We had the opportunity to recover from a week of silence and a service of appreciation from my wife in the last months of her life that could only happen in such a place. I think the neighborhood dies without places of this nature. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. I am susan wisebering, i second everything everyone said about the importance of businesses like this to the community. I want to tell you a story how that affects me personally. I first went to caffe sapore in the early 2000s when a man i was dating brought me there and introduced me to elias. That relationship didnt last but my relationship with the cafe did. I saw the regulars and attended the neighborhood meetings. Seven years ago i joined the Meditation Group harvey referred to that meets at the Telegraph Hill neighborhood center. We go regularly to caffe sapore on fridays after sitting for what we call pie in honor of the many types of pie that we choose. I have been at caffe sapore
Longtermness neighborhood businesses. Commissioner riley. [applause] i also want to thank all of you for coming out. It is very touching to see all of you supporting your community. I hope as commissioner divide says. Hopefully you can work something out so the cafe can stay in the same place or find someplace else. Commissioner dwight. Can i make a motion asfinal act as commissioner. One thing. I am touched by this turnout and the people who have come out. Elias your story as a immigrant and succeeding in the united states. That is the American Dream. You are living the American Dream and becoming part of the fabric of what we call San Francisco. I am so touched with everybody out here today. It is a little bit emotional. Commissioner dwight. I would like to move to approve the resolution to add caffe sapore to the legacy Business Edge industry. I will second it. Motion by commissioner dwight to approve resolution to add caffe sapore to the legacy business registry. Roll call vote. ro
Longtermness neighborhood businesses. Commissioner riley. [applause] i also want to thank all of you for coming out. It is very touching to see all of you supporting your community. I hope as commissioner divide says. Hopefully you can work something out so the cafe can stay in the same place or find someplace else. Commissioner dwight. Can i make a motion asfinal act as commissioner. One thing. I am touched by this turnout and the people who have come out. Elias your story as a immigrant and succeeding in the united states. That is the American Dream. You are living the American Dream and becoming part of the fabric of what we call San Francisco. I am so touched with everybody out here today. It is a little bit emotional. Commissioner dwight. I would like to move to approve the resolution to add caffe sapore to the legacy Business Edge industry. I will second it. Motion by commissioner dwight to approve resolution to add caffe sapore to the legacy business registry. Roll call vote. ro
Never communicated what business they are going to put in. We need to stand up for Small Businesses. That is the bottom line. We are working hard to say the buck is going to stop here when it comes to getting rid of our longtermness neighborhood businesses. Commissioner riley. [applause] i also want to thank all of you for coming out. It is very touching to see all of you supporting your community. I hope as commissioner divide says. Hopefully you can work something out so the cafe can stay in the same place or find someplace else. Commissioner dwight. Can i make a motion asfinal act as commissioner. One thing. I am touched by this turnout and the people who have come out. Elias your story as a immigrant and succeeding in the united states. That is the American Dream. You are living the American Dream and becoming part of the fabric of what we call San Francisco. I am so touched with everybody out here today. It is a little bit emotional. Commissioner dwight. I would like to move to ap
Dan. Native from San Francisco. Charter legacy Business Owner in our 72nd year and president of the north beach business association. I rise in support of caffe sapore. I cant be go beyond the personal testimony that has come forward by those who use the cafe. I implore all of you to give them legacy business status to send a message to bad actor landlords. The majority of landlords and commercial landlords are good actors, but we have a handful and some are centered in north beach who fail to put their storefronts up on the market, who throw out businesses that are vital and used by the community and long standing. We need you to send a message. I have a business next to mine vacant for over 35 years. We have made a comebacklation in north beach. We have 20 new businesses in the last 20 years. 17 in the last few months since they introduced the idea of putting on the ballot the storefront vacancy issue. All of these signs started going up. We had people come in to rent the storefronts