Transcripts For SFGTV Small Business Commission 112315 20151201

Were going live my monitor yes im not able to see the will i be able it is the video screen on the secret monitor when we go live i see the with the microphone savings accounts r settinging eave clocked yeah. Ive logged us all in. Okayeave clocked yeah. Ive us all in. Okay. All right. Live from city hall it is the weekly installment Small Business commission. Youre having fun, huh . I love this i secretly want to be a dj in college. Well be spinning youre favorites this afternoon first, we have business to take care of whats going down there. Yes. Okay i thank you. Ive been trying to get the recording started i as you may know how to get inaudible nothing okay. Thank you. All right. So this is the now the Small Business Commission Meeting it is monday, november 23, 2015, and the start time is 211 id like to thank sophisticated for recording and making our meetings possible to the broader public audience item number one is call to order roll call. Yes. Please. Commissioner adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena commissioner yeeriley commissioner toursarkissian mr. Vice president we have quorum all right. On item 2. For item 2 today, were going to have a recognition for the commissioner white to the Small Business commission but she has injured home share and not able to attend well continue that to the next meeting. Sound like goods good general Public Comment to comment on matters within the suggested items for the commission future consideration. Any members of the public that would like to comment on anything not on today is agenda if so come on up seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item for a presentation and discussion on the paid sick leave policy if you recall in july or august the commission heard reviewed the two various sick leave policies with the local law and the state law and the commission put forward a letter to the office of labor standards and enforcement so what we have today a presentation by ellen of the office of standards and labor enforcement i really want to actually commend the office of labor standards enforcement to addressing the complexities after we submitted the letter to the office of labor and standards enforcement a meeting and realized there were more issues of concern to look at in terms of the over lay of the two laws so they really expect a great deal of time really diving into the consideration in terms of our niece and concerns for the Small Businesses and i think have come out with a very thoughtful and well considered list of frequently asked questions so i want to expend any preparation to the office of labor and standard enforcement for the effort. Thank you thanks regina for that introduction im ellen love the Senior Administrative person from the office of labor standard and enforcement i need a moment for the mike and share im here with another colleague that will correct me if i make mistakes and the residents technological genius for technical problems so, yeah thank you regina for bringing this issue to your attention we had sort provided general notice to the businesses in state law july 1st but yourself concern and questions prompted us to go back to the state so ask questions and get clarifies and legal guidance on the specific requirements of the state law it is working now. Thanks so yeah, so we got some additional input and taken a lot of time and effort to look at what it means for Small Businesses to try a comply with both laws to give you a little bit of background the policy context is that San Francisco voters passed the nations first paid sick leave law in 2006 naerlg a decade ago a successful policy studies have shown a couple of years after the law passed the bmws supported it and a model for the nation so since San Francisco passed that first sick leave policy in 200620 cities and counties and four states and washington, d. C. Have passed the laws in the last few years almost entirely so San Francisco is a leader in this policy arena what has created complexity that california passed the sick leave policy in 2014 the California Healthy workplace and family act took effect on july of this year 2015 and while San Francisco was the leader when california got around to the law as their usual many cooks in the kitchen and many details that got added in and it the legislation that come out of the stat legislator differences from the local law so the basic come compliance framework the general were looking for Small Businesses and all businesses in San Francisco is that the state law didnt super succeed the local law San Francisco employers must comply with both laws and the local law the San Francisco sick leave is important captains i have and other areas the state law is for substantial so the employers have to comply with the more xavens version today walk you through so you understand where San Francisco businesses have to comply and what the issues and complex that are a bunch bear with me as i walk through ill start with the permitted uses of the paid sick leave and the first thing i want to say the similarities in both laws you can use it for a wide range for youre own medical needs when our circumstance sick or a doctors appoints and use it for the Family Members that is broadly defined with legal guardians. Siblings and grandparents and grandchildren this includes botanical adopted and foster care for the relation and the difference between the two laws regarding how you can use the paid sick leave law and for whom under the local law the San Francisco paid sick leave ordinance there is a category of the designated person you can pick someone anyone in the world who use the sick leave maybe my nephew but is not on the list of people that can use the sick leave state law didnt have this provision this case because the San Francisco is more generous the employees have to follow the San Francisco law the state law allows employees who suffer from or victims of Domestic Violence or stalking to use that that calls it out for sick leave and San Francisco law didnt have any specific so that is an area with the state law is more substantive the state law also says you can use paid sick law for on apprentices to the law that when i have someone i can use my sick leave to care for them when theyre sick and similarly the state law also allows you to take paid sick leave for the inlaws or the domestic partner not included that the local law so the state law applies that is sort of a starting place to see where the details one law is are captain active and the category applies now im going to get into how businesses provide and circulate the paid sick leave to the employees ill say this the most trick it parts of comparing the laws their just different they didnt mesh yeah, ill walk through so you can understand to see what were doing as an Enforcement Agency so under this San Francisco local law the accrual and use the employees accrue one hour of sick leave for thirty hours of worked that is just a standing approval rate and again, arouse after 90 days of work and so under the San Francisco law and the caps on accrual there is a 40 hour for employers with fortune 10 employees and 72 for all other employers and the key points about that the caps are not annual caps not the amount of sick leave in a year but a floating cap and employees can use any sick leave approved i learned or learn visually so i tried to map this out as you can see hopefully to visualize this is a chart of so which hours are orchid on the bottom and paid sick leave accrued of the vertical act sister for the chunk of time a new employee the example a new employee at a Small Business with fewer than 10 employees the accrual is 40 hours thats the relevant number because this is a new employee for the first 90 calendars days they dont accrue and start to accrue at one hour of sick leave for every thirty hours of work and what they hit the 40 hour cap it levels off they keep the 40 hours accrued for a while and in this example i show their child is sick they take. I think the day of 8 hours of paid sick leave the amount is dropped and starts to accrues that is meant by a floating cap it is not an amount in the year it is as soon as possible you use it it gets back up to the cap the other thing i want to point out there is you cant see on the screen a gray line at 200080 hours that is one year you dont zero out at the end of the year it accrues that is the San Francisco law i have another little chart for the ill put up for a moment for a Large Business with 10 or more employees for them the privilege is the stage but the cap is 72 hours so you accrues up to 72 hours and an example i put up there the employee never gets up to 72 hours they use that will brown they get to the cap and immediately starts to cap again do you have any questions does make sense okay. Great. Thanks. Okay. Before i get into the state law i want to like put like an asterick above any head im not an expert in the law the standard enforcement law if you have delayed questions i would refer you to them but ill give the overview and in the qs relief published in the state law the employers choose from methods for the sick leave there are at least two different types of accrual different ways it accrues and up front the employees get a chunk of sick leave and use it during the yearly ill talk about two of these ill talk about the first accrual method under the state so unlike the local law the employees get sick leave on day one the day they start employment the one hour for thirty hours of work and accrues up to a 48 hours cap but theres a difference between accrual and usage; right . So while youll accrue on day one only use the sick leave on and on offering 90 days and is employer can limit our use of sick leave a year to twentyfour hours so again, ive tried to put 2, 3, 4 this in fwrafk form it is look at easier yeah, ill stick to the first accrual under the state law so you see the employees begins accruing right at the beginning of employment starting at hour zero no waiting are period this is a new employee ill assume 0 someone that is working fulltime and it dpeefrnt the size of the business under the destroying i state law no carve out for Small Businesses or larger businesses one system so the employee begins accruing and then in this example i mean, ill show the 3 a sick days and then accruing but the context it in the state law the employer can limited their use for 3 days arrest and for the rest of year they cant use anywhere and at the end of this year showing with the gray line the 2080 hours theyll begin to use it and ive shown the usage to make the motto a medical appoint after the start of second year thats the accrual under state law any questions. Yeah. So if we take the San Francisco ordinance as to the other than the floating component of it huh . The state law seems to be more favorable to the and the accrual about the limitation of the 3 days yeah. Under state law it seems to me that the employer has to comply with state law as to the first point that you raised in our as to the capping and the floating has to comply with the City Ordinance is that your understanding. Thats correct ill speak speak to another one yeah. Which is another option which didnt require the accrual at all so that one is ill show you you agree. You agree. We can collapse the two in equal of years in the city and county of San Francisco and the state law is more favorable with the exception of the floating issue that you raised will that will a favorable more favorable treatment for employees . I think the limitation on the number of dazed taken is very sixth one. Of the ordinance you agree with that so the ordinance is more favorable the city is more favorable. Correct. Yet the rest as to state law as stated as provided in state law is more favorable. Thats correct lets looking at the method and get both it a little bit more youre on the right track the accrual is more favorable for the Small Businesses with the exception of the limitation on the 3 days and is floating gap. Thats met at the end of the presentation as to how to do it. Were getting there yeah, so the state law has the second method this is the one weve gotten the most questions the up front method and what were calling the up front method they dont call is that technically not an accrual system it is a lump sum given to the employee of the sick leave at the beginning of the year the employer provides 24 hours or 3 days up front at the beginning of year with no carry over to the next year required by a twentyfour hours then at the given of the next year this is what it looks like in any graphic form thank you for bearing with me with my hostile algebra so the twentyfour hours is provided up front at again, this is for a new employee and the soomgs this period of time is working fulltime at the start twentyfour hours and spend it down this example the individual uses two days and uses a little bit more towards the end of the year and 6 hours of paid sick leave at the end of the year and then the employer just gives them the difference between the sick leave and the twentyfour hours to bump them up to the twentyfour hours for the beginning of the next year and state law allows you to define that is what weve heard about the up front method a lot of businesses have asked how to combine the citys law with the up front method that is what ive taken a stab at trying to describe and combine. Well, the benefit if you have to pay outs unissued sick leave if someone leaves our company youre cap the maximum pay out to the maximum you can use; right . It this didnt allow you to productive over the maximum none can quit and have more than the maximum you can use in the accrual youll awe country more than you can use and technically pay out the accrual if someone quits that allows to you pay is forward im giving it now use it or reup you new year and no exposure more than a full year with but my calculation is large. Commissioners it is only time off for vacation youre required to pay out. You dont have to pay out sick leave no benefit other than i mean probable simpler for the up fronts. For cities not would sink detergent but in San Francisco. Its mute because the San Francisco law preys. Yeah. He read this. Is that youre understanding . Yeah. From what ive heard from business inquires many businesses outside of San Francisco are thought the up front method to be simpler. Not in San Francisco. Not necessarily in San Francisco but we have gotten very specific. Yes. If the chamber of commerce and from this commission about the how the up front method fits with the San Francisco paid sick leave law i tried to take a stab of what that looks like any more questions about the state law before we go on. That i can answer. Okay. Lets act a look at how they fit together. And have more of a discussion so the paid sick leave accrual and the state up front method together here ill fix that our office if that we realized last week to treat any amount provided up front as an advance on what you accrue on the local law you can provide twentyfour hours but then at some point the employee will have more twentyfour hours under the local law you can have them accruing at this point. The accrual will catch up with you. Yes. Thats what that looks like in the graph and this is i started with a simple example the employee didnt use any it is simple the doted red line shows what that employee has in there is california sick leave and it catches up and starts awe cu. This is the credit. Exactly. For the youre stuck with the accrual and make an Early Advance and not a cap. Thats correct. What i saw attorneys said the benefits they get to accrue from day one that is really besides the provisions of why you can use it, it is all schematics of the infrastructure thats all okay. State method one. No, i dont have that i can go back and do that i looked at the up front because of specific questions regarding that method but i couldnt and. If i may take a moment to interject for employers with under 10 employees there was a question about the up front method but the state having the 48 hours accrual in San Francisco there is a 40 hour accrual for employers under 10 i think the question came up about for employers with the up front method then as a means of complying with the state as opposed to the accrual then how will that overlay with the San Francisco paid sick law for businesses over 10 employees because the the accrual is 48 hours our accrual is 72 hours that question is less of a question for businesses over 10 employees does make sense just to jog our memory it was sort of a question after is 8 hour accrual. The 8 hour vetted is for relevant for Small Businesses than businesses over 10 employees that may make sense maybe for smaller businesses but not for ours. You can put method one overlay youll have to follow the curve that is most favorable to the employee and give the times and then the employer has just a little bit of the state method is more favorable from the get go then until they merger so this is really an administrative matter im going to go with the all in on the beginning not worry about the accrual and know i have to starts accruing i have to catch with the curve and unless i want to you know keep it below the immediate but the curves simultaneous shows you at the start start at the state and ultimately merger with the city so, yeah. You have to accrue with the same overlay and make up the 16 hours difference. So graphically the best way to explain. Yeah. The graph. A thats right about the state i know put the curves together the one thing ill add you have to have the cap floating and role it over for the next year that is required by the San Francisco law but the state accrual line that works. The city trumpings the state salon they merger the cap and is resouth is mute it is blow the line our requirements yeah. That make sense and just one last example if that hazmat with the up front method that shows what happens if someone uses the paid sick leave before the end of the year they drop down i put this example to show that they start accruing immediately again from where there are when they got sick and used the paid sick leave if youre using that state up front at the beginning of the second year youll have to bump them up to the twentyfour hours. It will take them longer to catch up. Yeah. But if youre using accrual youll be on the citys curve at that very point there that doted line if youre on the state method one youre on the city doted line if youre on the state two it is up front bump and he guess you have to make that an election pubically this is our policy. Thats a good question i dont know. Can you change that on an annual basis. This is probably not relevant but and it is probably advised no mistreatment of employees. Of course like to sum up frankly this is a question that comes up why would San Francisco business lets take the Small Business more than 10 take the up front method why would first why would the business be required to do so and to what extent i mean tell you a little bit the how do you fit in the up front method just to clarify. Yeah. Its a good question my understanding is for a Small Business with fortune 10 employees employers didnt want to go up to the twentyfour hour cap but prefer to stay at the 40 hour cap with the local ordinance so if you use the up front method you never have to go up to the 48 hours cap under their approval method. So the up front method could limit potentially the employees employers quote unquote exposure. By 8 hours for those businesses with fewer than 10 employees. It is no advantage for businesses over 10 employees; is that right. When can you start using our sick leave. Under state law after 90 days under San Francisco law you can use it soon you begin accruing it. This is a exactly where why you dont use the up front someone gets hiring on day lets see on day one they say oh, im sick im sorry and quit and get paid for the whole week. Thats immediately. If you elected to do the up front ill caution a San Francisco employer if someone were going around doing that dont do it. Up front method didnt work if you have more than 10 employees. Did i misunderstand. Yeah. It provides it is a loophole where anyone can severelyly go around and take 3 days of pay for being sick yeah. Were looking at the provision you cant use sick law until 90 days i dont know if this applies up front. Yeah. But in San Francisco you can use it immediately so as soon as it is accrued so 90 days i bid you an up front accrual that first chunk of hours now it is there for the taking. That is cynical. In San Francisco immediately. It is starting in 90 days. San francisco you can use it immediately. As soon as under San Francisco by the way, alu but a good question. I dont think that our office will enforce it like require the employer to provide it before 90 days. As a employer the stated policy we dont use the accrual method well did you have an immediate chunk up front and get you up to the enter section you could august given an varmint and thats yours for the taking under San Francisco law which says i can use what ive accrued at any given time ive stated im giving you youve accrued on day zero the first amount of sick leave none says what the accrual rate is the rates under that plan youve accrued x number of hours for immediate accrual, if you will. So this interject this will only benefit other counsels for other liability not just to accrue as you go you want that on youre books i think for the 8 hour gap youll still have people could not do it Small Business youll have to put that on youre book. The question about the up front method lets stick to the smaller we have pretty much said this is good for the smaller businesses would you say that the up front method in the meantime, the up front method you provide that to our employee when the employee is supposed to accrue sick leave thats 90 days after employment lets say i get the new employee im im a Small Business and i you know apply or adopt the up front method for a policy when should i make that available the up front available to the employee is that the date of hiring or 90 days after is accrual stops . By definition the first day of employment and remember the only reason that you do it under state youll get a benefit that benefit is not permitted to a San Francisco employer over law trumps that it says oh, well so what about that cap you get on a different curve the time it enter seconds it your San Francisco law so other benefit of the up front cap is no use to you later on no benefit as far as i, tell for any business the up front method in San Francisco maybe in other county but not in San Francisco. That was sort of not a part of our discussion i think you know larger so i wonder if i went i dont think you know that may come up with a cue e. R. Get a legal determination from the City Attorney in terms of here on behalf of the appellant. It seems to me i dont think we will enforce something before 90 days but youre raising i mean, if you have a policy in youre entrepreneurial policy. Whether youll enforce it is list the law prevails some lawyer will take you to court youre choosing to enforce it didnt mean if so not the law if i read this properly the law as a San Francisco business you have to awe crisis sometime so you have to learn to accrue. Theres a variance of hours so 8 hours of accrual boutiquely under 10 employees you get 8 hours to comply with the states so there isnt. So that i agree but. Right all right. You duck underneath the 48 hours. That puts it on the books a slight advantage we get. I get it. We need to know for sure that is a good points and a perfect example. So ill get clarification on that. Nice knowing you. This is very good but kind of i agree with an excellence. Taking it to the next level and i like the graphs. Me, too. As much as i hated them in school i like them now. Hard to explain. So, yeah, there are a few things i want to end with detests about the accrual so under the paid sick leave ordinance the state law requires that you provide employees with information about how much sick leave with each statement on their pay stub or some other manner. Good luck. They have to be aware you how much is available the sick leave didnt have that in it; however, we would say if youre only providing employees with information about how much they have in state law but not San Francisco law like we would think that would be confusing and potential misleading so youll inform them about the total amount each law has a notice you post it for the employees benefits there are posters we got agreement with the state agency well publish it and that is by both laws im happy about. Photograph the wall about the posters. Imagine how you sort this out if youre an employee. It is like an advanced race. laughter and one other minor detail it is different rehired employees the state law requires that you rehire someone within one year they retain theyre sick leave balance when they left the company the San Francisco law didnt have this requirements but the state law trumps it the recordkeeping ordinance before you the state law has 3 years and there are a couple of things that differences i didnt include that havd with the other things on the table that seems like they are not be particular about it you have questions please ask me. I want to ask about the minimum increments how do you manage that. Yeah. The San Francisco law says you can take one hour of sick leave one hour im going to the Doctors Office to or warehouse theyre not required to tell you what is it for but, yeah you have to provide them with an hour increment for stating has to be two hour blocks. You ends up having time could be days and hours or 4 days and 6 hours left over. Yeah. Month businesses have total hours. Yeah. A whole program that does it so when an employee wants to take you know an hour or two hours off it does it by the hour and it is broke down. Usually by the hour. Yeah. And i think i have one question and this didnt mean that all Small Businesses under cb a everything is veftsd equipment for a new hire mid year of the vesting year not all the benefits not an approval per the cb a then under the cb a did it trump all of these. Under the San Francisco law the cb a parties to it may include in the cb a an explicit an urban ambitions waiver of ordinance but right now the da wave for sick leave ordinance in under the state law there is a few different provisions that apply to cb a1 set of provision that apply to cb a in the Construction Industry and another set to other cb a ill be happy to to provide for detail i dont have it. So you were right if youre a Small Business in San Francisco you choose the up front is saves you will hours a year. Yep. There is no limit on the San Francisco side to what you can use every year if you take the up front youll go to 40 per San Franciscos owners and state trumps San Francisco is 48 and San Francisco trumps estate you can the state says 24 but you are accruing 10 or less employees you want to choose up front it caps youre liability at 40 hours of sick leave instead of 48. Yeah. I dont know we think like this. What is youre comment i didnt hear. I was yeah, so Small Businesses thinks you might elect this because you save 8 hours 49 instead of 40 but the Small Business put this on the liability up front on the books it might not be 100 percent but you pointed out no wheres the enforcement like whats the law the law cheat. That maybe the law the one thing to reiterate is that while we San Francisco has the 40 hour accrual per year it is a rolling accrual 0 so if an individuals draws down on that and theyre not at the end of their year period they can start accruing again so we need to be mindful how we make sure question talk about it. So ill say if you believe that youre hiring people people are joining youre company in good faith and work for you a period of times and less than 10 employees the recommendation you should offer the up front as we call the up front plan because that will save you potentially 8 hours of sick leave per year i guess then it also depends on what youre offering as Vacation Time and were you offer the combined just basically a p t o a lump of vacation and youre 48 hours is added into our total thing is i dont if youre loud. Vacation time is one thing and it has to be separate. And then for Small Businesses they have to have a policy and they cant say so in terms of a uniform policy and i applicable to all employees. You say well do a combined plan youre total hours are permitted in terms of sick leave were give you a Vacation Times and be sure you take youre sick leave every year and a personal sick day call it whatever you want and take it, its yours. Im trying to figure out approximately strategies for Small Businesses i mean, you dont have to over Vacation Times most of us do otherwise were not expect active and the Small Businesses if the coincidence up front theyll cut down potentially the 8 hours then maybe the way to go in my opinion it should be separately in the policy from the Vacation Times which is not riders by law is it should be clear and it should apply to all employees. Of course you know apply it to good faith you know kind of selecting is that youre understanding. You can division Vacation Time. Yeah. Yeah, it is do you believe that here on behalf of the appellant. Paid sick leave applies to all employees. I there are some details about p t o in the state law im not familiar with theres a grandfathering provision for employees with p t o policies. This is a transition plan. Yeah. So if this is something the commission is interested in ill be happy to to provide that but i dont. If i may it is quite complicated to every member of this commission i i am an attorney and have a hard time fourth this but Small Businesses are struggling their exposed to this uncertainty ill wondering to take those two piece of legislation city and give a kind of 1, 2, 3 for Small Businesses and a few in the city and those above that youve done a wonderful job it is quite a bit of work. Weve gotten a lot of input. But put a lot of time. Weve gotten guidance from other offices. The graphs are good. The work is such an improvement if we can hire at least give a sum up of the difference this is what you can do and a comply with city and state you have to give the best of what the law provides under state law and sick leave law in the city of San Francisco so is there a way a place where Small Businesses q can get that information this is the bottom applying coverage should we be able to provide that. On our portal this is information on our portal. I think one thing that was made you know that i when we first met with the folks after we drafted the letter and correct me if i am wrong on this. But all the purview is about interpreting the local laws; right . And providing information as to the intersection but i think many say not have their purview and sort of within their realm of kind of what the department is charged to provide specific operational recommendations; right . What were looking at for to get the information out and clearly it is possible and the purview of which if an employee says i dont think im receiving any paid sick leave and it is going in and taking into account what did business is doing and how their applying the law what is the lens theyll be looking at to meet this you know the local labor requirements. Yeah. I think wear i think this is important we go through a process of getting the details and figuring out what options and the presentations but off of Small Business wanted to provide some suggestions i think at this point as far i can tell it is not ambiguous but conflicts there is the overlay is a complicated off lay if youre you know at first glance so providing the grassroots were helpful and the table is helpful i think that that when you figure out that not ambiguous it is objective but there are a lot of criterias to be in the identifiable analysis then make recommendations to Small Business and those two sizes and there might be a reason not to do is one way basically two entry that is for Small Businesses and two entry points for both i think we could because were Business Owners come up with those policy recommendations, if you will, not just recommendations but if you go down this path basically 4 paths i think so this allows this give us the framework to say hey, nothing ambiguous this is all the quantify things you have to be observed and just figure out at any juncture where you are. Every time you make a choice you have to pick the most favorable provisions in state law or local so we can have four tables you do this and the state law says this and local law says this pick the best the most favorable provisions or terms for the employees i think that i agree it is not the implementation is context you have to take into consideration there are cigarette for the this this law. I think there an absence not written yet laughter Commission Commissioner yeeriley i have a question how does San Francisco calory to other cities other cities do very e they have the local law as well as have to comply to state law a. There are few cities in california that have a handful of laws i believe berkley no yes, maamyville and oakland and maybe more but i mean San Francisco is the first thing that had a local law and few that have a local law many have on the state law and other cities i know of have memorial day San Franciscos language but the same issue as well. Is there any chance we go with the state law and not the local law . I havent heard any proposals to that effect. This was passed on a ballot measure. Yeah. It is a ballot measure it has to go back to the voters. As and they that aint going to happen. Of we wanted to do the most simplicity pilot thing of lining up the years of recordkeeping that will have to go back before the voters so the one other additional thing we can work with the City Attorney and also i think what we should do is also work with our s p d. C. Each business will be different and Business Owner is different in terms of their understanding and being able to take this information additional but well work with the Small Business Developments Center to you make sure that the consultants that deal with h. R. Really understand the complexity of this and you know prepared to really work with the business and how to best what best fits them in dealing with the compliance. Once you choose ab youve at the time set youre paths from there on it is substantive no ambiguity you have to choose up front thats a recommendation to a Small Business a set of policies and document it and apply it to all employees once you set that policy and the accrual method youve put yourself on a path that is independence is complicated by defined so the task at hand to begin it by which you determine what the employee has a right to and what going to and you could write an app that establishes that and maybe one the guys that gives the presentation to do apps. Yeah. Or sf city or one of their people that is theres an app that results from this. laughter . Okay i wanted to finish by putting up the resources hotline and public hotline and email and website that has specific information on compliance for employer comes to us would that comply we will have people available that are will pick up the phone and talk to people and say this complies or not but provide recommendations on youre own business. Right if you have because this could be put you could put when did our employee starts how long have they been here what plan are you on step one or the accrual when did they take time off and the time of duration those these things the employee curve and is obligation curve what falls out of that so that is mathematical. We shouldnt forgot the city floating theres a understated difference we have to right thats the floating is stop; right . So that is a rule a logic rule and this is what computers do they office that everything it seems to me ruling it is complicated so it is best put into some kind of an outward app otherwise you have to do it on paper laughter . When the stairwell come up with the new legislation did they work with you the city so we can be. No, we didnt hear from them. What you were asking where they are evil or just unaware laughter i think that makes sense wear the only city that has a local law for them to come up with a state law they should look at the local law. We i mean as also common is leader takes a leadership position a by theyre the out liar before i existence they set out in front of the thing since none live else is do doing the the second one gets to start and have their own law if you are a county you have youre own law but the state and trump as long as you set even though that people are scramming thats why month counties wait to see what San Francisco our sentences do and wait to see how the city responds and sets their policies thats why 340 people follow us from marriage rights to marijuana policies the first one in has to figure out all the stuff that none thought of; right . Here we are we cant go back we put to the voters not in chambers we want to anytime misses the things not to the voters we cant can change the law over the board of supervisors who wrote the law was the board of supervisors but once the people have the voting is harder to do; right . Thank you, commissioner. Thank you that was very educational thanks. Thanks. We need to open up for Public Comment and before we close. Is there anyone out there who would like to comment on this Public Comment on this . Everyone in a coma. All right. Seeing none, move on Public Comment is closed. And next item. All right. Were moving on to item 5 which is the presentation discussion on the implementation of the familyfriendly we have a policy person with the department is dependent on the status of women thats primary what youre presentation in the pauktsdz i have a copy felt brochure and form for the employer and the employee as well but if theres any nittygritty details of the policy that there would possible be followup responses that we may need to get to you. Good afternoon, everyone on behalf of the the departments an is status on women thank you, commissioners. Thank you regina thank you for the opportunity as regina mentioned ill talk about the family from him but the four are pour for the Family Friendly workshop im sure as you may know of the familyfriendly workplace ordinance and im hopeful that the presentation would be phone call for the larger public that maybe attending this meeting. The presentation for the fair for the net of the familyfriendly workplace a knows process and then ill move on to discuss the details for the ordinance the completion process and the resources and before i move on i have a request unlike elementary elena not able to multi task please escape our discussions to the ends i get off track so to begin with less look at what is haven the challenges that todays workplace faces if youre like many people and Business Owners and managers youre fagsdz with a daunting challenge of finding xhtdz people and reducing an telling them and increasing productive those champs are a product off the changes in the family and workplace democrat graphics that San Francisco and the United States has been witnessing for example, in 1975, 50 percent of families had a stay at home mom and the father was the breadwinner not the causation that number is a number of 5 and singlefamily households the women a makeup half the forces in 4 in 10 families most are the primary breadwinners and 6 percent of children have both parents working so with the social transformation at the core of over economy and families some employers and neighbor policies have yet to adapt to the changes and if they dont adapt it is not only an issue with how the family takes care of of its children but how the employers and the workforce retains competitive and good employments employees today expects their workplace to provide flexibility to care for their children as well as be productive in the workforce and in addition to children we all know there are additional care giving respondents one in 6 have a parent with disability 22 percent care and working many employees need to provide care for an aging sick relative in addition to caring for the children those numbers have shifted dramatically over the past decades and in addition to these demographic changes when you add the local competition for the labor and is cost of living in the bay area that may have some of youre employees holdings two jobs executing across several counties and attend school to better themselves and today employees and employers are faced with new and significant challenges despite the challenges and the changes in the workforce democrat graphics a lot of employers have not adjusted and as a result, the flexibility stigma in our workforce when is that it means anyone that requests flexibility or be predictability in their swelling is diskrtdz or devalued in the workforce and women suffer the most even in 2015 the demands for pregnant and childbirth and other things make that uncomfortable between work and life but mentally want flexibility to attend to their care and however men who seek flexibility are seen as less committed to their access according to h. 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Men and women are likely to want the flexibility arranges and an increase in the request for Work Flexibility the support for Human Resources management the executive director manages know that is critical for managing talents and moma productivity the good news despite those challenges if youre a business effectively addresses those challenges and just not see them as roadblocks the businesses are likely to be more professionalable and humane not research or something come from the department for several recent studies have been done on this particular issue so i want to move on to talk about the familyfriendly workplace audit and the familyfriendly workplace is a solution to the challenges were seeing in the contemporary labor force if you want the way to create a familyfriendly offer for the predictable work and Flexible Work schedule and in return get reduced an telling them and better prosperity monk another benefits i want to present an example of a local business that most of us are well aware of the math has about 200 and 60 employees including the students and workers in tare 20s and 30s and other caregiver responsibilities they all came together and brainstormed the idea of Scheduling Flexibility and predictability in late 2014 and several of them didnt agree the brainstorming continues every month and in the ends they were on board and said okay. Lets go ahead and see what happens this needs no information it is successful and it remains popper in San Francisco as a business that is in touch with adversities employees and as the director of Human Resources mentioned some of the ways to introduce the flexibility and predictability some of our employees only work a shift to attend to their family one coming in at 6 00 a. M. And a Office Staff Works at home this is an example we are well aware of the arrangements but there is definitely a possibility of creating more discussion as to what the ordinance hopes to do so recognizing the benefits of the familyfriendly workplace to the employers and employees the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco came together and vote for the familyfriendly workplace in january of 2014 and an ordinance aims to create a friendly environmentalist i believe the framework the employees can meet their workplace respondents and i want to take a minute to acknowledge it San Francisco has a proud historical of Small Businesses and a lot of Small Businesses with, in fact, already welcomed to the employees and many Small Businesses have gone with their employees about the scheduling and other arrangements so for businesses having a process maybe an additional work we understand thats why the departments on the status of women and also the labor of enforcement is here to help we want to help businesses of any size starting with 20 or more and more employees to have a process that is simple to implement for just that. Lets look at deeper into the ordinance what it entails the familyfriendly ordinance essentially is that is employees have the rights to request the predictable schedule for the caregiver duce the request and responses must be in writing and an employer grant or deny the request bans bona fide reasons the ordinance is about communication it is about openly doors and having conversation that are beneficial for both the employers and employees and just a little bit about who is covered in the ordinance the employers that are pled two or more staff that includes the publicprivate nonprofit that as mentioned not include the states employees or federal employees in the city and county of San Francisco and as for employees any employee it works in a business that employees 2 or more and the employee has to be working for 6 months and must be regularly working 6 hours a week within the premises of the city and county of San Francisco and that is important to recognize that the ordinance applies to a business that maybe based of San Francisco but has the employee working within is 71 so for example, an employee maybe in san mateo but the employee extends spends a significant in the amount of in the city so in summary the key features the employee is juggling a lot in life and has caregiver responsibilities but faired of seeking unpredictable situations at work the ordinance wants to protect those employees from the discrimination and also prbdz the retaliation for asking for frequently and you think predictable scheduled before the core for open dialogue to create a safe space for open dialogue between employers and employees. Absence more about what employees rights are and what the arrangements look like the employees have the right to request the language for the flexible and predictability arranges for any of the caregiver responsibilities with a child or children for whom they have responsibilities or with a Family Member that is ill or with parents or inlaws 865 or above. What are the predictable and flexibility o Flexible Work proijsz is a definition from the ordinance its a Flexible Work arrangements means a change in the employees skills and change of employment to assist an employee with the arrangements ross are a few of the arrangements and, of course, there are very different based on the business so the workers of telling commuting or alternating their schedule predictable local arrangements is a congressman in an employees condition of employment that has scheduling predictability to assist with their care responsibility and exemption for the providing shifts for two weeks in advance or 3 planned opposite for parttime work or consistent hours from week to week that is a huge issue for the food destroy like mcdonalds or even working a 3 day workweek. So the ordinance lays out a protocol in terms of how a business can be able an employee to ask for predictability or flexibility and then how to move ahead with the process to the employee requests the protocol simple is requesting the changes in the hours or work location or having more predictable work schedule and in order to help with that protocol the department of the status of women has created a sample form it is available on familyfriendly sf. Org and those forms are in anybody can download them to meet the requirements of their respectable business so an employer requests more predictability or flexibility and an employee has a meeting with the employer has a meeting with the employer and then the employer may decide bans the fact he or she wants to accept or deny or deny the request of the employee and for that process of accepting or denying as well the employer may use the employee Response Form and examples on the website and downloadable and customize ability so it is simple in an employer grants the request off an employee for a specific arrangement he or she has a document what the arrangement will look like and move forward with the arrangement, however, if the employer denies the request then the employer has to provide bona fide business reasons for don the request and some of the reasons may include identifiable costs productivity lost or rehiring costs or transferring employees other bona fides is the detrimental impact 0 on meeting or denying to meet the full schedule. So with what happens in the employer denies well, the employee has a right for to submit a request for reconsideration so and that request within thirty days of the employers denial and just to kind of sorry and just to kind of summarize this process this question process is a flow chart as you can see the usual rule one 21 days im an employee i want to flexibility in my work schedule and asked any employer to meet within 21 days it should take place and within 21 days face to face between is employer and employee the employer has to provide a decision whether the request has been accepted or denied now in this the employer grants the request okay. But if not youll go on to the other side avenue flow chart and the negotiate within thirty days prompted by the employee and then the employer is expected to respond within 21 days and the final decision so just want to share a few responses how to stop it and points to consider for businesses which have employees more than 20 First Research predictable schedule if you dont have a predictable schedules for the employees look to set up one for some companies a two week schedules is good with predictability comes the ability to off flexibility over own staff can help to design a way to be flexible or predictable and even have a discussion with them and second communication is key i think is ordinance is really trying to get to this and communicate the goals of the familyfriendly workplace letting the employees to understand the willingness to run a successful business the ordinance wants to be sensitive that a business has its own limitation and has to run and thirds the develop, process to schedules for communicating the predictable or flexible scheduling and the ordinance is wants to help with that exact process i mentioned this is for profit that can help and next the scheduling applications to make things easy for example, Search Online for the employees scheduling application plenty of choose many people have smart phones to implementing a schedule or texting updates explicit take much time and an example of that is neighborhood restaurant based in noah valley and employees about 35 employees and is owners says that did not have flexible or predictable schedules would essential drive her crazy she uses an online app and employees can put it in more predictability and things are smooth for example, one can take up if it happens way before time and not on the clock we have to be aware that a lot of businesses the employees dont have smart phones how to deal with the schedule issues and here he take the example of owner of baldwin hotels how you know Successful Hotels within the city and the owner actually meets oneonone with his employees and wants to know what theyll like to do with their schedule and sets up things so this is another example of how you do that and next you know like i mentioned reach out to the department on the status of women and to others to help to set the process to engage with the specialists and get the process right it will be easy that way, of course, to have the additional help so youre not doing all the work and keep the ordinance in place the bottom line dont struggle alone with the resources that are vertebral for you and finally be recognized as a familyfriendly with that, by downloading the logo and placing it on the job website rudimentary and manual and even as our business place the detail in this case and, of course, that applies to you if youre business with 20 or more employees so to end with here is a list of Additional Resources i want to remind the remote audience that pleases vitals the family friend of the Family Friendly place sf damn that has a bundle of information and intervention and the bureau has a lot on their website and the society of Employment Center and the office of labor standards and enforcement the Enforcement Agency. We ive been doing outreach since the ends of september we made some progress a lot needs to be done and regina is partnering with the department and helping us to escalate the awareness of the ordinance that will be coming up by december 11th in addition to the survey im looking for opportunities and im looking for suggestions from the commissioners here on how the outreach can be more successful thank you and he amnesty you to all ask questions and please vital us. Thank you very much commissioners, any questions. Two questions. Is first one yucca consummation it is safety to the face to face is not considered for the confirmation correct. Time to jog my memory. You have a request and a face to face requirements and a response within 21 days my understanding that face to face is not riders for the ratio. So im looking at the ordinance here in section 12 b6 it says if an employee synonyms a request for reconfiguration the employer must residence a meeting to take place within 21 days. So, in fact, for both then for the initial request and the reconsideration the employer has to arrange a face to face meeting. Thats right. For both. Thats right so the face to face is not the language in the ordinance so my belief is that an employer and an employee may decide what that meeting may look like maybe a phone meeting. Who dictates the type of meeting is going that a mutually agents method who imposes and anyway, thats the detail i wanted to point out there maybe a requirement for communication. The second issue if in fact, the employee requests denied a response written response and a request for a reconsideration and denied the after what are the remedies reliable available for the employees if any do this quickly. Sure the ordinance is very much in favor the employer if they have a bona fide reason after a request for reconsideration and a total railroad discretionary or consideration from the employees it unfair they approach the office of labor and enforcement and they speak to the employer but they find that the denials meets bona fide business reasons the employee may not the employees denial request stands. And what are the penalties in in fact, it is found to be urban justified or unfounded there are penalties. Yes. There are penalties and there are outlined in the ordinance a copy is available on the website but briefly the benefits is minute california about the dollars for the time lost off the employee not working and being in the final denial. Thank you. Ellen did you want to provide yeah. Just on the enforcements of that piece they dont have the ability or authority to review whether it is bona fides we have the authority to view it but where the process has been followed all the steps and meetings within 21 days and providing the answer in writing and providing some business reason but we dont have the authority to review that business reason. You valid data the meeting is required for the consideration. You dont know. I dont remember that but, yes. Google that. Thank you. Any other questions commissioners i think were done call for Public Comment comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And this is is an ordinance passed by is board of supervisors not the voters correct. Correct. Thats right. I think then assemblyman david chiu was the legislative sponsor. Thank you. Well, thank you commissioners. Thank you. All right. Lets move on to the the next order of business. Item number 6 the oh, the package of prop j to go along with the historical is legacy Business History registry so currently we have the application out for business for the mayor and is board of supervisors to make nominations youve seen the current application in that process and that process is still in place though with the passage of prop j well need to change the application the application and, of course, the application process changes because the applications will be route through the Historic Preservation Commission Prior to the Commission Review and final action. So in youre packet there is this particular form or documents kind of outlining key points that i and you will Meeting Needs to start working with so effective prop j there is language that is in well ill take one other moment there is a document that says the Initiative Ordinance and outlines the details of the ordinance you received this document when the commission had the presentation from hillary outlining and explaining what prop j is details of what prop j is and is the commission was not able to take action this was about an action from that it states that if you will see on page 3 that oh, lets see. I got this. Yeah. I dont have the full proposition this is easier to read thereon the proposition so it is my outlining and simplifying the details of ballot measure is states tilt it states that on or does state actually i think i apologize it is in the ballot measure i didnt online this in any summarize. What are we getting at at on or about january 1st of 2016 as long as rules are making it does state in the ballot measure that businesses can apply as long as the application process is in place for the Historic Preservation fund not raefksz january 1st is not happening so what i am proposing to starting january one we will can still modify the application and application process and that can start january one i would still need to work out the routing process and whats involved with the hpc to make sure that is reflected in the application instructions in the ballot measure is states the dimension needs to outline and create making approval procedures for the two different funds and that we no idea to have would this official public hearings with that and once the commission finalize the rule making the board of supervisors has a thirty daytime period to respond you know make new comments or requests for changes. So this is the timing is not hard and fast in the ballot measure im proposing that we have our rule making implemented by the ends of february and approved so we have the hearing in february 22nd that meeting in february to have the 20 days the thirty days excuse me for the brown so that we have at least the rule making and administrative process in place what is to be determined and im still working with the City Attorney to understand sort of the allocation process to go through for the funding it could be we might ask for an appropriation of funding before the budget cycle we can start the Program Early he will or go for the appropriation of the funding of the preservation funds during the budget cycle this funding will be available come july one. Are you talking about funding for administering this. Thats the businesses. Not on us is it on us to request the funding i thought that was the ordinance laid out available i dont we have an obligation. We have an obligation we have an obligation. To ask them for money. To ask them for money. We shouldnt spend a lot of times getting this what youre appropriately so we everything what people will be asking for i dont want to spends times speculating how many legacy businesses that might apply for xyz the city will wait and see what happened for all we know only a couple of applications it will be a waste of our time to speculate what the ask and as a matter of fact it shouldnt be on 80 us to quantify the board of supervisors put for the this if in their prepared to allocate money they can figure out the allocation and go back to the bank i think that we spent an awful a lot of time on this legislation tying to figure out what is going to happen it is rift until we see the applications and ill support the application process. Absolutely i support. Making the will amendments that needs to be made hey our process is in place you guys got money were requesting you tells us were obligated to. Well start meeting and but right i think the most important thing for us to all the process will be sort of development on when the board of supervisors is anxious to allocate that funding early i wanted to make sure we are prepared for the allocation the allocation is the maximum allocation is somewhat dictated by the number of is maximums number of the three hundred applications the Commission Hears a year. But the ordinance specifics the maximum ask for any does it not only a certain amount of money. About 3 million. No, no thats the total fund the given business is limited to how much they can ask for correct none can say i want all 3 million we dont have to think about that other than to say we have to say what our process is it is already defined how the applications are they will be vetted first, it sounds like if i got it right of Historic Preservation commission communities and theyll come to us we think simply say well evaluate every application from the Historic Preservation commissions group and well do it as as quickly as possible as our resources allow we have to find well get Additional Resources well do it on the application. That can predicate our ability to say this is what the office of Small Businesses can preempt implement it is on youre staffing ability to implement and manage the program. If we got one application we vet that well need additional staffing but three hundred well go to the Mayors Office wow. Looked at what happened. Ill by the number of the volume of calls ive been receiving since the passage of prop k we should anticipate a number of applicants coming forward obviously the volume and how much the volume will be the control valve of that volume is with the mayor and the board of supervisors. Well be mod lasted by success if no one is successful. I can say if i may comments what is the not clear in my mind is how will we begin to request at what time should be requesting the funds the administrative budget to provide for these processing of those applications we dont know how many when the drop date at which that demands should be made to anticipating the possibility regardless of what that is our krooutd efforts thus far the odds of finding someone to take this job will take 90 to one hundred days so this is necessary. This i mean, we and we havent hired our own replacement for her here. This position can possible but have to you know, i will have to work with h. R. But what is called the permitting it is a 3 year progressing positn that has a shorter hiring process not Service Service so those detailed need to be worked and im starting to investigate i dont have that flushdz out for you the one thing the requirements that are going to be looked to this office and the commission are one is while the maximum amount of business so the business can receive for is Historic Preservation Commission Funds southbound that this is granted is 50,000 based on the number of employees not every better to be safe than sorry is going to have the same number of employees so this is going to need to be determinations each business other than property has to annually reapply to insure were providing some you Due Diligence about the city funding going to the entities in someone says 50 employees but actually 50 fulltime equivalent employees the business has i think for the Property Owners i dont know sorry i dont think that onerous is on us were not going to go out and become an agency that goes and verifies whether they have 50 employees e employees and look at it their books and make sure theyre there and count the cars in the parking lot were not going to do that this is not practical and not within our jurisdictions were not an adjudicative body if they be fraudulent there are legal remedies so again, i get to this weigh getting way ahead of ourselves the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office are the only ones that open the gates okay. So if they gets depends upon by that someone not on us but on them i think what well see wiener well get applications and you know what how will we know were looking at the application and is i know or know that business off they each got x number of employees everything is in order and do that and eventually run out of money the fact is if 50,000 applications well only sift 60 businesses weve run out of money and then what will happen and everyone says not more o more money on the potsz, you know, go what another buktd cycle lets see how those do and meets the 3 millions and next 89 or 9 months and talk about more money into the pot if there is good reluctance all im saying there will be three hundred and 6 hundreds and 9 hundreds businesses the money will not late if there are some that want to get there im aware of the businesses that are probably really good candidates for the fuel amount but beefrmd the full amount is inconsequential to a business with 50 employees they need one Million Dollars and so part of the champ here is going to be were going to be putting a drop in the ocean and guess what the business will not survivor the money evaporates and the success i remember now we can talk about it will be california. Seriously. I think for our selfif i thinks the ballot measure the commission and the other was sets up the program and provides we provide the information to the mire and the board of supervisors of which then it is their troblts determine how for this program is. Right. Rights so but the one thing that will be required by our office i know the Controllers Office well work with the Controllers Office so set a measurement in the application process of somebody says i have 38 employees there is something we need to set up some chief of a verification process to be determined but through are definitely has to be items that the business and the Property Owner has to submit by the ask for their submitting under penalty of perjury that information is credit correct bullet stake what that is. It could be a redacted payroll report from within the last 90 days or Something Like that you can redictate personal fox but i think it is they canty any type of investigative efforts on our part other than a piece of donate. It will be documents theyre required to submit you. I think there is one thing that everyone has document how many employees thats right the payroll if youre claiming our of more employees explain why more employees and submit 3 months of payroll but has to be within some limited window but i think that into this i know that we can set those things down super facility and i really i think we have to take a waited and see a group harassed to vet the first 20 in fact, want to know what is coming in starting to anticipate a pattern this is a definite yes and yes, yes, yes there is American People obvious glossoweigh figure out the nos and maybe so this has not been done no way to anticipate and the mourm of effort would be a water time i know or this we can mangle a fast assessment additional i imagine hot sfopt union square is a hot spot and its go back to be other plays experience some things so all of these businesses you know as of now im stating as of january one will be realized regardless of the Historic Preservation commission will be routed forcible this go Commission Agency part of getting on the recommendation reiterate process. First for the supervisors as the Mayors Office. It theyll have to be nominated nail fill occult the operation e application then to the Historic Preservation commission its just staff it looks at the application and uhhuh. And makes the determination whether they meet the requirements if they had they become eligible for the funding so i understand. No, no theres a misstep the Commission Gets to approve that we have the final say; right . The commissions do can we join you as staff in the these what i am not saying that i dont want to put undue burden on you the staff i will suggest that the commissioners be the staff help them and at least im protecting to one i want to see what they are im highly interested. I approve everyone mark you said i supportive commissioner dwight 100 percent tea youre saying everyone i want to say i agree with you the hot spot areas the one thing it is so key if someone succumbs to us with funds. Youll be. If somebody like gold coast and successful at Fishermans Wharf on powell street i will give you a chance but as banker to meet the funds ill with you. We have tbankers and i thik we have i want to look at the business in the mission that is forced out by gentrification a successful Business Needs to relocation those are the people we want to help this is what this ordnance is meant for. So again commissioners why i this is stressing we need to sort of begin to work on the rule making is that prioritization is not here on behalf of the appellant and we make the rules. This iowa we need to vet with the staffing to what degree can we provide to what degree can we put that go rule making and currently this is not to say securely right now in the in the ballot measure the commissioners have but the final particularly of the office we cant make that part of rule procedure the commission affirms the office represents as who is divisible or not eligible thats why you will need to provide me direction as to how detailed in the rule making around the prop a and saying business and or a Property Owner is eligible. Have some something. The rules are important they have to be detailed and indeed the City Attorney should rubber stamp that our president is right we have an allocation to ascertain every single piece of information in an application talking about a much bigger application valentines day and oust a protocol in documentation not. I think what happens well have to say okay. This meets the spirits of legislation we can all sit around and speculate as to whether this is successful venture by the city we assume some fiduciary but dont have fiduciary responsibility we have an obligation i mean, we dont have any fiduciary responsibility other than a moral one but the city will give money to businesses. I want to believe oh, im sorry. Thats okay both we are saying that when they apply for the funds at the must be not seeing the money but weve give them a grant. A grant right. My thing like and what i see of that was for with that at the beginning we talked about this basically this was meant for you know companies that need to relocation and move not so much companies in trouble. Being forceout. Forced button i lymph gland and the business is a Healthy Business need to relocation and get assistance im okay with green house grants for that i want to make sure not probation officer prop someone up. It is difficult for operating experiences; right . If you said look the business is fine and you know timing we survived this long and keep on surviving as long as the rent explicit triple or double so from the ask is for rent relieve through giving the landlord you know some money so they dont push the attendant out or find a more Reasonable Rent and stay and status quo that is a legitimate well in good conscious say yeah im not here to speculate im not here to prove whether our making it is or not for all i know youre taking our inheritance i dont think i know about that. What we have were thinking here needs to be written down as well so. Yeah. Yeah. So otherwise we set the rules. We set the rules and so we need to make sure that. I think we can set down we call the rules heres some guidelines that generally speaking you know i think ill call them guidelines by way of it is all entirely substantive we cant do the level of research on the facts leading up to the request and anything beyond the request is what the venture implicit lifts do were not paid to speculate on the successful outcome. The within thing because of uh our sunshine and ethics and for the commission because you now are somewhat in it with this program and in the adjudicative position youre transitioning into a jafshth position we do actually have to have the rule making and procedures and even if there are guidelines like with the Planning Commission there are guidelines and dislocate codes to follow but areas of which they are able to make some interpretation i be you want to remember youll be making decisions on whether or not a business received or Property Owner receives money or not youre following a procedure that you backs you up in our decision and so are we making a recommendation because who ultimately writes the checks. Our office writes the checks were having this discussion right now our office on behalf of the city who writes the check so what i what well do well have the City Attorney at the next meeting it is a start to make sure that we understand the breathe and the scope of what is ahead of i to what degree if it is that we dont have the funding to funds every single applicant it come forward for a grants and the commission has an interest in vetting some sort of prioritization of the you know the applicants that received the grant process then what are the boundaries of which you can set those priorities. Okay. We can run i think great we should i dont know whether in is something i dont want to me spends time at our strategy session but maybe we can deal with putting together a proposal put intoerdz the first come first serve i dont want to get in any position where im allowing someone to move forward in the process and jump for anyone that has submitted their application but on a first come, first serve because we cant say have the supervisions joshing third year for other persons the applications will be evaluated as their submitted by the Historic Preservation commission to us and after theyve been vetted and i say our policy well take them as they come from the Historic Preservation commission or darted darted or to the Historic Preservation commission out of order. But what we will have we will have the data of which then the mayor or board of supervisors makes their official nomination thats the at a time date of the order. Does that necessarily mean the application is complete the mayor might say off in favor of an application and oh, wait a minute you put north america n a national applicable so youre application is not complete. So let me give it some thought again youre correct the noomths maybe made and soft the nominations made and the nomination for the acts makes a noopgs and submits the nomination along with the application so you can we might have to set criteria if a nominee or nomination made prior to the application the applicant has a number of days to complete that application they are you know its for using the nominations date as is arrested or offered of priority for the noomgsdz to be submitted ill i mean, were not finalizing anything of whats ahead but remember the Historic Preservation Commission None what ply for the Historic Preservation funding not that i recall their completed the registry so the Historic Preservation the routing throttles Historic Preservation commission is just to give some additional view around that the historical component of the business that is really for should they be on the registry the business that is predicament for the legacy business registry not whether theyll get funding down the road. But they cant get fund if not on the registry irreverent. Respect. Its a necessary step. I get it. It didnt qualify them for founding only as registry correct. You royals any in essence was stubble in that districts. Thats own knowledge were still a work in process. By want to focus on getting to a very sort of concise definition of the process and not hung up on the evaluation criteria i think the evaluation will be substantive we need to put in los angeles to doing everything we can to evaluate as they come in which the order they arrive yay or nay or a modification but and that you know we can only approve as many applications as the funding permits thats all there is to it and on the at the to decide we compassionate but the results will not play out. You get 50 grand it maybe years but at least requires some amount of time to see if this looks like it is a wise use of citys money. And some of this will be you know if i think to determine to on the enthusiasm on either the mayor or board of supervisors part never mind of how many people are applying for the preservation funding what were able to grant and whos on the registry we dont have the funding so we will need to think periodic updateed to track this data so we can be able to pull it up relatively quickly so. I mean, the good news the Supervisors Office i mean not like theyve got a lot of these staffing theyre the fir place to get to and back further the process of filling out the application so the Business Owner first through that and get nominate and that means some evaluation by the Supervisors Office we get a bunch of inner complete applications will push back and dont do that because we cant process those theyre not ready so up there is it will take momentum but momentum as the Supervisors Office understand what theyre getting into i i dont feel unifying comfortable because there is sufficient it requires selfregulated. Whats next for us. Whats next is i if there are questions that the commission has ill draft my list of questions ill ask the City Attorney to around the rule making in terms of the breath and scope of the i is not so much the breath and scope but can the commission you know doorstep some is criteria around the funding in terms of prioritization or i dont know how better to explain but so to what degree what can the Commission Set the registrations the administrative procedures i will im starting to draft what i think that you know might be some of the key points but have to work with the Controllers Office i want to work with the Controllers Office because they do this kind of thing in terms of of tentatively with helping the departments to set programs that are verifications the Controllers Office will eventually monitor how well, we are dealing with the Administrative Program but questions you would like to have the City Attorney address in terms of your role you know what to what decree to write into the administrative procedures around for i mean commissioner toursarkissian you and i have had conversations about the last weeks and still appropriate in terms of what we need to see to verify that a lease is signed and certain things are provided for that pertaining to receive the grant so there are some questions i will. 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By all means and here at the meeting one of the meetings to describe and maybe best practices that have been you know vetted by oh, i can imagine the number of situations the at the is vaeflt funds and they say yeah, and no for Public Development and all that kind of stuff get advanced information. I think the Controllers Office can provide good assistance with so that is all that i just wanted to brought to your attention between now and the ends of february and we have one more important thing to get to. If you update us with the City Attorney and the treasury department. And if you have questions meet them. Have the questions ready to look at it and add to it or ask questions. All right. Public comment. Do we need. Are we done with the discussion any Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. On this item move on to the networks item item no. 7 is the election for an interim Vice President sing were without a Vice President. Do we have any discussion well need a nomination any discussion beforehand . I will nominate steve adams. I second that. Okay. We have a nominates and a second. And the procedure any other nominations. Any other nominees or nominates seeing none, lets have a vote. We have quorum and still a we have quorum so commissioner ada adams. Yes i love it laughter commissioner dwight i accept. Commissioner dooley is not here commissioner ortizcartagena commissioner yeeriley and commissioner toursarkissian. Yes. Okay. Thats unanimous is that gavel and have a anonymous vote for commissioner adams. So commissioners pause we may have another meeting coming in after this ill quickly touch base on a couple of items security is here. And all right. So i wanted to give you an update the tax and Treasurers Office is working to do credit cards for the taxes and water and nontax delinquent bills for the first time the jane and her team have been working with the tax offices not only in the rentcontrolled units user platform but working with them to develop a business first time Business Registration to be able to be done obama not an official launch date that is worked on and hopefully coming soon great that is great news we have so many businesses that will soon be able to register their businesses on line. Fantastic. A list of other things that i wanted to make sure provide you with monthly updates on things that is taking place on the business protocol i want to acknowledge that the business protocol received the Business Excellence in Customer Services with the National Government award. Fantastic. The Small Business Accelerator Team restaurant case manager this is the mayor i mean the mayor put this in his budget so have a case manager to assist in the restaurant and walk you through the imprisonment process from start to finish we had a meeting with the department of building inspection, Planning Department and department of Public Health and all the directors are on board if up to that point in time and so im working with todd to develop the program and will be providing both he and i will be providing oversights to the position in is existing and rudimentary from planning who knows. Well again, it is the traditional job applications but people in the city family interested in the position and. speaking spanish. week American Bank of america has agreed to come on as the spokesperson this year. Thats fantastic. At 60 thousand a good start for. speaking spanish. week and a meeting are Small Businesses owners the meekly initiated and not going into details but the key things are the homeless and housing code agenda and sam dodge will be replacing Denver Duffey in attendance and talked about his dowels and objectives and had preservations on the shop and dine and the Small Business saturday the biological campaigns and super bowl 50 i want to let you know weve been having merging office of Economic Workforce Development with the demon el nino for preparation for businesses what to begin to inform businesses will b and how to get out the information but i think that some of the key element well streets every business should make sure their phone is enabled to get texts so register for sf alert well be sending anti information and once that information is received then to follow any updates through the Public Utilities and the department of Emergency Services theyll be providing updates we know the big storm is succumbing in 3 days to make sure. 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Really want to encourage the businesses to download the 311 app and use the app for catch based on that are clogged or issues with the public rightofway that might effect the out flow of water and time to make sure that businesses are preparing for the flooding and leakages in the sub basement and sandbag can be where they can get free sandbags to make sure they have the proper insurance not just flowed insurance but the potential of Power Outages fire and that kind of thing and developing our own internal procedures for how we as staff will be responding jointly with wovm and if under those an intensive rain where d e m had a as command center for Small Businesses and theyve had it for the larger backdoor but for smaller businesses what plans to put in place to be prepared to provide ongoing support and also you know the post recovery were starting to make those plans i anticipate probably by the next emotionally well have it president ial in place with the depositcy are for. Org for for the portal for business sections and then other Office Updates so carl oil has been on leave and returning a week from today, im extinguisher with our department our d h. R. Trooifrg to work through the policy person that had speed up the hiring and then know that commissioner dwight wants to talk about the Planning Session on december 18 but have the agenda on december 2nd but big picture planning process im working on dpw a project list im working to have take the list and then also the department is now required to do a 5 Year Strategic Plan a profession for the director and department this will be working on the Planning Department i mean our Planning Department excuse me. The Planning Sessions will be working with commissioner dwight that is developed and added to the 5 year plausibleness december 18th. December 18th. I sent out invites but i dont know if you received them are get them i know that commissioner adams you relied yes and commissioner dwight you relied yes and i attended the chamber of commerce last thursday and congratulations to commissioner dwight and rachel as the finally it for the Small Business awards. We didnt win. Sf made won. And then a reminder this saturday is Small Business saturday well have the kickoff at the building as we do every year. So with that, that concludes any directors report. What time is the kickoff for Small Business saturday. Generally around 9 you will confirm that. Okay. Were getting ready for that. So unless you have questions well monarch to the next agenda item and thats me. So item number 9 is that concludes my report. Well, i guess all i have i attended the english i didnt see and what else i attended the kickoff dinner for Small Businesses week that was awesome not only a great restaurant american x press was gracious it was the first ever i got invited there is some again momentum this is interesting to see how the shop local and shop small messages mesh and shop and dine in the 4 did saying something that American Express owns subtitling and locally but good open everyone that worked on this a lot of effort the only thing about the Planning Session im hoping to phone call on how we can make this commission for resist and for the most part advocating for the consults the Small Business, and, secondly, helping the board of supervisors and city hall pass better legislation by weighing in on issues during the formation stage of legislation that effects Small Businesses and helping them sort out the ramifications of things their approaching over the last year or two substantive advise which caused Critical Thinking and changes in the primary rules when they get passed are thoughtful and especially things go to the ballot you know how hard that is to change it is our rule to be viewed as supervisors want to come to and their legislation in advance were not late and angry to the party and just how we can be more relevant in general we usually have empty seats here that didnt happen often in the plan is it just the in each of your role or doing more to get people out here it is that substantial we should be proactive in our constituents can come and be heard and feel like theyve weighed in an issue well in advance okay in the form of a law or a you know a proposition that is be perspective instead reactive. It is our role in condemn democracy to get people out. Vice president. Well mr. Vice president would you like. I have a couple of quick things approval a shout out to my neighborhood the castro tree Lieutenant Governor ceremony on monday and 6 oclock at 18 and castro a thirty feet tree and santa will be there and mced with an awesome santa clause we get our crowds get bigger and bigger last year over 5 hundred and is it a status state. I want to shout out to daniel whos watching tv the net awards are coming on january 27th here at city hall im lifting to sponsor and hope to prompt that the nominations are closed this week so today, youll shop and dine in the 49. Actually, it had to be postponed. Was it. Until next week. Oh, people watching this on tv shop in youre neighborhoods and spend money locally. All right. Commissioners. Item 11 commission reports. Nothing to report. Okay. No. Oh, come on you have something. All right. Any new business item 12 new bizarre following up with what i said earlier our is the only city with local laws on the paid second leave yet the state come out with someone else it is making life complicated i was wording in the future where we look at new legislation can we get the state laws so we dont have to sets i dont know it is a good idea the problem is that generally speaking not to be kin cancel their politically motivated someone want a notch open their you know their list of things theyve done you think it being a leader in San Francisco what happens i think we tend to rush those things and frankly you know, i think it is great idea to sort seek advice from the state but theyll be like okay. Lets see how this arithmetics in San Francisco and controversy this stirs up you mean all about politics it is the politicians that i have had to sponsor something at the state level as well as our level and city imagine how hard to get someone to sponsor something they Great Britain grab on like a screw sad. We can fry. I totally agree. This is the least from the board of supervisors. Maybe as we get better. Some of the legislation i mean theyve passed and sponsored at the city level so at the state level make sense to get them involved without to sets of rules. Our process when we are saying okay are we pga a good law and say have we considered what the state and federal government might be likely to do look at minimum wage every single subsequent is asking what they need to do on minimum wage and the feds will do something that will come back down on use it we dot right thing to do or the wrong thing so municipality will see with the government does on both sides of the issue we felt come fold take a leadership position and tried to bring in all the fellow communities make sure that city of oakland we wanted everyone else to hamper in itself not to put us at the disadvantage and lobby everyone this was a great case of no stopping it respect we were advising just to kind of try to mitigate the damage to Small Business in San Francisco how quickly getting infected and Small Businesses pushing for a long term we mediated the sort of only place to get we got to the middle and we spent some time talking about the state remember i did that graph where our numbers and Salvation Army anyway that is a great suggestion on youre part maybe that is part of the process like hey has anyone talked to the state give us this the thinking about this if the state is thinking that helps to delay legislation or maybe a little bit more discussion what did you think director. This is something in terms of that have this state stated federal is less easy easier but as part of making the commission relevant in that discussion with the planning discussion how we apply that at the state and federal life imprisonment there is somewhat of a procedure we have a state committee that is made up of represented of various departments that takes into account state and federal legislation and from the Department Needs advocacy to support or defend is or defeat it theres a properties of which you know we can work with that and then to then have the city weigh in the difficulty i think with like the state paid sick leave we have our represented one or 3 you know 3. Past one thousand arrest hundreds of other representatives or who have also their constituency politically pushing for their agenda so thats kind of the challenge i see as you can see who with this paid sick leave law i mean, why is that written the way it was was because of political advocacy and trying to sort of make those compromises it is a very go complicated law at the state level before the state law was in place whether we liked it or not but our local law way written simply and not difficult for businesses to follow the state has a complicated law and that is a result of the pilot advocacy im not sure you know how to what degree we tried to influence we also also have entities like Small Business california we can invite in and give presentations on some of the laws before the state and what Small Business california to advocate that the Small Businesses behalf and provide that commission and this nation as well but we can add did relevant the view of that commission and the resists and we might build in relevant when it gets to the board of supervisors and build in flexibility but when it ends up in the ballot box and nail the delays you have to specific whether you nail them right for the future you have to specific and it is hard to change them the level i think were hearing the legislation for the board of supervisors maybe advocating for you know lets allow for what from the state did xyz and going down this path a way to leave the door open for modifications in the future and give ourselves flexibility to harmonize because where we get do into difficulties were not harmonized and what trumps what you know i think it is a really good suggestion Going Forward and those are the kinds of things that make the commission a valuable resource. Any other new business . No okay. We have item number 13 adjournment i motion to adjourn. All in favor, say i. I. Done go see good morning thanks for coming you know im proud that our city it one of the most walkable citys in north america we also will doekz to make sure that we reduce the number of fatalities in injuries and certainly we build all of us standing up here building one fatality is two ma many and a unacceptable thats why in our city were commented to eliminating facilities by way of deaths didnt he 2024 and is vocation vision zero is is a commitment inform prioritize states streets and make sure that everyone whether walking or biking or driving or riding a bus about we all that the make sure your safe on the rods it is great to think that our ridership is at all, all time high hurry city is growing more people cocking and binging the city has continued to prepare for the growth and we know that and you know that we are making historic investment in our Transportation Network and that investment has reached over a billion dollars just this year we have made investment in our citys is from we know with transportation infrastructure is equally as important to keep muni reliable and stave those historic investments allows to us there this munching service bison percent and light rail vehicles and clean up up cruise the public is noticing that ridership is up and more confidence were making muni safer and cleaner and ready to meet the demand of a growing city and ridership this is all to say a big thank you to the San Francisco voters because of last years Obligation Bond transportation bond had helps to achieve the reliability of muni and contributed to will be traffic signal over 300 million in street save upgrades towards vision zero goals making everyone more safe loophole is it today, we join with our San Francisco Small Business commission and bike coalition. Community Transportation Authority and certainly our Municipal Transportation Agency and vision zero as well as our public works and delighted everyone that is working together with me to make sure that when we said almost two years ago we were focused on some 24 projects and get them down those recommend the projects that have been data driven and certainly supervisor kim know that she lead the effort to get for data about what the high injury corridors were such we have priorities in our mission to make sure our streets is safer that time a year and a half 24 projects we said to get them done by february of 2016 as a result of every single ever those Agencies Private and public working together im glad to announce all 24 projects as of do i have cabin completed ahead of schedule head of schedule were in a hurry to get anymore safety out to and, yes there maybe other streets now that are being challenged for Different Reasons we well get to those in fact, what this aggressive strategy has allowed us to do finish up those projects their data driven and rfbtd of the high the injury corridors of city and knowing that now weve completed them well have 6 more indicate driven sites to this to be done we imply the ends of february 2016 and certainly saying well not stop this allows us to say we have a momentum to identify for projects with the strifrdz the residents and the bicycle advocates and senior advocates and all other organizations that represent those are not safer streets and will work aggressively to do that in the calibration i think has been unmet since we started this project i want to say and big thank you i know supervisor kim when she comes up here will say she and i know we are that stan opposite side the streets of these street and mini in a activate a new signal i know that supervisor wiener and i were together noted long ago on 16 Second Street and market and supervisor tang and i were out together on sunset boulevards trying a new stoplights to slow down the traffic those are 3 of the highlighted ones in addition e annexation to ones in congested areas like the tenderloin those are to be celebrated because we are absolutely sure given the data that more lives will be saved as a result of those improvements so we will complete and additional 6 so that will be thirty bends of february and that some of the alleged projects in addition to the ones identified on the 24th and additional ones include the improvements along Second Street and polk street and mosaic avenue and more well continue to work with all the neighborhood organizations to identify those areas i know of some already in chinatown we have infrastructure obviously know of marina there are also improvements to be made and in order to get to vision zero and in order to on that goal well is where to do more engineering thats why public works is here in concert with our Community Transportation leaders and our municipal leaders as well to make sure were identified the right areas but i do want to say despite some of the recent tragic event well you are talking about i want to say that we have prevented more accident by completing those 24 projects aggressively as weve done and as we set timetables in the future not only inform meet those but exceed those were no a hurry to get to vision zero that also monies that lets remind everyone during the months when it is remain slow down and certainly all around schools youve got to slow down because we are trying to bring the pace of automobiles and the trucks and all slow down around the Senior Centers and the school sites 0 so we maintain a higher level of safety where a lot more 1r50ub89 with that ill call to the mike a good partner one from day one on the vision zero has pan instrumental in making sure that we identify and one of the most congested areas of city this is district 67 supervisor jane kim thank you, mr. Mayor and i just want to thank the Mayors Office for his incredible commitment to vision zero reducing the fatalities in San Francisco to zero the next 9 years this announcement is in time for the last Vision Zero Community meeting in december i chair bile be adopting the next generation of our zero project as the mayor mention 70 percent of fatality traffic accidents are on 12 percent of San Francisco streets this is an issue we can make a difference a solvable and with targeted example on the highest cords reduce half of our facilities and death in San Francisco we know on the job deaths with 100 percent preventable and know that more people are killed by cars than by guns in the city so there is much work to be done im proud of the forest taken by all the city departments under the mayors leadership i want to recognize sfmta and our community u county Interest Rate 80 onestory to make sure that vision zero and Pedestrian Safety and buena vista is a priority in all street projects in San Francisco but as the mayor said particularly during the holiday we see an increase in traffic collisions around San Francisco this is an important time for the residents and workers and adversity to remember this is important to go slow speed is the main cause i have death and during the holidays we want to spend time with the friends and families and make sure that everyone comes home for dinner it make sense to take the time to drive slower to cycle and walk sloerp to enjoy the community here throughout the city so again congratulations to our city for completely all 24 projects as asked and promised by the city to how sour serious commitment to ending the traffic facilities and i looked at it to moving forward the next generation of project that continue to make the city safer for everyone. Thank you all for scouting this morning, im ben the mire senior advisors on vision zero we want to action the folks behind me theyre in calibration and zero is is a mix of 14 departments come together to commented to a bold and baby boomer goal it work is not possible without the leadership first, we have from the city architects sorry the City Engineer from the d and kathy from walk sf which is one of our great Strong Community partners advocating forever the Public Safety and liveable streets in San Francisco and Sheryl Brinkman Vice President of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and we have tom maguire the sustainable streets at the sfmta and have tilly chang the executive director of the county Transportation Authority no San Francisco and 80 mass the Health Officer here 2, 3, 4 the city and county of San Francisco and noah what r a great partner and soon to be existing hopefully stay close by the director of to bicycle education and greg suhr the San Francisco Police Department their folks are out there everyday and citing folks we appreciate all the hard work and with that, i want to invite to the myself of microphone the vice chair the mta Sheryl Brinkman. Thank you ben and thank you all for coming i want to thank the mayor and the supervisors and oats heads of all the city departments for in their focus when is fundamental to everyone in our city this is about saving lives this is making your streets more welcoming for everyone who lives in the city traffic collisions really extract a Department Staff stating emotional toll the victims and loved ones and the person behind the wheel of car a had a kroshg it came across a traffic crash in the marina he and highs wife with your taking their children to daycare they saw the aftermath of the too young boys hit that made them feel less safe in the city and worried about about the future of the children in the city so our core philosophy in vision zero that traffic deaths with preventable and your honor, acceptable im proud and humble to work with everyone in the city on this project to reduce traffic deaths it get rid of traffic deaths traffic gathers are not like the weather not unlike the weather we can bring them down to zero like the agencies and citizens out of the 24 projects we have a two prong approach to with Safety Measures we work on lark are large construction on high injury corridors and what is next is those large project on the major corridors there is a lot more engineering to happen on the corridor they are more trade offs we have to be ready for the trade offs as strait users in San Francisco and but together were able to move on vision zero and we can get there and can end traffic deaths thank clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com it looks at good and tastes good and it is good in my mouth pretty amazing. I am the executive chef ive been here as a chef at la concina since 2005 reason we do the festival and the reason we started to celebrate the spirit and talent and trivia and the hard work of the women in the la concina program if you walk up to my one on the block an owner operated routine i recipient its a theyre going to be doing the cooking from scratch where in the world can you find that im one of the owners we do rolls that are like suburbia that is crisp on the outside and this is rolled you up we dont this it has chinese sisterinlaw and a little bit of entertain sprouts and we love it here. There are 6 Grilled Cheese grilled to the crisp on the outside outstanding salsa and a lot of things to dip it knocks you out and its spicecy and delicious i was the first person that came here and we were not prepared for this every year were prepared everybody thinks what theyre doing and we can cookout of our home and so the festivals were part of the group we shove what we do and we w we tried to capture the spirit of xrifs. And there from there to sales and the hard part of the sales is 250 assess our market and creating a Market Opportunity giving limited risks and sales experience to our guys and youre watching quick bite, the show that has San Francisco. Were here at one of the many food centric districts of San Francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. A cross between castro and gastronomic. The bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. Adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. Skylight market has been here since 1940. Its been in the family since 1964. His father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. At that point sam revamped the market. He installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. He created community through food. So, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where its comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. And we really feel that we wouldnt exist if it werent for all three of those components who really support each other. And thats kind of what we work towards every day. Valley creamery was opened in 2006. The two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sams wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. They found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. They realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. So, thats been a huge success. In 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. And we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more indepth conversation. We grew and now we offer i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher Training Workshop where San Francisco unified Public School teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. We range all over the place. We really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. A lot of organizations i think which say were going to teach cooking or were going to teach gardening, or were going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. We say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really Community Oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. We want to build community and were using food as a means to that end. We have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. Coming into 18 reasons which even more Community Focused is such a treat. We have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. People come in in groups, meet friends that they didnt even know they had before. Our whole set up is focused on communal table. You can sit across from someone and start a conversation. Were excited about that. I never worked in catering or food service before. Its been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. It is getting really popular. Shes a wonderful teacher and i think it is a Perfect Match for us. It is not about home cooking. Its really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. I have always loved eating food. For me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. Ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. Classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. It always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. Empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, were offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. We have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. Its so natural for me to come here. We want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. Whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. Each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. Are you inspired . Maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients. Or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. Find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons. Org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market. Com. And dont forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites. Com. Until next time, may the fork be with you. So chocolaty. Mm. Oh, this is awesome. Oh, sorry. I thought we were done rolling. As a society weve basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people dont have any of those im mr. Cookie cant speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. Open the door and walk through that dont just stand looking out. As they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure im david one of the cofounder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didnt know how to cook. I heard about the Cooking School through the Larkin Academy a. Their noting no way to feed themselves so theyre eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. As i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. Particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is Charity Foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this Charity Foundations and she said, yes. Im a cofound and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday theyre really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city theyre our stand alone colas we had a series or series still city of Attorneys Office style of classes our final are night life diners. Santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and ive been here about a year. We want to be sure to serve as many as we can. The San Francisco Cooking School is an amazing amazing partner. It is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. Im sutro sue set im a chief 2, 3, 4 San Francisco. Thats what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like its there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. Hi, im antonio the chief in San Francisco. The majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. I like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like its a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. I go for vera toilet so someone cant do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they cant use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me youre not successful. We made a vegetable stirfry indicators hed ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen id cook more. Some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasnt taught how to cook. I have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. The more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify theyre not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. It is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. Well have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 were really excited. A lot of the of the conditions in San Francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the San Francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. Wed never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case thats something people are 2rrd in doing. You cant buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids dont have this you have to instill they can do it theyre good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for