Allocation of no place like home funding targets to create the permanent housing for chronic homeless with serious Mental Illness. Second is Revenue Bonds not to exceed 87 million to provide Construction Financing for the residential project. The hearing was held in june of this year. The bond allocation was approved october 16th and to note this financing is conduit and does not require the city to pledge repayment of the bonds. Third resolution requests approval of amended restated grant to provide 13. 4 million to finance construction of the city owned and operated Homeless Services center to the mercy affiliate developing that project. Of the financing structure to maximize noncity resources to support the homeless center. It covers a portion of the funds needed to build and leveraging tax credit for its portion of the shell costs. To review the timeline. Today we are before you to request approvals. The construction contract will be final later this month. We requested h. H. S. Tr
Chiseling out each element of it. I think we are going to be more successful an. Thank you. Public comment on this item . Thank you director of the office of small business. I was just observing the conversation. I want to thank the department odepartmentof building inspectir staff. They are amazing. This is not easy. Our office works very closely, particularly with tom. I want to reiterate we have the Disability Access fund, which we are working with small businesses, and we do work with small Property Owners who are financially challenged in achieving access. That is from in helping the Property Owners comply for those that have limited income and working with the businesses as well. I think it is, you know, we are still dealing with many Property Owners who have had properties for a long time, particularly in the commercial corridors that are still adjusting that they have a responsibility to comply, and i feel this ordinance as challenging as it has been, we need to remember that o
What has happened is storefronts have been left vacant longer and longer as Property Owners have held the property off market for unknown reasons or are holding out for higher rents. The circumstances that have left a situation where every block has at least one and usually multiple vacancies, and that has led to blight, trash, graffiti and has pressed foot traffic. At one point had five vacant storefronts including two which would remain vacant since 2015 and have not been actively marketed in that time. Before i listen i listen to ted egans report on the amazon effect. It is important to explain one of the industries to be impacted by amazon, we have not seen sales decline since i assumed ownership in 2007. Our sales are up even 20 . Jessica many other retailers, we have made up the sale. Internet has allowed us to increase our reaches and technology to increase our reach and seep employee our second week tap automated. The minimum wage and benefits have gone up over 60 and more to t
Consideration in all the questions that you posed around protecting the Small Businesses. That is really what we want to see here. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is kristin. I wear multiple hats. I am a resident of the haightashbury and i own im here to speak on support of the vacant storefront tax. Something i have been speaking with. I assumed the role of owner nearly 12 years ago. We have seen a Record Number of vacancies more than even from the lean years of 2008 and 2012. There have been any of the number of reasons for the business closure including retirement. What has happened is storefronts have been left vacant longer and longer as Property Owners have held the property off market for unknown reasons or are holding out for higher rents. The circumstances that have left a situation where every block has at least one and usually multiple vacancies, and that has led to blight, trash, graffiti and has pressed foot traffic. At one point had f
President yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to the november 19, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call]. Clerk mr. President , all members are president. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff sfgov tv, Colina Mendoza and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk i have none to report, mr. President. President yee okay. So can we please call madam clerk, can we please call the Consent Agenda . Clerk items 1 through 6 are on consent and considered to be routine. If requested, an item can be removed and heard separately. President yee colleagues, would anyone like to remove any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, on items 1