Interim this summer part of his job was a work with the chineseamerican community and he was able to come back with a comprehensive report and at least i want to call out a new person to our team susan shell be helping with the outreach and greg has a new person as well if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them i think your outreach is going very, very well. So thank you. And people seem to understand it. So they know what they have to give this year and next year and the difference between the it two but people in the Business Community gets it oh, great, thank you. I think when we were come piling the summary we wanted to know were doing the right thing to do this is kind of not the best measure of ones success the fact that under the Business Register fee we only had two complaints and we kayaked back with the board of supervisors and kiektd back with the Mayors Office and everybody and only two people relied with a complaint its not the ultimate measure of our success
Forward to another successful two weeks. Happy new year. [ applause ] thank you, bond. As you heard, its a huge partnership on stockton street, there are many, many merchants, but representing the Merchant Group and someone that we have worked with in all details, making sure that the barricades are in the correct space, making sure that all the merchants understand what the rules are, making sure that everyone knows how things are going to work. If there are complaints, who to go to . Our partner in the community, pius lee. Thank you. Mayor ed lee, supervisor david chiu, president of the board of supervisors. Dpw mohammed, ladies and gentlemen on behalf of Chinatown Neighborhood Association and merchants of stockton street, we want to thank you for your support and also especially our commissioner bennie. Our Chinatown Chamber of commerce is here. And Chinatown Merchants Association for their understanding, cooperation and joint effort to help the Chinese Community continue a long sta
See the relocation to Market Street and the gap there and, of course, we have the west hills mall not far away. We have a formula for the retail to be there. It will be interesting to see how efforts. Theres an added layer of analyze that any permanent applicant would have to go through to use it in that sort of way. That balances something we wanted to make sure we incorporated into the legislation i wanted to say youre leaving the door open. I want to commend levy were not dumb some areas need help and in my opinion well help in that area but i appreciate the pro action on this one commissioner. Sometimes legislation can be used as an obstruction. Its not an obstruction proposal. This is one for just preserving the opportunity to have a considered approach to what goes on in this neighborhood any other comments before we go into Public Comment on this. Do we have any Public Comment on item number 7 . Item number 8 . Oh, were on this one now. Seeing none, please have a seat in the wit
Seeing none, meeting is adjourned. Let me welcome everyone for coming out to this great kickoff event. Mayor lee, supervisor chiu, distinguished guests from the community, city family, all of us coming together. Last year we held a Pilot Project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Busi
Hayes valley i reached out to russel regarding the location before putting down a lease because i wanted to become a part of the community that my business and i could glossogrow with. I choose to open there and. I think that the amended ordinance at hand goes to the heart of what were talking about with the formula retail ban. The desire to preserve in San Francisco a space for individual sole proprietorships. I can food my rent but its not possible if i parking meter with a number of much more infinitely popular organizations. In addition maintaining and that is important you have a lot of neighborhood locals that hang out and one of the things ive heard as resident of the community we need the services that can be provided should be provided at a southern price point. We need a laundromat and those are not largest organizations that can parking meter with large organizations. This is what our residents need. When i i was co chair of the organization they kept asking me to speak to t