Certainly if we did just the geographic overlay as the geography is today, it would be distinguisheding as an old resident or new resident and that in in and of itself might have cache about it. So marketing people spin it however they want, but splitting San Francisco in half is ridiculous. So this was sort of to address both proposals and say fix the one. Either one of them, if fixed, are acceptable, but we prefer the one where San Francisco gets 415. So i think the discussion today, i mean, because we talked about this a lot, more than i just did. [ laughter ] and just to give you that background, so whether i mean, definitely change is going to be difficult. But that is going to get vetted at a different level. And so as the representative of a San Francisco bis, business, the preference would be that 4 15 is ours. If that is not the case, a straight overlay. The least amount of change is the better. This is not a very logical proposal. Commissioner ortizcartagena . I definitely ag
Municipality collect a dollar per Business Registration or license to go towards inspection or inspectors, mostly with the Municipality Department of department of building inspection and also for ongoing outreach education, helping businesses in compliance with their constructionrelated accessibility improvements. Of the dollar, 0. 70 is to stay in the local municipality. 0. 30 goes to the state. 5 of that 0. 70 goes to administering and processing of collecting the dollar and the rest of the 65 comes back to working on inspectors and helping get inspectors become inspectors with the department of building inspection and our outreach education ongoing and helping businesses comply with the constructionrelated accessibility requirements. So dbi and i have started a conversation just about how were going to be constructing working with the funds. Obviously right now there is not going to be much money. Well probably see what after may, when the Business Registration is due from business
Angles and everything and i wanted to thank you publicly for that, luke. Thank you for the honor. Next item. Commissioners now item no. 10, directors report, update and report on the office of Small Business and Small Business assistance [seurbgts ] update on legislative matters and make announces recording the Small Business activities. There is one item in the back of your folder that is part of the directors report. I included since its a handout. Director. Thank you commissioners i want to start off with happy new year, with our first meeting of 2013 and happy new year to you and look forward to all of that is ahead of us for 2013 and congratulate president adams for your second term as president and commissioner white as our new Vice President and want to extend great appreciation to you, commissioner obrien for your two years of service and executive leadership with the commission. Its been great working with you and helping me provide some guidance and direction for the commissi
Things easier in terms of their ongoing engagement . You know, obviously were looking to see what kind of feedback they might give us in terms of direction, in terms of Technology Improvements and things of that sort. So that is the update. And once eric and i are targeting sort of earlymarch to have a first sort of glean through of the surveys that we have received from the departments. So hopefully at our second meeting in march, i will have him make a presentation to the commission to provide you with sort of our first runthrough of taking a look at the results of the survey. I have for you as a copy, in your binder, the tax and Treasurers Office has modified their Business Registration form. Its now a onepage form and it includes the sb1186, sb 1186 requires that each local municipality collect a dollar per Business Registration or license to go towards inspection or inspectors, mostly with the Municipality Department of department of building inspection and also for ongoing outrea
Gleaning some information for streamlining and permits to improvements to take but also make the assessment on what it will take to build the comprehensive portal in terms of time and technology needed to develop the portal. And then as a conjunctto that, eric and i have been going out to merchant associations, Business Associations to solicit participation to get their members for merchant associations Business Associations to have their members fill out a Business Survey and well be sending that to you as well, for you to be able to take a look at. To get their feedback in terms of businesses, 05 years, were asking them to fill out a survey about their experience in opening a business and then for businesses over five years, were asking them about their experience about their ongoing engagement with the city. So what improvements do they see . What improvements would they like to see . What would make things easier in terms of their ongoing engagement . You know, obviously were looki