not met a woman with her capacities being on the board of supervisors that simply owns the process and does an amazing job in San Francisco a long time with those in city hall so thank you martha and i look forward to that discussion about moving forward but the city of San Francisco looking forward and gets existed for the super bowl im boomed you our own 49ers will not be on the feed but look forward to celebrating celebrating that with the rest of the city. Supervisor kim would you preferring to file this or to the call of the chair. Supervisor cowen not here but venue to say well file cox well take that without objection. Order madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . No, that concludes our business. Were adjourned with contractors. Commissioners, any of the questions . I just want to say great job. This is awesome. I love the fact reach out to the Lgbt Community and women owned businesses. This is actually like setting an example for the rest of the nation. I like the fact its under 25 employees that are benefiting on this. This is awesome. So good job. We do the commission has been really coupled. Regina has sent out a lot of information about the program over the years of the commission has been with us right here at the forefront so thank you biju thank you. Commissioners any other questions or comments . We have any members from the public would want to comment on this item . Seeing none, lets move on. Can we do three or four were moveon to number six . So, supervisor wiener will be here in just a moment. Perhaps lets take a moment to i forgot to do this to welcome our new commissioner commissioner miriam zouzounis. And will under commissioner comments provide you with an opportunity to do an introduction about yourself. So, we shall move on to item number three. Welcome supervisor wiener. Item number three is a discussion on possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on file number 151179. This is the health code banning the sale of Tobacco Products to persons age 1820. This is an ordinance amending the health code to prohibit tobacco retailers from selling Tobacco Products, including smokeless tobacco Electronic Cigarettes to persons 18, 19, and 20. Today, we have supervisor wiener who is here to present and members of the department of Public Health and for any questions you might have for the department. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Think you for giving me the opportunity to present on this legislation today. Its important Public Health legislation. The legislation before you would increase the legal age to 21 emma in terms of selling tobacco. It would prohibit the sale of tobacco to anyone under 21. It does not prohibit possession. The were some people let concerns about the opportunity for the police to contact young people but its limited to the sale by a retailer. I want to thank supervisors Mar Cohen Farrell for the early cosponsorship of the lives ocean as well as the american heart association, american cancer association, and the San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition for their early and strong support. Consistent with San Francisco policies, this legislation would treat tobacco and laconic cigarette secrets equivalently. Mar had author that position which passed unanimously. Tobacco, as i know you know leads is the leading cause of preventable deaths killing nearly 500,000 people each year. Costing the United States as much as 170 billion annually in health care expenditures. According to a ucsf study the cost of smoking in San Francisco alone amounts to nearly 400 million in direct and Indirect Health care cost. When it comes to youth and adolescence, it is estimated up to one third of High School Students nationally consumed Tobacco Products and in San Francisco among 11th graders 7. 3 smoke cigarettes, cigars were smokeless tobacco. An additional 6 use Electronic Cigarettes. 95 of smokers start smoking before the age of 21, so if we reduce smoking below 21 we will have an impact well beyond the age of 21. People who start smoking as teens are more likely to become lifelong smokers than those who start smoking in their 20s. I School Students who smoke are three times more likely to consume alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana and 20 times more likely to use drugs. High School Students smoke were more likely to drop out and more likely to experience teen pregnancies. The nicotine and tobacco are merely changes the brain of children and adolescents who use it. According to a federal study by the institute of medicine, if we were to increase the smoking age from 18 to 21 across the country within 25 drop in youth smoking. 12 drop in overall smoking. The 12 drop in premature death, excuse me premature birth and see a 16 drop in things which we know kills too many infants. Nationally, 80 jurisdictions have artie increased the smoking , tobacco purchase age from 18, 221 including new york city and most recently the state of hawaii. Oakley Santa Clara County acetate ordinance. The Tobacco Industry bully them into withdrawing the ordinance by driving an expensive lawsuit that smalltown. Berkeley is also considering a similar ordinance. A bill to raise the tobacco purchase age to 21 died in California Legislature after intense lobbying i the Tobacco Industry. So, from eight perspective this ordinance does not change the existing framework it is already illegal to sell to some of someone under 18 inches changes the age from 18 to my tutorial get our goal is to make sure compliance with the law is as simple as possible and consistent with the way things are already handled today. Merchants are used to carding people for the sale of tobacco and that wont change. Itll just be a different age. So, with that, we do have folks from department of Public Health here to present im happy to answer any questions you may have of me as the author. Commissioners . Im just curious instead of the way its written, 1819, 20 can we just say under 21 . You are referring specifically in terms of the title. We can consider that. Im not sure i dont recall if there was a reason that we did that or is that the City Attorney did that were happy to go back and take a look you i think would be more clear. Thank you. It may be the reason may be, that under the age of 18 is already a state Law Violation, so perhaps we dont want to turn selling to someone who is 15 into a local violation. Sorry a state Law Violation since we are locally only covering 18, 19, 20 i suspect that was the reason. When i tried to sweep in everything under 21 but will double check that. Thank you. I just wanted to ask him. Going through the City Attorney so how are we looking for it being enforced with the Tobacco Industry going nuts on your . Thats a good question, commissioner. The party received a letter from the Tobacco Industry. I know i was before you with the soda industry but the soda industry has nothing on the Tobacco Industry with decades of experience bullying different governments into not regulating were protecting their Public Health. We sit here nationally also. This is part of their Business Model. St. We know its a product that has absolute no benefits and kills hundreds of thousands of people every year in this country alone, and they know, they see the writing on the wall in terms of the growing awareness, the horrible impacts of their product, and so part of their Business Model is bowling governments into not doing anything about it. So, yes, they will sue us when we pass this. We think the law is very defensible. Though artie was preempted by California Law that local jurisdictions cannot go beyond the age that the state has set. We disagree. We think its very defensible and frankly, we at San Francisco unlike healdsburg we have not only the lease of resources in our City Attorneys office to defend ordinance we also won the best municipal law, the best Municipal Office and the contradictorily, weaver responsible the progressive San Francisco to take on these fights so that the healdsburgs of the world are able to do with a need to do. Thank you. Great. Yes . Area. Thank you, supervisor. A question regarding the violation and the punitive elements of this legislation. Are they listed the same as the recently amended of code article 19 h by the first violation am a second violation ministry penalties could today hold the same . Yes, exactly the same. We thought it was very important to make everything as consistent as possible. So its not make things overly complicated thank you. Anyone else . Okay. More presentations i think we have dph staff who is here to also be part of the presentation for you. Okay. Im derek smith. I appreciate the supervisor bringing this issue forward in my things to the commission. I know we spoke a couple years ago around the issue of Electronic Cigarettes as they were emerging and i got some very good questions the couple rounds of presentations that we did with you and ultimately were supportive of sensible Electronic Cigarette regulation did i like to think the Small Business commission and a particularly commissionerin adopting Healthy Retail work for Small Businesses making sure that Small Businesses can thrive and at the same time committees can thrive in a way that supports all of us and the wellbeing of young people and the elderly and everyone in our community. I speak briefly about the harms which im sure the well known to you, but simply that tobacco is the number one cause of death and disability in the world. Its not an equal opportunity killer. Its actually the product that is been harmful to certain committees at much higher rates. Part of that is because of the targeting of the industry to vulnerable populations. It is related to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, virtually every type of cancer affiliated with smoking could assure you all know this. Increasing minimum age would make it harder for San Francisco to ever pick up their first cigarette ever have their first draw of this product thats designed specifically to be highly highly addictive. Of course, for young people there no developmental moment when they are prone to addiction and still developing mentally. So, we find as the supervisor said, most young people to pick up their first cigarette to become addicted during that very important part. This exact period of young adulthood. You know, sure many of you have run into smokers in your life. I have many many friends and family members and i hardly ever run into someone who says, only i wish i picked up that cigarette earlier. I wish id started when i was 12 instead of 14. Its that moment unfortunately, when young people become addicted and become adults who are addicted and in many instances regretful because they know of the health harms that have been brought along with the tobacco. As the supervisor said, its also a social thing. The reason this a very interesting proposal is that young people 15, 16, may not be able to legally buy their friends who are just over the bracket. Sure many of you remember being just short of 21 maybe in college or something you had a friend who purchase alcohol for you. Its the same issue with cigarettes. Young people are accessing them despite the fact they are not of age at this point. There is evidence that there would not be a tremendous Business Impact even a National Study looking at specific issue showed only about 2 of cigarettes are sold to people this age bracket. So, while its a small almost negligible impact in one year for example for retailer, theres a tremendous potential for the health of our community some sure you can imagine not having next generation of young people died and passed away the generations before unfortunately. I think ill leave that, leave you without my colleague janine, who can speak to the enforcement of this ordinance should become a law. Good evening, commission. Im janinehouse inspector with the health apartment in permit socalled grants. I want to just share with you some information about the enforcement and enforcement policy at the Health Department. So, during the first year no one to sewing tobacco for 18, 19 or 20 old the killers who sell this age group will be given a notification a lot has changed. Before that oneyear grace period anscombe department, we will do our Due Diligence informing Small Businesses of the new law through mailers, site visits, stickers and other education efforts. After the grace period on enforcement seizures pursuant to 18, 19 or 20yearold be the same procedures as sewing to a minor. Finally, as part of our enforcement procedures, we have started a pilot policy the firsttime offenders will have an opportunity to actually do their permit suspension period which is been going pretty well. If you have any questions that arent we are here. Thank you. Any questions . I have a question. Does it make it easy for retailers to comply because of because of the 20 10 call and tobacco, one age for both products tobacco and alcohol. I think thats a part of the rationale like man not uncertain commissioners are aware of this but the state id or license to you and i have as adults presumably everyone over 21, we have a traditional horizontal identification card. Not everybody realizes that anybody under the age 21 is a completely distinct upgrade card. It doesnt involve calculation. If you see a strange looking card that handed to you upwards instead of sideways as all our ids are the means person is under 21. Make it makes it quite a lot easier for the killers. I know, the cardsi think that a simple summerthe card has a blue box that says on what date someone turns 18 and a red box on what date someone turns 21. Baileys have to figure out the red and blue box take a look at that weather bringing the person up. In this instance should this become the law, would mean if you just see that sideways orientation card that means the person is 21 they would not be able to purchase alcohol or tobacco without permit just a question of outreach. We talked about outreach to retailers. Could you just tell us how youre going to do that outreach to educate retailers about this issue and what does it entail . Thank you for asking. The law does require a sticker to be posted on our outreach efforts to annual mailers and we also sent information like this through Tax Collectors Office as well and reduce site visits which are handson. As i said earlier, first year someone does sell to and 18, 1920yearold will get a notification. Thats actually person talking to that business. The oneonone visit as well. Before the violation you be sending mailers to retailers telling them by a certain date they cannot sell it to 18yearolds and theyre also going to get, beyond that visit or the visit is after the violation . We have a compliance part of having a permit which is a site visit, and we will do site visits to each and every person and we are going to do our Due Diligence to get those site visits done before the grace period ends. Thank you. Do you know how many Small Businesses are affected by this . How many are we doing today in San Francisco today there are 900 retailers in the city. Just under 900. Many are Small Businesses like corner stores. Theres a variety of just a couple random once like might be in a bar or something. Presumably age limited anyway so there should not be to under 21yearolds in a place. As janine mentioned, would be creating a sticker that the state of california has has a red sticker that states if you suspect someone is selling to a minor, someone under 18 theres a number you can call and in San Francisco we intend to develop a sticker that goes alongside at specific to our retailers in the city that would indicate the law is under 21 the same as alcohol. Commissioners, anymore questions . Yes. I have one more for them. I know with the sugar beverage tax does it Economic Impact report on the discussion of the revenue and the question somewhat regarding this proposed legislation. Given that a lot of these businesses are Human Service industry, the people behind the counter so human error is real. I know that theres a lot of resources going to help improve these Business Models and reduce errors. The question is, is there an intention with a healthy Refill Program and this one in line with those goals, subsidize and kind of offset the revenue losses or maybe help people main compliance. For example or not everyone has id check technology. I guess that we have young people behind these counters as well. So, just a question about the revenue and intentions with that. One thing that does come to mind as janine mentioned, its a good question. We dont have specific local data that says how many 18, 19, 20yearold purchasing tobacco. I think it would be somewhat complicated to figure that out but the number the National Level is quite low on annual basis. Something that triggered from what janine mentioned, there is a compliance gratuity. Were trying to be inventive images as you know what Healthy Retailers supporting Small Business, when we find someone is in a violation of this law safer testing, fighting as janine said in the first year they would be no penalties whatsoever. Its cycle education period enough that period if someone is found to be in violation of sales to a minor just like now if they sell to a 16 or 17yearold ashley highlighting opportunities to reduce suspension period and that is when the opportunities his insulation of a scanner. So its opportunity for the Business Owner to not lose revenue during that period and instead make a Capital Investment just as you said that would actually reduce the kind of human error element that the party. This couple other options that included that most of those based on ongoing education to try to maintain compliance especially given a new law. Thank you. Just another question. Id like to note, also, theres an updated tax on cigarettes thats just been passed. The cigarette abatement tax and im curious if that is going to the revenue from that is also in the pool where the department of health thats a great question. That fee that abatement fee, goes to the department of public works. Is not a part of the department of Public Health budget. Thats a very good question. Im not exactly sure what i believei believe that revenue is that fee was developed i think in 2010 or so, believe it was a study about the Environmental Impact of cigarette butts. So i think that fee is established based only on the cost of dpw cleaning the storm drains and the water system because of smokers universally throw the bum out into the street. I think that funding is allsome portion may be set up for Public Education around littering and cleanup, but i wasnt aware of that the change in the mitigation fee, but is it doubled it doubled. . 40 a pack. Exiled designated for dpw. Its minor syndicate this up funding that doesnt go to dph that the. Thank you thats helpful picking us, commissioners any further questions . Is this going to be the Decoy Program cole is business as usual as inspector young said. We work with collaboration Environmental Health and the chronic disease prevention folks on my end. We actually have a contract and mou agreement with the San Francisco Police Department and the Police Department brings an undercover decoy to a store and does those inspection. So would be the same mechanism, but after that first year or so after implementation is where we start that process and to be quite a bit of education, including mandatory sticker that has to go on every register were every counter per the legislation. Okay . Commissioners any other questions or comments . Okay. Will open up to Public Comment. Any members of the public alike to comment i do have some speaker cars. [calling names] apologize if i mispronounced urines. Just reminded me of a comment is limited to 3 min. Per individual. Theres no penalty or any kind of reason not to read your notes. Its going into the Public Record. I encourage you to stick to your script and say what you have to say so you get into the record. For one second, my threeminute timer is not coming up. So, im going to do a twominute timer on my phone. I apologize. We do to my new we dont do it to be rude. Its a matter of the regulation. My name is kathy otto, volunteer legislative ambassador for the American Cancer Society in San Francisco. Mostly firstround Smoking Cessation this okay. Im a resident of the San Francisco and live in the district at 95 20th ave. The fan. Virtually, even though some people have quit smoking 43 Million People still smoke. Teens and young adults cant appreciate the dangers of smoking young adults and teens also tried social smoking i think you know become addicted. Once are addicted to nicotine addiction the difficult to quit and also once that happened of smoking is established thats the hardest part to quit. The Health Consequences begin right away and they accrue over a lifetime. Its 20 years before the impact is felt. Most of the adults age 40, plus are in the class who are in the class started smoking when they were about 15 or 16. They never tried to quit. Its their first time to quit when they are 45, 50 and a lot of them come to me with bronchitis, Heart Disease or lung cancer could unfortunately, kind of late in the game. Better late than never. We dont sell alcohol to kids under 21. Its time to apply the same wisdom to tobacco. Thank you for considering this important change that will protect young people in San Francisco and a good example for other cities around the nation. We urge the commission to support the supervisor in voting to pass this ordinance. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Happy new year. I name is wilma. Im ambassador volunteer for American Cancer Society cancer network. Also, i live here in San Francisco. My churches up the street neighborhood at discharge in kings valley Western Addition had. My mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother. Congratulations. This really catches on for me. Im concerned that this is handled. Tobacco is used as a social justice issue. People of color, those in the lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender community, military personnel those with disabilities or Mental Illness are more likely to use tobacco. They are more likely to suffer from tobacco bladed health disparities. These disparities are perpetuated as the children of smokers are also likely to smoke. People with households income below or near the federal Poverty Level are more than likely to smoke than those in higher incomes. The poor are more likely to smoke, less likely to quit, and more likely to die from tobacco disease. Smoking prevalence decreases as people attain more education. Tobacco products tend to, to me, the widely available for purchase and tend to be more affordable in densely populated urban communities that have a high concentration of poverty. As well as ethnic and racial minorities. The ordinance will help prevent the use of San Francisco which our grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, and to succumb to an accidental because of the poor and underservedthe greatest potential to impact the young lives from the population. Thank you. We know that San Francisco being a leader in the Public Health and we urge the commission to support passage of this ordinance for the protection of the many youth and young adults in the city. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Bob Corker Heiko lead code facilitate a class for the old tbt community for hivpositive call the last drag it free quit smoking class. Having doing sinthat 1991. Also im a volunteer legislative ambassador for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network having us to be friends and relatives to cancer. Finally, im hereas a cochairman of the San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition. We are made up of Many Committee organizes including the Readership Institute and Bay Area Community resources used about once, and several others. First i like to thank you for the work you do to help eating a vibrant economy for our city. The support you give to the many Small Businesses many thousands of people include my partner here in San Francisco. My purpose in speaking to you today is to say a few words about how raising the age to 21 for the sale of tobacco will be beneficial for all San Franciscos. Fewer people smoking will not only benefit the many individuals who are near to our hearts but the benefits are many to the city as a whole. Best tobacco use means tremendous cost savings in medical expenditures for the city. The smoke in a Work Environment means a Work Environment that are cleaner, safer more professional, and overall environment less toxic cigarette but waste and associated later. Thats most important, the Small Businesses less tobacco use means more worker productivity. Fewer employees who are preoccupied with getting the next cigarette could take a break to go outside another employees have to complete all one particular restaurant where others have to carry the load was a mouse unfortunately needs to answer that urge or store hands and be ready to get back to work. Course, fewer physical illnesses associate with over tobacco heart lung and cancer elements. With hundreds of jurisdictions in the us that already assessed 21 as the minimum age to purchase tobacco and may be interesting for you to learn more about maine and messages. Maine passed the age 21 law over 10 years ago. After five years of lobbying and affect the city found that smoking rates were nearly cut in half. That was not true of the surrounding areas. San francisco we longer to protect our young people from the deadly bite, prediction about tobacco. The diction that typically begins during the teenage years. You should talk about today. We ask Small Business community to join us to prevent needless additional deaths and addictions in our communities. Thank you very much. Good evening. My name isim also volunteer with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. 22 years old and i just moved to the city in twin peaks for work after graduating from berkeley last may. Tobacco remains the leading cause of premature deaths in the United States. My 19yearold cousin just recently started smoking is painful for me to watch her go throh something i know its completely 1 preventable. Though no tobacco use is not a right of passage nor a sign of adulthood. However, tobacco committees do the best to convince young people to assist you. Tobacco committees target young people before they can even fully appreciate the consequences becoming addicted to these deadly products. 95 of smokers begin smoking before they turn 21. Raising the minimum wage to buy Tobacco Products will protect individual young adults starting to smoke it save them a lifetime of deadly addiction. Taking away that easy access to Tobacco Products to make a world of difference. We thank San Francisco for being a leader in Public Housing we urge the commission to support the passage this ordinance the production of many youth and young adults in the city. Thank you for your time. He took thank you. Hello. Good evening. My name isand im 17 years old. I live in the neighborhood of San Francisco. Im part of Bay Area Community resource. I support the ordinance increasing the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21 because i see too many of my friends even those under 18 being pure pressure to smoke or be addicted to cigarettes and Electronic Cigarette. It affects him financially because they spend their money on them and their health because it takes it makes it hard to breathe. Thank you. Before we have our next speaker, alsoi forgot to read off your name. Im Stephanie Meyer and im 18 years old. Im kind of scared. Dont be nervous. I live in fillmore. I support the idea of San Francisco increasing the minimum wage to purchase tobacco to 21 years old. Like my younger brother, i do want to see him, seeing his friends like smoking because he thinks theyre cool and stuff. I do want him being addicted to tobacco. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, commissioned many missed britneygovernment relations director for the american heart associate. Or thank you for hearing this tonight and i want to act, a strong support for this ordinance. Im really just stuck on that 95 number because i think thats incredible so many people start smoking before they turn 21. 95 is a strong number that a lot of science is backing up. In california 21,000 kids get hooked on smoking each year. We dont have those conservative die from tobacco related illnesses which is been stated over and over is unnecessary. As you know its preventable. As the two young people teen smoking is still prevalent with traditional tobacco product as well as electronic Tobacco Products. My brother also i see him on snapshot with his hookah, emulate and let him know about it. You know because of the target marketing as well as the of cbt committee teens are still smoking. This is nothing new. These tactics for traditional tobacco and short of being five to electronic tobacco. Seeking to get some people hooked as early as possible on dangerous electronic parts. San francisco must take the lead with the state has been hesitant. This important and will prevent thousands of young people from picking up a fatal habit. I think tobacco cigarettes are the only products that used correctly will kill you. I think theres no harm joined the dozens of other localities nationwide the state of hawaii in illuminating access by raising the minimum for justin age. Thank you. Any of the members of the public would like to comment on this item . Seeing none, p, disclose. Commissioners, we have any other questions or comments . Im curious weve not had any further visit many speak tonight so i wonder the Supervisors Office if there have been any objections expressed to this legislation . The only objection we received is the letter from the Tobacco Industry. Good to note. Yes . I can speak to that a little bit. Given i do work within that industry, the corner store or grocery retailer industry is concerned with this given that it was just another tobacco policy that increased that only a licensing fee, but also violations. I think the piece is kind of the biggest concern. The pace in which the tobacco legislation in the city is changing. There has been several, i think, appeal hearings based on new buyers and the moment in which a business is transferred and i think there needs to be a little bit more education and implementation for new buyers. Any existing businesses are getting letters, but ive heard concerns with people that are coming into the business and not aware of new laws. The place to start go to the office of Small Business and learn what the requirements are. Any other comments, commissioners . So, we have an opportunity to take action on this item tonight anyone would like to make a recommendation . I would support this legislation. People that came out today, id like to thank you for coming out on a monday night and coming and talking. You know, its working a lot of cities right now. Some he cited massachusetts and i was reading new york city just increased theirs as well. So i would support this piece of legislation. Are you making a motion i am making a motion commissioners, a couple comments based upon hearing in addition to your motion, while this is not reflected in the affecting the legislation there could be additional recommendations the body can make the department of Public Health perhaps. What commissioner zouzounis is same with each new license that they have sheet that talks about all the different regulations so an orientation packet and that also to definitely connect with some direction to the department to work with the invested neighborhoods and Healthy Retailers and the businesses to provide some financing resources to help the businesses by the scanners. So, just to sort of provide wont affect the legislation but attribute separate item totally separate from this. That has nothing to do with this. If youre selling alcohol enough to have the same technology, if you get i imagine theres a great deal of overlap between those who sell tobacco and those who sell alcohol. So, i would be interested, i guess, to know without being dismissive of this what percentage of the businesses affected dont already have the requirements to check for the age 21 for the other types of purchases. Because its a moot point if you are checking ids you doing it already. As a matter fact it makes it easier. Dont have to check for one age. I would like to thank you all for coming out. Especially you young guys out there that came to talk. Good for you to speak your mind. The handwriting is on the wall. We are a progressive city. Its time for us to move forward on this. This is how you express yourself in the new policies is to come out and support the cause. So, thanks for coming out. City hall is pretty cool place actually. Based to have you. Tell all your friends. He can even get more seats if you ever bring people next time. Do we have a motion . I motion carries another question. I want to pose a question to the commission may be to explore with the Bigger Picture looking at these increasing decisions that are geared towards brickandmortar like human still need to be there industries. One thing i thought about his recently they made it illegal for self check stands to check out call and tobacco which is great, but im curious if theres any but the conversation i regulate what may be very automated industry is human error continues to be a point of contact station in terms of sales. I would like to pose the question immediately can request to give a presentation on some of those laws in the city as well. Given that automation may be a reality for convenience and Grocery Stores especially the minimum wage rates. Just a question. My response to that is i agree with you that to me has nothing to do with this piece of legislation that is before us right now. Like commissioner wright said, yorty checking for alcohol right now. To me, it seems simple and basic. Re checking for alcohol checking to see if someone is 21 to buy a pack of cigarettes, thats basically what its all about. To my knowledge its not permitted for alcohol. For cigarettes. Only getting new business, bring that up. Lets bring that up and talk about that because that is an issue. It is related i would disagree. Its part of a Bigger Picture about human still employed in Human Service industries margins of error that we can support businesses that still have employees and not robots. Amber talk about regulatory issues like this its related. Thank you. Okay. We have a motion. To have a second moved and seconded. Moved and seconded. Will call. Commissioner adams aye, commissioner dooley aye dwight aye toursarkissian aye zouzounis aye the riley guide. That motion passes to recommend to the board of supervisors to support file 15117960. Great. Thanks to the Supervisors Office and the members of the about that came out tonight. Success in action. Commissioners, we are going to move on to item number four, which is a presentation discussion of the subway master plan. I think supervisor wiener is not here so we shall just turn it over to department staff. This is the request to get an informational briefing as to what creates a master plan. Today, we have Marissa Espinosa from the planning department. Graham satterwhite from the sfmta. Sorry i cant see. Bob mays from the sf county transportation, sf mta. Good evening, commissioners. We are here today to talk about the San Francisco longrange Transportation Planning program and also discuss the master plan and how they are related. Again, thank you for the introduction and have my colleagues here for further questions at the end if you like. A bit about the longrange transportation and Planning Program. The multiagency collaborative to tackle San Franciscos transportation challenges today and into the future. The five some context on the program and talk about what happens with whats happening now, and what is to come in terms of Transportation Planning for the future. Why do we need a longrange Transportation Planning program . To provide some context as im sure youre aware San Francisco is a popular place to work work and visit straining the Transportation Network. Congestion slows the economy in a city people want to live work in practice but if left unchecked congestion crowding in her liability affects the quality of life. We are robust say. No one agency can tackle these challenges alone. The supervisees resolution reflected in your packet and the mayor have all spoken solving the transportation challenge is a key driver for a healthy economy and livability. Not just for the city but for the region. Our city is changing at lightning pace in addition to traditional Public Transit use people are fighting or increasing the ways of getting in and around the city to walking, cycling, car share brother Ride Services as part of the sharing economy. Why do we need a longrange Transportation Planning program . To meet our current and future demand also channeling growth. Were not to be pace with current or future demands and now is the time to plan ahead to move the needle. As the supervisors resolution test, 150,000 new residents participated to be added to the city by 2040. Transit the runs on our streets is the workhorse of our city but cant do all of the work. Some corridor law require high level of capacity accommodation transportation investment to move people where they need to go. We have undertaken longrange transportation before the time has come again. For instance, in the 60s the city and region correlated between muni and bart to create the Market Street talk in the 1980s downtown plan identified where we need major transfer connections and major Capital Investment and subsequent plant layout the funding from work in implementation for those. Its important to remember many of the projects resulting from those efforts took a lot of leadtime to plan and so we need to start that work now to ensure these programs come to fruition. The bit about San Francisco longrange Transportation Planning program. There several key elements that are underweight now participated with the next couple of years. One is a Transportation Vision looking at key questions such as, a 50 year time horizon. Where are we aiming . I we understand the longterm capacity needs of our system . And how do we develop landuse alternatives that are done in conjunction with their future Transportation Network . We are also looking at a transit modal concept study. Were looking to identify and prioritize corridor investments to achieve the established vision. To establish regional opportunities to advance projects as well as update San Francisco conservation plan which looks at coordinating integrating the findings from those studies including Regional Transit and developing a financial constraint Investment Plan to achieve those projects. That will all inform and be informed by a subway master plan. A bit about the vision that is underway now. The patient look at key trends impacting San Franciscos future. For example existing conditions will be undertaken and will look at landuse and corrugated transportation needs. The outcomes will be identifying key traveled corridor and travel expansion concepts feeding into and being fed to others of studies which ill talk about in a moment. Efforts already underway include a core capacity transit study which ill talk about in more detail at the bar mitchell vision update. The caltrain extension plan and well capacity strategy on forming these key elements. How does this relate to a subway master plan . The elements of a subway after plan would include city vision setting and then use projections. Looking at transit demand and system Needs Assessment and Major Investments analysis by corridor. Look at how these corridor perform under different conditions. Identifying party rail and subway networks. This would include alternative analysis look at costbenefit incorporating public and larger Stakeholder Input, developing subway master plan components altogether incorporating master plan into the San Francisco Transportation Plan update. This is has a goal of supporting and managing growth in the city. To give you an indication of the faces of the subway master plan process weve identified where we are today looking at a highlevel analysis. This will look at Technology Alignment or Design Options, along different corridor. Further faces would look at the short list of Technology Alignment and Design Options evaluate individual joint investment options. Beyond that, looking at a preferred alternative which must be selected and further work below to develop a Business Case for each alternative which integrates options into preferred Transit Network based on key criteria. To give you an indication of the subway master plan approach the identified options and study alternatives identify key goals and objectives. For instance, oddly shaped travel demand did how would we shape or be shaped by the different lines happening . Will be look at things raising ridership are lowering our initiatives . The sample criteria to evaluate the different projects could include how is this compatible with her overall landuse vision, how visible by these projects,. We would look at things like transit crowding delay production and increases in ridership. The culture reduction of Greenhouse Gas reduction and a framework for looking at these two equity, public input or other goals. Certainly, we would look at measuring the cost of capital and operating with different alters the came through the master plan process. Its important to note, theres Detailed Planning work already underway. So there are elements from the vision that is underway this year to identify growth corridor for potential rail and subway investments and elements from the core capacity study that is multioperator study looking at Community Corridor the potentially one major investment. So previously identified corridor included the study for the caltrain downtown extension, Market Street, the study for the caltrain downtown extension, market st. , central subway phase 3 the m line in this new corridor such as potential additional crossing of the trends they corridor. Of course this be informed by future public input and recognizing as well the center of gravity in the city may be moving from what is central city to other parts of the community including downtown and the Market Street corridor two points further southeast so we need to be prepared to look at for where to bowman is going and where its projected to be. Example of this work underway as i mentioned with the core capacity transit study. This multiAgency Effort without corrugated longterm vision possibilities and hopes to guide your term priorities. Investigates Transit Solutions to investigate presentday capacity issues to to strong economic growth. Will build longterm network visions for valuation to inform policymakers and stakeholders. For example, some packages may have different trends they alignment concepts and complement existing or planned future growth for muni transit or other operators. There also emerging shortterm immediate term projects and policies thatll be guided and prioritized informed by the longterm options. How do we address these challenges . , and identified in the resolution is ambitious but the event those elements no longrange jets rotation Planning Program is complete to be also the benefit of the strong collaborative leadership approach. If some work underway thats focusing our efforts and for the work will be on developing long term Funding Strategies and approaches to fund all the transportation investment needs. We know we have more needs current funding for. So, we need to look at creative leveraging new Revenue Opportunities mechanism such as Development Based capture Public Private partnerships. The nearterm Program Budget and schedule not specific to the master plan prefer the larger programs is as a mentor with Consultant Services to advance things like the vision the transit modal study. The agencies are beginning their nearterm tasks and will be kicking off early this year to start the program. Anticipated our first stakeholder outreach be in the spring identifying new ways to incorporate opportunities to get involved in the vision. So, what will it take and how can you help . Survey, advancing the vision is a key component. Looking at opportunities for Stakeholder Involvement could we definitely need a compelling vision that will help us develop a sound case brought this investment will be necessary to keep the city moving and realizing our local Regional State and global roles for assisting sustainable mobile equitable and economically viable city. We will be look at funding it again new opportunities for Funding Strategies. Then use, coronation of major Capital Investment for landuse planning did something that often needs to go more handinhand in the core native manner. Will be looking at doing that for this program. Developing inclusionary inefficient process that helps look at how we undertake this site Agency Effort though take all hands on deck and accenting and streamline projects delivery. Ensuring that we learn lessons from past Infrastructure Investment instruction, design things like that to help ensure we have good Stakeholder Input throughout its informed that Stakeholder Input. Of course, champions. We need people to see transportation and solving the transportation challenge the key way to stay involved in creating a livable city and community. That concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer questions as you like. Commissioner adams thank you for your presentation. First off, for i asked this question, im all in favor of any type of the new expanded subway system of San Francisco. I love it. However, one thing i do not hear in your presentation and i dont want to be forgotten about is the Small Businesses and businesses in general. When bart kamen in the 60s and 70s it down Market Street destroyed the businesses on Market Street. It took until 201516 and were not even there yet for that to come back. Im looking at the central subway with her building that the businesses along Fourth Street are now closing moving out its affecting chinatown. So, the outreach in the 60s and 70s was in there to hope the businesses could i see very little of it today on Fourth Street. So, my question is, in this plan if youre going to go forward, you need to come up with something edition be drilling into neighborhoods putting people out of business and how youre going to address that. And the Small Business. Marty seen it in neighborhoods where is the lanes coming in and losing parking and all that. Im all for the mass transit. I think itll be great, but in these Construction Projects during these timelines when these things are being built is got to be a plan to help those businesses that are going to be affected. This is a Small Business commission thats one thing that i want to make sure gets taken care of this time so you dont repeat the mistakes of the past. Commissioner, if i make thats an absolutely wonderful point and im glad you brought it up. I think were a lot to learn from our past but quickly as you mention in the 60s and 70s with the outreach components maybe were not fundamentally there. We learned through different instruction methods ways to mitigate i think some of the Key Construction impacts that happen because that is a critical time to ensure that Small Business survive and thrive through construction are not. I would like to more recent examples in our sister city, open, there look at coordinated approaches to designing and developing their bus rapid trap and system. The whole segment of our reach to Small Business committees on international boulevard to ensure the part of the program of development to ensure their able to thrive throughout even before construction any sort of construction timeline. I think weve got a lot of important lessons to learn. Thats why we need you. We need champions who helped represent our Small Business Committee Stakeholders and help informed this planning process and this program before we even start to think about holes in the ground. So, thank you. Commissioner dooley following up on that, what is the situation on, since youre still in the planning phases, how are you going to include members of Small Businesses, specifically, in the areas youre looking at as part of your planning panel,. The problem for Small Businesses is that they didnt have to just we act rather than no what might or might not going on. They could quite possibly give you valuable information that would help them and help you. That is something that we have not seen in the past. And, again like commissioner adams, i cant possibly emphasize more the businesses in these areas cannot be the last to know what is going on. It can be pushed on them. They need to be part of the planning procedure and not just be told what is going to happen. I think thats important area of emphasis. I think the Lesson Learned is to develop a good approach to outreach early and often. So the first piece of that is even innovation development. What we want our city to look like . How we want to engage the business and Small Business community . What makes the most sense because what vision do you see for the city because i was helpless board from your perspective presenting the Small Business community will try that vision for the future . Those are the kinds of things we need to Pay Attention to. These the kinds of comments we need to hear from the Small Business Community Early often and at the outset of the planning phase , which is what were just kicking off now. Excellent excellent feedback. Commissioner riley i wonder if you have any plans to go and take a look at the subway system and other countries and other cities in the us . I would love to do that. I think its a great point. We have lots to learn from other communities and how theyve done their subway planning. For instance, in other parts of north america and canada there undertaking a approach of developing holdings systems. In some ways we have good essence learn from those communities as well whether trying to retrofit what a great car oriented committees. Thats important insights for us to gather as we think about how our city has grown and developed. There are examples in places like europe where they have dense communities where theres a lot of intermodal activities. We have enough cars, subways, operating the same rightofway. How do they all work together. Have a attention things like Pedestrian Safety and they are thriving european markets that you see experience when you go to other place. So, i think theres a lot of great Lessons Learned globally and from pure agencies as well as other parts of north america. Was looking at new york Central Station and also some of the sun stations in asia like japan and hong kong, and they really make use of those stations. The men of the spaces to Small Business it is like an underground mall. I think thats a winwin situation did itll generate revenue for the city so you can find some these construction and will be an opportunity for Small Businesses to have a low cost retail space in a station. It will eliminate some of the, or so some of the congestion, because you dont have to drive to go to a restaurant or shop or do anything get just go to the bart station while youre waiting for your car and do your shopping and then you go home. The commission would like to organize a field visit we would love to. Commissioner toursarkissian i have to say i support my fellow commissioners positions about supporting Small Business of a few questions about your presentation, about the timeline. Its an ambitious timeline. That is a question. What is the ambitious, and that you have in mind . At the supervisors of resolution calls for, a subway master plan by fault of 2016, i believe. 2016 . Yes, thats this year. What i hope to convey to this presentation to do this and to do it well integrated with all the other things happening under way to look at how the city is going in the future we want to make sure weve all the right elements in place and that we are taking a look at cities. We look at global issues. We look at developments. We are getting ample time to consult stakeholders. I dislike that as an opportunity for us to really drive for remote momentum also identify what elements we think we can compellingly complete within that timeframe also been responsive to stakeholders and other concerns and input. So, its ambitious but i hope with the other work under way that were getting there. So the kickoff for consultants is in some time in 2016 yes divinity what are you . Speedup the first component is the vision. The wider stakeholder conversation. What is the vision for our city . What growth and a moment happening in the future, how do we plan for the 150,000 new people coming by 2040. Really big policy questions and get a lot of people under the tent. Thats not a small thing in and of itself and thats the first piece under way. Among these consultants give consultants of Small Businesses maybe a vision, to give you the Small Business vision, would that be possible . Is that going to be part of, kind of the collection of consultants that youre going to be using . Certainly, as the vision that developed one of the key things we would undertake is identifying stakeholders. As you mentioned, the Small Business community is a key stakeholder. So learning more about that and how they can be involved in helping form the development of the vision and the components throughout. I hope that speaks to your question a little bit. Commissioner dennis zouzounis to our existing rfp, we do have existing sp requirements as well. Okay thats part of that were promised to consult focusing there are standards that. Thank you. Think of your presentation responding to our questions. If you could just explain to me a little more the major investment analysis by corridor is. What that means sure. Is there a site youd like me to reference . Im just looking off the list of elements of the subway master plan and i dont know what that stands for or that means. Major investment analysis by corridor. What it means is first identifying which corridor are the ones that warrants further investments. Meaning, where are the most demand for travel to and from and of those corridor with their identify, what type of investment would we make it amusing the Word Investment were globally meeting what type of infrastructure we need. We need a bus infrastructure . Would we need a rapid Rail Infrastructure speakers would read accommodation of the two . Okay. Then they also relates back to what makes up that corridor so would be a specifici mean maybe theyll be a pleased to include Small Businesses or neighborhood associations . Certainly when you get to the corridor level thats the type of planning work that would be dumb. Consulting stakeholders and being informed by the Stakeholder Input and comments through that. Thank you. Commissioners, any other comments . I have a comments. Traditional outreach is typically nothing more than a warning shot to tell people what is coming. I think id like to see us redesign the experience mentoring these projects. It occurs to me that when an Amusement Park puts on a new ride they dont shut down the Amusement Park it oftentimes the construction is amusement is up. Apart goes to Great Lengths whats coming in subway construction project as well as the outcome. I think you would benefit from bringing in a different type of professional in the early phases , some Design Professionals which we have some of the most most renowned Design Professionals and organizations in our city. Their expertise is experiential design. I think the problem that i see, especially when i got to union square the experience is rented we put a bandaid on it every Holiday Season little astroturf, but the minute christmas is over the bulldozers are back in the astroturf is gone and the messes in place again. I just feel for the businesses big and small pattern during this project and still have years ahead of them with this project. Yet, people who come to the city have questions. We have questions that translate terminal being torn down i live in a neighborhood is fascinating to watch. There is no onsite description of what was happening. No signage telling you what was going on. Theres only a direction where i could watch a video cam but that doesnt address the issue in the moment when people are looking suddenly torres on to go home and say lets watch a great movie on tv with watch the estate terminal project. But if the information were delivered onsite and it was done in a way in a modern presentation technologies that made it interesting and made it of interest, i think theres so much that the begun to redesign this experience. I would encourage you to bring in some new professionals other than the ones that are always at the table. Its the same old same old and everyone has their own point of view that been carrying around for decades but how these things are done. Thats redesign the experience of enduring these projects because we will always be enduring them. We need to massive Infrastructure Projects in the city and i think anyone would deny that. I think its just a fear of the disruption thats going to promulgate itself across the city as we see projects like the ones were undergoing right now. Its pretty abysmal. It affects everyones life. The people live here. The local work here the people who visit here having to do with the disruption, physical and environmental disruption that these projects cause. So, please reach out to his mother professionals. They have great track records. Theyre called in to redesign the emergency room experience at the hospital. The travel experience on mass transit. They can go down a laundry list of experiences that they have done deep dives in and said we can make this a lot better. Sometimes theyre very simple Human Factors solutions to making these things less painful and sometimes even enjoyable. Projects are fastening. Why is the dump truck video fascinating for young kids . Because bigger equipment is interesting and bigots like it to. There is an entertainment element to be some sort of absurd but it is a form of entertainment. With active turn it into the because right now its just a massive disaster. We also bear the brunt of it. Big and Small Businesses. Thank you, commissioners. I like to add in closing we hope we can come back and seek your advice to the life of the program and appreciate your feedback and conversation today. Thank you. Appreciate you coming back. That concludes the presentation. We now open to Public Comment. The members of the public would like to comment on this item . Welcome. Stephen cornell. I think we should look at a different big picture. Ridership on muni and all the different transit agencies in the bay area has gone up. But actually has gone down. Per capita ridership has gone down for the last 20 years. In San Francisco is down 12 . It is consistent over all these years. So, even with all these projects think it has to be looked at differently. How you get more people into mass transit . I dont think were doing a good job of it. Even though, again is more people riding we have more people coming in so the percentage of the people on mass transit keeps going down, down, down. Something wrong. That statistic the last 20 years is before the price of oil had gone down. So if anything, were going to see more people in cars if its cheaper like this last year with the statistics are not available to me, which statistics are coming out and its something anybody can look up. Its under vital signs. You cannot down by bay area by San Francisco by neighbors. All kinds of them. I love your comments about what youre doing about the Small Businesses in the area. Whenever theres not enough big federal funds or state caltrans funds is no Economic Impact studies done. I think we should be urging Economic Impact studies for the smaller projects that we see around San Francisco. The impact, i was here for parts. I was here for all of these. We have not seen any change on third street when they went through firstrate, ocean avenue, i was here for parts. I was here for all of these. We have not seen any change on third street when they went through firstrate, ocean ave. , west portal, we live through it all. This hardly any communication to Small Businesses until the shovels come out and people start screening and its not even a full bandaid a little dot that happens. I went to my dentist whos on terror bill for the past 20 you could share no idea that there is a Program Going on on terror bill. Where is the communication . Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public who like to comment on this item . Seeing none, public, discos. Commissioners, any other comments or questions . Thank you very much. Commissioners, i would like to i will summarize your comments and discussion and provide that as a beginning bid of information for the department, so they have that information. So thank you for being here. Moving on to item 6 of them at this point. Review of our Planning Session. Item number six is a review of the Planning Session from december 18. At the Small Business commission had. Strategy goes. Commissioners, were going to have an overview discussion. I think we can take what id like to do since i know you have not had an opportunity to take a look at the document is just outline the document from a what is there. We have some discussion and then i can work with it. Present you with a final document prior to the next commission meeting. This does not necessarily have to be ratified document just a working document for you. Its your decision. So, the document starts off with the goal to become more relevant to the community of the Small Business owners as an office and commission and that the office, we really ensure that identified as the go to the source for the Small Business informational needs, and the commission is a trusted advocate for all issues affecting Small Businesses. Commission meetings should be a source of central and interesting information to help businesses manage their businesses and San Francisco and the form to express their thoughts about issues affecting Small Businesses. So, the commission has a Public Service announcement and we will have that starting generate 25th meeting, and at the close of the meeting. At the start and close of the meeting because of the holidays i was not able to facilitate that this particular meeting. Then, proactively exploring big topics. So, the big topics you initially discussed at the Planning Session work infrastructure. Were off to a good start on that get a good start. Portability housing transportation for the Service Sector workforce, and for businesses, homelessness, longterm commercial vacancies or commercial ownership. Those two things go hand in hand. A new development have taken a look at opportunity, which also goes with the commercial space as well. He platforms is the businesses assistance center. Again, ensuring all of our purgatory agencies and departments know to direct people to the office of Small Business for new businesses. Work without it would Economic Development organizations to direct businesses to osb. Do we have a legacy business fund, Small Business week, we wanted to restart me thinking about how you want to do with the tuesday board of supervisors acknowledgments the shop and dine and 49 is a yearround campaign now that includes a shop local and partners with the shop small, Small Business saturday, bmx program. With the Small Business portal. We will be be launching our newsletter or to do a newsletter blog and i will be working with staff to come up with some recommendations and ideas to present to you. We have our Small Business owner email list. So, again, beginning to do with our reach with them. A small, monthly Small Business Recognition Program to relaunch that. And then Small Business Acceleration Team which is the which will be launching towards the end of february and this is the program will be hiring a dedicated arson to be working with restauranteurs opening a restaurant. Then, regular commission meetings. Again, the discussion in terms of where you want your priorities. Obviously, commission is always heard legislation thats been referred to the commission were self referred to the commission. Resources, help for Small Business owners through the agencies and programs and other organizations. So i started to create an outline of what those resources may be in terms of hope ensuring Small Businesses either no what is out there, things to know whats out there. A lot of those also fall under other departments. Then, we have those other resources. Education, what you need to know, myth busters, best practices, so Small Business owner tutorials, refreshes, general best practices on interesting topics and trends, Small Business categories that might be specific to industries , who what why presentations from other departments must back and kind of overlap with what is listed under item number two, and in section 4 would be dense so, it is for Small Business owners, especially things like Small Business week, Small Business saturday. Currently, know that carol has returned, we are doing our social media and electronic blasting like contracting workshops the workshops Paul Pendergast had talked about. Social media and electronic blasts workshop opportunities would like google , though business the state is going to be doing a conference here next week. So, those types of partnerships and then getting involved. How can this business be involved in help advocate for themselves and sort of put in a recommendation that maybe we can invite the different merchants associations and business organizations to present to the commission on projects and initiatives, knowing what their priorities are. Then, at the end we talked about a calendar. So, we actually have a calendar now on our website. I have added every Single Commission meeting, and then in that it will link to the agenda, but you are interested in having things preset. So that somebody could say when is the next presentation on the business portal and search for that. So, i started to think about the different months, things that can be presented. The business portal, i think its still going through substantial development this still substantial work being done. I think quarterly updates will be good for you to have. March, if you want to be kept apprised of possible fees, fee increases, new fees that apartments are thinking of them because this is a budget cycle this might be a time tofor our office, first staff to reach out to the province see with their thinking and have them present those to you. Healthcare security ordinance the reporting is due and so if you want anyits due at the end of it. Theres any kind of thought or reporting of presentations on Healthcare Security ordinance. Then, Small Business week might be good to get a presentation then because most of it will have been formed. Then, june, minimumwage increases annually in july. Do we want a presentation from, maybe a presentation from ted egan taken a look at some of the economics of whats transpiring to work numbers that correspond with that. July is, july 1, 2015 is when the state paid sick leave regulation went into place. So, that might be a time to check in with osc in terms of how things are going. What questions, things theyve had to field between the two different regulations. Then, also, tentatively dph is targeting the bridge to cover plan. The cities and ari. He received a presentation from calming charter last july. The targeting of the program in place. She said fall. Something in september might be a good time to check in and possibly if its ready to then schedule in september. September is a good time to maybe think about askinggetting a report on numbers to the Business Registration. However, you might want to receive it in terms of new businesses open, number of businesses closing, number of businesses by category. Things of that sort. Then, of course any revisit of each cso because the rates go up january 1. December might be good time to refresh anything of that sort. So, to kind of start to get your brain thinking in terms of when you might want to think about having presentations. Lets also add to this, having at each meeting any announcements about events or filing deadlines that affectthings youre going to get better can result in penalties or change or impact your regular operating procedures. For example, during everyone that minimumwage changes. We should decide whether we want make these announcements, or we should decide to make these announcements by 3060 day. Just remind everybody in 90 days minimal wage missing. Come back x month and then hate if you do not change your month and youre in violation. There are a number of filings and the deadlines that can really bite you if your Small Business owner doesnt have on staff professionals are hired professionals watching these things for you. Steve mayer is on the board of the chamber with me and hes a professional accountant has had to deal with a number of these cases with his clients. So theres two things hes recommended that we deal with. One, is notifying people but also there are some rather punitive issues on the books today that we ought to start entertaining how it might change some of these laws. Gross receipts tax. Things being implemented through no minimumwage zone view window gross receipt taxes wanted with go find out with the various fees and tax timing deadlines are so we can have in this we work in progress but we can construct notification that we do. I think would be we should have another website but also announce it here so goes on the Public Record and if anyone is watching what comes qubits is a Business Registration fees that are due in march i think thats in my what we were talking about business specific yes. All businesses Small Businesses and things industryspecific. If youre in the real estate business or grocery business for manufacturing whatever it might be. I think that would be a truly great value. On the backing up to the rt platform, the System Center and getting all that apartments to direct new lease to our department. This should be a new trainer from. As a matter fact they should have an emblem on their window and someone walks up and says i am new here and i want to start a Small Business they should just they should not have to say anything thats a here is where you go first. Right because once you go there youll know when to come back to my department and one. Even just one to avoid the conversation with new people just say we have a department where you start there it is only one place in the city to start your new business in San Francisco is the office of Small Business. If you go there your defined roadmap inmate in the back your picture be better informed. And will be better equipped to help you. So this i think of it theres a lot of people sitting at desks in department kind of unaware of the fact they could so easily say why dont we just preempt this is a great news go to the office of Small Business. Theyre there to help you. I think this campaign, having Something Like this would be effective for us. No make it a lot easier for people who are starting businesses. This is a nice inventory of items, regina and i worked on this and we welcome anyone here to add to it and make comments on it. You have the inventory, so i know the commission had discussedi can make recommendations some of these might just be good to have an annual update and one that may be. Some of them are little better to have a relationship to certain thymic we can modify. We might not always be a Quarterly Business update for right now i think its good to schedule the way. It might go to twice year or once here but i think things under Development Like that werent especially since an essential asset for developing but for any item, these things will shift and change but i think there are a lot of theres some of these that will be be annual discussion of whatever it is. Its every year we go through this. Its not going to be repetitive because anyones got a new business is going to want to know that. It becomes repetition in the petition builds muscle memory so people dont get caught by not doing the right thing. If theres anything that you think is missing you can let me know. Any programs. Are you considering the department of Environment Programs in a slot in one of these months it presentation . Is a recurring topic . I mean, that is a question for you in terms of im happy to schedule bees on an annual basis. Or say, advise theit invite the department of environment to make an annual presentation of their programs work could be that some of them you might get an update but they liked the Food Service Waste reduction ordinance thats been in place now, hows it going, whats the affected that may not be unnecessarily in annual update you may want annually. But, you know, you may want to know how the commuter benefits of being enforced and the compliance and whatbecause that is more of a regulatory program. So lets all this take this list in our spare time to get out of your binder review it and feel free to send regina emails. With recommendations for enhancing the list or adding to the items already there were even adding new categories. I think is a good working list. Quick question. Only accounting for the agenda for the mayors courtly meeting as well with Small Businesses . Is that something thats a separate effort going on. So even if davis in an individual capacity we dont talk about you can do about regina offline but the tenants we actually have some restriction but attendance yes, the number of commissioners of lungs were not in committee you can have up to three commissioners attend. Generally, how we have been reporting on it and it could be this actually is a good idea a good sort of suggestion, every now and again perhaps you as commissioners were attending may want to have a more formal presentation, was been transpiring in the past. Commissioner dwight has been attending solo provide updates during his president s report. Commissioners can add to that. You can provide updates of that particular time. We will be developing some more corrugated and intersection with the mayors courtly meeting but were working on having a planning process without. Thank you. All right. Lets move on any members of the public would like to comment on this . Or congratulate us for our forward thinking make this meeting more effective . You should be congratulate on everything you do. Its a lot of work up there. All the time so it doesnt get said all the time you should be congratulated. One thing i do think we might be looking at with all the stuff that comes in here all the time, x amount of years ago and i think was 24, i was just trying to look upwas a man called establishing an analysis of what legislation is going to do on Small Businesses. I dont always hear it all the time. I think whatever supervisor brought it up or other things we just heard but the Health Department one, with the Economic Analysis thats going happen. I think thats important stuff to know. It should be brought for. I dont. Good point. Its a responsibility of this commission and the office of keep everyone on point to their obligation to provide Economic Impact. Thank you for that. All right. Any of the members of the public want to comment on this item thinks stupid public, and is closed. Were on to item number seven, directors report item number seven directors report. Commissioners, i want to does a few things i want to highlight. Beiter was the mayors inauguration. One of the themes of his inaugural speech that stood out for me was resiliency. That resiliency is not just in things like survivor of an earthquake were the only new, but in many different capacities. So, i think its an interesting theme to work with in light of some of the discussions that you have had as well as a talk about some of the Infrastructure Projects. I think thats an important thing to carry us through and to work on and focus on what we are doing. Today was the Golden Gate Restaurant Association lobbying day. I attended the meeting with the mayor. A couple issues i brought up was labor shortage, difficulty in hiring labor. Affordability and housing. Again, sort of talking about the affordability. Theres more affordable insurance being able to purchase under, that are aca compliance and the question was is this something that could be revisited. There wasit was a question i would not say there was any commitment because of the the issues in play. Then, i also inform them of the position Small Business accelerated position because that is cannot directly benefit this industry, and so their participation with part of the training and information that this position will be debriefing with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association to hear about some of the issues that new businesses have had worked to mitigate those. Was a halfhour session with the mayor. Then, we also had a brief discussion after the mayor left about commercial ownership so i think that is something theyre interested in releasing what we end up developing with that. I talked about the Small Business position. I also and i think commissioner dwight and commissioner zouzounis will be participating in a congestion workshop that the mayor is convening. So, that meeting is meeting next week. Go business, the mayorsi mean the governors Small Business Economic Development entity is going to be hosting a workshop also on january 19 here at across the street at the state building. Then, i just wanted to send, let you know and send a shout out to former commissioner minetto and her new business will be opening. About Commission Secretary the Commission Secretary, the position has been posted, has been sent out to the 1823 of the position. They have i think, 10 days to respond. That 10 days started last thursday or friday. But that is in the works. So, i think for the those are the key things i wanted to highlight my directors report today and next meeting will be meeting with commissioner toursarkissian to work on the grant owner and next meeting will have more information for the rulemaking business. Awesome. Okay. Next item. My turn. The duke x id. His president s report. By not much to report. When meeting with adam strauss thursday just a little premeeting about Small Business week and im going to the congestion workshop, as you previously mentioned. I think thats about it. Thats it for me. Vps report muscle going to the congestion workshop. I also want to give a shout out to pres. Dwight for the awesomei love the design. Its got a website on here. I like these a lot. Thanks. Give them to all your friends. So, i think thats really good. We should be giving these out to our neighborhood incubators and everyone. Where do we get them . I have the only 250 of them. Also want to give a shout out to commissioner dooley. Because people are always going toso thank you for doing that i think you commissioner dwight for acting on. Teamwork. Thank you. Item number 10 is commissioner reports. I would just like to reiterate something from Public Comment amount which is that the mayors proposal for density housing bonus is coming up soon to the Planning Commission and i would recommend to any person who is renting their Business Location should do themselves a favor and attend these many immunity meetings that are being held in different districts to see what the impacts may or may not be on your Business Location if this passes, and to ask intelligent questions of planners. But be engaged in this, because Small Businesses, if this passes, will be affected. This is your opportunity to hear more about it, say your piece, and be part of the process. Any other items for your report . Just to say we are still finally slogging through permitting, which is one of the things i had the experience of new Business Owner who tried to open, was kind of given poor advice which is now we are pushing very hard to say, hey, dont go anybody but the office of Small Business right now before you spend a dime on any outside consultants, anything like that could come to us first. May want to hire someone, but you may not. So, thank you, mark. Hold other campaign. Our advice is free. Yes. Our advice is free to come to us first. All right. Commissioner zouzounis. The two hello. My name is mary and zouzounis. This my first televised meeting. Thank you commissioners for being patient with me. Thank you for all your guidance. I guess as a brief introduction im 27 years old and i live in San Francisco. My family has a corner store in delhi i work with a lot of businesses in the south of market area in the Water District 6 community. Im a board member Small Business and i know a lot of issues in San Francisco. So thank you for having me. Welcome. Next up, anybody else . All right. General Public Comment. Do we have any members of the public that would like to come and at this point . About any general items about anything . No . Okay. Seeing none, item number 12 is new business. Any new business . Is this where i have the opportunity to request future presentation . Yes. So, there are three things that came to my delight to learn more about that think are related to some discussion items today. One, like to request a presentationisnt there a Marijuana Legalization task force or something to that degree. I like to hear if theyre working on anything in accordance with the tobacco, free tobacco, the Coalition Said department of health sponsors are having discussions with them in anticipation of something that would legalize marijuana. So there might be some questions around that related to the age limit and so on. I would also like to hear a presentation alluding to the city laws and regulations automation and specifically in Human Service and retail industries. Thirdly, i heard there was a report, i think it was a uc berkeley in the city joint report on the housing and Service Industry pipeline and how lack of Affordable Housing is affecting service industries. I like to see some numbers on that. Thank you. Okay. Any other new business . Commissioners . Weve all been waiting for. Adjournment. We have a motion i motion. Moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. First capital of the season. [gavel] we are adjournment. [gavel] parks and places of communicated and thanks to the mayor and the department of technology and supervisor farrell and google. We had a very very unique partnership that was able to bring wifi to our most heavily used parks and squares. Parks in particular are really important way of life and quality of life and so is connectivity. Bringing those two things together in a project like this is right on target with what San Francisco is and wants to be. Its all about breaking apart the divide. The people with expensive data plan can have access to information and economy. This is really breaking down the Digital Divide and giving people across the spectrum the opportunity to information and giving them mobility and freedom. Particularly by investing in connectivity in park spaces we are also ensuring the connection to Digital Inclusion opportunities and parks are designed for all neighborhoods. People are on the move. They are no longer chained to their desk tops at home. People can accomplish a lot and we prefer them being here an enjoying the outdoors and nature. Given all the mobile community and mobile information thats available. We thought it was important to make it for our parks acceptable for everyone and give everyone the opportunity to live and to work and be at the parks at the same time. Our full mission in life is to give them access to the internet, give them access to information. In San Francisco you dont have to be bottled up in an office. You can be around and enjoy your work anywhere. Its great for the local community here and it means a lot to me. In the park, you are people that can teach you about the trees in the park and you can go to parks and recreation. Org and having wifi in our parks makes it more accessible. If you want more information about how to enjoy wifi in San Francisco parks, go to good afternoon. And welcome to the Land Use Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors im scott wiener im the vice chair of the committee our Committee Chair supervisor cowen will not be able to attend todays meagerly to my left is supervisor jane kim to my right is mark farrell pointed out to sit in the committee 2, 3, 4 place of supervisor cowen i want to thank probation officer sfgo