Meeting by reminding everyone that the office of Small Business is the best place to get your questions answered about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. You can find us online or in person here at city hall. Best of all, our services are free of charge. The Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. The commission is now starting a new tradition of welcoming new businesses that have opened this week. We would like to welcome liberty home supply, old shanghai restaurant, Janitorial Services and kanda yoga school as unone of the many businesses that havy businesses that have opened this week. Okay. I guess we roll call first. Call to order and roll call. Commis
Custom to begin and end each meeting by reminding everyone that the office of Small Business is the best place to get your questions answered about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have a question about what to do next. You can find us online or in person here at city hall. Best of all, our services are free of charge. The Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, start here at the office of Small Business. The commission is now starting a new tradition of welcoming new businesses that have opened this week. We would like to welcome liberty home supply, old shanghai restaurant, Janitorial Services and kanda yoga school as unone of the many businesses that havy businesses that have opened this week. Okay. I guess we roll call first. Call t
Reached in the meeting. I have no speaker cards. Any member of the public wish to address the commission on nonagenda items . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Very good. Placing us under department matters. Good afternoon, commissioners, i have no new announcements today. Its good to see you again. Past events, staff report, and announcements. Did the Planning Commission meet . Clerk very good, commissioners. Under item 3, president s report and announcements. Hi there. Just one comment. Director rans departure. So the Planning Commission has calendared a couple closed sessions for review of candidates for his replacement and they have invited me to participate. F. Y. I. I wont have a vote. The city charter doesnt allow me to vote, but ill at least be at the table representing us. Great. [ laughter ]. Just to clarify. They havent formally adopted their procedure. On their agenda tomorrow they will endorse their procedure. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. Clerk commissioners that
Nonagenda items . Seeing none, close Public Comment. Very good. Placing us under department matters. Good afternoon, commissioners, i have no new announcements today. Its good to see you again. Past events, staff report, and announcements. Did the Planning Commission meet . Clerk very good, commissioners. Under item 3, president s report and announcements. Hi there. Just one comment. Director rans departure. So the Planning Commission has calendared a couple closed sessions for review of candidates for his replacement and they have invited me to participate. F. Y. I. I wont have a vote. The city charter doesnt allow me to vote, but ill at least be at the table representing us. Great. [ laughter ]. Just to clarify. They havent formally adopted their procedure. On their agenda tomorrow they will endorse their procedure. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. Clerk commissioners that will place us on item 4, consideration of the draft minutes for september 26 joint hearing with planning, t
All right, welcome back, everyone. I want to introduce the next panel which is going to focus on the implementation of the refugee act of 1980. And moderating that panel is eric schwartz, former assistant secretary of state for population frunles and migration under the Obama Administration. He was Senior Adviser for humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security councils. And most importantly he is on the hias board. He also happens to be the president of Refugees International. And he is seated next to the expresident of Refugees International. So eric. Thanks. Thank you, mark. It is it is a distinct pleasure to be here today. And i want to thank hias and the Carter Center for bringing us all together for this very important event. And needless to say this is a critical time for us to be considering not only the refugee act of 1980 but also the very future of refugee protection in the United States and around the world. At a time when the number of pe